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HEARD FROM.
Newark e Canvass
in the stTongholds of
Gus Cutler.
slITBR's WHOLESALE CLAIMS
ShreWd Observers Insist That Gold
Democrats 0ntnImber Re-
publican Bryanites.

Iames p. Logan in the Newark Even
ing News
NEWTON, Aug. 81, 1S96.-There is con-
siderable difference of opinion between
the Republican and Democratic leaders
in Sussex in regard to political condi-
tons in that county. The Democrats feel
certain of heavy aecessions from the Re-
publican ranks which will give them a
very large majority this fall, while the
Republicans assert. that the free silver
Republicans are too few to be taken
into account. that gold Democrats are
very numerous and that the Chicago
ticket will be more thar lucky If 1t come
out of Sussex with a majority at all.
The Republicans have the advantage of
their opponents in the matter of organi-
cation. The party machinery is in excel
lent working order and is in charge of
men who see that it is kept in that con-
dition. The many years during which
Sussex Republicans fought a hopeless
battle only served to draw them closer
together, and the success of the last two
years has not as yet brought dissensions
or factional feeling. On the other hand,
for several years the Democratic party
has been rent by Internal strife.
The chairman of the Republican County
Committee is William NJ. Smith, of New
ton. Sussex county will give a major
ity for Mckinley, said Mr.. Smith. I'VE
AVE made a canvass of the county and
/ feel certain that we shall carry it. There
is no free silver sentiment among Re-
publicans worth speaking of, and I know
plenty of Democrats who will not vote for
Bryan
Lawyer John L. swayze is the wheel
horse of the Sussex Republicans. He is
young. energetic, likes politics and is a
shrewd politician. He keeps in close
touch with every part of the county and
is not as enthusiastic as Chairman Smith.
From the reports / hear said Mr..
Swayze, u judge we shall lose about
five per cent. of our vote. These men are
converts to free silver and will vote for
than ~overbalanced by the Democrats who
will vote for Mckinley. Here in Newton
l can count sixty Democrats who will
not vote for Bryan. In Sparta Township
ex-Sherim William e. Ross and Patrick
Dolan, the two leading Democrats of the
township, are for sound money, while in
Deckertown eighteen Democrats lave
Joined the sound money club, and five
of them are the best Democratic work
ers In the township"
Mr. Swayze said the Democratic ma
jority in the county would not be above
400. and he expected to see it kept down
to 200.
Democratic workers told an entirely
different story. One of the men who al
ways stands by the party is Francis H.
Earl, whose store, opposite the Court
politicians. Mr.. Earl was very positive
that free silver would sweep Sussex. Il
can count twenty-five Republican farm
ers.' said he. living within a few miles
of here who will vote for Bryan, and ev-
erywhere in the county the farmers m
workingmen are almost to a man for
| the silver ticket. / estimate Bryan's ma
| jority in Sussex at 1000
Then Mr.. Earl told of Republican de-
lection in the townships of Sanderson,
Wallpack and Montague, and said that in
| Sanderson a silver league had been form
ed, many of the members of which are
| Republicans.
Lawyer Robert johnson, while agreeing
with Mr.. Earl in regard to the strength
of the silver sentiment, was more con-
sentative. He thought 1000 was too large
a figure at which TO place the majority.
and thought it would reach the normal
Of four or FIVE years ago, when Sussex
Howard Little, real estate agent and
editor CT the Sussex Record" places the
Democratic majority ait about 500. He
thinks the silver element is very pro-
ounced among the farmers. In Want
age Township, according to Mr.. Little,
the president of the Free Silver Club,
Simeon w. PARCEL, is a former Republic
can.
The veteran Democratic laader, Thomas
kays, who for a number of years has
taken a lutte interest in politics, Is a
strong advocate of free silver, and his in
huence viii be given in aid of the Chicago
ticket. Most of the other prominent
Democrats of the county are lined up on
the same side and the party will not be
embarrassed by the conditions which pre-
vail In some other counties, where most
of the former leaders have bolted the
ticket.
Morris is one Of the counties where the
Democratic machine Is wabbling because
the men who rave formerly guided it are
now on a strike. A large portion of
Morris county's3 population consists of
New York business men and most of
them are against free silver. This. de-
lection of men of wealth has had little
influence with the rank and file OF the
party except to solidify 1t for the Chicago
ticket: and It is clained By the free silver
men on the alleged ground that all the
corporate and moneyed influences seem
to be arrayed on one side, are going over
Edward 8 ouayle, Mayor Of Morris
60 Republican this fall said Mayor
| Quayle; the gold sentiment is very
strong in Morristown, Madison and other
Most Of the prominent Democrats here.
| except ex-Congressman Cutler, are for
gold, and among them are men to whom
We ldNe UcfetolcfE iUOkSu ECT counsel
and assistance" Mayor Quayle said he
had heard of Republican farmers who
were for free silver.
Walter Savage, a young lawyer. who
shares ex-Congressman Cutters law Office
rs president of the Morristown Bryan
ami Sewall Club, and thinks Morris coun-
" Is. at least. debatable. ground. while
If Mr.. Cutler is the Democratic nominee
for Congress. he feels very positive that
free silver win carry the county.
1T IL rue. said Mr.. Savage. "that
men who have heretofore been prominent
In the party have now deserted It. but
they have no followers. The rank and
file of the party is true to the ticket
and we shall have many ancessions. NY
Information is that among the farmers
and working Glasses free silver is making
many converts in the Republican party.
I know men right here in Morrfstown
who are talking for Mckinley burt who
have assured me that they wiz vote for
Bryan. There are men employed by
Insurance companies and ether corpora-
| lions and do not want the i'll will of
their employers. but They will vote for
| Bryan
Editor Pearson, OF the s'Morristown Jer-
seyTnan,v has thus far failed to find any
free silver sentiment among Morris coun-
! " Republicans while he had found gold
Democrats numerous. This was also fhe
experience of Editor Lindsey. Of the Nor
ris County Chronicle who had made
special inuu:rfes ~thspuRhout the coarrtv
Charles Green. secretary Of the State
Hospitals dissertation. is one Of the most
1 active and beat informed RenubIfean& IA