New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-23


RnriinSton is the second wealthiest agricultural
county in the United States and probably the last
to feel the ssh St h here eVer before and
that furnishes the text FIR the 1s TO depaters
has caught bu ST p Se Se Road
sioner lies In Burlington, and he s IN toucn %n
al the sd 5S" Sr nc lie said
Gently: There Is some silver tax IN me WEI in
rSe 81 p,rnSton farmer is an intelligent and stud-
Gus citizen. who reads and thinks ana ne WI" ne
ment' Everybody is talking silver. hut not favor
ably by any means. cannot, from my , b.
publican farmer has declared for silver YET i
know that there are many De"oc'a'' WIN
doubling"
GREAT COUNTY FOR "IsMs"
Cumberland County is the one spot which Apos-
tic Beecher says contains the greatest remnant of
tho Creenbackers and where 1t be expected
that there will be the greatest demonstration OF Sill
YER strength. Cumberland Is one of the greatest
counties In the State for theorists and sms' IL
held to Greenbacksm longer than any other Gum
berland gave 25s for Gro,scup for Congress IN
1879 1t gave .2s7 for Hoxsey who ran for Governor
I'm 1878 1t continued TO make GreonpacK hoi m
tions long after Other counties nad stoFpea and thew
have been stirred to activity by converted re Re
publican who Is prophet WIN SG,as Town
shin has come out for silver. He Is farmer VINO
talk for he has been prominent IN ' for5eri
vico-preside1t of the organization he mas nnaue
money raising small fruit ana ~ Np'.hn p tHIo
porous farmer, who uses silverware on the taDle
and has upright piano. In recent years ne mas
notable 6s he has cane to the
cusion that more money Is needed ana ,na' Me- NJ
Rakrr's influence would interest a locality particu-
larly when the county has been excited oil tle 9a,
subject before Those WIN" are ha cached
and that the reaction will soon follow IL mas , nor I,
affected the glass men. and they are the principal
Gloucester County is truly rural county, whore
the farmers % eS! sbrhday Everybody talks
free silver. even the young girls AT 'he "'"'h'
Dr. George Harrison still living in IambertyiIil ne
He was active Greenbacker In the olG W.. h, the
Greenbackers made their test Of strehsn g ln
well. polling an votes OF wnich INN an
earnest advocate OF all the issues that were adopted
by the Farmers Alliance. Hunterdon was az one
time tho strongest Alliance county In the STATE
The Populists got their best hold there ana IT. iur
nished Bird as candidate FOR Govepnp or, ,bev are
not strong az is generally reported In 'ne ths
strongest the most silver talk is heard. but i has
not won any new recruits. The Iemocra'-ro Pu
iist-Farmers Alliance people are all cheap money
ncope for no other reason than that the farms are
not paying. There Will be no chahge III riura.i,,o ~
NAN Ricbard r. Reading Both express the opinion
that the silver detection in Hunerdon Is eXagser-
H'eu SOME DELUDED FARMERS.
The situation in Warren is perhaps different.
There are some Republicans who favor silver Inc
farmers Of Warren have been In sore fnancial as
tress for some years. and they see thelr pai" VI
Gilead in silver. Joseph VI. Roseberry the FORMER
county chairman leans strongly to silver, and there
are others who think the same way How many
there are will not be known for several months.
Sussex County was never a great Greenback coun-
~ II nearly gave plurality for the Know Noth-
ing ticket and It had lots of copperheads during
the The silver issue has moved me cou'dS ~
degree of activity not witnessed since war Gay
Sussex has some silver clubs. and from SUSSEX
comes the rumor that silver league Is 10 De
Somerset's silver men are all Democrats Ihey
are for silver because the platform 49, me DeihT DC
racy in Somerset has been well sl1ted durihB tile
last four wears so that those who stand by me ma
chine would do If 1t declared for the mining Hi
pig iron. Ex-Speaker Bergen is an avoW%ed , goIu
democrat and is now trying to get tne goa Senct
Gratis to unite in cal for Eeerrntic conyen
ton. Senator Lewis A. Thompson thinks me iarin-
ers of Somerset are too shrewd 10 be caught Dy
the silver craze ,,,,, - 49,
In Mercer County the Democracy IS divided on the
silver issue The Mercer County Democracy and
do T The Ticket Secretary of State Kelsey. eX-
state Treasurer Jonathan Blackwell. County col-
There is now gold and silver faction in the Demo
cratic party that will contest for supremacy; ,ho
Monmouth has more less silver sentiment IN the
central part OF the State in the vicinity Of Free;
hold David D. Denise president OF the state b9S S
Of Agriculture. who lives in Freehold says INT
when the search IL made for the good citizen VINO
has nopped he is not to be found Ihe cry IS f tbe
own kind who want gold. .I
hackers. In the days of Hoxsey and Weaver there
many Of the reenback party and Morrs ar
RsSd 3 yCe nGn to- the
OF about three hundred. Those VINO I'VE IN SUD
are for gold or silver. according to their political
tendencies. -,,.,o, IT.,
salem County is no, unlike other agrieHurG1l as
both sides do not see that they are being weak
ivelIest political issue that they have had in Salem
for years.