The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-05


Republican County chairman which has
delayed campaign work. and the other is
the r~ettcence Of the silk workers and
lions. Mr. Bfeerces has ben pSa'ss SICK with with
pneumonia for several weeks, and as it is
apparent that he wiz not be able to con-
are are nom " be sing ak < 70 3 bs III ae efhs s WerS
Immediately. The silence OF the mill
workers is variously construed. Times
a are asra i a nafssa9a who FsTneF Fses e na ane
most reason to ccmplASn should visit the
SILK City and investigate the condition
Of fs Industrial classes Nearly every
for lack of orders, and thousands of oper-
atives are out of em~pllpyment; II trade
does not increase bsfore cold weather
erson will be appalling and hundreds will
what effect this lhdustrial condition IS
nobody seems to know. The free silver
advocates say it means many votes for
the Chicago ticket and they are losing no
that with free silver. the mills would all
be running on full time with higher
wages and general a'l-apound. prosperity.
conviction it is difficult to estimate. but
it would be ~strangesif in the universal
feeling of discomfort many did not turn
to free silver as a possible relief.
It is probable that, more Would be con-
verted to that belief II 1.-THE tariff did
not enter into the question. The silk
'sstra many who might otherwise be in
duced to vote for Bryan and Sewail sti1l
remain loyal to the Republicans. The
affection among the Republican working
men. Munson Force, chairman of the
Democratic County Committee, said
We knew that 4; large ge, portion fo Of the the
silver. Had the tariff been>tfe main IS
sue the Democrats would not have been
in it in this county, but now we VIII
MI. Force did not think that local
pride or Candidate Hobart's personal
result. In fact he was DISPOSED TO ques-
tion the popularity OF the Vice-Presiden-
tial candidate. He told of a conversation
he had had with an employe o. the elee.
is president. This man., he said, had told
him that not three per cent: of the COM
pany's employees would vote for Mr.. Ho-
bart, although they all wear Mckinley
and Hobart buttons and on the surface
are red not Republicans.
Prosecutor William B. Gourley, the
Democratic leader in Passaic, returned
his absence he had been counted as a gold
Democrat and prior to the Chicago Con-
venticn he had nj hesitatiol IN a%nnounc
Ing his opposition to free silver. That
there is no doubt, but he has swallowed
his dislike for ithe platform and VIII
stand by the Chicago nominees.
Il have not been home long enough to
form an intelligent idea of the political
situation" said Mr.. Gourley, when asked
for an opinion. 81 am told that there is a
strong sentiment for. free silver among
THE working classes, but / have not had
time ito investigate at"
When reference was made to the fact
that he had been numbered among the
opponents of the ticket Mr.. Gourley re-
piled that his. name had been used with
out mis- authority, and hat he had been
too closely allied with the party organi-
zation to desert it at this time. Mr. Gour-
ley said that he did not expect Ito make
any political speeches or to take an ac-
tive part in the campaign.
Prosecutor Of the Pleas Eugene Emley
did not think that the Republicans had
able ito learn, there is no disaffection in
the Republican ranks. He spoke of the
among working classes. and
believed that the men would attribute
the lack of work to its real cause, the
want of confidence inspired by free silver
agitation, and would, therefore. vote for
Mckinley and Hobart. The gold senti-
ment among leading business men. Mr..
Emley said, was very pronounced, and
nearly all the prominent Democrats in
Paterson are opposed to free silver.
Albert A. Wilcox. who is closely asso-
ciated with Carrot A. Hobart in business
relations, had no doubt at all of the re-
suit in Passaic County. II shall be satis-
fled with 5000 majority said Mr.. Wilcox.
but l see no reason why it should not
be much more. There Is nothing in the
reports of disaffection among the work.
ingnen- All my advices are TO the effect
that they Will vote the Republican ticket.
The free silver men are making lots of
noise an claiming everything in sight.
They sent out a story that a free silver
club had been formed In Little Fails with
250 members, nearly the entire voting
population Of the town. I investigated the
story and found there was NOT a word
of truth in it,"
Mr. Wilcox did not put any faith in the
story of the trolley employees voting
against Mr.. Hobart. He said none of the
men had been asked to- wear a Hobart
button or to vote for him, but he believed
a large majority of them wovld. because
the relations between him and the men
had always been of the pleasantest char
acter.
Assemblyman GledhiH said he had failed
to hear of any silver Republicans in Pat
erson and did not believe there was any
dlsaffection, and ex-Postmaster John
Johnson, who has for years been a Demo-
cratic leader, announced that he was ont
OF politics. Thus far neither party has
done any campaign work in the counrv
nor has any canvass been made. so that
estimates or opinions upon either side
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