New-York tribune., 1896-10-06
SAFE FOR M'KINLEY.
CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATES PLACE HIS
PLURALITY AT 4610O

STATE COMMITTEE AND COUNTY cHAIRMEN CON
FER n rRENroy-oNLY TWO COUNTIES FOR
BRYAN-LIrTLE, IF ANY. SILVER sENTl-
MENr AMONG REPUBLICAN VOTERS.
Trenton. n j., Oct5 (specaD.-The Republican
State Committee held an important conference
| with the chairman Of each Of the twehty-ohe
county organizations here to-day. the mee'ihs
was held behind closed doors in the Young Men
| Republican Club house and lasted ABOUT hVe
hours Franklin Murphy chairman OF the state
| Committee, United States Senator W. j. Seweil'
John Kean and all the other members OF the
State Committee were present.
The meeting was called for the purpose OF as
certaining exactly the extent Of the silver sentl
ment In the party directly from the men VINO
come into nersonal contact with the people, ana
how best to combat 1t. The reports from the
County Committee chairmen were most gratily-
ing to the State Committee, and from ngures
submitted by them, Secretary John Y Foster
was authorized by the State Committee TO say
that. in it's judgment. Mckinley and HOBART
| would carry New-Jersey next November py
| 4G. 100 plurality This Mr.. Foster declared. was
I, a conservative estimate He would not be sur
prised he said to find these figures Increased by
| 1900 or 10000.
The conference was called to order by N'air
man Murphy. and Secretary Foster read the call
| II invited the county organizations, 10 seho
onrosartat,vo to confer with the State Com
| mttee and in the event Of nabiity 10 40 81 W
favor tho committee with a conservative esti-
mate Of how the county would go IN NoVeHoet'
and the extent Of the silver sentiment in each
| county.
According 10 the reports made. Bryan and
| les
Warren and Hunterdon In these counties the
| norma, Democratic majority will be greatly re-
duced Richard Reading. committeeman from
| ,y,ordo, countv said that his county would
40, civ. Rrvan over 300 and that Warren would
NOT 90 more than 900 for Bryan. Mr.. Reading
,vas NJ the opinion that had Bryan foregone MS
tour across the State he would have maze
he,ter showing in Hunterdon County, wnere
| IN. silver sentiment was strong at one tlme' NJ
said the farmers had changed their views Ihcy
were not impressed by Bryans personal appear
ance and they were disappointed IN the arsu-
| rnents ne advanced. He knew OF no kepupllca',
boilers in the county out ne hdu pe'i. NV, M
that in Pennington alone there were Sky PuSI- @
| ness men wearing Mckinley ana HobaIt put
| tons. ~. II, ~, .
Cumberland Countys representative said tha'
there we're a large number Of Republicans FAVOR :
able ia free coinage there He dld not expect
any serious trouble In November ana ne NaS
satisfied that many Of them had afeau! 81"
tha error of their ways and had returned 10 the
marty MANY former Democrats had joined the
party Of sound money. but not enough 10 DIS. on
| those that had left II. He said that the SILVER
sentiment fast dying out there. ana ,hous
/ that a few good speakers would do much sVou'
Salem County is also affected with the silver
! craze This is a small county. ana the Farmers
y,crc more or less enthused over the free-coin-
age hcrcsy The report was that the pluralty
| there would be small. but the county was surely
| for Mckinley and Hobart. Carl Len'z declared
that Essex County would give me sounu -'""''es
| candidates At least 10000 plurality
The committee was advised that there was
| trouble In Middesex County over the shrleyal-
| ity nomination. The contest for TINS once
| was bitter and some feeling remains. hut while
this may affect the local ticket. the county j.
| eiven 10 Mckinley and Hobart by John Conger
| the committeeman. by at least l'o" SpeaKlhs
| for the South jersey tier OF counties. senator
ScwclI said that Camden could be counted Tor
| Mckinley and Hobart by 100" and ne thougnt
Atlantic would roll up probably l'-'"' lie
| doubted the estimate OF Loo placed on Cumber-
land County and said that he should rather IN
| crease the plurality there 10 21oo gloucester
! was placed at 800 for Mckinley and Hobart
statement sent from Hudson county whlch
| placed Mckinley and Nobart's plurality there at
1000 at the least.
| Senator Parry felt sure that Burlington would
give 800 plurality He had been over the
| county. and had been unable 10 discover SIN
| Gle Republican bolter He had found many VINO
| thought that there was something in the free-
silver argument. bat they we're not willing To
| accept So radical n change In the monetary sys-
| tenn without a better understanding OF the sub
| ject He said that he had sounded large num-
| Der Of former Democrats who would not vote
| for Bryan. and many VINO were out and out ad-
| v0cates for Mckinley and Hobart. In Middle
| sex th" Gold Democrats intend placing a full
| local ticket In the field AMI II Is expected that
| this will elect the Republican local ticket
| From the reports received. the State Commit
| tee feel assured that solid sound-moncy New
| Jersey delegation will bc sent to Washington
| In Hunterdon. where Mr.. Cutler said to be
| making heavy inroads into Mr.. Piincy's
| Of two years ago. the committee were assured
| that Mr. Pitney was extremely popular and was
| gaining rather than losing The State Commit
tee figure that hfty-six out of the sixty members
| Of the next House Of Assembly will be Repub-
| NcanS.
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