The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-02
VIEW JERSEY oAxDIDArss.
The Cranberry stat. wcn Represented r.
National Conventions.

NeNtunhN NonNNuhi"HSs
New Jersey ia not Of great account t%erritori-
ally in the United States. and her electoral
votes. which have varied between seven aud
nine, but are now ten. have been cast for
Democratic candidates 80 steadily TINT the
political influence Of the State has seldom been
decisive in National Conventions. From 1889
to 1909 the electoral votes Of New jersey were
uniformly cnst for the Democratic Presidential
candidates with two breaks only. In 1890 the
electoral votes OF the State we're divided, some
being cast for the Democratic and some for the
Republican candidate. though on the popular
vote the State was Democratic. In 1872 there
was a large Democratic detection owing 10 the
nomination OF Mr.. Greeley. and In that year.
for the only time in forty years, the Democrats
were In n numerical minority.
Though the political Importance of the State
has not usually been large, New Jersey has not
been dlsreRordcd In national conventions. The
pioneer Convention Of the Republican party in
1860 nominated n New Jersey man, William L.,
Dayton, for Vice President. In 1854 the Dem.
ocratic Convention Mt Chicago put at the head
Of the national ticket George Il. Mcclellan OF
Now Jersey. In 1893 Joel Parker Of Freehold
was the first choice OF the true blue Jersev
Democrats In the National Convention of the
Democracy held In New York city. In 1879
Jersey, and in the Democratic National Con.
vcntion OF that year at st. Louis he received on
DOtn DdllOJb taken tne SOnu support or the
Cranberry state. In the Democratic National
Convention OF 1880 Gov, Parker was for the
third time favored by the Democrats OF New
Jersey. and in the National Convention of 1884
at Chicago the Jersey Democrats had q candi-
date OF their own In the late Leon Abbott.
The Republicans, In 1883. had among the can
didates to choose from William Walter Phelps
of Passaic. lie received 20 votes for Presi.
dent on the first ballot, and was afterward
favored by. many Republicans for Vice-Presi.
dent when IL became certain thatthe ReLub-
llcan nomination fol-, that office would come
TO- the East. Mr.. Phelps was the most for
l19 votes, against 90 for w. o. Bradley OF
Kentucky. nov Governor of that State. Mr..
Morton was nominated on the first ballot. the
Republican Convention giving more heed to
the preference of New York than that Of New
jersey, and with good reason, as afterward
appeared, the electoral votes OF New York be-
ing given to the Republican national ticket,
while those of New Jersey went to the Demoo-
racy.. In the National Convention of the Pro-
b.. Fisk. was put at the head of the national
ticket, and he polled 1000 votes in his own
State. In the political contest Of 1899 New
Jersey was not represented in either OF the
party Conventions. This year an effort is be-
ing made to secure for a prominent Jersey
Republican. Garrett A.. Hobart, the Vice.
Presidential nomination on the Republican
ticket, and the recent Trenton Convention In
structed the. Jersey delegates to give him .
vigorous and undivided support.
No Democratic Jerseyman has yet appeared
in the political horizon, and in fact no Demo
cratic Je~rseyman has been prominent in q
national Democratic Convention since Cleve-
lands name was first presented. Cleveland In
q native of Caldwell, n. j..