The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-10-26

to quite al extent i-mpregnated with Bry-
an.stic sentiment. This township has a
large mountain vote which is not en-
l~ightened. The one-sided ignorance on
the money question: In these townships Is
due in a great measure to the work OF
the New York Journal which is cir
throughout the entire Delaware valley.
Last Saturday courters were sent all over
the county, stopping at all houses, deliv-
ering Journals of October 10. Only a
few weeks ago a. mountain reader of this
paper, coming into a store in one of the
VILLAGES. exclaimed, BY gum, if that fell
Ter Mckinley dom look out he won't get
any votes at all this campaign This was
an honest expression of this mountaineer's
belief. Most active work has been done
to educate The voters during the latter
part of the campaign, and it is being kept
up aggressively, both by the circulation
of sound money literature and by sound
money meetings. The county Democratic
paper, the Herald published at Newton,
is as virulent and dishonest a defender
Of free silver as any backwoods paper in
the Southwest.
The number of gold Democrats
throughout the county is increasing rap
IDLY, the largest number being in Newton,
where there is a club of 125 members.
Toe president of this club informs me that
there are from so to IS other Democrats
there who will quietly vote against the
Bryan ticket on election day. There are
l,0i0 voters in the town, and while it is
naturally Democratic by a large majority
it is estimated that ii will give McKin-
ley at least lbs majority Al Decker
CLUB with a good membership and we'll
organized. Every township has a fair
percentage Of Democrats who have been
leaders of their party but who will vote
against Bryan. Among them may be
named County Prosecutor Theodore SIM
onson and Lawyer Charles M. Woodruff,
Of Newton; Patrick ]. Dolan of Ogdens-
purg, ex-chairinan of the Democratic
County Committee and one of the bright
est men of the State; Joseph A. Van
4 a tor M M SIN t1f 49, $40 A-1 D~l-N-E
L. Edsalls of Hamburg; Frank Ounce,
William S. Vandruff, James H. Dunning
and Borough Clerk Frank B.. White. of
Deckertown, and Thomas Rosewall. head
OF the White Rock Lime and Cement
company at McAfee Valley, a large en-
ployer of labor.
tsrs in the county who are Bryanites. The
most prominent of these are the Rev. Mr..
| fraZee, pastor of the Vernon Methodist
Episcopal Church; the Rev. George Barnes
tfrom Maryland) of the Hamburg Presby-
terrain Church. and the Rev. Charles c.
Lathrop, pastor of the Deckertown Bap-
list Church. These men advocate the fall
lacy with pen and voice.
There is a very warm fight over the
congressional ticket in the Fourth dis
trict morris, Sussex, Hunterdon and
Warren counties), where Mahlon Pitney
IS running against A. w. Cutler. Mr..
Pitney, While a strict party man, made
an excellent record in the first session
OF the present Congress. showing his in
oCPCiidCICS ny NOtLIl& against the river
and harbor bill which president Cleveland
vetoed. He is %squarely and defantly for
sound money and has been accepted as
the candidate of the National Democrats
OF the district. Mr.. Cutler is a typical
old fogy, who is claiming support now
as a RUNNING mate with Bryan on the
ground OF regularity, although he has
peen known for years as a high-tariff
Democrat, and is therefore not in accord
with the Chicago platform except on sill
yer. 1t has been proved hat he owes his
nomination this year to Johnston Cor
nish, of malodorous Trenton reputation.
whom Mr.. Pitney defeated two years ago.
Mr. Pitney's reelection is counted on
with confidence.
SOUTH JERSEY.
The Trenton correspondent of the
Evening Post" writes
the political situation in the Second
Congressional district atlantic. Burling-
ton, Mercer ana Ocean countless is of 50
one-sided a character that he who runs
may read. The claim of the Republicans
that the district will give from 10000 to
H.to0 Republican plurality is not disputed
BY any Of the well-informed silver men.
me district four years ago gave Har-
rlson for President a plurality of 2.6zS.
Barker Gummere. County Clerk of Mercer
county, and a member at large of the
republican State Committee. said this
afternoon that the district would re-elect
Gardner to Congress by not less than
l9,o0o. n that the plurality for Nc
kinney and Hobart would be at least as
large.
The silver nlsn are giving out no fig
Ines, ana here in Mercer County, which
mas always been the centre of political
activity in the district. the Brvanites are
thoroughly demoralized. There is not a
democrat of prominence in the county.
with the exception of ex-Assemblynaan
James w Lanlfng, who is taking part
IN the campaign. All the other prominent
Democrats are either for Palmer CIR Nc
htniey. AT the recent mass meeting OF
SOUND money Democrats at fraylor Opera
House. at which William NJ. S.ngeriey
and William b. Hormblower We're the
speakers, there were a full hundred of
the leading Democrats of the county seat
ed On the stage as viee-presiGents. The
generalization OF silver men IS shown in
their failure to hold meetings and in the
character of their nations. There
have been in Trenton since the campaien
opened only two Bryan meetings, held in
small halls, and with local speakers, UNI
der the auspices of campaigns clubs, ard
but SHINY attended. On the other hand,
the Republicans are pursuing a vigorous
campaign, with mass meetings in every
school district. In Trenton mass meetings
have been or are to be held in Taylor
Opera House with speakers of national
reputation. State Committeeman Lanning
practically acknowledged tine collapse Of
the silver cause by stating last Saturday
THAT the Popocraes would not hold amy
mass meeting in the Opera House for two
reasons, the inability to secure we'll
known speakers and the expensei
AiC W.
trict on the Bryan side are extremely
weak. Here in Mercer County no men
even of county reputation could be in
duced to accept Assembly nominations
One of those put m the ticket, Richard
d. Norton. was an active Republican in
a small way until last June, when he sud-
denly became a silver man. Merton Yves
recsrrtly tried and acquitted in the Mer-
GER court ON a charge Of assault and bat
terry in connection with putting out of his
billiard room ct Hightstow1, Principal
Perry, of Perry institute, who had gore
to the place in search of some students
Of the Institute.
1.-THE National Democrats are making
mo organized effort 10 concentrate their
vote on Palmer and Buchner, and many
of them will vote directly for Mex nley.
1t Is almost impossible to estimate what
the Palmer and Buckner vote in the dis
tricts VIII be, but the ina of 10000
plurality for the Republican ticket means
a Republican gain of 5000. The Republic
can plurality in the four counties of the
district is estimated as follows:-Mercer,
5000; Atlantic, 1,500; Ocean, 1900; Burling-
ton, 1000"
CORNER STONE LAID.