The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-08-19

the United States.
HENRY KNIPPEBERG.''
GOV. GRIGGS TALKS
Predicts q Sure Victory for
Sound Money in This
State.
REASONS FOR HIS BELIEF F
His Confidence in the Intelligence
and Patriotism of Jersey
men.
Special to the Jerseu Citu Nctrs.

PATERSON, Aug. 10, 1S9s.--Governor
Griggs will take prominent part in the
campaign this fall in this State, and will
make several speeches for Sound Money.
He will practically open the fight for the
Republicans next Thursday at the con-
vention called to nominate Presidential
and Viee-Presidentia1 electors and which
will be held at Trenton. In speaking of
the outlook yesterday at his Office in this
city the Governor said
New Jersey is as certain to go for Nc
Kinley and Hobart by a very large ma
jortty as Vermont or Massachusetts. How
big that majority viii be is impossible to
predict with any reasonable certainty.
THE Republican party of the State is
united and compact in its organization
and as unanimous in support of its ticket
as it was in 1895. 1 have made very care
full enquiries from intelligent observers
from every section of the State to find if
there are any Republicans who intend to
support the Bryan free silver ticket The
result of those enquiries is that I have
been unable to find as many as a dozen
well authentic cases of free silver Repub-
licans who wiz vote for Bryan in any
county in the State. So that it is fair to
conclude that the Republican party will
of itself poll as many votes as it did last
year.
Now what accessions is 1t to get /?
Every one who reads the newspapers has
noted the names of the most prominent.
influential Democrats in the State ex-
pressing not only their disgust but their
alarm at and opposition to the result OF
the Chicago Conventions; not only as to
the candidates, but also as to the plat
form. 1 have heard very prominent New
Jersey Democrats express the opinion
that while the free silver plank of the
Chicago Convention was dangerous. yet
it was fless serious in it's menace to the
country than those Popuiistic planks in
serted at the dictation of Governor Alt
geld. Senator Tdrlman and their special
associates. Undoubtedly very large per-
centage of the Democrats of New Jersey
will not only fail to support the Chicago
ticket, but will openly oppose it.
These. men include many who have
hitherto been pre-eminentiy active and
energetic in political work for their party
fhey are all men of repute and influence
and their example must necessarily be
extensively followed by those of the rank
and file of the Democratic party in the
State as are independent of local ma
chimes.
I do not see how in The face of an,
this opposition and influence the Bryan
Ticket is going to secure much more than
fity per cent. of the Democratic vote in
LIE State. Nc man who mas any respect
Tor his own opinion or amy political inde-
pendence would be willing sincerely to de-
clare in the month of May that he favored
the gold standard as the Democratic State
Convention did declare, and then three
months later without any change of
opinion go in for the election of a ticket
pledged diametricaily opposite to his own
celief The Inconsistency is too glaring
for men who have self respect
The Democratic party will lack that
enthusiasm. organization and hard work
which its members have usually put into
their Presidential campaigns. This will
count for much in the reduction of the
vote for the Bryan ticket.
''The situation is SO unparalleles5 that T
cannot regard 1T as a contest between the
two political parties in New Jersey IT is
rather contest between the Republican
party, which is sound and united ON the
money question reinforced by all the
independent friends of sound money on
the one hand, and so much of the Demo-
cratic organization as finds 1T expedent
to cling no the party machinery for the
sake of sentiment for regularity or some
other purpose not so creditable on the
other. 1t is preposterous to suppose that
the Republican and Democratic parties
of New Jersey would agree exactly in
their platform expressions ON the great
financial question in the month of May
and then differ as widely as the two poles
on the same subject in the following No
vember
Then there is to be considered the eff
feet of the sound money argument upon
the people Of New Jersey. Every person
who works for daily wages or weekly.
monthly or yearly salary. can be readily
convinced that free silver coinage will re-
duce his compensation. Every depositor
in our savings banks, every shareholder in
our building and loan associations, every
holder Of life insurance policy, every
member Of a benevolent society, every
school teacher, every pensIoner, every
preacher, every professor every indus
tious man that hopes in lslme to own his