The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-11-03
MURPHY IS CONFIDENT
Sees No Reason to Change His
Estimate Of MeKinley's Ma
jority in This State.
Special to the jersey Catu Ne,rs.

NEWARK, Nov. 8, 1S96-Republican
State Chairman Franklin Murphy was
as happy as a boy at the beginning of
vacation yesterday. State headquarters
were practically closed, 50 far as work
was concerned, and Assistant Secretary
w. Scott Snyder was taking an extra
long breath after a siege of hard work.
The scenes of activity which made the
rooms lively for weeks had given way to
an air of quiet. The work was done, the
last document sent out, the last meeting
held, the last sport received, and the
State Chairman felt glad that it was all
over and the outlook was so bright.
The campaign has been fought on
wholly new lines. The Republicans had
leaders and a great majority of that
party in their ranks. The issues of a
year ago were laid aside, and the single
purpose of arousing the people to a sense
of the danger lurking beneath the free
coinage cry was kept in view. The re-
suit has been an arousing such as New
Jersey never saw before, and today's
verdict at the polls will show whether all
this work has been in vain.
Il see no reason said Chairman Muir
ply yesterday, for revising our esti-
mate of the probable result in the State.
Every ward and township in each county
has been thoroughly canvassed, and care
full estimates made from these investi-
cations. Our figuring was modest and
conservative, and the 40,OOO plurality
for Mckinley and Hobart which WE saw
at the end of last week is likely to be
greater rather than smaller
National a i B. Dem wlr54n' s sfate COMMITTEES Of the
hopes to see a large vote polled for
Palmer and Buckner, but he thinks most
OF the Honest Money Democrats will
vote for Mckinley direct, to make their
votes count against the probability of
free coinage.
Colonel e. Livingstone Price, chairman
of the Democratic-Populist State Com
mittee, says New Jersey will stand by its
record and give a majority of at least
1900 for Bryan. Sewall and silver ad lib.
That is what he says. h he thinks
is quite another matter. His l~ieutenants
have given him no encouragement, for
even Hudson county may be found in
the Mckinley column tomorrow morning.
There has been no betting on the result
in New Jersey, except a few wagers on
the size of the plurality. and even the
most sanguine Democrat or Populist will
not lay money upon anything lower than
| 80, 900.
This change in the political sentiment
III oSISCy iltdilS ilCl tlidn dppcdlS
on the surface. The only occasion on
which the Republicans, in the course of
their forty years history. carried the
State for their entire electoral ticket was
in 1872, when the anti-Greeley slump in
the Democratic party threw the State into
the hands of Grant. In 1860 Lincoln re-
ceived four of its electoral votes in con-
sequence of the failure of the Douglass
Bell-Breekinridge fusion.
The Democrats. on the other hand,
have held New Jersey time and again
in the face of the most desperate efforts
to get the State away from them in Pres
idential campaigns. No other State in
the Union has been more faithful to
the Democracy in the course of half a
century. When New York has broken
away from the Democrats, New Jersey
has never gone with her in any straight
out Presidential contest. When Garfield
beat Hancock it was the only Northern
State this side of the Pacific slope that
stood by them. The overwhelming odds
in favor of McKinley's carrying New
Jersey means. therefore, hat it's people
are patriots who are capable of placing
country above party.