Evening star., 1898-11-07
SURE TO WIN
New Jersey Will Elect a Republican
Governor.
Republicans Will Elect Seven Con-
Secure the. Legislature.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star.

CAPE MAY, November 6, 1898.
The political situation in New Jersey has
changed somewhat from last week, and the
information which now comes from all
parts of the state indicates that thsre is lit
tie doubt of the election of Foster NJ. Voor-
hees governor
In canvass of the state by Governor Voor-
hees and his democratic opponent, Elvin
w. Crane, VOORHEES,, as an orator, has out
classed Crane. and he has also had the best
of the argument, the voters of New Jersey
think
The democratic campaigners have made
their fight on state issues alone, while the
republicans have dwelt not only upon state
issues, but upon standing by the republican
national platform, the President and his
administration in the recent war. The
democrats, who had control of the exacu-
tive branch of the state government for
tWenty-seven years previous to 1885, when
the present Attorney General of the United
States was chosen governor, left a record
behind them, which was changed by the
republicans, in aiding race-tIack gamblers,
corpora tions, and in fostering officers with
enormously fat fees. These things the r.
publicanS, who have controlled the legisia-
ture, have abolished. The acts allowing
race-track gambling have been repealed,
and an amendment added to the state con-
stitution preventing their re-enactment. A
conservative estimate shows that NoCrh .cS
will have from 10000 to 10000 plurality.
The claim, however, Is disputed by the DEM
ocrats. who say that Crane will be elected
by a small plurality.
Legislature Will BE Close.
The legislature will be very close how
ever as United States Senator Smith is
bending every effort to elect democratic
legislature which will return him to Wash
ington. 1t is conceded that his prospects
compare favorably with the chances of a
re publican, and there are some counties
which will give voorhees, a plurality that
can be counted upon to elect democratic
legislators because of local differences. If
the republicans are successful in electing a
majority Of the legislature John Kean who
served in the Forty-eighth and Fiftieth
Congresses from the third district will be
sent to the United States Senate as Smiths
successor.
pubHcans will elect seven of the eight
congressman. 1t is now a foregone con-
clusion that the personnel of the New Jer-
sey delegation in the F'ifty-sixth Congress
will b.. as follows: Henry c. Loudenslager,
John j. Gardner, Benjamin F. Howell,
John l. B. Reilly, James f. Stewart, Pich-
ard Wayne Parker and Charles NJ. Fowler,
republicans and William d. Daily, demo-
crat There are those who will not be sur
prised to find even the place which DAILY
believes he now has safe GO for Maj. Ze-
bina X. Pangborn, republican.
Talk of LoudensInger's Defeat.
Some democrats claim that Henry c.
Loudenslager will be replaced by Samuel
Iredell, a young man not yet thirty years
old. but exceedingly popular The district
two years ago gave. Ioudensager 5000
plurality. Local differences will be the
cause of the slump from him, if it comes.
Rut this is believed to be improbable. The
district is the sameaoneian which ex-Secre-
tary of the Navy George NJ Robeson was
fis place in the Forty-eighth Congress.