Evening star., 1898-10-27
OUTLOOK IN NEW JERSEY
Republicans Will Elect Governor and at
Least Six Congressman.
Chances Are About Even on the EIcc-
tion OF n United States
senator.
Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star

Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
CAPE MAY, n. J.. October 26. 1898
The candidates OF all parties for the
Eube-natoriaL congressional. legislative
ard county offices VIII all have been r.,ade
by tomorrow afternoon. The election in
this STATE will be for governor eight
representatives. eight state senators Zone
third of the body and one vacancy. and a
fun house Of assembly of sixty members
The candidates for governor are now
making 'wkirlwind'' campaigns over the
state. The republican candidate is Foster
NJ. voorhees,, lately a senator from Tmen
county, who is president of the senate. ard
has been acting governor since Governor
John w. Griggs went into President Nc
kinley's cabiret
Mr. Voorhees, is preaching reform and
economy in his speeches on local issues.
and standing by the declarations Of the
republican national platform uf lShi.
The democratic candidate for governor
is Elvin W. Crane, who orator is
is at present district attorney of Essex
equity Qn which iS Newark city,. and
personal friend oG United States Senator
James Smith. He is corfniaE his cam
paign talks to state Issues carefully ;g-or-
ing national issues and is charging .hc re-
publicans with "Xtr2vugances. Cons. rva-
tive estimates give voorhees, from 800
to 1900" plurality in the state. Tho re-
publican managers claim 3a,gDO. wll:!e the
democrats irsist that Crane Will have
10000 majority.
Six CouGressmcu Reaomiun.ed.
All the present eight representatives. who
are republicans. have been rc--om:nateI
excepting Thomas McEwan, in the aey ef.th
district Gcrsey CityD. and Mahlon PitRey
in the fourth. Er. P:tney. who has his
eye on the goVeTHorship three years hence,
has taken a sat" senatorial nomination.
so as to be a leader ir the legislature. and
train for his ambition. MIR. fitncy has
been replaced on the congressional! ticket
by John ]. Blair Reilly. a wealthy manu-
facturer. who is making hard fight. but
whose chances of election are not the best.
His democratic opponent is Joshua s.
Salmon. a former state legislator, and until
recently district attorney of Morris county.
The district is normally democratic.
In the seventh district the rpublcans
have nominated Maj. Zebina X. PanSborn.
aged newspaper editor, who when a
young man was q school teacher and =
native OF Vermont, where he was the
teacher for a time of George Dewey. now
famous as the hero of Manila. His demo-
cratic opponent is William ID. DAILY. who
has been a leader in the state senate for
six years. As this district is strongly
democratic Daily will probably be elected.
The republicans who are almost certain
to be returned to Washington are Henry c.
LCudenslager in the first district. John j.
Gardner in the second district, James +.
Stewart in the sixth district. 1t is more
than probable that Benjamin F. Howell
will be reelected in the third and Charles
N Fowler in the eighth district.
Democrats Are United.
The democrats have united their party
differences pretty generally, and are in
spired by the gradual swinging back of the
hair IN,
Governor Griggs was elected by 26,900 plu-
rality: in 1896 Mckinley and Hobart re-
ceived 5000 plurality: but last year the
only vote to base the state returns upon
was the assembly results, which showed n
reduced republican majority to about 5000.
This year United States Senator James
Smith wants to be returned to Washing
ton, and he is working hard to capture the
legislature. His republican opponent for
the senatorship is ex-Representative John
kean of the third district. The republican
state legislature of last year is being con-
demned, and this. with the fact that the
democratic Legislature candidates are all
men of more than the usual standard of
party candidates. leads many conservative
people to express the opinion that a demo-
cratic majority is not at all improbable.
OF the fourteen hold-over state senators
seven are republicans and six democrats.
The counties of Atlantic, Cumberland,
Ocean and Union will elect republicans,
making sure republican control OF the sem
ate. The democrats are sure of Hudson
county, bringing their vote up to seven
senators. The republican chances of sue
cess are also bright in Bergen, Mercer and
Morris, which would, if carried make the
senate stand: Republicans, IA; democrats
Z.
In order to win the democrats will have
to secure thrty-four assemblymen to in
sure the return of Senator Smith to Wash
ington.
Composition of the Assembly.
The assembly last year was composed of
democrats.
The eleven assemblymen from Essex
county, Senator Smiths home We're repub-
lcans. This year strong assembly ticket
has been named, and if the democrats carry
it they will change the assembly over to
thirty-four democrats and twenty-six re-
publicans, to just what is needed. In other
counties the democrats hope to gain, while
the republicans must fight to control just
what they had last year. Newark, which
is in Essex, only last spring fiopped over to
the democrats the mayoralty to 5000
from 1900 the other way six months be-
icre. But to overbalance this the New
York city suburbs known as Orange and
East Orange will give republican majori-
ties, but whether they will give enough
cannot be predicted.
From every Indication now it would seem
that the republicans will elect a governor
five or six of the eight representatives and
have an even chance of securing a United