The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-09-23
HEAVY VOTE POLLED.
Democratic Primaries Held
Last Night Through
out the County.
NO EXCITEMENT AND no CONTESTS
Leader Robert Davis .Dicus-
ses Voorhees, Nomination
and His Slim Chances.
NO EXCITEMENT AND NO CONTESTS

Primaries for the election of delegates
to the Democratic State Convention were
held throughout the city last night. In
no part of the city was there any excite
ment. The preeifct leaders had been
deputized by the party leaders to name
their own delegates. AS a consequence
there We're no contests.
The polls were open from seven to nine
c clock and in that brief time a surpris-
ingly large vote was polled. That the
Democratic voters turned out on such a
disagreeable night is taken as an indi-
cation by the party leaders that little or
no difficulty will be experienced in getting
out the whole vote in November.
In some Of the precincts there were
printed ballots but in the majority the
voters used slips of paper and wrote the
names of their candidates on them. The
county, under the State Committees ap-
portionment, is allowed 159 delegates. Who
the delegates are it will be impossible to
learn until the returns have been for
warded to Counsellor Michael I. Fagin OF
the Executive Committee Mr.. Fagin will
issue credentials TO the delegates as soon
as their names have been filed with him.
Heppenheimer, William Heller Robert
Davis, Lewis Fischer, Samuel Warrin,
Anton Brock, John J. Nevin, James c.
Hail. John W. Queen, John Nevin,
Maurice Marks, Charles Hendricks and
Eugene Leake.
The delegates-at-large and ordinary
delegates viii caucus in Fischer's Hall,
Newark avenue and Erie street, Tuesday
evening next at eight o'clock The dele
gates will positively go TO Trenton un-
pledged Hudson County will not have
candidate Something more definite
about the attitude of the Hudson delega-
tionin the convention may be ascertained
between today and Tuesday next
Leader Davis is much pleased wish the
nomination of Foster Voorhees,.
ITO defeat Foster VOORHEES, is going TO
be an easy matter, he said this morn
ing. Before this campaign has pro-
gressed very far predict that there will
be exposures involving Mr.. Voorhees, and
others prominent in Republican ranks.
The exposures will doubtless be of such
nature that the whole State will be
aroused. Foster Voorhees, may be the best
Republican in the State. One does not
have TO try hard to be the best Repub-
lican. just how the Governors chair has
been used lately will be shown and what
Will come to the surface will make New
Jersey a very uncomfortable place for
many Republicans. Mr.. Voorhees, in-
GUIDED. | know what is coming but I
am not going to get confused with mud
Singing. All the Democrats win have to
do to defeat Foster Voorhees, will be to
give the voters of New Jersey his record
as an officeholder and politician That
alone VIII be sufficient to defeat him.
HE has been called the soldiers friend.
the general public. That his every move
has been one TO reap the soldier vote is
apparent to everyone. The soldiers know
him and have been much amused by his
performances.
man. and | have no doubt but that we
viii sweep the State. We will not nomi-
nate a trust and corporation man and
schemer, as the Republicans have done :