The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-10
The Defeat of the Democracy.

The Defeat Of the Democracy.
Looking over the State returns, it must
be evident to the simplest tyro in poll
ties that the Democratic candidate could
have been easily elected. 1t is not the
smallness of Mr.. Voorhees, majority
which indicates this. 1t is the way in
which this majority is made up.
Only one county in the State went
strongly Republican. Camden certainly
turns up an m vote for General
Sewell's candidate, and the figures, as
they stand, show how much in earnest
he was In promoting the interests of the
men he had picked out for Governor
and United States Senator. It is true
local causes contributed to help hin
none more thar the activity of the I'M
~speakable Billy Thompson on the Dem
ocratic side. But making every allow
ance, the vote stands a ribute to Gen
eral Sewelrs leadership.
AS for the other counties. hardly one
was more thar normal. Unions 2,21 is,
il anything, surprisingly low. Consider
ing that it is Mr.. Voorhees, home and
that he stands in remarkably high per-
sonal esteem among his neighbors, con-
sidering that he has once carried the
county by over 5000 votes, it lis extraor-
binary that his majority was not far
bigger than 1t is. Then. there is Pas
sale with only 700 Republican majority.
Compare this with the vote it CAV to
Griggs or Mckinley, and it will be plain
that the same Democratic movement,
which swept all before it in Hudson, was
in vigorous existence in other parts of
the State as well.
The battle was lost in Essex county,
in the stronghold" of Senator James
Smith. If the majority given therein for
the Republican candidate had been on
verted into 700 for the Democratic nomi-
nee, Mr.. Crane would have been elected.
This would nave involved a change of ex-
a2lLly A,oop WINE, dtio 1 10 4lilRi >
to say that this picayune advantage
could not have been gained.
There is nc essential difference between
the people of Hudson and Essex. They
have the same ideas, the same interests,
the same prejudices, the same merits and
the same failirgs. Influences that oper-
ate in the one county must have similar
effects in the other. If the same sort OF
campaign had been conducted in Essex
that was made here, Essex could have
been carried, just as Hudson was, and
vice versa.
ditions in the two counties. They are
Robert Davis and 1.-THE Jersey City
News" In Mr.. Davis, we have, in Hud-
son, a leader who knows how to fight
and how to win. He is as shrewd as he
is energetic and untiring, and as earnest
and devoted to Democratic success as
any man in the State of New Jersey. In
THE News the party has an adviser
and an organ, which spreads the seed of
Democracy throughout the community,
not for a few weeks before election, but
three hundred days a year and over,
year after year. so that the impression
on the public mind never has a chance
to be effaced, but is deepened and deep
ened from one week to another, as the
constant 1ow of water writes its inef-
faceable mark upon the rocks.
It liz not the campaign work of a
newspaper which counts, alone. 1t is its
work in creating public opinion, in fos-
tering party sentiment, in blowing and ir-
rlgating the soil and planting the seed SO
that the leaders may find all ready for
them to garner the crop of votes when
the harvest is ripe. Never will Essex be
a reliable Democratic county, until a first
rate Democratic newspaper is published
there and established in a widespread
circulation throughout the county. There
are now two virulent papers working for
the Republican party in Newark. The
Daily Advertiser is an untiring advo-
cate Of Republicanism in its narrowest
shape. and 1.-THE News the most power
ful paper in the State, is all the more for
midable because It pretends to be inde-
pendent and impartial while it is actu-
ally STEPPED in ultra Republicanism from
the first line Of its first page to the OBJ
scurest corner OF Its advertising columns.
The notion that the party can ever over
come the influence Of these two loud and
persisteat voices without any vehicle BY