The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-08-05
HRIDAY AuGUsT 8, 1898.
mis- nap is Democratic in principles
and Is anaspsndsas in its siss0s on all local
questions.


This mornings seTribune" has the lel-
.1owing remarks in its New Jersey editorial
column
IF Governor VOORHEES, gets the nomina-
tim for Governor 1T will be necessary "
elect a Senator IN Union county, niak1hs
xeieht Senators in all to be elected. lng
fnh7-over Senator's, in that event, TWouiu
consist of six Democrats. and seven he
44~7Ihlicans. In every one of the elght couh-
ties. with the possible exception OF Oesail,
the Democrats are getting r ss;ng a ia {
too. IN three of the counties by adegel
Republicans who profess to have persona
grievances. II the Democrats etectso nv
of the eight Senators they would nave q
majority in the Senate, and TO preVehl
that will require unceasing vigilance anu
activity from now on among the tlepup7
leans. The Democratic leaders are naru
at work planning and scheming- Ihey
are taking nothing for granled ana are
not ueglecting any looph0le Tor Dreahlus
into the Republican camp. Atlantic Came
near aelecting a Democrat six years ago;
and Mercer, Cumberland, Bergen ana
Morris have elected Democrats before
this. Hudson. of course. is ineorrfglpie.
Evidently the C. o. P. is getting worried
xsbout the coming election and exceedingly
nervous over the prospect of failing to
elect enough member of the Legislature
to capture James Smiths seat in the
United States Senate. Well they may be
alarmed, for, of the eight counties named
Inv the ssTribune,'' one is Republican,
Ocean; one lis surely Democratic, Hudson;
and in all the Others the Democrats have
more than q. fighting chance.
OF hate Mercer has been moving toward
the Democratic fold. In the election three
wears ago. Senator Skirm ran close to 1000
behind Griggs, and he has done everything
but increase his popularity throughout the
county since then. He and several other
Trenton men are candidates for renomi-
nation and their candidacy has caused the
merriest kind of war in the Republican
scamp. The county outside of Trenton
claims that the candidate should come
from that section and threatens that if a
city man is nominated the city will be left
to electahin. Recent elections have shown
that Trenton is Democratic by a large
majority. and if the full vote of the coun-
tyA is not polled by the Republican can
didate he is certainly defeated.
It is only three years since Morris was
represented for six years in the Senate
by a Democrat. and there are numerous
signs indicating a strong inclination upon
the part of the people of that county to
return to the Democratic faith.
Bergen was for years one of the bull
wanks of the Democracy of New Jersey,
and William NJ. johnson WAS the first
Republican the county ever elected to the
Senate. Dissensions in the Democratic
ranks were mainly responsible for his
election. These d~issensioAs have been
blotted out, the party is united and the
headers are conEsdent that they can re-
store the county to its proud place in the
Democratic column next fall.
The Democrats have carried Atlantic
county several times in the past and with
a well directed, vigorous campaign can
carry it again next fan.
It Is this state of affairs. as well known
to the Republican as to the Democratic
headers, which is causing the c.. O.. P. SO
much uneasiness and causing all the talk
about the necessity of Acting Governor
VOORHEES, remaining in the Senate to save
the partv.