Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-11-09
4 Letter FROM THE
CITY BY THE SEA.
The closing hours Of the
Political Campaign.
LAST MEETING OF THE COUNTY COIIITTEES.
THE INDEPENDENT VOTERS BECOMING
MORE NUMEROUS.

The political campaign is in it's clos
ing days as | write this letter (Monday.)
and it's results will be known before
these lines are in print. 1t is too
late to make predictions aud too
early to record results. Saturday
the Republican and Democratic county
Committees met here to compare votes,
give final instructions, and distribute
the convincing arguments that the
United States government prints upon
peculiar kind of paper. The former
seemed to be considerably worried, and
the latter rather more cheerful than
usual. La the Republican Committee
understand the situation was gone over
very thoroughly, and The PleaSant1lkAe
Press rOundly "cussed' for its indepen-
dent position and its strong fight for
better nominations on the party ticket.
Whatever may be the result of the cleo
ton tomorrow, / feel warranted in
saying that it's advice will have more
influence, hereafter, in the councils of the
party. Such "lambasting" as it has
been giving the .bosses" and their ''or-
gans" in the last six weeks has seldom
been equalled in Atlantic County. L am
positive it must have some weight
among thinking men who feel as | do
that the principles of the party are of
more consequence than the ambitions of
half a dozen men who are forever in
office and forever determined that no
body else shall get there. There has
been no serious attempt to refute the
assertions SO boldly made by The Press,
and the average voter. in noting the
situation, generally takes it for granted
that silence gives consent to their truth
fulness.
The Democrats seemed to be in good
spirits on Saturday, and they exhibited
a rather broader smile than usual-so 1
Judge they must have received encourag-
ing news from some source. Aside from
these little demonstrations there was
less excitement than usual for the Satur-
day Immediately before election, but
much interest can be aroused in q city
like this in twenty-four or forty-eight
hours if the arousing material is pro-
duced in sufficient quantities. The one
thing that all the candidates are fear
iDg, and which none can guard against,
is the vest-pocket voter-tl1e fellow that
saws nothing and votes as he pleases.
Ualess l am greatly mistaken he is going
to be more in evidence at this election
than ever before, and | therefore shall
not be bit astonished if there are some
unexpected and surprising results. If
the Ring managers are sweepingly sue
cessful they will become bolder and more
defiant than ever, but if their pet can
didate is defeated or elected by meagre
majority, they will take in sail and pre-
pare for heavy weather in the future.
The tendency all over the Country is
toward the overthrow of Ring rule, and
Independent voting is On the increase.
1t is this that upsets all calculation for
small writers, like myself, who want to
60 into business 81 political prophet.
Realizing, Mr.. Editor, that your
spaceis likely to belargely occupitd with
the election returns and comments
this week, will ''cut it short, in news
paper parlance, and wait for thereturns.
ARGUS.