The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-04-13
OUT FOR SP0|LS.
Republicans Already Plan
ming to Seize All the !
Offices In Sight.
DEMOCRATIC PROSPECTS NEXT FALL
What They Must Do to Secure
the Legislature-Senate
Candidates for
G overnor.

(Special despatch in ewark
CALM
TRENTON. April s. 1Ss9-It has not OFTEN
happened that in the springtime, When
the thoughts of most men go to mowers
and the election of b-urgomaster, town
fathers and such as rule in urban ana
suburban places, that the air becomes SO
thoroughly permeated with State mat
tiers, as it is now. ~
II is unusual to see the end of an OLD
campaign followed so closely by the new,
The close of the recent Legislature Is "
some extent responsible for the great
amount of politics that is now in sight-
It is not the aftermath of the Legisia-
ture. but rather the discovery OF what
has been going on beneath the confusion
of the session. Fence building. pipe lay
ing. log rolling, and even the liberal use
of political Bowie.
There are two propositions that are be-
ing somewhat discussed where pubic men
gather throughout the State.
VIII President Mckinley be a candl-
date without Garret A. Hobart?
Can the Democrats secure control OF
the Legislature next fall?
On the surface these look like two sep
aIdJe DIODOClllollos a0ah tHN~
ground wire which connects them, and a
little digging up facts reveals this.
There has been a sudden outburst OF
newspaper articles, which state that
President Mckinley is going to sail his
ship over Easy Bay to a second term
with a new mate. 1t is said that he fears
the present mate because he halls from
New Jersey, which State is now in bad re-
pute, because it has become the legal IN
cubator of trusts and commercial combi-
nations of destructive tendencies, when
nave alarmed the whole country.
The Democratic party expects to WIN
in New Jersey n ext fall, because OF a
vigorous antitrust and anti-corporatfon
| campaign, with the aid of Democratic
National Committee
Senator Allan L.. McDermott and AS
| semblyman Leon Albeit the most con-
| spicuous figures of the Democratic NIL
| nority in the Legislature, continually
| agitated antitrust and a-nti-corporation
| measures, making considerable record Tor
their party.
tt is known that senator McDermott
worked hard for legislation that would
drive trusts and corporations from this
State.
The aggressive opposition of the Demo-
era tic minority to trusts was inspired by
orders from the National Democratic
| Committee. whose headquarters at pres
ent is in Washington. and the belief pre-
walls that it has recently acquired a press
bureau that has mixed up with the Vice
Presidential question.
The national leaders have decided thai
an effort must be made to get New Jersey
back into the Democratic column Tor
Presidential year, and that the time TO De-
gin is now. In view of inharmonious re-
lations existing among the Demoeratic
state Committee and the State leaders,
they will step in and do the preliminaries.
All the Democrats have not yet been
taken into confidence in this scheme, but
one who is familiar with it says that there
orc q number who are much enthused
over the plans and the prospects. rms
same informant thinks that the ANTITRUST
issue is a penetrating one, and that the
question of extravaganza is always a
winner in rural districts.
The Democratic leaders figure on cap
turing a majority of the counties nex'
fall. Senators will be elected in eight
They are Essex. Monmouth, Union, Som
erset. Gloucester, Salem and Camden
represented by Republicans, and Warren
represented by a Democrat. The Demo
cratic leaders believe it is possible to cap
ture Essex, Monmouth, Somerset and Sa-
lem from the Republicans. That will give
them control of the Senate. With the
Essex Senator will go the eleven members
that give them the House. This accom-
nlished. they consider the victory won
Allan L. McDermott will be the candidate
for United States Senator, for he is tt
Head this particular fight. The Democrats
claim that Monmouth, Somerset and Sa'
lem are nominally Democratic counties
and would be made so under the tight tina
they are planning to make. II they mis-:
fire this year the jig is all UP, and that IL
the reason the fight has begun now, ant
will continue. quietly and persistently.
At the next session of the Legislature q
! State Comptroller and q State Treasure
! are to be elected. The present incumbent
seek another term. The Democrats I'm
J derstand that to capture the Legislator
gives them these two offices, which arr
: the most desirab bic of all in the Stat
House from a political point of view
| Plans have progressed SO far that one 0
: them Is to go to Hudson county and th'
! other to Camden. The effect of tn
Democrats getting back into the Stat
t House offices would be beneficial all alonl
: the line. The theory of the campaign j
to give the Democrats something tangibl
Z to fight for, and the coming contest give
e them all that is desirable for a genera
awakening.
n There is just as much politics on tn
Republican side, only they are not pre-
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