New-York tribune., 1900-11-09
NEWJERSEY POLITICAL NOTES.

New-Jcrsey Republicans VIII be Interested 70
know that Mr.. Griggs has positively made up his
mind 10 retire from the Cabinet next March II Is
generally conceded that New-Jersey is entitled to
net and the washington M s0Ssips a hase, haSe 'h@'
The latest urcfcial count OF the election returns
in New-Jersey shows that the plurality there FOR
Mckinley and Roosevelt is 52.s2o These nsures
NAV be slightly but materially. changed by the
official canvass The counties returning the lars@
est Republican pluralites are: Essex. l9.44o; Cam
den. $685. Union ASS; Mercer. 4o62; Burlington
$500: Atlantic. 5000: Cumberland. e5lt; Passaio
raiites in the Slate are. BY counties. as follows
Middlesex. 2lFa; Morris; 1910; Monmouth ls2Si SO
somerset i257: sussex s50. and Salem. 800 Bryan.
% rs Gso ont hf % warren
in the DemoGratc column ,t Tth 9d d;7 ana O'o 'u'
The fact that there was one Prohibition vote cast
at Guttenburg Tuesday last has apparently oc-
cesioned some surrr!se Wheseforea Wo az tnoWn
OF the former Big our are ueau' @'iu - - ~
that one has moved away
After reading the announcement In The Tribune
Of yesterday that Franklin Murphy desired to re-
tire from the Craftsmanship OF the Republican State
Committee next year, the question or ms successor
the event that he should INSIST upon nv Re-
pubicans in several parts Of the state Ihe nope
was was SsrGE ] iEane ns mira but there are ndca
lions that he may not be free to do So
7, was said IN Paterson yesterday that William
B. Gourley would undoubtedly adhere to his de-
termination to from the Craftsmanship OF the
democratic State Committee when the State Con,
TSn0e I6e DemocTac IneTat " party in Newersey MI
9urey has been at the he1s Re6lbcan lice pnray
54g9; 1909 Republican plurality 2i''o' 1900 fepun
The reelection OF Congressman Charles y.
Fowler in the With New-Jersey District IS taken
m an Indication that he ts growing with his growth
and STRENGTHENING with his strength. Mr.; Fowler
has beT Of I he NeW-Jersey delegation in the House
handsome vote of confidence which he received
oobart Davis the Democratic leader OF Hudson
County. probably Is the only man in New-Jersey
vcbo received a complimentary telegram from Will
lam j. Bryan. Mr. Davis yesterday received the
following appreciative eleven words by wire: Hud-
con County has done noSly and appreciate your
splendid work" Mr.. Davis had previously wired
Mr Bryan to the effect that the honest senti-
Of the American people was sthed 6y ne ne
power sod was sim the coin OF the realm in Jersey
y Of or
there we're Democrats. stacks Of them. with red.
that county last night who willing to wager
N to that M s woqd adob9S TgS %h of all ns
money resolution by The the Democratic state conven-
rsWa the Democrats State Committee a parting
shot Yesterday. He said: There M
Sars of the State Committee who suffering
from dope. They should wake Up. We don't want
any dcpey Democrats in the State COMMITTEES"
No names, for purposes of Identification. other
nurposes given.
When Senator Charles A. Reed said In The Trib-
me that Somerset County would return some
thing more than 1000 plurality for Mckinley and
Roosevelt there were many Republicans who
thought that he had put the figures too high. The
HenIblican output OF that county fully / 200
plurality for Mckinley and Roosevelt. and about
The same for Congressman Benjamin r Howell in
the home of his opponent James j. Bergen. There
fore Senator Reeds estimate was conservative, as
he said it when he made IT,
Commenting the many reasons alleged for the
defeat OF William J. Bryan. the thoroughgong
Democratic Evening News of Jersey City said
yesterday: What the people against was
Brysn-and Hryanism. They did not desire to elect
an ignorant vain unreasoning. self-willad play
actor to the Presidency. They did not wish TO In
dorse Anarchy-free riot free loot the overthrow
OF the Constitution and the supremacy OF the red
das-and every knew or felt that these
are the things that Bryanism really stood for.
Free silver was mere detail. The Philippines
were pretext. The evil figure OF Altgeld, the
Mephisto of the late Democratic drama, only half
concealed behind the planks of the Kansas City
platform. was the true genius of the Bryanits
ynoVement"