New-York tribune., 1900-10-29
NEWJERSEY POLITICAL NOTES.

The nominations OF the Republican and Demo-
cratic parties in New-Jersey have been completed,
and this week will be of the greatest political
activity known this State since 1886. The whole
State will be occupied with meetings and parades
and personal appeals by candidates will be made
from house to house in many OF the counties. AS
Election Day approaches the utter rout of the
Democracy seems to grow apparent. but
the necessity for earnest Republican work in
several of the counties still exists. This neces-
sity is peculiar TO the lid. WITH and With Con-
gress districts where. although the Democrats are
straining every nerve to elect their Congress and
legislative tickets with the apparent willingness
to sacrifice Bryan wherever such sacrifice may
seem TO be necessary trade to the advantage
of the Congress and local candidates be made.
sion to go back to the old trick OF trading where
by in some counties. Democratic or Republican
elections by treachery TO other parts of the ticket
brighter, and by continued earnest endeavor alone
can they win or deserve to win in the districts
named, or anywhere else-
1t was said in Paterson Saturday by about
two-thirds of the voting population who heard
Mr. Bryan's address there that Mayor HinchIffe
State Senator Braun, Sheriff Hopper and ex-Judge
Van Cleve were not among the most appreciative
listeners to the candidates attacks on trusts It
Is IN IN "a [s'lso f onat tneSe !eealng Demo
local brewery and ice trusts, and on this subject
sensitive while he is the Democrats candidate for
State Senator.
Jacob Richter is another Jersey City Democrat
who cannot subscribe to the Bryan doctrines He
has voted the straight Democratic ticket for FORTY
years, but he will this year vote for Mckinley and
Roosevelt. Referring TO his decision to do so he
said: 4 do not take this step because I do NOT
any longer believe in Democracy, but because 7 9o
not believe in the false pretenSons OF Mr. RrvsN
the false issues by which his canvass Is hsiDr-
bolstered up by the party leaders" Probably h
party leaders in Jersey City should speak their
real sentiments, they would express themselves in
much the same way
The youth OF Marshall Van Wrinkle which re-
Gently he said that he hoped TO outgrow when
alluding 10 the regrets OF the With Congress Dis
trict Democrats that his years stood in the va OF
his availability a candidate for Congress against
the long and uninterrupted experience Of Allan l.
McDermott. his Democratic opponent has not pre-
vented him from gathering up some Of the ami
tudes OF the logiciln and applying them with force
70 Mr.. McDermott's recent political career At a
public meeting in Jersey City on Saturday night
Mr. Van Wrinkle said MIR. McDermott asserts
that ne has a right TO his own opinions and he
also mas asserted that Bryan was wrong in 1886 III
may De said In this connection that all Democrats
voters have right their opinions (which AZ
IN Jersey city as IL would be in York; and that
/ n MT Bryan was wrong 1885, Ii may very well be
that ooth Mr. McDeTmOtt and Mr.. Bryan are
wrong IN lsOo These things perhaps not to the
diseredit Of Mr.. McDermott as a man but 10 me
they seem 10 destroy his availability and accent
ance as candidate for the su1rages OF the people
EVen Mr. McDermott. with all his admitted expert
ence ana eloquence, will find il difficult to con
struct more compact and logical sequence than
this The truth OF IL Is so self-evfdent that h
Is unnecessary to allude 10 the polite but ex-