The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-18
SAME OLD CRY.
Hudson County Republicans
Say the G. 0. P. Was
Never in Better
Shape.
RING HAS CONTROL AGAIN
And Now For the Same Old
Results Big Democratic
Victories.

| Politics are not being discussed much
by the Republicans locally, but the
wise" ones who are on the inside are
| giving out bits of news regarding the
candidacy of Chairman Franklin Murphy,
who asDires to Gpbernatorial honors.
| The Murphy Association is by no means
dead, as some supposed. On the contrary,
the managers Of the Gubernatorial boom
are already at work laying lines for their
suave prospective winner. An outing will
be held this year to eclipse the event of
last year. All the faithfuls will be asked
| to get in line this fall and hand up their
little flyers for outing tickets. An effort
will be made to swell the list of memberfs
and to promote harmony in the ranks.
AS matters now stand, Murphy, to all
appearances, is the party candidate At
least the Hudson delegation will be in
structed to vote for Murphy at the State
Convention next September. The City
Committee will meet in August to set
dates for primaries at which delegates to
the city and county conventions will be
selected
From the camp of the local G.. o. P.
comes the good word that the party was
never in better shape History repeats
itself in this respect. This same slogan
has been heard at least twice year
for dozen years back and yet results
speak for themselves.
Since last fall the leaders, through their
agents, have been pulling all sorts of
wires to further the interests of the party
and to secure harmony in the various
wards and townships. BY clever trick,
that astute leader, Mr.. George W. Decker,
was buncoed into putting all his power
into the hands of the machine men in the
Eighth ward. His former followers re-
gard that transaction as a banner one in
the history of local politics Decker, who
had all the power completely in his hands
is accused of selling out. The Deckers
got nothing in return, but were promised
lots of good things. The result was the
disbandment of the Decker political club
Now the ring all but controls the ward
politics, and the Ward Association meets
in its new quarters in Virginia avenue. In
this manner the ring men were clever
enough to kill off all future opposition to
their tricks in that ward. The machine
now controls and will run things as usual
until the anti-ringsters discover that they
have been done again.
There are very few wards in the city
where the opposition remains strong 10
the ring interests. The Erwin crowd in
lower Jersey City is said to have gone
out of existence and this leaves a free
field in that locality.
In the Ninth ward the anti-ring men
have lost their grip, too. Chairman Fry
of the Executive Committee has har-
monized things nicely in the Seventh
ward, and there is practically no oppo-
sition in any of the other wards, save
perhaps the Twelfth, where former Con-
gresham McEwan holds forth. From
this it will be seen that the delegates to
the county and State Conventions from
Hudson will be almost solid unit for
the men the bosses decide upon. 1t Is
hardly possible for the anti-ring men to
get delegate elected now
Locally, the Republicans stand no
chance of winning in the fall Their
Mayoralty candidate, presumably Mr..
Mark Fagen of the Third ward, will be
outclassed by the candidate of the Demo-
cratic party.
Mr.. Fagen engineered the little trick in
having Joseph Filoramo, the Italian court
interpreter, dislodged a few weeks ago
to make room for his man. This was
is a large Italian following in his ward.
AS to the other Republican possibilities,
there isn't a chance of any of them win
ming One or two wards, the Eighth and
Ninth, may go Republican for couple
of Aldermen, but these are the only two
wards which are at all uncertain. Every
thing else is strongly Democratic.