Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-21
POLITICS IN JERSEY
No Doubt Of Roosevelt Garry
ing the State.
TRUST BUGABOO KILLED
VAST ARMY OF FACTORY WORK
ERS LINED UP FOR PROTECTION.
The Full Dinner Pail and Plenty of
Work Potent Argument-Demo-
Gratis After Socialists.
TRUST BUGABO0 KILLED
Special From a stafr Correspondent.

$1,000 and upward for Roosevelt and 24,0OO
for the republican state ticket; the same
being loudly laughed to scorn by the demo-
Gratis. There is no doubt that Roosevelt
will carry the state. The democrats are
simply indulging in hollow and heartless
mirth when they try to whistle Roosevelt
down the wind and most of them know it.
On the state ticket the chances still are
good for the republicans. The democratic
managers profess to be able to buy South
jersey as they term it. and thus turn the
tide. Well, perhaps the democrats know
what they are talking about in that re
spect 1t is a question, however, whether
they have the money. Most of the cleo
tion money lying around loose in Jersey
is usually within reaching distance of the
republicans, and I happen ID know that
this year the republicans are shy several
stacks of chips.
Only Democratic Stronghold.
The stronghold of democracy in New
Jersey is Hudson county, that is Jersey
City, Hoboken and vicinity. The demo-
Gratis are figuring on carrying Hudson by
81, 600 That may be possible. The repub-
lican managers, admitting the possibility,
started out to line up stand-off for Hud-
son county. They picked out Essex county,
which includes Newark and the Oranges.
My information is that there is excellent
prospect of Essex county not only offsetslng
Hudson, but going one or two thousand bet
ter The way in which the republican man
ayers figure out their 24OoO for the state
is this: 1--WE will offset Hudson with Es-
sex; We will come up from South Jersey
to the Raritan with $4,000 to 10000; we will
pick up a thousand in Morris. 100 in 3er-
gen, 1,5O0 in Union. and some scattering
1t is idle to talk about New Jersey going
against Roosevelt. All the indications now
point to Roosevelt getting close to what
Mckinley received in 1896. He will have
to be mighty strong if his head Is not
turned by the ovation that seems to be
coming to him in the east.
Kills the Trust Bugaboo.
And just think of Jersey, bone and sinew
of the trusts, that actually draws its sus-
tenance from corporation paps, standing
by Roosevelt, who so recently rolled up his
sleeves and swatted the biggest trust Of
them all, a Jersey trust at that.
But the corporation magnates and the
party leaders have to stand by him, De
cause the men in the ranks are with him.
Some of the big ones are still making
wry face over it, but they know they are
"up against it," as they say in the vernac-
ular over Newark way.
other day of a rolling mill; of those
places where husky men spit on their
hands when they grab hold of a billet of
iron and where they wipe sweat off their
brows, not perspiratfon. There were Ill
big rude, beef-eating. ale-drinking bullies
in the shop who still were pretty good
American citizens. They found that eighty
seven of these untutored children of the
forge had it in their noodles to vote for
Roosevelt. The others were divided be-
tween Tom Watson, the pcpulist, and and
socialist ticket There were no supporters
of the Parker Constitutional Club among
them.
Home of Manufacturing.
Northern New Jersey is the home of di-
versfied industries There are more differ
ent kinds of manufactures in this section
than in any other region of the country.
They make everything. from button to a
man-o'war. If one line of business is dull,
there is something doing in another. But
the workmen all know that their livelihood
depends upon the protective tariff system.
1t does not require craftsmanship to tell
them that; they have learned 1t by bitter
experience.
Down in Trenton they make pottery of all
kinds, for the poor mans scanty table and
to grace the rich mans sideboard. One
month of insufficient tariff would expose
them to the competition of England Ger
many and France, and the kilns would be
cold.
You could run through the several sched-
ules of the tariff bill, metal, wood, fabrics
and what not, and somewhere in Jersey
you'd find a community built up around
one OF those industries and dependent upon
the tariff.
Do you think for a moment that these
fellows most of whom went through the
disasters of the Wilson bill and came out,
somehow or other, but all the worse for
wear, are going to entrust their fate to
Mr.. Champ Clark of Missouri and Mr.
Bourke Cochran of New York, who would
destroy the protective tariff, from turret
to foundation stone.''
They Like Roosevelt
More than that, they like Roosevelt.
These fellows haven't time to stop and
weigh lot of fine-spun more or less amaze
mic theories and arguments They size I'D
Roosevelt and take him in because they
understand him He speaks the language
of their tribe. They like action, nerve, and
they believe he is honest
was talking with big open-shirted
fellow with hair on his chest and a fist like
a ham, who stood waiting for car He
had his dinner bucket in his hand; it must
have held a peck when 1t was full He ac-
cepted COB of smoking tobacco out of my
pouch, and, speaking of the President.
said: Well, If was in trouble, and it was
up to Roosevelt to help me or not I'd
brace him in minute, and I'd bet he d not
only see me, out 90 the 1afr thing. That
is the kind of duck / think he is''
Far be 1t from me to be responsible for
calling the President of the United States a
duck But 1 guess it will go from the
source from which 1t came
Democrats After Socialists.
The democrats have seized upon a very
clever issue for their state campaign. It
will make them a lot Of votes especially
among the working classes, where socialism
has foothold. 1t is too technical and long
to explain in detail but In a word it Is an
onslaught upon the railroads on the tax
question. They want additional classes of
railway property subjected to local tax
alton
The republicans are confronted with a
campaign of explanation and education. At
first blush, and to an unthinking audience
of the pro,etariat the democratic idea is
likely to be popular, but the republicans
are going at it systematically and patiently,
and hope to make headway in the explana-
tion.
The democratic managers say that they