Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-10-04
NEW JERSEY SITUATION
CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATES GIVE
10000 REPUBLICAN PLURALITY.
State Ticket Will Also Go That Way
and Eight of the Representa-
tives in Congress.
Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
CAPE MAY. n. j.. October An inter-
estfng political situation has been developed
in New Jersey by reason of the various
questions which have been injected into the
state campaign not only on account of the
presidential contest but also in the matter
of the choice of governor.
New Jersey will this year elect, besides
the twelve presidential electors. a governor,
ten representatives, seven members of the
state senate and a full house of assembly
of sixty members This house of assembly.
together with the twenty-one senators
who compose the upper branch, will elect
the United States senator to succeed John
kean, whose term expires on March 4 next.
The most conservative estimates show
that New Jersey VIII give Roosevelt and
Fairbanks about thirty thousand plurality,
and that Edward c. Stokes, the republican
candidate for governor. will probably get a
majority of not less than $4,000.
All of the present members of Congress,
both republican and democratic, have been
renominated except William M. 1.anning or
the fourth district, who resigned last spring
to accept the United States district court
judgeship made vacant by the death OF
Judge Andrew kirkpatrick. In his place
Ira w. Wood, lawyer of Trenton, and a
former member of the New Jersey legisla-
cans for both the short and long terms.
His opponent is Robert Livingston Stevens,
who is only nomnally a resident of the
congressional district, but who maintains a
summer home at Bernardsville, N. j.,
alongside of other millonaires such as Jas.
B. Duke John +. Dryden and others. He is
a member of the distinguished Stevens fam
lily of Castle Point. and the democrats OF
his district count upon his wealth as
being a great incentive toward wrestling
this district from the republican column
The district has, in its past, elected several
democrats to Congress, but in the reappor-
tfonment the chances favor the election OF
Wood.
The Record Since 1896.
In 1895 New Jersey elected John w. Griggs
governor by 1900 plurality, and he was
the first republican who had been elected
in thirty years. During the ten years pre-
ceding his election those who absolutely
controlled the democratic party in the
state were James Smith. jr formerly
United States senator, and William j.
Thompson. who was the owner of the ne
farious Gloucester race tracks against
which the independent people rebelled ana,
as rebuke, rolled up the majority for
Griggs.
In 1899 Foster NJ. voorhees,. republican.
was elected governor by 1000 majority, ana
three years ago Gov. Murphy was elected
by a plurality of 1900. while the average
vote the same year, for members of the
legislature. gave the state to the Sepub1-
cans by % 900 majority.
Four years ago Mckinley carried New
Jersey by $1,000, and two years ago the
average vote on the congressman ana Tor
members of the assembly gave the state
to the republicans by little over D.0oo
The republican candidate for governor
has for the last twelve years been init
mately connected with the state govern
ment and was one of the leaders who help
ed to break up the race track legislation,
and after becoming a member of the as
sembly and a senator was the author or
many of the reform laws now on the stat
ute books. He is the author of the present
state school law and of the primary law
under which all parties nominate their can
didate on the second Tuesday of each sep
TENDER He served six years in the state
senate and was one year its president
During the past three years he has been
clerk in chancery. 1t was through ms Ell
forts as a legislator that the compensation
of the clerks OF the various courts was
fixed by law and the fees turned into the
state treasury and while he is receiving n
salary as clerk in chancery the state is
getting about $4,000 which would go into
his pocket had not the present law peen
passed. His democratic opponent is Charles
c. Black, a lawyer of Jersey City, VINO mas
for many years been a member of the state
board of taxation, and who has raised the
cry that the people are paying the taxes
and that the railroads are not. Since ne
proclaimed this as his slogan of battle the
republicans in their platform, have shown
that they have always been for equal tax
alton and they have adopted a platform
written by Representative Gardner of the
second district which declares for equal
taxation between people and corporations,
and which seems to be taking some or the
wind out of the sails of Mr.. Blacks cam
paign craft.