The Penn's Grove record., 1904-02-05
All For Hearst.

The Trenton Times, an independent
Republican paper, and the largest daily
published i'll Trenton, contained a two
column portrait of Congressman William
Randolph Hearst last Friday and the
following anent the Hearst sentiment in
New Jersey:
ut is semi-officially announced that
the formal launching in New Jersey of
the Presidential boom of William Ran
dolph Hearst took place on Wednesday
evening, in Newark under the auspices
of the Iron-Bound Democratic League.
Colonel E. L. Price, for many years
chairman of the State Democratic Com
mittee, is slated to have charge Of the
Hearst boom in this State, according to
some North Jersey seers.
ssAt the meeting on Wednesday, Con-
gressmen Benny and Hughes appeared.
and many other active New Jersey Demo-
Gratis were in evidence.
1.-The New York Tribune oil this morn
ing, declares that the Hearst boom is on
in New Jersey and is making what is
called mile-a-minute Roadway from Sus-
sex to Cape May. This is what affects
~unpleasantly the graybeard Democrats
OF this State as well as some OF those SONS
of the graybeards who have not gone as
tray in the pursuit of gilded veal.
LISTEN said a North Jersey Demo-
crat to-day. All of Warren County,
excluding the Republicans, who are few
and far between up there, is as eager for
the nomination of Hearst for President as
it ever was for the nomination Of De
Witt O. Flanagan for Congress. Go ask
Senator Barber, of Phillipsburg, Coun-
sellor Joseph Roseberry, of Belvidere,
who shed his Republican wearing appar-
ell some years ago, if this statement about
the popularity of Hearst i'll Warren
County isn't a fact. Ask any Democrat
between Belvidere and Washington if
Hearst isn't popular in that county and
the answer will not be III the negative
Have you heard from ex-senator
Gebhardt p a Hunterdon County Demo-
crat inquired when asked if Mr.. Hearst
was a ~favorite of the party in New Jer-
sey. No? Well, Mr.. Gebhardt is re-
{, ported to be strongly inclined to favor
the nomination of Hearst for President.
1t is said that Mr.. Gebhardt's friends
will push him as hard as possible as a.
candidate for delegate to the St. Louis
| convention. And there is Senator Fer
rel, of Gloucester County, who formerly
was a member of Congress and who re-
Gently was defeated for the nomination
for Governor, and who would like, no
doubt, to try again for the nomination.
If be is not a pronounced supporter of
Mr.. Hearst his closest friends do not
know What they are talking about
"Included with these well known
Democrats is Senator Strimple, of Salem
| County. Mr.. Strimple is known in South
Jersey both as a good fellow and a Hearst
man.
"Not last, nor by any means least, is
William K. Devereux, the Secretary OF
the Democratic State Committee and in
%cidentally the wit and humorist of the
Legislative Correspondents Club, who
only the other day announced that the
William R. Hearst Club would hold a
meeting Immediately after the adjourn
ment of the daily session of the Legisla-
ture.
Democrat though he is, there is no
mortgage on the independence of Billy
Devereux, and if he is in favor of the
nomination of Mr.. Hearst, even ex-Uni-
ted States Senator Smith, whose first
choice is Grover Cleveland, cannot bulge
him from his purpose.
"a Republican of South Jersey who is
thoroughly conversant with political con-
ditions there, said that Hearst was un-
q~uestionably strong in that part Of the
State, particularly SO with the labor or
| CARNATIONS and that he was growing
stronger every day. This was especially
true of Gloucester, Salem, Cumberland
and Camden counties, he said, and it
would be useless and misleading TO at
tempt to controvert this fact by a simple
denial"