The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-11-07
RESULT IN NEW JERSEY.
Everett Colby, Independent Candidate
For Senator, Wins Easily.

Everett Colby Independent Candidate
For Senator, Wins Easily.
Trenton. N. j., Nov. 8-The election
In New Jersey increased the Republic
an hold upon the state legislature and
makes It impossible for a Democrat to
succeed United States Senator John p.
Dryden In 1907. IN the state senate
the Republicans made gain of three,
electing Republicans from Gloucester,
Salem and Somerset counties, which
for the last three years have had Dem
ocratic senators. Only four Of the
twenty-one state senators will be Dem
ocrats.
Everett Colby, the independent Re
publican In Essex county, whose fight
against the machine attracted wide In
terest, was swept into office by ma
jority which approached that which his
county gave year ago when the local
ticket had the help of the national
ticket to carry it along. Mr.. Colby won
by not less than $4,000. He carried
his ticket through with him. The Re-
publican wave swept into Jersey City
again, and Mayor Pagan, despite the
active opposition Of the Republican
machine, he being an independent Re
publican of the Colby kind, was again
elected.
The election in Monmouth swept the
local leader who wanted to be sheriff
out Of his position, G. Asa Francis be-
ing defeated, although the candidate
for senator on the Republican ticket
with him went through by a safe ma
jority.
Everett Colby is now considered by
many the leading figure In the state.
He stands alone in the senate, but his
fellow Republicans will be given a
chance to declare themselves early in
the next session. In the house he has
delegation of eleven Of his own pick
ing, and it is believed that the three
members from Union and the five from
Passaic win fall into line with him.
That would give him almost one-third
Of the house and in case of factional
fight among the Republicans would
place the balance of power In the
hands of the Democrats, who by their
party platforms are bound to support
his ideas. 1t is believed that If Col
by handles his opportunities properly
early in the session he viii force safe
majority to support his measures in the
house and then carry them through the
senate.
Jersey City got much excited over
the election The mayoralty fight was
the bitterest election contest the city
has had in many years. Mayor Pagan
was out early. After voting In the
Fifth ward he visited the Second ward
to observe the operating OF the voting
machines
At the polling places in Brunswick
street and in Grove street he found
rubber bands on the levers over his
name. He called the attention Of the
election officers. The rubber bands
were around the mayors lever and the
lever which voted the name of the Re
publican candidate for alderman at
large, James w. Mccarthy. The Nc
Carthy lever worked all right The
mayor says his lever jumped back
without registering. 1t was nearly Z
o'clock when Mayor Fagan made the
second of these two discoveries. He
said he had probably lost a hundred
votes by the rubber band arrangement
There was no evidence that the ma
chimes We're not all right when they
left the office Of City Clerk Michael j.
O'Donnell.