The sun., 1905-09-14
c0IBY'S SWEEPING VICTORY.
u,GGEST VEST POCKET VOTE NEW
ARK EVER SAW.
us,or Pagan OF jersey City ReJoiccs. and
Alderman Davis OF OranEe Declares
That Is Unto the Dem Oeratic County
Convention TO IndOrse Mr.. Colby.

Alderman Davis OF OranHe DCcluret
ThatItIs Unto the Dem Ocratic Count,
Convention to Indorse Mr.. Colby
The Essex county Republican conven.
.,o, was held in the Kruger Auditorium
st Newark last night and it was all fol
Colby men. William p. Martin presided
John S. Gibson nominated Everett Colby
tor state Senator and he was selected by
an unanimous vote.
Frank II. Sommer Of Newark was nomi-
,ated for Sheriff and Edward H. Perry OF
orange got the nomination for County
psgister. The nominations for Assembly
non were Philip G. Walsh, Jr. Henry Clay
Hines Russell NJ. Everett, John r. Lee,
william P. Martin, John H. Knorr and
Albert c. Pedrick Of Newark, Austin Col
sate OF Orange, George s. Scribe OF Irving
I'm. William F. Morgan Of Short Hills and
Charles r. Underwood.
The Republican machine Of Essex county,
n j.. received a blow at the primaries
m Tuesday that it will not recover from
IN many day. Yesterday the leaders,
from Major Carl Lentz down, had little or
nothing to say as to the causes for the
sweeping victory over their organization
accomplished by the independents massed
,mder the banner Of Everett Colby Of West
Orange, who since last June has worked
ceaseessly for the nomination of his party
for State Senator on platform Of his own .
which calls for limited franchises and equal
taxation, among other things.
Seven of the fifteen wards Of Newark
we're carried by the Colbyites, giving the
INDEPENDENTS l75 of the ATS delegates to the
county convention, which was held last
NIGHT. outside, throughout the county,
Colby got about $50 delegates. Besides
It is now very probable that Colby's fol-
owers will control the county and pos
sbly the city committee-such a rout the
machine men in the Republican party
lave not had in many years II ever, and
thew we're as silent as clans yesterday
asa consequence.
OF the six wards carried for Colby In
Newark three were conceded by midnight
on Tuesday. The ballots were much
marked up and the counting went slowly:
the returns from all the outlying cities
and towns we're not figured up until late
Yesterday afternoon when the delegates
TO the county convention began to turn
their faces toward the convention hall.
The attendance at the primaries was aston
thinsly large in most Of the wards, par
tcuary in the Eighth, Ninth and Eleventh,
where it seemed as if every Republican
was out to overturn the machine. Hum
dreds voted the ballots sent out by the
Colby committee just as they had been
marked by the Colby leaders. Primary
officials said there was the largest vest
rocket vote cast in the history of the city
government.
Outside of Newark, the Colby vote was
away ahead of all expectation. The ma
chine had practically conceded the county
outside of Newark, or most Of 1t, to Colby,
but Colby himself had not dreamt Of how
great the declaration there was to be. He
carried all the Oranges, Bloomfield, Mont
clair, Belleville, got five out Of the seven
delegates to the county convention allotted
to Nutey and swept several Of the smaller
places.
The fight was directed largely against
Major Carl Lentz, chailnan Of the county
Republican committee. the boss Of the
Republican pary both in Newark and
Throughout the county. Three years ago
Major Lentz was defeated for Sheriff Of
the county after an unusually bitter cam
pain. in WI, which the Democratic y. m , candidate @ e
Republicans who were thoroughly dis
satisfied with the Major and his method
Of running the party. But after this blow
the Major kept hold on the organization,
furnishing severely those who had swerved
from the path he and those close about
bun hum had .i outlined, and exercising such yig-
lance that his power increased rather than
diminished, and it seemed well nigh an i'm
possible thing to shake his grip and those
whom he represents
Much Of the feeling engendered by the
systematic campaign waged by Colby has
teen vented upon the Public Service Cor
poration, which controls the trolley lines
oial alnorthen New Jersey. The service last
winter was had and grew worse toward the
close Of the winter, and hundreds of voters
were determined to administer rebuke
FOR this state of affairs by turning down the
Major and his followers, who are known
to be in close touch with the Public Service
The dscomforts Of ast winter gave per-
sonal flavor to the fight in the minds OF
many, even though they recognized that
the great question of limited franchises
Tor the Public Service and other corpora
lions, and equal taxation we're the domi-
nant issues.
For six weeks or so Colby held MONDAY
meetings in Newark, visiting the factory
districts. where he spoke to the working
men men These meetings were well attended.
Solby spoke from wagon and usually
nad quartet along to do a. little singing,
inc meetings had great effect, and in the
factory neighborhoods one could hear
htle but Colby talk on Tuesday. As the
CAMPAIGN wore on Colby and those about
MN realized that they had struck deeper
and more responsive chord than they had
expected to- Gradually it became appar-
ent to thousands that the issue was not
,olby as an individual. and Colby saw this
nmseh and made it plain in his speeches
'mt ne saw and appreciated it.
as Tor the machine Leaders, they were
lo@lly unprepared for the drubting they
got. They could not believe their splenCid
fgani iza,ion could be even 30 much ss
Hned out Of good working order Money
x~ spent literally on Tuesday, end all
.nfough the day, even until the primaries
eiosed at in the evening, the word con-
'nued to go around that all was WELL
Mbile the disappo intment among the
NHoers Is great, there are prominent Repub-
nAns who are really pleased ct the out
come; men, some of them high in Office in
!n county and city, who have long wished
ond the party Of the pow that has con-
uoied 1t OF recent years, but who, for one
!eason or another, did not come out and
pM the Colby forces. Some Of these ex-
hTSeed their feelings quite openly yesterday.
-Asfor Mark NJ. Faean Of Jersey City,
. mo mas made things lively for the corpora
IONS since he has been in office, and who
RIOmlSps TO ontiDua tho Aohk ~ ooy,opol