The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1906-08-07
THE TARIFF THE KEYNOTE.
Perfectly Satisfied with che Outlook
Essex County All Right.

Perfectly Satisfied with che Outlook
Essex County All Right.
The Republican State Committee
has kept well posted on the events OF
the midsummer campaign" ever
since it started in Observers have
been on the spot and carefully noted
and counted the persons attending the
meetings held.
1t is now eVidentt that the predomin-
ant issue in the State is the tariff.
Ten congressman are to be elected,
and the legislature OF next year will
elect United States Senator, so that
the legislative elections will have an
Important national bearing. In the
alignment Of States in the Senate, in
dustrial New Jersey must be repre-
sented by undoubted champions of the
protective tariff. No tariff 'reformer'
and no tariff lame duck will do.
That is the sense of the party coun-
ellis. It is also the conviction that the
logical candidate for Senator is SEN
ator Dryden, who is by party usage en-
titled to a denomination. Strong rep
Presentations to that effect have been
made by manufacturers and business
men, They don't want to take any
chances, and they regard the legisla-
tive elections as of the same national
Importance as the congressional.
There is, in fact, no other Republican
candidate in sight.
Essex had been looked upon as a
storm centre. It isn't so regarded
now. Hudson may swing back to
Democracy, and small wonder if it
doesn't, but the Republicans can spare
Hudson. There are seventeen Repub-
licans jn the State Senate, and four re-
tire, leaving thirteen to the good.
There are four Democratic Senators,
Of whom two will retire, leaving two.
The Republicans will easily maintain
their present number Of Senators, and
will have to elect only tWenty-four out
|of sixty Assemblymen to secure the
election of a United States Senator.
This can easily be done, even with
the loss of Essex. Thus the votes of
Camden, Mercer, Union, Cumberland,
Middlesex, Morris, Passaic, Monmouth
and Burlington make a total of TWEEN
ty-fve, with the votes of Gloucester,
Cape May, Ocean, Atlantic. Salem,
Somerset six in all, in reserve. And
these are all strong Republican coun-
ties. And Essex, Passaic and Hudson
can be spared. But no county is re-
garded as more safely anchored in the
Republican faith than Essex, and all
this is pure speculation.
The record of the Legislature this
year will not be lost sight Of. 1t will
be the keynote of the Republican cam
paign. 1t will appear in black and
white, and be the most effectual reply
to the men who have been belaboring
the party all summer. There will be
no windy defamation in the plain
presentation to be put forth; only the
unvafnished facts.
The State Committee will have little
money this year, If there are not many
small individual contributions. Not a
penny will be received from any cor
poration source. The county commit
tees will also be short in their funds,
and will have to economic closely to
make both ends meet. 1t is crafty
ing to State committeeman that they
have this year an opportunity to kill
off the opportunities of the mercenary
and striker, and put an extinguisher
on the class who offer their votes for
sale at the polls. They recognize the
fact that the greatest reform to be ac-
complished in this State is that of the
corrupt use of money in elections, and
they are earnest in the purpose to ac-
complish it.