The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-26
Colby Pagan Record Fac
tion Fail to Garry a Single
County With the Possible
Exception of Bergen
VIEWS ON THE SITUATION
NEW IDEAISTss LEADERS De
CLARE THEY HAVE JUST Be
GUN THE lFIGHT-WII.L KEEP
IT UP AND ATTEMPT TO NOM
NATE AND ELECT A COVER
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reports from Il over the State indiete
the the New Ide" is LOST one. Senator
| Colby, of Essex. who led in the fight
against the regular Republicans gave up
| the fight when he learned that sixty-fiye
districts of Essex showed a loss of AZ
| Colby delegates from 1905 and that in
Newark alone the returns from fifty-one
delegates showed a loss of 81 delegates.
| Fhis means that Colby, the champion of
the New Ideaists" has lost both the
Newark City and Essex Countyeonven-
tions. Rome was not built in a day..
he said to a reporter after he learned this
news. IF we lose this year we will fight
all the harder next year. | confess that
am surprised at the returns so far re-
oeiyed and cannot at this early hour an
| alyze the cause l am not at all
| troubled and if the completed returns
show that We have lost where We had
reasonable expectations of winning why
we will only start again and try to show
| the people that they have made mis-
| take
| George L. Record, who is the candi-
date of the New Ideaists" conceded at
two O'Clock this morning that his new
party had been beaten ''all along the hneo
but added that the result in Jersey City
was SO close that it would probably re-
! suit in the holding of two conventions
| He added
As soon as we get an opportunity to
study the details Of the fight we win try
and ascertain the cause of our failure.
The battle appears to be lost, but it is
not decisive. The real fight comes next
| year in the selection of Governor. The
thing to do now is to commence at once
10 organize for that fight and to endeayor
to profit by. our mistakes in this cam
paign.''
| Mayor Mark NJ. Pagan said:-
Yesterdays primaries, although not
resulting in the selection of a majority
of our men, nevertheless gave us a vic
tory. the full value of which we appre-
| ciate. We succeeded in awakening the
| voters to the necessity and importance
of going to the primaries and casting a
ballot for their choice. We have sue
ceeded in our ability to arouse the inter-
| est of fair-minGed citizens in local. coun-
4 ty and state problems and we will con-
tinue this fight"
| So far as could. be notwithstanding
the Fagan-Colby forces had lost the pri-
maries in every part of the State. with
| the possible exception of Bergen County
| General B. Burd Grubb is a victim of
| the avalanche. The New Ideaists" were
| defeated in Passaic, Morris, Middlesex
| Union and Monmouth Counties as well
counties they expected to win. In Bnri-
ington County they got but 200 yotes our
of total of22,000. In Monmouth TWEEN
l ty-six townships and boroughs out of
| thirty three gave the regulars fifty eight
| delegates to eighteen for Colby. In Nor
ristown. Morris County. Colby mn Sc
cured but one delegate, the regulars WIN
| ming the other thirteen. In Dover they
captured two out ofeight delegates. The
New Ideaisas' made no fight of any
consequence in Hunterdon CouAty. In
| bennington the regular Republicans e.ee-
| ted their Congressional and County dele
| gates. In Atlantic County John J. Gard
ner, regular Republican got all the Con-
gressional delegates and Thomas G. Ell
wins the Assembly delegates. The Col
byites put up no fight In Union County
the Colbyites probably carried Plaintield
with the exception of the Mayoralty nom-
nation. In Westfeld, in the same Goun-
ty, the home of Randolph Perkinsl lRegu-
lar Republican leader the Colbyites fai..-
ed to elect a delegate. The regular Re-
publican organization carried Mercer
County with practically no opposition and
the Assembly delegates are unit for the
reelection Of United States Senator John
FDryden In Passaic County the COZ
byites got black eyes. They We're defeat
ed by the regular Republicans TO i, but
th regulars favor William Barbour for
| Unitde States Senator and George I'll.
Barkewines for Congress. Plain clothes
men were imported from New York by
the alleged reformers to assist the police
| in securing fair primaries and fair
count. Ten arrests We're made at the M
stigation of the plain clothes men.
Notwithstanding u. S. Senator La
Follette's great speech in New Bruns-
wick recently, the regular Republicans
swept 4he County. Colonel A. Z. For
dyce, .Tr, who was candidate to sue
eeed w. w c. Jackson. as State Sena-
tor, did not secure more than twenty
delegates out of a total of 10Ss Fordyce
carried Perth Amboy.
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