Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1906-11-03
.MIDDLESEX is
DOUBTFUL ONE
A Summing Up of the Political
Situation in the State on the
Eve Of Tuesdays Election.
AS 1T is VIEWED IN TRENTON.
Republicans Are Hopeful, but not as
Confident as They Were-Passaic
and Middlescx Counties Are the
Two That Are ''Up i'm the Air.
Republican Revolt i'm Monmouth
Points Toward Democratic Sweep.

TRENTON, Nov. 3:-The cam
paign of 1906 is practically over.
Little, if any, campaigning will be
done before Tuesday.
The result is involved in more un-
certainty than in any recent years.
The republican leaders themselves
are hopeful, but not confident. There
is marked apathy among the rank
and file, yet there are localities in
which extraordinary efforts are being
put forth.
There is possibility, if not prob
ability, that the next house of assem-
bly, will be democratic. The feeling
of dissatisfaction that has agitated
the surface in every county in the
state has gone below the surface in
many of them. The result is that
even in Mercer, where a week ago
there appeared not the remotest prob
ability of the democratic ticket win
ming, there is belief, even among
the republican leaders, that the
frankness of the democrats on the
issue anti-bribery and the self-con-
demning silence of the republicans,
may result in the election of men who
will work to put teeth" into the laws
for the stamping out of that iniquity.
Colonel Anthony R. KuserI who
has had charge of Senator John F.
Dryden's campaign, is probably the
most confident of all republicans. He
gave to the press Thursday forecast
by which he shows the reelection of
his father-in-law. But Colonel Ku-
LOT nf
other prominent republican, David
Baird, who, through no more cheerful
than any of the other leaders, claims
South Jersey will be solidly republi-
can. Colonel Kuser excepts Cape
May county, where every republican
officeholder of prominence is support
ing the democratic ticket.
The doubtful counties present in
teresting studies So great is the
anti-boss sentiment there that one OF
the republican assemblyman nomi-
nees has declared that if elected he
will not vote for John F. Dryden. The
democrats regard that declaration as
the doubt-casting quantity. They
claim that at least one of Bergen s
assemblymen will be democrat
Cape May ought not be in the dou5s-
full column. There is scarcely an ex-
ternal sign to give hope to the repub-
licans. Their party Is split almost In
half. All the republican officeholders
are supporting the democratic nomi-
nees and the democrats are united
Not only will an assemblyman be
elected but so will senator.
Reports from Essex are particular
ly discouraging to the republicans.
Few men who have travelled that
county within the past week see any
hope for Carl Lentz's ticket.
Middlesex will elect senator along
with its assemblymen. The people
are tired of Boss Strong and the DEM
ocrats have a senatorial candidate of
strength, who, it is expected, will
carry the assembly ticket through
with him.
Anti-bribery and anti-Avis law SEN
timent in Monmouth are responsible
for its being in the doubtful column.
The bolt of host of influential re-
publicans headed by former Senator
James A. Bradley. of Asbury Park,
and the withdrawal of the party or
ganization from the anti-bribery COM
pact are likely to turn the county
democratic.
The anti-boss sentiment in Morris
is strong and Farmer Martine's con-
gressional fight put that county in
the doubtful list.
Ocean is doubtful, but republican,
the democratic nominee being Assem-
blyman Warren, an independent
republican, who trained with the "the
gang" last winter.
The senatorial fight in Passaic