Connecticut western news., 1907-11-14
FORT WINS IN JERSEY
He Carries the State For Gov. ernor by Plurality of 6,1OO.
DEMOCRATS CENSURE DAVIS.
Ex- Senator Smiths Followers Attrib
 ute katzenbach's Defeat to Treachery of Hudson County Politician-Suc-

ute katzenbach's Defeat to Treachery
 of Hudson County PoIitician-Suc-
 cessfuI Candidate Felicitated by Loser. ! Trenton, N. J., Nov. 13.-Despite the contrary showing of earlier returns John Franklin Fort was elected gov ernor of New Jersey by upward of 1 6,1OO plurality over his Democratic op- ponent, Frank S. Katzenbach. Jr., and 1 the legislature will be safely Repub- | lican in both branches.
 | The result was not known until late | yesterday, when announcement was made of a surprising slump in Hudson l countys vote for Katzenbach. The Democratic plurality in the county, which had been declared all night to have reached 15,0O0 to 1S,00O, fell like a shot to under 1000, and it was seen at once that Katzenbach hadn't the | ghost of a chance.
 When the news of the result in Hud- son county reached Democratic head | quarters in Essex there was rage in | the camp of the followers of eX-United States Senator James Smith, Jr., who without moments hesitation there | openly declared that Katzenbach had | only lost the state through the treach- | cry of the Davis machine in Hudson | county. Davis, it was asserted, threw 1 the votes of his followers to Fort in | exchange for votes of the Dickinson machine for Wittpenn Dem.) for mayor, over Dickinson's old enemy, l Mark Pagan.
 That KatZenbach. was sacrificed to gratify personal and local ill will in l Hudson county is the belief also of nearly every Democratic leader in the state outside of Hudson. Mayor Fa- l gan's defeat for reelection to the mayoralty of Jersey City unexpectedly became the issue which was to decide | the gubernatorial contest, and the out come elected John Franklin Fort gov ernor of New Jersey by plurality Of over 61OO.
 To Defeat Pagan.
 Katzenbach even ran behind James | F. Fielder, the Democratic candidate for state senator, in Hudson, though even he did not receive the usual Dem ocratic support, his plurality over AT. thur Seitz, his Republican opponent, being only 7,374. In Jersey City Witt penn, the Democratic candidate for mayor, carried every one of the twelve wards. His plurality was 9,324. Da- vis' followers also elected Kinkead for president of the board of alder men by 8,986 and Thomas F. Rooney for street and water commissioner by S,033. The board of aldermen will be Democratic. .@
 The news of Hudson's Democratic slump recalled the statement made early in the campaign that Davis would sacrifice Katzenbach to defeat Pagan. Anti-Davis Democrats pointed to the vote for H. Otto Wittpenn l Oem.) for mayor of Jersey City al proof of the original charge. He wal elected by a plurality of 5000 mora than the gubernatorial candidate re. ceived in the county.
 "I am loath to believe it in spite o the evidence" said ex-Senator Smith whose words carry great weight in thu Democratic councils of New Jersey. last evening at his home in Newark Ut was said early in the campaig:r that Dickinson, Davis & Go. would dd this thing. but did not believe it, an l MT. katzenbach in his speech thai opened the campaign in Jersey City expressed his disbelief in its possibil ity.
 q am astOunded at the result. The state outside of Hudson did splendidly. and l am at a loss to account for the discrepancy there, for I cannot bring myself to believe that it vas the re' suit of treachery. If 1t was we shal! learn it."
 With the exception of Essex and Hudson counties the Democratic party
 did well throughout the state. Mercer. Middlesex and Monmouth were found to be in the Democratic ranks, while
 in Ocean George l.. Shinn, Republican
 nominee for state senator. was defeat.
 ed by William J. Harrison, although the county supported Fort. l MT. KatZenbach conceded the cleo { tion of Judge Fort and congratulate, , him.
 t The next legislature of New Jersey will stand on joint ballot: Senate, n Republicans and Democrats; house 40 Republicans and 20 Democrats joint
 ballot, 54 Republicans and 27 Demo
 crats. The Republican majority OH
 joint ballot will be 27 as against the present Republican majority of '.