Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1916-11-03
BUGBEE SCOUTS
WILSON TREND"
State Chairman Glasses II
With the HobgobIins.

Newark, Oct. Observation-Disclosures,
h~obgoblins, banshees and ghostly man
ifestations in general are quite in or
der at Halloween time" remarked
Newton A. X. Bugbee, chairman of
the Republican State Committee, as
he strolled into headquarters here to-
day, land so is this latest Democratic
bugaboo, the mysterious and delight
fully indefinite Wilson trend which
they have been making so much of a
fuss about recently. l am not an
habitual chaser of hobgoblins, but |
must confess that l have been led into
a quest of this one, a. 4 l have found
it quite as elusive as most of these
creatures are. l have combed New
Jersey from end to end and have fail
ed utterly to locate it, or anything
that looks NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Democratic friends have been indulg-
ing too literally in Halloween cider.
MY quest, however, has not been
entirely in vain, for it has thoroughly
confirmed earlier predictions that New
Jersey will be carried by big plurali-
ties for Hughes and Fairbanks, FIRE.
linghuysen and Edge. 1t will also
elect eight, probably nine and possibly
ten of the twelve Congressman, seven
and probably eight of the nine State
| Sonotnrc RI hn x-oto1 far on1 n0,,nI
A~ssemblymen to hold the majority we
had in the last house. l look to see
the State go Republican by between
forty and fifty thousand.
I'm my search for the h%obgoblin /
have made inquiry into the exact CON
ditions and have frankly asked to be
Informed of the very worst that could
be expected. My answer from men in
close touch with the situation in the
various counties and municipalities has
been that there isn't any worst and
that the widely and loudly exploited
Wilson trend has been invented pure
ly to cover a desperate situation.
lone of the most interesting things
l have discovered in my "peregrina-
tons is that the Republicans and the
former Progressiyes, with the excep-
ton of the mere handful of tke latter
who have gone off in search of strange
gods, will poll a practically solid vote
for the entire Republican ticket and
will bury the Wilson trend beyond
hope of resurrection. Even the labor
vote scare the Democrats have been
trying to throw into us bears distinct
ly a Halloween character. In some
places they will get the big end of the
labor vote; in other places we will get
it. The average w~orkingman of New
Jersey is intelligent enough and suffi-
GENTLY well informed to know that la
Dor has never had a better friend in
office than Charles e. Hughes. Nor
will they be deceived by the bungling
manner in which a Democratic Presi-
dent and a Democratic Congress at
tempted to force a settlement of the
railroad trouble.
"There is already deep resentment in
| labor circles over the attempt of Sam
uel Gompers to coerce the workingmen
of the country into voting for Wilson,
and in some of the labor bodies in New
Jersey the request to have his COM
m%unication read has been met with
blank refusal. The railroad employees
are independent thinkers and realize
that, perhaps more than employees in
other lines, they depend for their well
fare upon the general welfare of the
country. This being so, you will find
them literally in line for the candidate
who stands for national prosperity,
Charles E. Hughes. We are satisfied
with the labor situation in New Jer-
sey as it applies to the Republican
candidates all along the line"