. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ial election of 1850 threw theentire political machinery of New Jersey into thehands of the Democratic party. Since 1844 theWhigs had controlled the Legislature, while forthe next five years the mastery of the Democraticparty in the House and Senate was absolute. Asa candidate the Whigs nominated John Runk, ofHunterdon County, other candidates for the honorbeing Joseph Porter, of Camden, Thomas JonesYorke, of Salem, William N. Wood, of Morris,Martin J. Ryerson, of Passaic, and George , of Somerset, with William A.
. New Jersey as a colony and as a state : one of the original thirteen . ial election of 1850 threw theentire political machinery of New Jersey into thehands of the Democratic party. Since 1844 theWhigs had controlled the Legislature, while forthe next five years the mastery of the Democraticparty in the House and Senate was absolute. Asa candidate the Whigs nominated John Runk, ofHunterdon County, other candidates for the honorbeing Joseph Porter, of Camden, Thomas JonesYorke, of Salem, William N. Wood, of Morris,Martin J. Ryerson, of Passaic, and George , of Somerset, with William A. Newell, ofMonmouth County, this being the first appearanceof that distinguished Jerseyman as a candidatefor governor. The nominee of the Demo-crats was George F. Fort, of Ocean County, whoafter five ballots defeated his rivals, John Cassedy,of Hudson, Jonathan Pitney, of Atlantic, JohnSummerhill, Jr., of Salem, Isaac G. Farlee, ofHunterdon, and Henry A. Ford, of Morris. TheWhig platform was mainly devoted to a reaffirm-ance of the policy of protection for American in-. MILLARD KILLMORE. (Thirteenth President of the tlnlted States ; V. .Jan. 7. 1**>: d. Mnrcb 7, 1874.) ONY AND AS A STATE dustries, while the Democrats advocated populareducation, equal taxation and general in place ofspecial legislation. Governor Fort succeededin defeating Mr. Runk with a then unprecedentedmajority of 5,669. In 1852 the Democratic elector-al vote of New Jersey was cast for FranklinPierce for President and William R. King forVice-President, defeating General Winfield Scott,the Whig candidate. Pierces plurality in theState was 5,749. Hale, the Free-soil candidatefor President, received but three hundred and fiftyvotes in New Jerseey, his strength lying largely inNew England, New York, and Ohio. The reestablishment of New Jersey in the Dem-ocratic column gave the Whigs but little hope forvictory during the contest for the governorshipin 1853. The success of the Democrats had beenso pronounced that
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