New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-05-19
NEW-JERSEY STATE TOPICS.
SENATOR MCPHERSON AND HIS PARTY.

SENATOR MPHEhhON AND MD IAhli'
INFIr-ENCF OF NFw-YOEK AMONG THE DEMOCRATS
Two MEN NOW MUCH TALKED OF-vAsioUs
NOTES.
IFRoM TIE REGULAR CORRESPONDENT or THE TRIBUNE
TRENTON. May ls.-It was remarkable that
Senator Mcpherson. against whom there was Ieiily
formidable ree-trade opposition, should have reeeie"
votes than any other delegate at-iarSo lIo'i ~
Jersey in tie Democratic Convention the otner "'!'
Nothing is stranger in his career however th' '''7 p
ton Of prominence he seems 70 occupy IN the senate us
election IN 1877 ridiculed by Republicans ah" %
ocras expressed modification and predicted bs failure
They we're aston-hed mt his and cannot under
stand II yet His influence ha- alone saved the party rom
running itself IN NewJersey by mixing IN the iree- RAD"
quarrel and it really personal triumph 20 OBTAIN
compromise in the resolution on TIE thtiH ISSUE ny
ADOPTING the Ohio straddc. The Convention snloDe"
South Jersey again. aud howled down the respect
able and prosy gentlemen who presented the claims OF
that section The party in fact il in the hands OF New
Workers. Ex-Governor Belle was made charnah ne
cause he, as friend Of Tilden and the MahhaIIiu
Cubites-because ne controlled by New workers. III
fact. Mcpherson has stock farm IN somerset
County but lives In Ncw-YOrk ana "ashihS'oh'
Attorney General Stockton has for years made Ms nome
at the old New York Hotel Governor Albeit Is New"
York lawyer. So only Alderman Smith. OF Newark'
really belongs to New-Jersey, and he Is 80 mlch III
volved IN Irish politics that he has no stanuhe WIN TIC
old Andrew Jackson Democrats, who keep NeW-Jefsey
IN the party's fold Smith is rising young man. whose
appearance would Justify Thackerays query whether lie
il ANYBODY In particular not He s not or was nor
until his election delegate. He was nominate" I"l
Mayor of Newark last fall declined because ne teafeu
defeat and thus lost great opportunity and shower
some cowardice as well. The Convention was Il" lo'
Tidep though two votes in the delegation mag De cs
for Randall
The defeat Of Prison Keeper Laverty fOr delegate 10
the Dmeocr;tc Convention from the ia DiS'''ot ia
wicened the breach between Governor Albeit ana tAe
leadersof his party in the district Albeit was lyerty
hacker and was more angry than he dared show al MS
defeat
GEORGE l. sFNEY a 4 JEIsEYMAN'
George L Seney Is frequently alluded 70 IN jersey
newspapers a. felow-citizen.' The claim comes
from his residence in summer and TALL at Demands He
among the hills in the northwestern corner OF 1oefeO
County Mr Seney and the late A. V. stout went there
years ago because they liked each other and the place
Their friendship ended before Mr. stout died. nut aII.
Senev has seemed love the place and has ABSORBED
inward Of thousand acres IN the valleys ana hi'l"es
mile or two from the railroad station HIS house Us ID
the midst Of a .reat trecess field, aud would MAKE
DOOR showing beside he Hudson River castles; but vast
sun,. have been spent on the land and his herds OF
rsc. and his .tabes are SIGHTS for miles around HIS
daughters have houses him, and he helps maintain
summer hoa not far away for the sake Of the socIey
His children drive great drag about the country aua
wake tue echoes of the hills with coaching norm Oh
uowcrful capacity. Methodist church Is maintained
hV Mr. -eurJ al rruarsyc. and he has given iar2ey
fo tine Methodist chucres well as 90 tie cuail
ties OF the denominations else" mere. IIo ,rH.y
train the Delaware and Pa,shlc t.i-iOu' uloli'AH
and evening Is the common name ot tS tAblos' ~ 80
mas a trrlpd him and from New prk daily. 10 lIc
peope round about Bcrnardsye be- Is an 0o"ct Oh IN
failing interest and they all tell great stories o . s
crosby his fmiy and those VINO nave apneiIl - LIS
Charitable Instincts. slngng his praises wlrlou5 stunt
AN AUrocBAr WHO CAME TO GRIEF.
Daniel Dodd. the president OF the wrecked savings
BAN. ina Newark lives Ia house fronting Military PARK
I'm Newark stones throw the residence OF score
t,ry Freu .hiy,cu and Trinity Church. OF which
odl has been leader or years except when some one
ouarll "a with his autocrltic rule Ill WAYS ARE rather
ofn..ru and hence the half dozen designations from
t hoard of mana cement OF the bank within year OF
men indeprn lieut. thought COT ONT. lle laicelot
trust In him and his nnhrh WISDOM "4s i,'
almost idolrrv with which tic Chancellor has been re-
grrd bv men uf li classes. All tie advertisements o
rbr bauN read under the dr.ctan ~ me tEHnceLol
vet Dodd the only man VINO knew that the sum %.
900 was in Fisk x Hatcn's hands as al ordinary
deposit without collateral IL, -
The rivalry Pennsylvania and the Reading
railroads given the travellers on either line thS pest
grcoturlOd atoms the WY OF passenger cotches III
America 1T i- claimed The Peunsy lvan!a Is spending
vast Sims In strengthening It's nnc ana increasing us
tracks aud in perfrtng its road0el. The new bridge
arrns. the HacAensacE II nearly compete ana next Ia
fine road viii made almost straight line iIchi the
Jersey City Ferry 10 Newark, whore the sweep 'ouiA-
The civil Right. bill reluctantly ,isned by Governor
Albeit last week. copy Of the United states stat e'
and il .lId be- the most stringent passed Oi aN Nlc
YET it twenty years since NewJersry voted Tor
Mcclellan above ulu ,-,.-
senator Sevcu Invited the Republican delegates
at-large 70 IN the Republican National Convention IN
rrye ear BELONGING OF the Pcuusl anita kali
road officials. Most OF the delegates Will leave on lie
saturday night before the OnveutiUn.