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Specific Charges or Collision Between
Mcpherson and Sewell.


Mcpherson and Sewell.
At this jurcture, on the evening of
December S, 1873, John R. McPher-
son, then Democratic United States
Senator from New Jersey, and Will
liam j. Sewell, then Republican State Sem
ator from the County of Camden, met at
the Continental Hotel in the City of Phils
delphia. Mr.. Mcpherson occupied room
No. 26. and his occupancy was so stated
upon the register of the hotel. Adjoining
that room and communicating with it by
door, then closed, was room No. 25, which
was occupied by gentleman who had been
at the head of one of the great corporations
of the country, who was and Is OF high
reputation for integrity wherever he is
known, and who, although not resident of
New Jersey, had an acquaintance with some
of its leading men. That gentleman, while
in the room to which he had been assigned,
was surprised to hear q conversation be-
tween two men whom the conversation
showed to be Senator Mcpherson and Mr..
Sewell, in which was laid down the pro-
gramme for the election of Mr.. Sewell to
the United States Senate, in place of Mr..
Randolph. The programme included the
securing of the consent of the Pennsylvania
railroad to Mr.. Sewell's candidacy and its
support of his election, the quiet selection
of Republican legislative candidates amend
able to his control, and the carrying of the
Counties Of Middlesex and Burlington in
his interest It had ramifcations beyond
this, which it is not here necessary to state.
This conversation was carried on in such a
way that the loud voice of Mr.. Mcpherson
H. k1I heard
shocked was the occupant of the next room
at the disclosures then and there made, and
SO impressed with the important bearing
which the conspiracy would have upon the
politics of New Jersey and of the Nation,
because of the close vote between the par
ties in the United States Senate that he
then and there sat down and made full
memorandum of the conversation. That
memorandum, in his own handwriting, he
took to New York and handed to an &C.
quaintance of his, than whom no man
stands higher in public respect, and who,
by his connection with New Jersey matters
and his acquaintance with New Jersey
people, was most proper person to COM
municate the facts to those who could best
act up to the information they conveyed.
That memorandum tells of the most flag
rant treason, and the most pitiable dupli-
city. 1t is in existence to-day just as it was
written in 1878; the party who made it and
the party to whom it was given, are both
alive. We stand ready, upon Mr.. McPher-
sons demand, to publish that memorandum,
and to give with it the name of him who
wrote it, and him to whom it was delivered.
We will do more We will show that, since
that meeting, the Democracy of New Jersey
has gradually lost control of the State. We
will show, that in the very next year it lost
the Counties of Middlesex and Burlington,
and the Senate, and with it the power to
hold joint meetings, never since regained.
Trenton True american.
PHILADELPHIA, June 27.-An inspect ion
of the register of the Continental Hotel
shows that on the evening of December 5,
1878, Senator John B. Mcpherson occu-
pied Room No. rs. The room commune
Gates with room No. Is, which, it has been
alleged, was occupied on that night by a
well-known and wealthy man who over
heard a conversation between Senator Nc
Pherson and General Sewell. A careful
inspection of the records of the hotel
shows that room No. Is was vacated on
December 4, 1878, and that NO one was as
signed to it on December 5. The charges
brought against Senator Mcpherson by
the TINE american are based upon the re-
port of conversation alleged to have been
head by the occupant of that room on the
evening of December 5.-NeDarE Evening
Neaos.