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WERE HESENATORS THERE
AN ERIE E1-PREsIDENT THE OccU-
PINT OF Ro0M 20.
The Freshest Gossip From the state
Capital About the Alleged Combine
ton Between sewelI and MCPHERSON.

A"e rfesnest GOSSIP From the State
Capital About the Alleged Combine
ton Between sewe1 and Mcpherson.
tspocfat Correspondence Sunday Tattler.)
| TRENTON, July 4.-The one topic that is
discussed in political circles. by public mon
of high and low degree. is the charge made
by Henry c. Kelsey against the two gentle
men wEo represent the State of New Jer. az
IN the United States Senate: and the
anxious inquiry on all 'des is who was the
eaVesdropping occupant of Room 25 at the
continental Hotel in Philadelphia. when
the bargain between the two Senators ID
sad TO have been made. The SrrNnAv
TATTLER of last Sunday morning reproduced
a selection from the True 1nericon in
which the offer to prove that the bareain
between the two Senators to sell out their
respective parties to the other was over
neard Dy an occupant of room adjoining
eAac IA "llch the two distinguished states
men met was made; and also snecis1
sent to the Newark EUenin0 'Ne,ne az lost
Saturday, in which it was stated that an
examination of the Continental Hotel reois-
ter revealed the fact that no one was
assigned to that room on the eventful nieht
Inc Evening Nelos man was misln formed
Inc room had an occupant that night. and
the hotel register shows it, He was No leoo
a parsonage than Elk President Watson
then, however, President Watson-of Tho
New York and Erie Railway Comoanv r.
seems to be admitted, too, that Senator
McPherson was an occupant of Room No
2o that night. Some one has been timorons
enough to say that Mr.. Mcpherson took his
grlpsack and left before the hour at which
the interview between himself and Senator
Newell 1c oil
but it may be taken for granted thst
when the facts are laid bare. M
Mcpherson will not himself denv int
ne was IN that room all of the nIobt in
question. Indeed he has admitted If toa
certain extent. Larry Mott. who Is his
factotum, has announced in p ,iladel-
phla paper to which he sends an item occa-
slonally, that the Senator arrived Of tba
hotel quite late in the evening. went tn he'd
at once and left early in the morning
whether that is the line of defence 70
which Mr. Mcpherson will adhere or rot
remains to be seen. 1t contemplafes
denial, you see, that he was in consultation
at all with Gen. Sewell that night: but now
along comes one of General SewelPs init
mate friends, and he admits thai tba
General was there too that piobt. bnt no+
tor the purpose for which Mr.. KELSEY saws
Mr.. Mcpherson had then Just been elecfed
to the United States Senate-this is the
story as 1t IS given to me-The Senate was
republican. There was much talk st fba
time, as | remember, about the methods
by which Mr. Mcpherson had achieved hio
election. There was some talk. too 40
remember, of the Republican Senate se;z-
ing upon the pretext his alleged methods
furnished for declaring his seat vacant
ana Mr.. Sewell was sent for to assist in
frustrating that scheme. Mr. Seweu. itis
needless to say, is Republican, and his
party influence with Republicans was
thought to be valuable, though WHY a State
Senator from one of the little Connt;eS in
New Jersey could be expected TO exert
enough influence to control the Republi-
cans OF the Nation, is one of those circum.
stances yet awaiting explanation. Even
this explanation of the occasion for The
meeting IS not Inconsistent with the other
story of the bargain for the sale of his
parties by each Senator in the interest," of
the other. 1t may, in fact, explain wbv. If
MI. MCPHERSON was willing to sell ont his
Democratic supporters-it may explain
why he was willing to sell them out IL
may have been part of the consideration
ne offered Sewell for the exertion of his in
huence 40 49,
More than all this, it begins IN loeb os
though the friends of the two Senators we've
paving the way for an ACKNOWLEDGEMENT IF
the whole corn. They are asking already
What of it if such bargain was madeP
Aren such bargains made every dav in the
wee8-orln every political canvass. at least
won't give expression to my "bioh moral
ideas on the wickedness and treecherv of
such combination, but will let your read
ers answer the question for themselves. IF
they choose to think that it amounts to
nothing If 1T is true, why, they are at liberty
to think so-that's ALL
Now that it's known who the highly
respectable Paul Pry who had his ear al the
Keynote was, the question of who was
entrusted with his memorandum of what
ne overheard Is matter of small conse-
queuee. Some say it is Mr.. Frederick A
Potts. Others say it is Ashbel Green sons
others think that it is " Staff Little. When
he ran for Senator, Mr.. Little threatened
both the Senators with an exposure of the
bargain If they didn't keep their fingers out
of his political pie. Whoever it is, II Ger.
talnly IS at the beck and call Of Mr. Score
tary Kelsey. And he it is who will finally
produce it.
For / am satisfied it will be produced
sooner or later. There seems to be no room
for compromise. 1t has set the big guns of
the State by the ears. If has severed old
party Ties, ana broken up all the old-tlme
political combinations. General Stockton.
whom Mcpherson didn't get into President
Cleveland's Cabinet mainly because he
would have been an ornament and credit
to it, is said to be nursing some bitter
resentments against the Senator. Governor
Albeit, who has incurred the displeasurs
OF some OF his political friends by the fidel-
ity with which he has kept his faith with
Mcpherson, IS more In sympathy at this
Juncture with his old ime antagonist, Sec
Rotary Kelsey and it looks as though the
party were hopelessly divided into factions.
Mr.. Kelsey has made the breach between
himself and Mcpherson SO wide that no
bridge can span it, and political feeling will
grow bitterer and bitterer, till, whether Mr..
Mcpherson gets down on his hunkies and
prays his enemies to slay him, OF not, the
memoranda will be produced, and the final
stroke delivered. Ours.
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