The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-10-03
THE NOMINATION ASSURED.
MAYuR CLEVELAND PLAYS 4 TRICK
THAT ALIENArEs MANY FRIENDS.


Il Bold Effort to Turn the Tables HIS
Supporters that Failed and Left Him
Weaker than Ever-A Model Letter
Offering Everything He is and Has for
Favorable" Delegates.
their meeting last Friday evening, decided
to hold the County Convention next Satur
day, and the canvass for the Ssate Sena-
forship as well as that for the Congress
The contest for the seat which the Hon.
William Brinkerhoff is about to vacate at
Trenton has narrowed into smaller compass
since our publication last Sunday morning,
: and every day but serves to increase the
certainty of the nomination of Counselor
William D. Edwards. Mayor Cleveland
has peroeptibly impaired the strength he
had at his command when the last issue of
the SuxnaY TATrLER made its appearance
on the streets, by iM-advised action at
Trenton, and has succeeded in arraying
plumply against him those who were dis
posed to be neutral, and in breeding feel
ing of indifference among those whe are
working for his SUCCESS.
This is the way it all came about: The
sentiment of the mass of the party in this
county was warmly I'M favor of the nomina-
ton of Green for Governor. There has al
ways been between the leaders here and
the Kelsey side of the house the bitterest
kind of rivalry, and as Blodgett was looked
upon as the distinctive candidate of the
kelsey faction, the local leaders were
more warmly against the Ocean County
candidate than they were for the Uaion
County candidate. The choice of Blod-
gett by the State Convention would have
meant the utter annihilatien of Hud-
son County influences in State politics.
The first instinct of seif-preserva ration,
therefore, pointed out to the leaders here
the necessity of discouraging the Blodgett
movement. The Mayor was not unfsvora-
BILE to the Blodgett movement, but 1t Was
understood with HIM that, as he wanted
the support of many of Green's friends in
his Senatorial contest, he should abstain
from interference with the Gubernatorlal
fight. The Mayor saw, however, the po-
litical power the Guardianship of the State
Convention would give him, and on the
eve of the State Convention, he mingled
with the delegates as warm champion of
WILL
nittee on Organization of the State Con-
yention met, Hon. Allan L. McDermott
was q candidate for the Craftsmanship. To
the surprise of everybody, Johnny
Warner, of Burlington, nominated Mayor
Cleveland against him and he got
six votes. McDermott was enraged
at the mayors apparent dupllcity, and
the mayors friends themselves said that he
had had made grevious error in going
into a contest that would only rouse strong
political antagonisms against him. He
answered their demands for an explanation
by Juggling in little Warner by the ears.
Glow dare you," he asked, ''propose my
name tor the Craftsmanship of the State
Convention without consulting ms!'
Johnny is shrewd fellow, and he knew
very well that he was not expected to meet
the question with the answer that it WAS q.
the mayors solicitation that he did il; and
he turned away with an evaslve reply.
Butsthere is no doubt that tho Mayor was
sorely disappointed by the failure of his
bold strategy to make himself q dictator
among his friends.
The Green men openly declare that the
Mayors scheme was to put hlmseHln posi-
ton through the service he could render or
refuse to render in the State Convention
Craftsmanship, to put his heel on the neck
of the leader here, and enforce his nomlna-
ton for the Senatorship. They say that
he violated his pledge in taking part in the
contest; that he made himselfi specially
oboxious to their interest. by working for
the most Objectionable, politically, of the
candidates on the list; that the man who
put him in nomination in the
committee ON Organization, represents
Ex-S enator Smith, of Burlington
whose one object in politics is, as he de-
clares, to bert Governor Albeit for the
United States Senatorship, and that the
fact that he was put in the race by one
of Governor Abbstt's worst enemies as a
candidate against one of Governor Albeit s
best friends should be enough to estrange
from him every friend of the Governor 5
in the county. They say too, that he did
not work openly for Blodgett but only In
places where ne thought he would not be
detected; and that his disingenuous con-
duet justified diStrust of him F; and, finally
that his appeal to Warner was only an i'm
pudent piece of @'bluf" that only serves
to strengthen their suspicious of his sin
Gerity and trustworthiness.
Every circumstance attending his appear
aRee in Trenton, and his candidacy for the
State Convention Craftsmanship is quoted
against him, and it would be impossible to
descrine the depth and extent OF the po-
litical feeling he has stirred up against
himself among the potential politicians in
the eeuRty. If they were neutral, as to
his candidacy before, they are so no longer
now; bEt all have Joined hands to ensure
his defeat. Even his warmest friends and
hackers admit that, by his breach of faith,
his advocacy of Blodgett, and last of ali
by his sly attempt to put his heel on the
neeks of the leaders hare, he has sum
moned into active energy an opposition to
his candidacy that makes his nomination
impossible.
But his discovered and defeated effort to
make himself che boss of his friends is not
the only device he has pursued TO enforce
his nomination. The incident of his en-
thusiastic demand for private off &c and for
a clerk just after he assumed the MAJORITY