The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-10-10
GEN. SEWELL SUCCEEDS.
WO OBJECTS At THE REPUBLICAN,
CONVENTION ACCOMPLISHED.


ursufng One Boedle-hOlder After An
other TILL Jshn L. Blair Promised to
Open His Money Bags, and Defeating
George A. RaIscy's AuLI-Sewell Move
ments.
TRENTON, Oct. 9.-Gen. Sewell ran the
Republican State Convention the other
day. He had two independent strings to
manipulate. The first was to see that ex-
Congressman George Halssy didn't spring
an obnoxious anti-Sswellite ON the Conven-
ton. The other was to catch man for
candidate who was not short Of accessible
ssboodle." Money is the great factor In
the Republican camp, and no man is ac-
ceptable even for the empty honor of
nomination unless he has proper amount
of the sstuff' at his command. Colby has
plenty of it, and that was the reason why
the party bosses especially invited him to
get into the race. Brewer had plenty OF 1t
too. and as he was presumed to be more
ready to bleed than Colby, he was hit upon
as the man, and word was sent TO Oolvy
that he must get out. Howey went In
without cent, and he was notlhed that
he was without ghost OF chance: put
when John /. Blair, the Sussex miiiionairs
railroad man, agreed to open his Darrel IoI
the poor Warren county man, IN Ine eveIs
of his nomination, it was rememoersu al
of q sudden that Brewer had voted for
river and harbor steal. snd he was politely
elbowed into the background. The strength
Of Howey's candidacy increased with the
snread of the story of Mr.. Blair's "barl,
and. with aid of General SeweA,
he won the fight. Ex-Coneressman Haisey
had come to Trenton to fight Seweii, II It
were possible. At FIRST he thought OF get
ting into the race himself, but he tnougnt
better of it afterwards, and then tfieo 70
stampede the convention to FIRED fotts.
Mr.. Potts was willing to run-that Is, ne
did not decline to run, though Tor eHect
he expressed a hope that some one else
might be chosen, and Sewell found II nara
work to beat the boom that had been start
ed for him. There is not a Republican In
the State who doubts that Seweli sold out
Potts to Ludlow six years ago, and pre-
Stunning that Potts would prove q similar
suspicion by retalisting upon him II ne was
made Governor, the willy Senator saw at
once that of all the men in the State Potts
was chief among those he did not want.
Sewell was SO afraid that his enemies
might hurrah SO dangerous candidate
through, that he begged credentials from
a Camden Alderman, and himself went
into the Convention as proxy delegate,
and Congressman Phelps, Howey's warm
est friend, was put in the presiding officers
chair to choke off every other candidate.
The rumor that Potts would not accept
had been SO industriously circulated, how
ever. and his boom was SO badly crippled
by it, that it was unnecessary for Mr..
Phelps to stretch his prerogative, and the
nomination of Howey was easily accom-
plished on the first ballot.
A more serious difficulty than that OF Sc
lecting q candidate arose over the DISPOSE
tionto be made of the liquor question. All
South and middle Jersey clamored for a
large concession to the temperance sentl-
ment of the State. But Essex and Passaic
and Bergen and Hudson declared that any
such concession would sacrifice almost the
entire Republican vote In those Counties.
Essex and Passaic are Republican strong
holds, but the delegates from each declared
with one voice that any anti-nquor plenk
in the platform would give both Counties
to the Democrats by handsome majorities.
The South and middle Jersey Counties
were too many for the North Jersey Coun-
ties in the COMMITTEES on Resolutions. and,
after an acrimonious discussion, Pangbsrn
was directed to report o local optien reso-
luton. This was done and the Convention
adjourned.