The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-04-25
sen. VANDERBILTS VOTE.
LIGHT ON THE NOTIFIES FOR Lay
ERTH'S IMPEACHMENT.

consciencsless vote that on Wednesda,
evening last condemned Pvtrick Fl. Lavert,
to living tomb. The Republican Sen
ators had surrendered their consciousness t,
the decision of caucus, and he had beer
privately informed that the whole thirteel
were rec mt down the Keeper. One
more Seeded. It must come from
the u @tic side of the Senate, ant
they began b dicker with the one man OF
the Democratic side whose unhappy per
sonal relations with the Keeper held ou
the promise Of success. Mr.. Vanderbilt
represents in the Senate what had been fol
years . pocket borough of the Stats
House Ring. From time immemorial
Kelsey and "Gsn.n vroonl and Staff Little
had been the antocrats Of the Democratic
party in Mercer County. No leader had
ever assumed to dispute their sway here
Democrats dissatisfied with their methods
who ventured to wrestle with them in out
side counties, never had the temefity te
dispute their lordly dictAtion In this county
When Laverty came down here to take
charge of the State Prison he came rs the
representative OF new political dispense.
ton. He was the herald of an aggressive
Democracy that fought without Quarter
and won. if they won at all, by other meth
DDS than dividing the loaf with their adver.
sariss. He put this positive Democracy
up against the namby-pamby milk.and
water Democracy of the State House ring
and had soon enlisted under his banner an
army of recruits from the ranks Of the
old-time bosses. He expected to encoun.
ter the deadly opposition. and to win the
deadly hatred of the heelers and shouters
of the faction, whose strength he was de
stroying. He had both. No man coula be
more sincerely hated than is Laverty BY
the Trenton adherents of the State House
Ring. What made them feel the bitterel
was that he accomplished results. Within o
year after he had taken charge of the pris
on, he wrung from them delegation tc
the State convention favorable to the nom.
nation of their worst feared foe for Gov.
ernor. When they hoped to defeat The
nomination by trick, they selected Van.
derbilt as their tool end made him chair
man of the State Convention. They had
seen McDermott, and Albeit himself,
control conventions from the platform. and
they hoped that Vanderbilt might do ss
well. They had trusted their hopes to toe
weak vessel. He was powerless to pre-
vent nomination that the Democratic
masses, unsolicited, had forestalled and
the only demonstration he made to serve
his masters, was shown in his weak hesita.
tlon at the end to annouce the result when
1t had been achieved. 1t is matter of his.
tory how little Surrogate McAvoy fright
ened all the hesitation out of him by leap.
ing to the platform and imperiously COM
manding him to
|" Announce that vote !"
Vanderbilt was in a pitiable plight. In
front of him was the convention Of deter.
mined men shouting for a formal declara-
ton Of the nomination they had decided
upon. Behind him, in the flies of the
platform, sat Kelsey, to whom the an
nouncement meant defeat. Vanderbilt
turned tremblingly from the roaring crowd
till his eyes met his masters. Kelsey had
thoroughly sized up the temper of that
convention, and he wisely nodded his ad-
vice that the announcement be made.
When the State House Ring sought to
reward Vanderbilt for his fealty with the
Democratic nomination for Senator from
Mercer County. Laverty made contest
against him. But the State House mana
gers were too strong for him, and Wander
bilt was made the party candidate. Laverty
might have defeated his election if he had
chosen, but he is too good and staunch q
Democrat to make war inside the party
lines, and he exerted himself as warmly in
his behalf as he could if Vanderbilt had
been bis personal choice.
Nothing has been done since Vanderbilt
accession to the Senate to heal the breach
thus made between himself and his master
and the Keeper, and it seems superfiuous
to say that Vanderbilt entered upon the
impeachment trial with the bitterest per-
sonal feeling against the Keeper. He has
made no secret of it since the trial began.
At no time has he watched any of the evil
dence for the defence with anything better
than sneer, and there are those who say
that they have heard him denounce the
Keeper IN unmeasured terms. Men who
hoped to keep him in the line of his con-
science sought to persuade him to sink his
personal feeling in the making up of his
verdict; but he was prodded by a good
many more on the other side to take, upon
his old-time enemy, the vengeance that lay
within his reach; and he yielded to the
pressure that tended in the direction his
hatred bent him And SO it was that the
one Democratic vote that was needed to
ensure the downfall of the Keeper was Sc
cured.
The Republicans had, however, been
dallying with other Democratic Senators to
secure the che needed vote in the emer-
gency of Vanderbilt. voting with his con-
science and not with his hatred to guide
him. They were especially hopeful OF
Mcbride, and there was some talk of DR..
Chaatle. In fact they shielded themselves
against the suspicion of partisanship their
utter disregard of DR.. Agnew's convinc.
ing testimony arouses against them behind
Senator Chattle. The Senator is solidly
informed physician himself, and it is said
that in pleasure trip to Philadelphia with
some Republican Senator's on the evening
following DR.. Agnews appearance on the
stand, he gave expression to his belief that
DIR. Agnew was mistaken in his premises
or in his conclusions. The Republi-
can Senators are giving it out all around
that this casual expression of DIR. Chattle's
destroyed all the impression, the positive
testimony of dead Garfeld's distinguished
physician made upon their minds. DIR.
Chattle proably never said any thing of the
kind. If he did he discovered his error on
further investigation, and when the supreme
moment came, he threw all the doubts
where the law says they should be thrown
lin favor of the man at the Bar. The
dalliance with Senator McBride's vote was
on the assumption that, as he is friend of
KelseY's, he would lend himself to the
cruel punishment of Kelsey's enemies; but
Mcbride is not made of that kind of stuff
He put his intelligence at work upon the
mass of evidence given to it for its guide
and their was CHEEKY ring as of man
speaking from clear conscience-in the
response of ssnot guilty" with which he an
swered to every demand for his Judgment