The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-07-18
HUNTING FOR PROHIBS.
They Are Coming Late to
Their State Convention.
NO ONE ON HAND LAST NIGHT.
AsburY Park Hadn't Heard About
1t, but They'll Meet All the
Same.

Special Correspondence Jersey City Nesrs.
AsBURY PARK, July II, 1851 feel
that the managing editor of The JERSEY
CITY NEWS has imposed somewhat on my
credulity. When I read on his assign
ment book, this afternoon, that was ex-
pected to call upon Asbury Park for a
preliminary sketch of the Prohibition
State Convention to be held here, Wis ions
of great excitement filed my unsophisti-
Gated expectations.
/ had been at State Conventions without
number. / had seen noisy crowds dis
cussing candidates and policies in the bar
rooms and hotel corridors; secret con-
ferences behind locked doors; couriers
chasing here and there; men of 'huence
receiving the homage of the humble; lit
tie coteries on the highways and byways,
whispering and conspiring; State commit.
tees in ''confab;" district delegations in
caucus-all the active work of the con-
vention being done the night before.
Wasn't this the night before the great
State Convention of Prohibitionists at
which the next Governor of New Jersey
was to be selected? Surely Asbury Park
must be in whirl of excitement over
i'll scarcely expected to find any
trace of the giant political strug-
BIcIS III OttI IOOulSs Uub UHcIG ullSb
certainly be the visits to the men of
'fiuence, the hot-footed couriers, the
sidewalk conferences, the delegation cau-
cuseS, the State Committee conference.
The place must be oyerrun by interested
friends of candidates from all over the
State, and their coming must be the one
topic of the seaside city.
THE FIRST DISAPPOINTMENT.
So it was with the serenest confidence
that / asked of hackman, as 1 stepped
from the train, where the State Prohibit
ton Convention is to be held.
''The what? he asked, with aggravating
dumbness
'"The Prohibition State Convention, .
yelled, with the belief that possibly, in
the din and racket of the place, my ques-
ton had not been fully understood.
81 hain't heard nothin' about such a
thing was his discouraging response.
Hackmen are notoriously ignorant fell
lows. The car conductors-they have
Daft electric car line here-must have
carried scores of delegates into the town.
and they must all have enquired for the
place of meeting. So tackled one of the
electric machine gentry.
There amt no such meetin' in town.
was his response.
Then tackled the hotel registers Not
a cold-water name was on one of them.
Had any engaged rooms?-this to the
clerks. Not one anywhere-yes, one from
East Orange had sent telegram to the
Sheldon House in Ocean Grove.
In despair went to the Association
Hall in Ocean Grove. That is centre of
local news.
perhaps the officer outside can tell you
something about it, p was the answer one
of the head centres turned me away
with
'Isn't it on the bulletin boardP" asked
the bluecoat, when / tackled him. mol
Here comes Policeman Duncan. He
knows everything. Ask him"
Policeman Duncan felt sheepishly be-
cause he didn't know when | repeated the
compliment of his fellow officer to him.
My great expectations were dashed, Of
course. Worse than that, my hope was
utterly gone now, and ran amuck
through the town, wildly demanding of
men, women and children, and nurse
maids and dominies, that they stand and
deliver information about certain Pro-
hibition State Convention that had been
booked in the editorial room of The JER-
sEY CITY NEWS for Thursday, July Is, at
Asbury Park.
HAIL HERE IT IS
In my delirium began to doubt the
evidences of my senses, and long after
midnight found myself enquiring if to-
morrow wouldn't be Thursday and If this
wasn't Asbury Park-till Policeman Dun
can halted me and fluttered a red dodger in
my face.
With the aid of street lamp read as
follows
For God, Home and Native Land
The State Convention of the Prohibition Party
of the State of New Jersey
will be held in
EDUCATIONAL HALL,
Grand Avenue, between Second and Third,
THURSDAY AND FRIDAY,
July 18 and 10, 'S9, commencing at 3 p. IN. on
Thursday.
A GRAND MASS MEETING
viii be held on Thursday evening, to be
addressed by
MR.. JOHN LLOYD THOMAS,
of New York, and
MRS. CLARA HOFFMAN,
of Missouri.
The Neptune Cornet Band will furnish Music.
Seats will be reserved for Ladies' at the Conven-
tion and Mass Meeting.
Well, / suppose there'n be somebody
here tomorrow that will know something
about a Prohibition State Convention,
but l shan't sit up all night to wait for
them. w. Il. 5.