The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-11
THE State CONVENTION.
Filling Out the Details OF
Yesterdays Harmonious.
Gathering.
Mr.. WINFIELD'S SPEECH,
How the Jeffersonian Kickers Fared
in Their Dealing with the Reg
ulars.

speeches delivered by those who occupied
the platform during the progress OF lts
deliberations. Allan MeDermott made
no attempt to spread himself when, as
chairman of the State Committee, he
called the delegates to order, but as the
act was his last official act in connection
with the committee, he stopped to pay q
graceful tribute to the zeal and energy OF
his fellow members of the committee In
the discharge of the task the party had
committed to their keeping
Mr.. Marsh, of Union, who acted as
temporary chairman, led off with an un-
usually neat address. Its text was good
and its delivery was better. The SUB
stance of it was sent to you over the wire
during the day. Mr.. Marsh is a young
man, short of stature and slim OF build,
but he has q bright face, q pleasing ad-
dress and a clear voice and the impression
he made was an excellent one.
President Werts, of the State Senate
who acted as permanent chairman, sur
prised everyone by the oratorical grace
with which he delivered an unusually
antipode of Marsh, except in width. He
stands over six feet in height, and has a
commanding presence. He spoke with
ont effort in q full, round voice, SO as to
be heard clearly all over the convention.
and scored his points admirably.
But the gem of the day was Winfeld's IS
speech, putting Albeit in formal nomina-
tion before the convention. 1t was pos
sible to give you only the barest sum-
mary of it in my late dispatches / have
thought it worth reproducing.
''At the request of the delegation from
Hudson" he said, II rise to second the
nomination of Leon Albeit. 1t is evil
dent that the stream is running faster
than the boat and before Hudson was
reached the jig was up. Nine years ago
stood in similar convention and nom
mated him as you are today nominating
him. 1 said then, as say now, that
when he came into public life he found
a condition of things existing in Jersey
City which was without parallel under q
free government. He found system of
government by which the counties out
side of Hudson appointed her offices and
fixed their salaries. And when he came
to the front he came to restore home rule
to a stricken people. With giant hands
he smote the shackle from their wrists
and bade our people go free. Do you
wonder, then, that Hudson fairly loves
him?
six years ago he was called out by pop
ular voice to work an equally signal re-
form. He read in the constitution that
it was the duty of the State to levy taxes
equally upon all property and he smote
with his wizard wand the unfair system,
is flowing into the Golfers, and the people
are not oppressed. Hudson can do moth
ing but second his nomination. He be-
longs to us no longer but to you all. We
can only cry with the Greeks of old
ssOnce more to the battle Achaeans."
The particulars of the convention were
given 10 the readers of THE JERSEY CITY
NEWS in my special despatch from this
point yesterday But there are some de-
tails yet untold that may be read with
interest. These mainly relate to the JEFF
fersonian kickers.
They spent the biggest part of the day
in caucussing with once in a while sally
out upon the ramparts of the enemy fol
lowed each time by an inglorious retreat.
Kern had hired Temperance Hall-near
the Taylor Opera House-for, the gather
ing of his clans, and when they reached
town yesterday morning Mike Nathan
shouldered his cane, and assuming the
air of a grand marshal, led them to their
place of meeting.
THE TEN TICKETS
The first anxiety was about tickets to
the convention. The State Committee
had promised to give them ten platform
tickets for the delegates selected by them
who were to appear before the conven-
tion's Credentials Committee and eighty
or so gallery tickets for the rest of the
mob. When they had got the promised
plunder it was fun to see them squabble
over the ten platform seats. EveN one
wanted to have one OF the seats of Honor.
There was crowding and hustling
on all sides for them. Stuhr,
Sheeran, Rankin, Cumberson, Noelke,
OpRourke, Logan, Crane, of
Hoboken, and Schlemm, of Union Hill,
were the elect. Rabe was counted out
and so was Kern, but it was noticed when
the convention assembled that both man
aged to slide into platform chairs.
WHAT SHALL WE DOg
81 ctr lo1 i1afN %I,al
Temperance Hall caucus in time to catch
O ticket was a fiorid-faceu gentleman of
fine appearance. He went at once to the
platform. Chairman Rabe glanced up,
and then, turning to the crowd, intro
duced the new conner
alderman HOoS, gentlemen, of the
Third district" he said.
The Alderman took off his hat and
made q profound bow. 1t is believed by
some that he got into the wrong crowd by
mistake, but for the present he sat with
the kickers, while they debated the Ques-
tion as to what they should do after being
turned out of the State Convention.
Crane, of Hoboken, precipitated the
discussion, and Martin Logan chimed in.
II can't say what will be theoresult of
our rejection here" he said, 'but for one
have fully made ND my mind as to the
course shall pursue.
He stopped short then. and the world
will have to remain in ignorance of his
designs till he acts
WE SHALL GET OUT.
Rankin succeeded in choking them
both off, and he figures on the records as
the statesman that conceived the proper
scheme to meet the emergency.
"Our secretary" ne said, as he strobe
grandly into the middle of the floor, with
his hands in both pockets, 'sis a steno-
grapher, and he will take this down as I
speak it.
"Our Secretary was Mr.. John H.
Cronan. Mr.. Cronan sharpened his PEN
Gil, and prepared to write what the little
Judge dictated.
s'Resolved that it be the sense of this
delegation that unless they be recorded,
at least, an equal vote IN the convention
with the other delegation from Hudson,
it is our duty to withdraw at once from
the hall.
in body?" asked some one.
Elm BODY Rankin repeated.
The resolution was writ" down, and
everything being ready. the delegates"
gathered up their umbrellas to go to the
hall.
IN THE CONVENTION.
Proceedings went along smoothly
enough in the convention as reported yes
ferday, till the counties were called to
name their several representatives on the
several committees-rules, organization,
credentials and resolutions. The regular
Hudson delegation named Allan McDer-
mott for Committee on Resolutions, and