The Jersey City news., 1891-10-13
THEY HAD LOTS OF FUN
Republicans Out For a
Three-Quarter
Holiday.
STILL HUNT FOR CANDIDATES.
And Still Hunting for Some of Them
Went Through the Motions
of Making a Full
Ticket.
STILL HUNT FOR CANDIDATES.


sauntered into the hall about three o'clock
and when his eyes fell upon 1.-The beggarly
array of empty benches,'' he became al
most as greatly disgusted as his party is
with him. Almost at the same time
small crowd of delegates sauntered in
and gathered around the Major to listen
to his explanation of. the reason why the
Republicans of the Second district did not
take his advice Saturday evening and de-
feat Bitter Herb" Potts Frank O..
Cole, John A. Walker and John Reid OF
Hoboke, came in and Joined the group
around the Majcr. The talk turned on a
candidate for Senator, and the Major said
John A. Blair, Sam Smith or William A.
Lewis ought to be nominated. Mr..
Walker said Frank o. Cole ought to be
the man, whereupon Mr.. Cole emphati :
cally said that he would not run. Majo-
Pangborn said he was going to propose
that the party should do away with the
assessing of candidates. and said they
ought to serve notice on those whom they
nominate, that they would not be fined
for running for Office, and then any good
man who should be nominated would
consent to be a candidate.
1t was twenty minutes to four when
Thomas McEwan, late candidate for Con-
gressman, called the Convention to order
and called for the nomination OF q tenn,
porary chairman. Frank 0. Cole said
the convention ought to have man
whom the Republicans sent to the Legis-
lature and VINO there won distinction. and
nominated Simeon Ii. Smith. Mr.. Smith
was elected by acclammation and simply
thanked the delegates for the .'unex-
pected honor upon taking the chair.
Thomas McEwan was made Secretary
and read the call for the convention and
the roll OF delegates.
THE MAJOR sADDENED.
Pangborn, who was not a delegate, was
rather disheartened when Mr.. Cole an
swered that all the delegates from the
Second district were present. He went
over to Frank Cole and whispered some
thing to him, but he did not want seat
in the delegation.
The temporary organization was made
permanent Mr.. Smith thanked the dele
gates for the additional wisdom, and
said he saw from the delegates before
him that the convention meant
to be short and decisive, and
select candidates who, from the
highest to the lowest. would be an honor
to the party. The enemy thought they
had walkover, but he thought that the
time had come when the people would be
with the Republicans and they would
elect part of the Republican county ticket
and some Of the semblymen.
Mr.. McEwan said that in order to facili-
tate matters the convention proceed to
nominate a Directorate Large and that
the other question upon which there Is
division should be left until afterward.
Mr.. Cole moved as substitute that
they nominate a full ticket. There was
some discussion pro and con, and Mr..
Ewald moved that the vote he taken by
districts. He also wanted the Secretary
to give the Committees reasons for not
putting Senator In the call.
Mr.. Ewald wasdeclared out OF order.
CARE AND THOUGHT NEEDED.
s'There is great weight of opinion"
said Judge Seymour. s'that we have no
right to nominate a Senator, and think
we should consider matters carefully.
Let us go on, then. nominate Director
at-Large and tile remainder of the ticket
and then discuss the question OF nomi-
Mating Senator. Let's adopt Mr.. Nc
EVANS motion"
A delegate here said that If the conven-
tion was afraid to nominate man
against Mr.. Hudspeth it had better ad
journ without nominating anyone.
Mr.. Bundy, of the Second district,
made long speech, in which he adyo-
Gated the nomination Of full ticket. He
said that if the Republican Senators had
committed an error in ousting Mr. Nc
Donald the convention should not en-
dorse that error, and if the Senators had
committee suicide that is no reason why
the convention should do so, too.
A vote being taken, Mr.. Coles subSti-
tute was adopted on weak viva voce
vote. Cole wanted the vote taken by dis
tricts. but the chair declared the motion
carried. The question whether Mr.. Coles
substitute should he put over again as the
original motion precipitated another de-
bate. which was ended By the Chairman
putting the substitute as the original mo-
ton.
Cole moved recess of five minutes.
John Reid of Hoboken wanted to make
another motion, but Mr.. Nc EVAN choked
him off with the old point of order that
the substitute should be put as the orig
inal motion. Cole raised point OF order
that the adoption of substitution carried
the original motion and the chair sus-
tanned him.
Mr.. McEwan was not satisfied and ap-
pealed from the decision of the chair.
The chair was sustained by large ma
jority.
moved that the nominations be made in
this order:-Director-at- Surro-
gate. Senator and Coroners, but no notice
was taken or It.
Mr.. Cole moved a few minutes recess.
Some one asked, ''What forS"
DOUBTED THE MAJORS WORD.
Mr., Cole said he had been told by
Major Pangborn that William A. Lewis
had consented to take the nomination for
State Senator and he wanted the recess
to fiud out If that was so.
The recess was taken, and Major Pang-
born rushed up to Mr.. Cole, saying that
Mr.. Cole had misunderstood him; he
didn't exactly say that Mr.. Lewis had
said he would take the nomination, but
he had reason to think he would. Moth
ing was heard from Mr.. Lewis during the
vacation, and upon the reassembly of the
convention a communication WAS read
from the First and Second Districts advo-
eating the nomination of a Senator. A
motion by Mr. Carr. that no candidate
nominated by the convention be assessed,
was carried
a motion to nominate Senator being
before the convention, Mr.. r. b. Seymour
said:-"We, as Republicans, should act
for the best interests Of the party. There
may be different opinions as TO what is
the best interest of the party;" and Mr..
Seymour contended that as the Senate,
the highest court in the matter, had de-
cided that Stuhr was Senator, and as
there was no appeal from that decision,
and as Mr.. Stuhr had not died or resigned,
he was still Senator, and there was
no vacancy. He claimed that the action
of the Democra tic Senate in ousting Mr..
Stuhr was unconstitutional aud void.
lie styled Mr.. Mcdonald u usurper and
said that the Democratic Senators who