The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-31
GRUB IS WILLING.
Meeting Of The Republican State
Executive Committee
Weeps for Graham.

AGSOCIudy WIS " Idu 1cubCI ou9 III Ut
publican circles in this city. Early in
the morning General e. Burd Grub,
late United States Minister to Spain and
~ex-Repnblican candidate for Govern or.
called upon State Committeeman R. B.
Seymour at his office In the Weldon
Building. AS the General is not making
o contest for the nomination his visit to
Mr.. Seymour was purely u social one. al
though 1t lasted over an hour and was
behind closed and carefully guarded
doors. / met the General as he emerged
from the astute counsellor's Office. He
greeted me cordially and in the course OF
conversation said that he was much in
rerested in the political situation and
liked totalk to politicians, many of whom
he saw every day. He added That he was
not taking any active part IN politics just
now. aud mad made no movement in the
direction of the Repub lean Guberna-
torlal nomination. AS To that honor he
Said:-
DARKIs Is wILLIN OF coURsE.
II am not seeking the nomination.. /
b not engage in Il scramble or struggle
for IL. Ii 1T to Me without such an
effort OH my part ! shall accept it. that is,
If the people wish me to serve them l
shall not refuse"
AS to the feeling or the people in regard
to him, General Grub said:-'I believe
they want me to lead them In this CAM
paign. l know hat to be so in my own
county. Burlington, aud / know il 10 be
so also in the other parts Of the State
where / have recently been. / mean Long
Branch aud Asbury Park. A friend gave
me this today"
The General pulled from his pocket an
ifan1 M rnlitjauI noyUa fpnr a 1aruou Htfu
paper of recent date. It was the report
of a meeting of the Freight Handlers
Union, which voted to send q communica-
ton to the Republican State convention
requesting that General Grub be
nominated for Governor.
81 was we'll pleased to receive that the
General continued.
He was informed, he said. that he had
much strength in Essex county, and it
pleased him to hear it. l
KEPT H WIRES HOT.
81 did not come home from Spain,"
went on General Grubb. Ito make a can
vass for this nomination. MY work there
was finished, aud l had the pleasure to be
assured by the Government at Washing
ton that it was well done. In
| GOO days l sent 300 dispatches
TO Washington. But after l had
accomplished the object TO: which l had
undertaken the mission. now my thoughts
IuTu0u lOW0FQ uOu6. 4H6I0 IS no plHCe
on earth l would rather be than in New
Jersey, and ! ardently desired to come
home"
General Grubb entered on au encomium
| uDon Captain Graham. "He has done Il
great work in bringing these bailo,-box
suffers 10 justice" said the ex-minister.
"He had no promises from me when he
undertook that dangerous service. Only
this. that If he We're killed-and l Told hin
l expected him to be Killed. wou d
bring his murderers to Justice and pro-
vide for his family"
No plan of future action has baen
adopted 10y General Grub, he said. He
would leave everything to his friends. II
the nomination could be secured by the
least exertion on his part, he would not
turn his head, he said. His business in
Newark was not of Al political nature, and
he expects to leave immediately.
AFTER THE DOODLE.
In the afternoon the Executive Com
mittee of the State Committee held its
weekly meeting AT its headquarters at
No. II Montgomery street. While Johnny
Kean and several others of the committee
smoked perfectoS in the inside Office
where no one could hear what they said
Trumpet" Murrell aud several other
leaders of the party chased rainbow5 all
over the back inc rooms aud figured
out the maj lrlty by which the Repub-
licans would carry tue State mex fall.
A delegation Of German-Americau Re-
publicans, consisting of Jacob RingIe. DR..
| Adolf Kirste in. Conrad Reicehbecher aud
Mr.. Drachmann were admitttd to the in
ner room. The ostensible object of their
visit was to lay before the committee the
necessity Of organizing the Germans into
clubs and incidentally to get the COM
mittee to allow them to have the hand
ling of a slice of the big b~oodieiwhich it is
expected, will be dumped into the State