The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-12
YOUNG VS.. THE FIELD
Trenton Enjoyed Yesterday
the Calm Before the
Conventional Storm.
THE FAKE WERTS BOOM.
Hudson's Candidate Sure of Nearly
400 Votes on First
Ballot.
special to the Jerssu Citu Ne,cs .


t1al calm before the storm existed here
yesterday. Very few people from out of
town were in the city and there was little
to distinguish the day from any other
Sunday in the State Capital Towards
evening the great and only Colonel Muir
rell, A. B. Cosey of Hudson, and one or
two others of the leading colored men Of
the State appeared upon the scene and at
tempted to get up some enthusiasm over
the colored mems convention which
meets in the Masonic Temple this noon.
The trouble with this convention is that
no one seems to know exactly what 1t is
all about The call begins by saying that
the colored voters of the north hold
the balance of power and calls
upon Them to meet in conven-
t1on and devise means of righting
the many wrongs which bsset them and
obtaining the recognition to which their
power entities them. 1t then proceeds TO
say that the representation will be one
Tor every one hundred colored voters in
the State and fractionHthereof over fifty;
that each society, club and other organi-
cation of colored men, whether social, po-
litical. religious or secret. shall be enti-
tied to one delegate. and winds up by say
ing that seats will be reserved for ladies,
but whether the represent tativeS of the
falr sex will have any voice in the pro-
ceedings the cali sayeth not.
THE CoLoRED CAUCUS.
The colored brethren held caucus in a
club house on Broad street last evening,
which was conducted with all the secrecy
and strict observance of form which char
acterizes the caucuses of the two big par
ties. When it was all over Colonel Muir
rell gave out the news. He said there
was large number of delegates present,
and they were divided into TWO faction,
one OF which was further divided
into two Others One faction
was in favor of nominating a colored man
as Gubernatorial candidate on strictly
colored mans platform which colored
voters of both parties could support, and
thus ascertain what the exact strength of
the colored voters was. One of the sub
divisions of the other faction was in favor
OF endorsing the nominees and platform
of the Minneapolis Convention while the
other subdivision was infatuated with
the Peoples Alliance heresy.
But control majority of the dele
gates" modestly remarked the unassum-
ing Colonel land there'l1 be no such
breaks as that"
Ex-senator Blanch Bruce of Miss
issippie, who was also Register of the
Treasury will be present and address the
convention. The Colonel declared that
there would be over 700 delegates at the
convention. The prevailing Impression
is that the leaders of our Afro-American
citizens have been acquiring a CONNER
cial spirit.
TRENToN's WoULD-BEs
Two gubernatorial candidates dwell in
this city. They are General Richard A
Donnelly and exMayor Frank Mcgowan,
General Donnelly is the Democrat and
Mayor MCGOWAN is the Republican, and
both have captured majority of their
respective delegations in this county.
Both want the nomination, and both are
fighting hard for it. Mr.. Mcgowan un-
fortunately has been seriously i'll with al
attack of typhoid fever, aud has lost
much valuable time. He tried to catch
up last evening by sending forty-five
tetegrams of as many words each to
workers in various parts of the State,
l had short conversation with him,
and although he did not say he would get
the nomination, he spoke of the strength
he had developed in different parts of the
State with a confidence that was refresh
ing. 1t is said that two powerful
combinations have been made among
the Republicans with the Mcgowan and
Grubb men on one side and the Kean
and Murphy on the other. 1t is not CON
sidered here that Mr.. Kean has such
sure thing as was generally supposed. #
has been decided that ex-senator Neyius.
of Monmouth, who presided over the last
Republican Senate. will be temporary
and probably permanent chairman of the
Republican Convention.
LITTLE ON YOUNG.
Ex-senator "Statf" Little and Alder.
man Price, of New Brunswick, were at
the Trenton House last evening. Mr..
Little said that It looked TO him as
though Mr.. Young would receive the
nomination in the Democratic Conven-
tion. a by-stander remarked that Mr..
Allan McDermotJ had said that if any
one knew of man VINO wanted to pet
500 that Judge Werts would not be the
Candidate, to send the man 10 him.
Mr.. Little remarked that he guessed
he'd haYe to look Allan up. Alderman
Price was most emphatic in his declara-
tion that Mr.. Young had enough dele
gates to give him the nomination.
Another gentleman said that MIR. Young
would have on the hrsb ballot 1862 from
Hudson. 25 from Hunterdon, A from
Middlesex, 50 from Monmouth, IS from
Sussex. 20 from Warren, 20 from Bergen
and 25 from Essex if tn Q unit rule did not
prevail. Gu the second ballot, when the
favorite sons were disposed of, Mr. Young
would receive the 81 votes of Mercer.
those Of his native county, Morris, several
from Some rset and enough from the
other counties to pull his vote up to more
than the 43O necessary to nominate. 1t ia
said that Speaker James ]. Bergen will
be the temporary chairman of the con-
yention. The only out-of-town candidate
who was in town yesterday was Chauncey
b. Ripley of Westfield, who has
been named for the position by his own
paper, the Westfield Leader. Mr.. Ripley
is known as the father of the celebrated
roads which have made Union county
famous. He has received a letter from
Grover Cleveland in which that great
Democrat said that he knew of no one in
the State whom he would rather see at
the head of the State ticket than Chaun-
cey B. Ripley. Mr.. Ripley thinks that
sentiment should bring to him an unani-
nous no omination. So he came down yes
terday and engaged rooms for headquar-
ters at the Trenton House, from which he
proposes to make huslling campaign
for the honor.
That the capital will contain one of the
largest crowds it ever saw, during the
next three days. is evident from the large
mum Der of applicants for rooms which
have been received at the various hotels,
The headquarters of the leading candi-
d ates will be at the Trenton House.
Camden Cold Water Candidates.
Special to the Jersey efty Netcs.
CAMDEN, Sept. 12. 1892. Camden Pro-
hibitionists on Saturday made tie fol-
lowing nominations:-Surro Thomas
Blood of Camden; Coroner. Dr. Lawrence
" Glover, Haddontield; Assembly, First
district, K. Wilkins iBudd. Haddonfield;
Second district. Joseph Cramer OF Cramer
Hill; Third district Theodore Hider