Bridgeton pioneer., 1892-08-25
NEW JERSEY POLIrlCS.
Lively PelfaicaH Gussip Through
out the Ssate-.-De -DemOcaaiic
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BfckeriDgs.
TRENTON, Aug. 10-General E. Burd
Grubb "+nies the story currently cir
culated that he is no longer in the con.
test for the Republican Gubernatorial
nomination. Many of the State papers
have announced thai he has dropped
from the list, but this the General says
is not true.
In reply to a query yesterday be
stated that he would accept the Re-
publican nomination for Governor,
but he did not think that he could af-
ford TO make n contest for Il. If the
Republican party did not want him as
th cir nominee he certainly would not
force himself upon them. If the nomi-
nation is rendered, he will make a
vigorous personal cenvsss, and will
continue the work of bi ringing to final
determination the question whether
New Jersey is Fl Republican State.
The exposures made in connection
with the Jersey City conspiracies hes
left that question open. aud if the
truth has been told about the last
Gubernatorial election it would have
been easily seen that New Jersey prop
erly belongs in the Republican column,
and that the tactics of the Jersey City
ringsters and their corruptionists in
other parts of the State have for years
prevented on honest count.
B. F. Lee yesterday said that no
date had yet been fixed for the Demo
cratic convention because he and Mr..
McDermott did not care to take the
responsibility of fixing the date with
out consulting James Smith, of Essex.
Allen McDermott has promised to see
the Newark leader in few days and
be able to make final announcement
next Tuesday, 1t is new thought that
the convention will be held Sept. 30.
There has been some complaint be-
cause the matter has been delayed so
long. The State Committe feel salts
fed that more will be accomplished by
having short campaign and that six
weeks will be ample to secure good
results.
1t is currently reported that At
torney General Stockton will not be a
candidate under sny consideration,
and would not accept it for personal
reasons. The Attorney General thinks
that the best man that can be placed
in the nomination is George Werts, of
Morris County.
The boomers of E. F. z. Young have
settled upon working the "favorite
son" racket In many of the counties
throughout the State. They have be.
gun working in Mercer County, where
Quartermaster General Donnelly is
the accepted candidate. They fear
that should Donnelly get foothold
in the convention that he might be
the man selected in case of a general
row and to prevent him from getting
into the convention, the Young people
have been at work.
Two prominent Hudson county men
spent two days in Mercer county,
starting the Young boom on its way.
g. D. w. Vroom, an anti.Abbett Dem.
ocrat, who was once Mayor of Tren-
ton. has been selected as Young sub.
stitute. He is to contest with Don
nelly for the Mercer delegation. Be-
ing President of the Board of Public
Works of Trenton, which has control
of all the patronage of the town, it is
thought that he will be able to secure
what he is after. If he receives the
usual complimentary vote he will turn
his forces over to Young.
Perkins, of Burlington, is to be the
favored son there. Senator Barker
will come up with two or three South
Jersey counties at his back. Ex-Sena-
tor George Pfeiffer will be named by
Camden, and all these sooner or later
will go to the Hudson banker.