The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-04
SMITHS BOOM FADES
Governor Abbett's Certainty
of the Senatorship In
creases Day By Day,
THE PEOPLE TAKING A HAND
The Right to Punish Faithful
Public Servants for Private
Grudges Is Resented.
Albeit Well and Confident Organ
ization of the Legislature.
Special to The Jersey citv Ne,ps.

TRENTON, Jan. A. 1S93-Any person
who had heretofore visited the state
House Oh the last Governors Day prev
ious TO the organization of the Legisla-
ture and recalled the hustle and activity
which prevailed in the halls of the Capitol,
would, had he been here yesterday. have
imagined that funeral was in prog
ress. The corridors were seemingly
empty and the few who were
in them moved about solemnly
and conversed in subdued tones. as
though overshadowed by the presence OF
death. Some one remarked upon the
fnneresl aspect of things. and Tom Lane
of Summit, who is making an energetic
canvass for the Speakership. said 1t
wasn't his funeral He had enough votes
to secure control of the Speakers gavel
If any reliance was to be placed upon the
promises of members OF the Legislature.
Assemblyman-elect Timothy Barrett of
Essex, a strong Smith man, said that
Lane would be elected beyond doubt II
he would declare himself irreFocably Tor
Smith.
1t was generally conceded, however.
that it was the funeral OF Senator
Michael T. Barrett's Presidential aspira-
lions, which Hau utSu HuIlcu Jaw on
cary grave by an act of tel0 de Sc. IL
was stated on the best authority that the
ambitious yourg Senator from Essex had
written a letter in which be Withdrew
entirely from the rare. This. it
was said, was in the interests OF
Mr.. Jnmes Smith, Jr's Senatorial ambt-
lion ard was done at his request, or. as
those who declare Mr.. Smith Is doing
ncthing to secure the office would say.
.'at the request of Mr.. Smiths friends. !"
just how this withdrawal of Mr.. Barrett
is going to help Smith. his supporters do
not state One thing is certain. however.
aud that is that MIR. Barrett is out OF the
race.
ADRArN TO BE PRESIDENT.
This leaves Senators Winton of Bergen,
Barker of Gloucester. and Adrain of Mid
dIesex, still in the field. Senator Winton
at the present time has little prospects of
winning While Senator Barker has
few votes from the South Jersey Counties.
he has hard uphill struggle
before him to reach the
chair. The "Apollo of Middlesex" was
said yesterday 10 be in The lend, although
ne has much hard wosk before him be-
fore he can secure the coveted position.
He is heavily handicapped by the fact
that he was unusually honored last year
when he was made President for the
secoud lime in succession in contraven-
lion of recent Senatorial precedent and
GTaulIlOQ. i ne Iacg luub uo udu HI0tueQ
the Qayel the year before was one OF the
hardest obstacles he had to overcome in
his fight last wiuter, and it might be
thought that he would find it more diff
cult to overcome the objection that he had
leid the position twice. In spite of this,
ali the chances seem to be In MS 1aVor.
TIM BARRETT's PREDICTION.
Assem- olyman Timothy Barrett was the
only member who was doing any amount
oftall shouting for Mr. Smith. He de-
c!ared that the fight was over, and all
that remained to be done to elect their
candidate was to count the votes Mr..
Barrett says Smith has now twenty-eight
votes, all that are required to elect, and
he gets them In this way:-Essex, 9; Hud-
sou. 4: Union. 2: V Niddlesex, 4: Monmouth,
2; Pas. aic. /; Morris, 2; Salem, 1: Somerset
2: Sussex, 2. MIR. Barrett by no means
allows that Governor Albeit has all the
other votes, but these are the ones, he
thinks Mr.. Smith has 'sure beyond
doubt" Mr.. Barrett will know more
about Mr.. Smiths standing a month or
two hence than he does now.
In the first place, Mr.. Smith has not
two votes from Somerset. Senator Keys.
of that county, is one of Governor Alb
belts warmest friends and one of the
hardest workers for his success. He says
that there is good reason to believe that
Assemblyman Cranmer from his county
will vote for the Governor. The Cover
nor is more likely to receive three votes
from Monmouth than TWO, leaving ouly
one for Smith, In other ways the Sena-
tor pointed out where Mr.. Smith was not
SO sure of twenty-eight votes as Mr.. Bar
rett said he was.
THE GOVERNOR CONFIDENT.
The Governor looked well yesterday,
and was exceedingly lively and chipper
for man standing on the verge OF the
political grave, as his enemies say he is.
He did not appear at all detected and
downhearted, nor did he have about him
any of that haggard, weary look. which
the Smith faction say denotes that he has
given up the contest and relapsed into
gloom and dependency. On the contrary,
lie looked very much like man confident
of the achievement of his purpose. That
air of confidence which always begets
success, hung about the Governor and his
advisers One old campaigner who has
witnessed many such contests said that
the Governors prospects were brighter
today than they have been since election.
"I tell you, my boy,n said he, 1.-THE peo-
pie are taking a hand in this matter.
They are beginning to resent the manner
In which the politicians are taking UPON
themselves the right to punish or reward
faithful public servants for fsncied
wrongs or personal services and are NOV
Ing upon their representatives in a
manner that they cannot mis-
take. When the Governor lays down
lig office two week 0euces IL Will De LOunu
That he leaves the State in better con-
Gition than any of his predecessors. The
people know this. and they do not intend
that the Governor shall be deprived of
the reward he has justly earned by his
devotion to their interests True he has
made mistakes. Who has not? But the
mistakes are entirely overshadowed by
the good he has accomplished.
Another thing which the people are
yery much Disguised With is the hollow
bypocricy of the Smith crowd. You re-
n1emuer when Hudson came down to the
last Gubernatorial Convention with q
candidate, these same righteous Essex
Rentlemen heightened out their pi0us
countepances, snd, holding up their hands
In holy apprehension. declared that 1t
would never do to nominate man who
was supported by or even in sympathy
with "Bob" Davis and the Hudson
county gang he controlled? Yon remem-
ber too. dou't you. how ingeniously Mr..
James Smith, Jr., utilized the columns OF
New York paper, over which ne mas
rome control, TO show Mr.. YounG's al
legged Connection with the Hudson rin2f
'sWill the people rememper that. too,
md now when they see that same Rlori-
pus little band Of Essex saints put on
81 was deaf for a year. cause BY catarrh q
HE head but was perfectly cured by Hood s
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