The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-20
Grub SCORES SEWBLL
South Jersey, He Declares, Is
Opposed to Personal Boss
ism-Also Touches Up
Garry Hobart. -
Special to the Jersey city Neus.


NEWARK, Dec. 90, 1S93.-General E. Burd
Grubb was in this city yesterday and had a
talk with a reporter of the Daily Advertiser,
who asked him what he thought the move
ment against General Sewell's leadership
would amount to.
what will it amount to-" said the Cen
errl, sis more than 1 can say The Republi-
can party, as everyone knows, has ALWAYS
been pretty well controlled by the State
and the State Committee, for
years, has been under the control of General
Sewell.
No, l have taken no part in the canvass
for State offices, because, in the first place,
I'm not a boss, and, secondly, 1 do not as
sumo that l have any influence.
''The Presidency of the Senate and the
Speakerships Why, l understand that those
offices are thoroughly decided upon. That is
all cut and dried between General Sewell
and ex-senator Hobart, and will be carried
out to suit their views. That at least. is the
information ] got from members of the
Legislature whom | meet in the southern
part of the State.
THE FEELING IN SOUTH JERSEY.
The feeling in South Jersey? The feeling
in the southern part of the State among re.
p~ublicans with whom l am intimate is abso-
lutely repellent to any personal bossism in
the Republican party. They are now and al
ways have been impatient at it. They are
not the class of men who can be led BY the
nose; they are not the class of men who prac-
tice machine politics day and night, and
therefore they have not so much to saw when
party deals are made.
Il do not believe that the recent election
was intended to make any particular man
United States Senator, nor to give the
offices of the State to any particular crowd
or set of office seekers. 1t was the intention
OF the people to put a stop to scandalous
legislation and to change and repeal some
laws which exist upon the statue books and
also to put better public servants in office,
Il believe that if advantage is attempted
to be taken of this victory to saddle the
State with another ring, the authors of that
attempt will come to grief within the next
twelve months and that no machine politics
will save them. | may be wrong, but I be-
heve that when the people wake up and at
tend to their business they do not go to sleep
again till they get things right.
WANTS THE BLANKET BALLOT
What the Republican Party wants in
this State IS leadership that shall be above
the suspicion of treachery. This it is en-
titledto, and until it gets it it is impossible to
call the party united"
Touching upon the subject of legislation
by. the incoming Legislature, General Grubb
said
"Of the questions that will come before
the Legislature this winter, l think none
is of greater Importance than the amend
ment of the ballot law. The present act
is merely a makeshift. People will recall
that the Republican members of the Legis-
lature voted for it under protest. The
provision permitting the circulation of
official ballots outside the polling places was
put in merely as a sop to Bob Davis and his
gang. Without their sllpport the bill could
not have been passed. I would favor doing
away with that provision for a multiplicity
of ballots. One ballot, with the names of all
the candidates grouped by offices, without
distinction as to party, would seem to me to
be the best system that could be adopted"