The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-10
PRELIMINARY WORK.
Last Nights Anxious Struggles for
the Good Things of the Session.
speeia1 to The Jersey city Ne,ps.


TRENTON, Jan. 10, 1S93-With the ar
rival of the afternoon trains yesterday
came the statesmen, little and great. At
first they staggered in by two and threes,
but towards evening they began to arrive
in crowds until the corridors Of the hotels
became choked with legislators and poll
ticiaus from all parts Of the State. The
Trenton House and the American House
were each so crowded in the evening that
it was with difficulty that one could make
his way through the halls, while the
throngs which kept constantly passing
from one to the other, wore hard path
across Warren street in the thickly fall
ing snow There were many familiar
faces in the rhrong and several which
had not been seen in Trenton on the eve
of an opening of the Legislature before In
many years.
HUDsoN's CROWD.
Among the Hudson County people who
came down to with ess the exciting scenes
were:-Couuty Clerk Dennis McLaugh-
lin, Judge William B. Rankin, William
D. Edwards, Judge Jonn A. McGrath,
President John P. Feeney and Commis-
sioner William R. Cook. ex-Assembly-
men Andrew Boyle and James Pumilty;
the irrepressible Terry McDonald, Mayor
Simon Kelly of Weehawken, Robert
Davis and Fred Mersheimer. Amongst
the first arrivals were the two rival can
didates for speakerS:-Ihomas h. Lane OF
Summit. aud Thomas Flynn of Passaic.
The Two Toms. as they are called here.
met at the desk OF the Trenton, and
warmly grasped each other by the hand.
They exchanged cordial greetings and
emphatically assured each other that
thev would he elected, as each had votes
enough and to spare. 1t Was noticed,
however, that Lanes look aud manner
was by no means so confident as that OF
Flynn.
ADRAIN AND BARKER.
Senator George Barker, VINO imagined
he heard q still small voice calling him
to be President of the Senate, was on
hand early in the evening. l asked him
about his contest and he told me that he
did not believe that bob" (meaning
Adrain) wanted the place and ii he could
have his way about it he had no doubt
that Senator Adrain would say TO him:-
George. I'd rather you would take
this place"
But unfortunately Adrain could not do
as he pleased in the matter, and had to
do as the powers that be planned it.
After delivering himself OF this, the
4 Gloucester Senator laughed as though he
! had perpetrated a good joke, and went to
hustle for votes. Soon AFTER Mr.. Samuel
d. Hoffman, whom The Republican
Seuator, arrived, accompanied by Sen
ator Stokes of Cumberland and
Editor Engard, the little Camden
Assemblymau, who made such dowery
speeches in the House last year. Mr..
Hoffman said that he would present him.
self at the bar of the Senate this after
noon with his credentials to be sworn in
aud would expect to take his seat. He
sorrowfully declared that he believed the
wicked Democrats had some unholy
scheme on foot to uDseat him, but when
asked about the scandalous frauds dis
covered on the recount suddenly dis
covered that he was in a hurry.
OLD HUNDRED.
He passed up 10 ''Od Hundred" GEN
eral Seweli's room, where SO many
schemes, successful and unsuccessful.
have been Matched. There the General
stood like Napoleon ut Waterloo sur
rounded py some OF the Old Guard Dan
Bente played his usual part of Grand
Chamberlain and introduced strangers to
the General as though he were some
grand monarch. Ex-Serge eant-at-Arms
Sharpe shook hands with everyone
three or four times. and Boss Gardner re-
cllned on a lounge aud twirled his Ballot
Reform Whiskers as OF yore. Herb
Potts, Senator George Cranmer, Dick
Redding and few others strove 10 lend
dignity TO the scene. Senator Gardner
was approached upon the subject of the
Atlantic county frands, ana he solemnly
declared that everything in his county
was as straight as a string. He said that
1t was very easy to trump up such evi-
neDce as that produced Oh The recount.
aud started into long explanation OF
how sixteen negroes could live in two
roomed house.
LONELY REPUBE.
Max Saliuger and Harry Holmes
wandered into the Trenton House during
The evening looking very lonely ana
weary They wandered around Rinlessly
looking for Republicans who were as
piumbs in a Sorrow E Delay pudding.