The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-27
Jersey Senator's and AS
semblymen as They
Appear Autebiog-
raphical1y.
DUB VERY MODEST GOVERNOR.
Fitzgerald's Annual MASTERPIECES
Has a New Picture-New and
Old SoIons.
Special to the Jerseu oity Ne,us.

maroon and red which SO well became
its predecessors the legislative manual
for 1898 has made its appearance in Tren.
ton. Like them, it Is full of political in-
formation and other entertaining things,
and it is three pages bigger than its inns
mediate predecessor, containing 42y to
the others 434. The publisher, 7. B.
Fitzgerald, veteran newspaper man.
would be offended if any one should sngs
gest that in making the increase he but
followed a practice of recent Legislatures.
The general tone of the book Is far from
being one of leyity, and that is good evil
denne OF the innocence of his intent. So
sternly business-like Is it that 1t has not a
word of kindly advice for the fled Cling
lawmakers nor of requiem for the
turned down" those unfortunates VINO
fell into the traditional political pot
while the political SouD was boiling.
A nice book it Is, and there Is nothing
nicer In it than the picture OF Governor
Werts. The change is a forceful re-
minder of the late important go1ngs-on in
State politics, aud it Is apt to bring on
moralizing mood.
There is another picture besides that OF
the Governor, and there is map of the
State. There are Assemblymen and Sens
ators who call the map u picture, and
maybe tn ey are right. The other pictura
alluded to is one of the State Capitol. Mr..
Fitzgerald is an open-hearted man. and
he has DOT secret of his own except one
namely, bis object in putting this pic
ture of the State House in his book year
after year. Nothing could induce MIN
80 tell that, but through the exper-
ience and shrewd guessing of an
old legislator from Essex County what Is
Il to Ea aaA0
known. This veteran Assemblyman's
opinion is entitled to consideration and
respect in the premises for reasons which
it would not do to make known. He gave
it yesterday. He so1emnly averred that
the tea served in the Trenton hotels is so
strong as to wrestle with the memory
and down it in TWO falls out OF three,
therefore the picture is put in as a guide.
he said, to prevent inexperienced mem-
bers from going into the postotf1ce or
soma private house to do their legislating,
when the spirit moved them.
AUTOBIOGRAPHIC ORNAMENT.
The ornamentation done by other hands
consists of the biographies of the Gov.
ernor, Senators and Assemblymen. 1t Is
on this part of the book that the reader is
tempted to shed tear for The vanquished
those who were defeated in caucus, or
polling booth, or simply turned down.
And il he has any more tears after that
one has dropped, he will be sure TO damp
en- some of the biographies with them.
They will do no good then, for they Will
not fall on the driest or the collection, but
the thought OF the tender green thing
that produced this or that one Will force
tnem to flow. Many of them are the
biographies of men of one or more ses-
sions' standing, and they have already
been commented on. When their writers
were soft and inexperienced they wrote
them and sent them to Mr.. Fitzgerald to
be published. Many let their pride guide
their pens iuto tracing sentences that
read boastfully, and every time one OF
these looks at his own handiwork he Is
reminded of his feelings on that sad ocea-
sion when he first stepped on hoop.
Tue chirp OF some of this years hedg-
lings has the same boaStful ring IN 1t, and
80 it will be while the State of New Jer-
sew and Tom Fitzgerald go hand iu hand
through the rolling years. Not few are
pithv and terse as BELTS the book, and
some are so short and barren or state
ments as 10 give out IL suspicion OF mod
esty.
OUR MODEST GOVERNOR.
Everything in the book is in proper
order, and naturally the first biography
is that nf Governor Werts. Added hon
ors evidently do not make the Governor
proud, for it is the same biography which
be was using before the election. The
only thing added to it is a statement for
newspapers, that he defeated John Keans
Jr., in an election held in 1892.
In the front rank of the State Senators,
although tho order should be Indian file,
march two men, Samuel D. Hoffman anu
| William Riddle, the alleged victorious
and alleged defeated candidate for At
lantic CounGy's Senatorsh1p. This Is the
only instance in which beaten candidate
is allowed to mingle with the elect and
elected and tell what he likes about him
self. 1t is done probably as tribute TO
the pluck of this man, who is one OF those
who doesn't know when he Is beaten.
Some of the other Senators are going to
propose to Mr.. Fitzgerald that hereafter in
all cases he shall give the defeated man
chance to brag in order that the victory
of the winner may seem The greater, aud
may be crowned with something like the
old Roman triumph.
Senators Winton.' PerkSSFs Rogers
Miller and Barrett have thest7n ne to- say
for themselves as in gormeTESs.rs. Their
continued prosperity has -n5c given them
| the dangerous disease known rs swelling
of the biography. malady whose ap-
proach is foreshadowed by an increase in
| the size of the head.
II Senator Stokes of Cumberland is the
Youngest member of the Senate, the
Senate ought to be proud of him. His
ESSAY on himself is so short and small as
| to be hardly able to hold the great
| amount of good sense in 1t. He has two
Assembly victories hanging from his
scalp-belt and has otherwise been very
successful, although not born in Essex
county. He is a native of Philadelphia.
DAILY OF HUDSON.
Senator Daily, of Hudson, is lawyer.
and that fact must be apparent to any
one of ordinary perception who reads
what ne has to say about himself. He
owes his success in life to his being a
striker. He was working as an appren-
tice in the Erie Foundry in Jersey City
one day when the order for strike came.
He went out and walked right into law
office, seized book and studied law.
The very next year he was admitted to
the bar as an attorney, and three years
, later as a counsellor. He has saved
great many lives in his time; lives of peo-
pie who killed other people, and of that
he is Justly proud. President Cleveland,
before he temporarily left the White
House, heard about him and made him
an Assistant United States District At
torney.
William H Skirm is Trenton man.
He sells groceries and makes nice
penny at it too. One may judge that
from his saying that he is most excellent
business man. He is Colonel of the
Seventh Regiment, National Guard.
Senators Martin, Barker aud Adrain
are old friends OF those who read the
manual. Senator Henry Stafford Ter
hume of Monmouth says be is nearly as
uonnu nc Sanator SkOkas Ha ryaa horn