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GENERAL GRUBB's CANDIDACY.
He Urges His Friends To 60 Slow Till
They learn the Situation.

He Urges His Friends To Go Slow Till
They learn the Situation.
Special to The .Ierseu City Netcs.
TRENTON, Aug. IA, 1S9S.-The candi-
dacv OF General E. Burd Grubb. to be the
National Commander of thu Grand Army
of the Republic is surrounded by some
difficulties that may result in his moi
being r candidate at all. There is scarce
~ a Grand Army man in New Jersey
who is not enthusiastic over a proposed
candidacy of Past Department Com
mander Grub. Letters have been pour
ing in on him at Edgewater Park by the
hundred, promising him support aud
fidelity in the contest, but the General
has conditioned his candidacy by a gen.
eral statement that the Department of
New Jersey would do him a favor not to
urge his candidacy unless they are sure
that there is some chance for New Jersey
to be recognized III the contest.
1t is generally conceded that the East
ern States are entitled to consideration.
inasmuch as the head Of the Grand Army
has not been an Eastern man within the
past six years.
When the candidacy of General Grubb
was announced by a coterie of enthusi-
ast1c friends &C the State Camp at Sea
Grit, it was generally understood that
General John Taylor of Pennsylvania,
who was the choice Of the Pennsylvania
Department, had withdrawn as q caudi-
date. and that the delegates of that State
would be representing the sentiment of
the Department If they gave support to
General Grub. The Pennsylvania dele
cations nave decided TO remain as a unit,
aud it Is understood now that they will
give their united support to Jack Adams
of Massachusetts, and such being the
case, much Of the support the New Jersey
friends of General Grubb expec ted to Sc
cure will be taken from them.
The New Jersey Council of Admi mis-
tration meets at Asbury Park on Angus
II, and it will be An important gathering.
for, besides the meeting of the Council.
there will be q general Conference of all
the Grub supporters throughout the
Department. aud it promises to be a
large and Interesting gathering. In the
meanwhile General Grubb's friends are
| eorresncnding with their comrades IN
New York, Pennsylvania and the New
England States for the purpose of ascer.
tanning the sentiment OF the various de-
partments, and how far their delegates to
the National EDcampment are pledged.
The reault of this correspondence will be
made known at the Asbury Park confer
ence. and then it will be definitely de-
cided whether General Grub has a
fighting chauce.
It is insisted that it Is unfair for Mas
sachusetts to lay claim again to the Ma
tional Communicating. inasmuch that
she has already had it. and that as the
Department has reached that period of
IT'S history when 1t Is bound to decline,
and other States should receive recogni-
ton.
New Jersey claims that in presenting
General Goubb 1t presents the strongest
aud most influential OF all the candt-
dates, not only because of his wal record,
but of his associations with veterans ,
not only Of New Jersey, but of the United
States.
Ohio will urge on the consideration oil
the convention the name of s. H. Hurst,
but the Eastern comrades are not dis
posed to let this important Office go West
again this year.
The National ~Encampment will be held
at Indianapolis. September 5 and 6.
General Grueb has written a num Der of
letters to his friends stating that he is
net q candidate himself; that IL the
honor is rendered him he will gladly re-
ceive it, but sincerely hopes that his
name Will not be forced on the conven-
tioa unless all The conditions are favor
able.