The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-06

DICKINSON NOT IN IT
Colonel Samuel Defeated
For the Office of State
Comptroller.
RESULT OF THE JOINT CAUCUS
Hancock of Mercer to Be Comp
t%roller, and Swain of Newark,
State Treasurer.
Spseial to tne Jerscu Ctu Neles..

Special to the Jersey City Neirs.S
TRENTON, Feb. 6, 1S94.-Colonel Samuel
Dickinson, Postmaster-Genera of Jersey
City and general political boss, has met his
Waterloo, and today is a lonely exile upon
the in~hospitable shores of a political st.
Helena. He was defeated, most overwhelm-
ingly defeated, for Comptroller in the joint
Republican caucus to nominate State OH
GERS, which was held last night. Sammy IS
too shrewd a politician not to see IN what
direction the wind was blowing, and when the
doors of the Speakers room closed upon the
members hi said that if the nomination was
made there he was ruined.
1t was plain to the most casual observer
that something unusual was in the wind.
The doors to the galleries were early be-
sieged, and when they were finally opened
the crowds of men and women swept up the
stairs and into the new patent seats with a
noise like that which the Delaware makes in
freshet time. The Hobbies filled up rapidly
and before the session began it was a difficult
matter to pick ones way through the crowd.
There were only a few Jersey City men in
the throng and they were those who have
been here every Monday night while the
. III DCDolO1l. AGS L y
was on hand working hard for his friend
Dickinson and Sheriff Toffey was walking
about telling everybody that he couldn't tell
why he was here. Jack Graham, Colonel
Charles Fuller and the great and only Judge
Al Hoffman, who is known about the State
House as the ssGovernor of Hoboken," were
about the only other Jersey City men who
were present.
THE FIGHT BEFORE THE CAUCUS.
Speaker Holt adjourned the House early
and said that there would be a joint caucus
of the Republicans Immediately afterward.
In this he made a mistake, for it was at
least an hour afterward when the two
branches got together. The principal candi-
dates were Dickinson and William S. Han
cock of Mercer for Comptroller INT George
B. Swain of Newark and ex7Sheriff David
Baird of Camden for Treasurer. The in
term was occupied by the Dickinson men
fighting to stave off the caucus and by
Brother-in-Law Lentz and the Swain men
i'll hustling to get Baird out of the race.
The Dickinson men worked like beavers, be
cause they realized that if they could not get
the caucus postponed they were lost. The
Essex men were Just as determined to have
the nominations made. They did not like
the Dickinson campaign, and they feared
that some treachefy would lose
them the Treasurership. About nine
o'clock a great shout went up from
the swain men that Baird had withdrawn
al1A1 oOOll d1LCl UAO SaoSIbo t1AC v
then the Dickinson men did not abandon all
hope. They chung to the idea that their
friends might be able to postpone the nomi-
nations. They did make a desperate effort
but did not succeed.
THE CAUCUS.
Senator Stokes presided at the caucus and
Assemblyman Ross of Cape May was secre-
tary. As soon as it was called to order the
Dickinson men opened the attack upon the
Hancock men by clamoring for an adjourn
ment. Their best speech was made by Fos-
ter voorhees,. He said he favored the adj
journment, but if the nomination was to be
made, he insisted that they should elect the
nominees at once and not put the matter off.
He referred to the feud between Hudson
and Essex, and expressed a hope that it
would not be of longer duration. He did
not believe in Essex having all that was in
the heavens above and the earth beneath,
and the Democrats all that was in the waters
under the earth, but that they should be
content with their fair share.
Salinger also fought for an adjournment.
ketcham of Essex, Lewis of Passaic and Oh
colt and Storrs of Essex bitterly opposed an
adjournment.
Walters of Monmouth intimated that he
had been approached in the interest of one
OF the candidates to go into a deal.
Lewis of Passaic wanted him to tell in
whose favor he had been approached, but
the worthy agriculturist refused to say.
1OW1o odio oOiuO ouul UulIlSo, diQ O1A0 UuulS
led to another until both got hot, and now
they do not speak as they pass by, and grim
defiance fills the eve.
The tactics of the Dickinson men were of
no avail, and a motion to adjourn was lost
by a vote of eighteen to twenty-nine. The
racket with which this was greeted caused
those in the Assembly Chamber to think the
big chandelier in the Speakers room had
come down with a crash.
DICKINSON BEATEN.
Al motion to proceed with the nomination
of a Comptroller was then carried, and Mr..
McEwan named Colonel Dickinson in a
speech which daubed the Colonel all over with
taffey. Max Salinger seconded the nominal
ton. and made every one who heard him
wonder how it was they had never heard be-
fore Of the wonderful things which he had
done.
setting forth the claims OF Mr.. Hancock to
the Office, and then the balloting began.
Dickinson secured only fourteen votes, while
Mr.. Hancock captured thirty-four. Dickin-
sons votes were the five Hudson men, the
four Union men, who can never forgive the
Essex men for their little deal in the Speaker
ship business, three from Monmouth, one
from Camden and one from Morris.
Il TREAsURERSHIP.
When the Hancock men had finished APP
plauding this result, Senator Ketcham
named Mr.. Swain for the Treasurership. He
lldu HULL W ody dpOub liz CdhulAdOO . duuli-
~fications for the position, and predicted that
he would fill the position with much honor
to the State and his party.
No one was named in opposition to Mr..
Swain, and it was not long before the first
and only ballot was over. Mr.. Swain re-
ceived f~orty-one votes, and seven blanks were
cast. The caucus lasted about two hours,
and from all accounts, was an exceedingly
lively one. When it was over there was
much noise and hilarity among the followers
of the successful candidates. The Newark
Indians and the Garfield Club of that
benighted city went from the Trenton House
where Mr.. Hancock had his headquarters,
where Mr.. Swain celebrated cheering and
yelling as though pandenlonium had broken
loose.
General Sewell kept open house in the
famous 100 and welcomed all who called
upon him. Colonel Dickinson took his
defeat good naturally. 1t was all the more
calling because it was the first time he had
ever missed an Office he had tried for.
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