The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-19
KEAN FOR SENATOR
Latest Freak of the OPP
position to General
SeWell's Candidacy.
ERIE TRACK ELEVATION
A South Jerseyman Gives His Views
Upon the Subject-To Save
the Palisades.
Special 70 tne Jergep Cttu Nstcs.

1areer. number of members of the Leg
islature than usual at the State House
yesterday, and it was evident that some
thing of more than ordinary Importance
was going on. Many of last years legis-
lators were there for the first time since
the election, and among them were ehose
who, it is we'll known, would not jour
ney to Trenton for no other purpose
than to shake hands with new members
and lounge about the corridors. These
men were very much in earnest over
something, and many Were the mysterl-
Gus consultations in quiet nooks ana
out of the way corners. General Seven
was more in evidence than he has been
on any other Tuesday this fall, and
he made no bones of taking Senator
or Assemblyman to one side and quietly
but firmly imparting to him some I'M
portart information.
This air of mystery was cleared away
by one of last years prominent men,
bers of the Legislature, who said
'There has suddenly come to the sur
face a movement against General Sew
ellis candidacy for the United States
Senatorship which will do him more in
jury than a whole carload of manifes-
toes from Franklin Murphy and SEN
ator Bradley 1t is nothing more or less
than a movement to run John kean,
Jr for United States Senator 1t orlgl-
mated in Union county, and its main
object is to get John Kean out OF the
way, so that Foster Voorhees, can be
nominated for Governor next fall. Mr..
VOORHEES, will never consent to be
candidate against John Kean, and, as
General Sewell is believed to have or
dained that Mr.. Kean must have the
nomination, it becomes necessary to pro-
vide for Kean in some other way
MURPHY NOT DANGEROUS.
1.-THE opposition to General Sewell just
now does not amount to hill OF po-
tatoes and never will. Franklin Murphy
cannot secure enough votes to save his
boom from becoming ridiculous. He is
not a popular man, and there is moth
ing about him to awaken enthusiasm
The only way in which General Sewell
can be beaten is by securing the votes
of men who are now reckoned among
his supporters. Among those who pass
as SeweI men today are several who
are such simply because the opposition
is SO indefinite and uncertain and pre-
sents no candidate who can arouse
enough enthusiasm to sustain those who
would make a fight against the Camden
man.
John Kean is popular man in spite
of all his enemies say to the contrary.
Even Democratic leaders will tell you
If he had run in any other year than
that in which Cleveland made his phe-
nominal run he would have been elected.
That campaign demonstrated the hold
ne has upon the people, and he could
get from Sewell the supHprt of mem
.bers of the Legislature which no other
Republican could secure. General Sew
ell long ago recognized the fact that
John Kean was the only man who could
defeat him, and that is the reason why
he insists that Kean shall be the can
didate for Governor.
But will Mr. Kean consent to be
candidate?" I ventured to ask
well, that's the trouble. and the only
trouble just now, replied the legisla-
tor "He will have to be dragged into
it with locomotive; but the anti-Sewell
men say that he win be made to con-
sent; that the case will be presented to
him in such a light that he cannot re-
fuse. Already these men declare they
have the pledges of enough members
now put down as Sewell men to make
it very interesting for Mr.. Sewell in the
caucus. They are hard at work. and
claim to be making converts every day.
One thing in all this is certIin that
there will be a bitter fight in the Re-
publican Senatorial caucus, and General
Sewell has not the walk-over his friends
are now loudly claiming he has
TO SAVE THE PALISADES.
Governor Werts has about concluded
on what lines he will proceed to save
the Palisades from the vandalism CT the
quarrymen.
. The general outline of the Govern
or's plan, it is understood. involves the
appointment of commissioners. or else
places The duty upon the Riparian
Commissioners, to protect and guard
natural scenery from DETACHMENT. The
commission will be clothed with au-
thority to treat with those who may be
defacing natural scenery for commercial
purposes for the acquisition by the State
of their property or other rights If
they fail to agree as to the amount the
State should pay, application is to be
made to the Supreme Court for the APP
pointment of arbitrators to fix the
amount, there to be no appeal from
the decision of this board. The Gov
ernor is of the opinion that this would
secure to the State all those parts of the
Palisades now being disfigured by the
quarrynen ait an outlay easily within
the means of the State. Nor would it,
he thinks, expose the State to the dam
ger of being preyed upon by speeu,a-
tors, by acquiring rights to quarry in
the expectation of unloading upon the
State at big figure. No bona fide
ouarryman would try to secure such
rights, because he would know he
would be stopped, and no speculator
would acquire them in the hope of vic
Thinking the State, because he would
know That the State was protected
against exorbitant demands The Gov
ernors plan is similar in its latter fea-
ture to that under which the State
Camp ground at Sea Girt was ac-
quired.
CAN'T TRUST REPUBLICANS.
"1 see that the people of Jersey City
are going to try again to pass the bill
requiring the elevation of the Erie
tracks, said South Jersey Assem-
blyman no your correspondent Now
If they want such bill passed. I'll tell
them the only kind of measure of
that nature they can get through the