The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-09
SEWELL IN CHARGE.
Began His Management Of
the Legislature in the
Caucuses Last Night.
SCENES AT TRENTON.
City Crowded With Enthusiast
tie Republieans-Ho
For Speaker.
Rogers Determined to Take the
Speakers Seat in the
Senate.
ADRAIN-DALY PLANS
Snecia1 to the Jerseu al Ne.rs.

WV ~ thH OS''NO OFb
TRENTON, Jan. g, 1S94.-It is a long, long
time since Trenton has seen such a night as
that which closed yesterday. There was
more wild enthusiasm and mad Republican
e~xuberance upon the streets and in the hotel
corridors thar has disturbed the slumbers OF
the peaceful old Quakers of this ancient Cap
ital in many years. Much has been said and
written about the unterriied Democracy
and the frantic attempts at raising pande-
moniuln, which it made in the days when it
held full sway; but the Republicans can give
it cards and spades and beat it clear out of
sight. The pent up feelings of five long,
weary years of waiting for a whack at the
public crib burst forth into ear-spllttlng
yells, cheap fireworks and strains Of discord-
ant bands.
Old citizens who have seen many Legisla-
lures organize, say that never before have
they seen SO many Office seekers in town.
Without any exaggeration there were at
least twenty candidates for each office bar
ring pages and doorkeepers and their num-
Der was legion. They were of all conditions
of race, creed and color and previous con-
dition of servitude. The dude with his new
paddock coat and shiny silk hat rubbed ell
lows with the thrifty ~agriculturist in fur
cap and COW hide boots, while the colored
1latld llA u tlC V Ii Ia viz e
ever an opportunity presented itself. They
began to arrive with the early trains, and
some of the more thrifty ones from the agri-
cultural districts came in with the sun. When
they found there were no members here to
tackle for votes they began to tackle each
other for refreshments.
FIRST ARRIVALS.
Among the first to arrive was the Indian
Republican League of Newark, suggestive of
their name in nothing but their yells. They
marched up to the Trenton House and took
possession of a suite of rooms, which had
been handsomely decorated for them with
flags and plants, They soon had a well de-
veloped bouffet going in the room, and by
evening their enthusiasm knew 10 bounds.
They were soon followed by another organi-
cation, the Maurice Rogers Association of
Camden, which came up 0 n a. special train
and brought with them a band that played
all extensive repertoire of one mournful yaria-
ton of a well known Sunday School hymn.
Among the Office seekers were John Atkin-
son, looking for Reading Clerk; Frank G..
Sutherland, with his his single to the journal
Clerkship; Captain John Greenan and Paddy
Mcdonald, who Thought they were made to
be Sergeants7at-arms, and Bill Mailley in a
new high hat, who was willing to take any
thing he could get from the Clerkship to an
inkstand. The various candidates for the
State offices kept open houses.
P E HOUSE, FOR ALL.
General Sewell threw wide open the doors
of old 100 and spread out his cigars and
s~'apollinaris" until they were as free as air.
Colonel Dickinson received his s'friends" in
a spacious apartment on the second floor of
the Trenton House and William Hancock,
who thinks he has a better chance for the
COMPREHENSIVE than Colonel Sam had two
rooms and two darkies passing out the ''reso-
luton" John Ulrich who hasn't given up
the Comptrollershi p yet with the help of
NIsAo FaD,.1n o,,l Cr7prnpo4o r,,Af4 of
Elizabeth, saw that no one went dry at the
Windsor. Brother-in-law Swain, the lead
ing candidate for the Treasurership, also
kept open house at the Windsor, while John
Gibson of the Newark Advertiser, whom
that paper is booming for the same office
for a novelty treated the multitude to as
sorted brands of Republican eloquence from
the stoop of the Trenton Home.
INDIANS ON PARADE.
When the shades of night fell over the
scene the Rogers Association got out their
bad band and Q out on a hurrah. They
marched down to the Windsor, and while
the band PLAYED its one mournful march they
yelled for Founder Bradley. After a while
the Senater-elect from Monmouth made his
appearance at a second story window as
well as a speech. He said that he did not
at first know whether he would get to Tren-
ton, but he was determined to come it he had
to come on a stretcher. He had finally de-
cided to come with a cane. He had been
elected to the Senate by the people of Mon
mouth, and he proposed to take his seat if
he was carried out of the State House on a
stretcher, and from the looks of things he
thought it would be a stretcher. The Rogers
Association yelled, and Founder Bradley
gave way to Senator Rogers.
ROGERS DETERMINED.
Mr.. Rogers was brief and to the point. He
said that he was going to be elected Presi-
dent of the Senate, and be trusted to those
before him to see him seated, at which a