The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-12-27
BOOMING VOORHEES,
Getting Up a Popular De-
mand for Him to Sweep"
the Convention.
THE SESSION WON'T BE so SHORT
Work Cut Out for the Legislature
Can't Be Done in a Hurry
State House Gossip.
THE SESSION WON'T BE so SHORT
s,oscfal to the Jersey CITY Neass.

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TRENTON. Dec. 81, 1S~s4-Governor
Werts came down to the State House
yesterday to transact what business
there might be requiring his attention.
The fact that he had designated Wednes-
day as Governors Day this week, was
not generally Known, and the usual week
~ gathering of statesmen was very
small Senator Rogers was about, still
clinging to his boom for President OF the
Senate with the clutch of the ~proverbial
drowning man on the straw. Almost
everyone else considers the matter set
tied in favor of Senator Stokes, but Mr.
Rogers is still hopeful that some loop
hole Will be discovered through which
he can slip in.
VOORHEES, BOOM.
The latest move of the enemies of
General Sewell to bring about his defeat
as predicted in THE Jersey City News
last week, has passed away like the
usual Fourth of July celebration which
is mainly noise and smoke. No one k
Mr.. Kean's candidacy seriously and no
one can be found who believes that
either he or Foster Voorhees, has lost
his head far enough to go into any such
chimerical scheme. There is a strong
faction in the Republican party that
can see no reason why Mr.. Voorhhes
should not be the e Governor of New
Jersey. Handwriting on the wall could
not convince them that Governor Werts'
successor will not be a Republican and
they calculate to get up a popular de-
nan for the young salesman of Union
which will carry the convention by storm
smash all states and knock the machine
into smitherihes no matter how well it
is oiled, or how tightly riveted. They say
that no matter how friendly Mr.. Voor-
these men say the dear people will do
favors that accomplished young gentle
man, the popular demand viii be so
great for him that he will ave to ac-
cept. When Mr.. VOORHEES, is nominated
these men say the dear people Will do
the rest.
CONGRESSMAN CORNISH.
Congressman Cornish, or Johnst, as
his rural constituents delight to call
him, was at the State House for the
first time since the tidal wave
struck him last fall, carried him
way up on The beach of defeat
Il cut and scratched his back
on the sand and pebbles of bitter dis
appointment.
"Johnst," however, gave evidence of
none of his hurts. and was as jolly
n clipper as ever, and greeted every
body with all his old time cheerfulness
and gaiety.
He is entirely out of politics just now,
and proposes to devote his entire time
to making pianos and nothing else. AL
least he says so, and ne ought to know.
Nevertheless, he and Senator Stats had
a long and earnest conversation with
Governor Werts. But there was no
politics in it at all; it was just a social
chat with the Governor upon every
day topics. Ii you don't believe that, ask
Senator Stats.
Messrs. Robinson and Fielder were the
only representatives of those aspiring
for the minor offices who were about
looking for votes. The race between
these two men for the office of secretary
of the SENATE is very close with the odds
in favor of Robinson, who is the candi-
date of Senator Voorhees,. and that is
worth many votes to any candidate in
this Senate. James P. Logan and Ex-
As~semblyman Parker are also running
very close for the clerkship of the
House. Every other candidate has at
last arrived at the conclusion that Logan
and Parker are the only two in the
battle and have withdrawn to see those
two giants fight it out. It would require
a dozen seventh daughters of a seventh
daughter to predict who win win.
LENGTH OF THE SESSION.
There was some talk about the length
of the coming session and the opinion
was freely expressed that it would not
be as short as some people think it will.
The work which is cut out for the Leg
~islature will take at least ten weeks,
say the most conservative, while those
who closely follow the trend of matters
about the State House say it will take
twelve if not fourteen.
1t win AXE some time to elect the
United States Senator and the session
will be at least three weeks old before
the Legislature settles down to hard
work. Then again the measures that are
acceptable to all the members of the ma
jority and they will not be passed with
out considerable discussion and opposi-
tion, which always produces delay. It
appears that the Republicans are suf-
fering from an attack of the inyestiga-
ton fever and an effort will be made
to investigate some branch of the late
Democratic administration. The particu-
lar branch which they now have in
mind is the State House under the sup
~erintendency of B.. J. Ford. Certain
newspapers have published long stories
Of what they call waste and extrava-
gance in the administration of the Office,
and it is said that the Republicans pro-
pose to appoint a committee to investi-
nafa-