The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-18
AMATEUR POLITICS.
How Republican Leaders
Look Upon the House
Reform Bills.
BRADLEY GETS AFTER DAILY
Wants the Names of the Signers
of the Protest Against Him
Compromise Talk.
BRADLEY GETS AFTER DAILY
spscial to the Ierseu citu Nsaus.

Special to the Jersey City Nsus.
TRENTON, Jan. IS, 1S94.rThe second week
of the Legislature has gone and nothing has
Tst been accomplished owing to the Sena-
korial deadlock. The interests of the people
are allowed to suffer while the Democratic
Senators are damaging seriously the polti-
cal future Of the party in the State, in order
TO keep in power a horde of ringsters and
office holders whom the people have repadt
ated in a most substantial manner. Al
though on the surface everything looks
hopeless for a compromise, those on the inside
declare that the trouble will be adjusted by
Monday night. but just how they viii not
say. 1t is certain that some one must recede,
and the last things which the leaders on
both sides said, when they took the tram yes
terday afternoon to go to their homes, was
that they would not back down an inch from
the stand they have taken, in which both
claim to be fortified by the opinion of the
Acknowledgement.
The situation, as it appears today, plainly
leaves the Democrats in a position to yield II
they are SO disposed. The Republicans have
issued their ultimatum, as the propositions
which they submitted to the Democrats at
yesterdays conference, can be called, ana
they cannot with dignity recede from the
position therein assumed On the other
hand, the fact that the Democrats did not
commit themselves to any positive reply then,
but took until Monday night to prepare a
formal answer, affords them an opportunity
to repair, in a measure, the great wrong they
have done the party, by r~elinqulshlng the
position they have taken.
Many predictions have been made as to
what their answer will be, but the one
which is considered the most serious is that
the Democrats will submit some scheme for
getting the controversy before the Supreme
"a Han,r Thofo ie M xro in which tins can
be done except by consent of both parties,
and the Democrats want the Republicans to
agree to nave the Court decide whether the
Senators, against whom charges of bribery
are alleged, were legally elected.
SENAfoR BRADLEY'S HISTORY.
Senator Bradley of Monmouth is after
Senator DAILY. To the protest which has
been filed against Senator Bradley there are
one hundred or more signatures, and in the
Democratic address it is stated that these
one hundred citizens are nelghborS OF
Founder Bradley. and live right with him IN
Asbury Park. The Committee on Elections
would not allow the reporters to copy these
names, and one of the committee carries the
protest in his pocket, so that 1T cannot be
seen. Senator Bradley sent his private sec
rotary to Senator DAILY, Chairman of the
committee ON the contested seat, and he pre-
scented the following letter.
! TRENTON. N. j.. Jan II. 1894.
Hon. Wn. D. DAILY, Nelo Jersey Senate:
DnAn SIR,-I am having compiled for preser-
! walton a history of the events surrounding tue
organization of the New Jersey Senate TO 1884.
In order to complete the record. / am DESTROYS
Of securing a copy of the petition circulated in
Monmouth county protesting against my being
permitted to take my seat. Reputable news
papers have secured copies OF the wording of
the petition. but not the signatures.
Will you be so kind as TO allow the bearer, A.
C. Hart, permission to copy the signaturess and
Very truly and respectfully yours,
JAMES A. BRADLEY.
Senator Monmouth County.
Senator DAILY refused to let him copy the
lame until he had conferred with other
members of the committee. Senator Brad
ley states that the reason they do not a
the 100 names made public is because some
of the men would not stand any public crih-
cisin, having been violators of the law in
Asoury Park, and signed the protest o as to
get square with him for the action he had
taksn ia their cases. Another effort will be
made next Monday night to get the names
o-BSTREPEROUS REPUBLICANS.
The Democratic Senators are not the only
obstreparous people whom the Republicans
have upon their hands. They are consider
ably worried over those of their own num-
Der who insist upon going ahead on their
own hook and introducing intensely par
tisan bills. These amateur statesmen have
been reasoned with and even threatened,
but to no purpose. They loudly bawl about
bosses and bossisIn. and every time a gentle
man, who is recognized as a leader Of their
party, tries to tell them how unwise and
detrimental to the Republican party their
conceit is, they Immediately begin to
froth at the mouth and accuse the leader of
trying to put a collar around their .necks.
After endeayoring in vain to bring these
blatharskites to a due sense OF the iniquity
of their ways by persuasive rgument and
similar gentle means. the Republican leaders
determined to resort to harsner methods. So
they passed the resolution appointing q COM
mittee on partisan legislature through Mon
days caucus, and hereafter all such bills viii
be considered by Messrs. McEwan, Gross,
Codding. Zabrissie, Lewis and Stofrs. With
the exception of Mr.. Storrs and probably of
Mr.. Zapriskie. these gentlemen are willing
to listen to what they are told by heads older
tlanstEeirs in politics.
y LEADERS VAIL.
The Republican leaders, like General
SeweH.. John Kean, Foster Voorhees, and
John Griggs, have been much worried by
these amateur reformers, and are inclined to
lay at their door all the present Senatorial
muddIe.
"This food of partisan bills, y said one of
the leaders the other day, after young Mr..
Walters of Monmouth had unburdened him
self of the bills reducing the salaries of the
Governor and other staff officials, rushed
along by our members, is having about the
same effect upon the Democrats that a red
rag has on an angry bull. You can't get
democrats to look at the situation coldly and
calmly ii you insist upon goading them with
visions of strict partisan legislation like that.
So we concluded to hold off for the present.
I don't mean that there will be no partisan
Legislation this session. but l do mean that no
action viii be taken on such measures until
this Senatorial difficulty is settled
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