The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-10-17
FATAL INACTIVITY.
Democratic Leaders Said to
Be Letting the State
Slip Away.
REPUBLICAN DIsSENSIONS
Blue Assembly Delegation-Gossip
At the State House.
Special to the Jersey cttu Nears.

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TRENTON. Oct. II, 1Ss4.-Things were
unusually dull about the State House
yesterday for a Governors day when a
political campaign is well under way.
Tom Flynn said that the Presbyterian
Synod, which was in session at the
other end of the city, was responsible
for the absence of the politicians. The
Governor was at his Office before ten
o'clock, and found enough to keep him
busy until late in the afternoon. There
were a few statesmen in vari-
Gus stages of development about,
but they were mostly Republi-
cans. Senator Ketcham of Essex, with
Assemblyman Kerr of Hudson, Sake
of Morris. and Woolsey of Essex, came
down to a meeting of the Committee
on Public Printing, and a pretty blue
committee it was, too.
The discussions among the Essex Re-
publicans and the general Generalization
of the party in that county, as evinced
by the wrangle over the great and only
original Carl LEM, filled the soul of
Senator Ketcham with anguish, which
hearted declarations that his party
would carry the county made more APP
parent. Mr.. Woolsey was trying to
convince everybody that he did not care
a fig for the manner in which he was
defeated by Assemblyman Eisele for re-
nomination and failed most dismally.
TWO IN A DISTRICT.
men under the new lines in Essex threw
Messrs. Eisele and Woolsey in the same
district, and both sought denomination.
Mr.. Eisele distinguished himself last st
made for the policy-holders in the in
dustrial insurance companies. The Pru-
Dental of Newark made every effort
in spite of the powerful opposition.
This appears to be a bad year for Mr..
Woolsey politically. He made every eff
fort to obtain the nomination for Mayor
of Newark last spring, and now he has
even failed to get a denomination for
the Assembly.
Mr.. Baker was also sad. He Jared a
renominated, but things Republican are
in such a shape in Morris that he does
not talk of his reelection with that
cheerfulness which denotes confidence;
outlook. He has had considerable trou-
BILE to secure a delegation from his dis
trict favorable to his denomination, and
failed to carry the ward of Harrison in
which he lives. His state of mind was
not improved any when he was told
that the HUDSON County, Committee
had practically decided tha5 the re-
to the convention would not be fnal,
and a man who had secured enough
of the delegates from his district to
secure the prize. This rule, it was said,
had been agreed Upon to choke off ex-
Labor Agitator Gruber and give the
nomination from the Third district TO
the Sewell men to render Sammy Dick
inson's recent victory at the primaries
as barren of fruit as possible.
ERIE PAYS UP.
Mr. IameS Allen. who represents the
Erie Railroad Company in and about
the State House called upon Treasurer
Swain and handed him S5O,0G0 in payInen
of the company's taxes.
The Trustees of the School Fund met
in the Governors Room and transacted
some routine business. Among the two
Chamber was one who was in a state of
mind over what he denounced as the
apathy and inactivity of the State lead
erS."
The Legislature is by no means lost
said he with an emphasis that almost
any speaker would rule out on the floor
of the Assembly. we have a fine OPP
only make a fight. The individual can
didates cannot be expected to do it sin
gle handed, especially when they re-
ceiye no encouragement from H~eadQuar-
tiers. The ticket in Hudson is a good
one and now that the Reformers and
the Short Hairs have buried the Ratchet
and are working together for its sue
CESS, we oil III l1O LIS VI &OSHto 1870
county. The manner in which the Re-
publicans are scrapping in Essex over
Carl Lenz and SeWell, makes 1t certain
that we can elect a fair share of the
Assemblymen there. .Passaic is ours, If
we fight for it, while the Morris Repub-
Leans are about the worse scared set OF
politicians you ever saw.
SOUTH JERSEY UNCERTAIN.
Omitted States Marshall Pfeiffer tells
men that if a good, vigorous hight was
made we could carry Camden and Salem
and perhaps Cape May. The way m
which things have been shaped in Bur-
lington gives US a good fighting chance
State.
'The Republicans are intoxicated with
their sudden and Unexpected rise to
power last winter and are pulling each
others hair and scratching their eyes
out. The Democrats chances are as good
as they have been in several years n
it is an outrage hat the party leaders
are letting things drift along as though
they had abandoned all hope of winning.
Such a state of affairs is very diScourag-
ing to those candidates who need help
and it spreads a feeling of dishearted-
ness mong the rank and file which IS
simply demoraliZing.
sl0h. if Governor Albeit would only
step down from the bench and start
out through the State whooping things
up in his old time style. We would
then carry this State this fall in a way
which would make the Republicans ex-
ceedingly weary"
Whats the matter with the leaders,
I asked.
why, the whole trouble is that they
all either want to be United States Sen
ator. or are afraid that some one else
will be-" and the statesman went away
as assuage his sorrow in he accusa-