The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-11-21
M'EWAN'S MISSION.
Goes to Trenton to Make
Frank Sutherland Clerk
of the House.
STOKES AND THOMPSON FIGHT
Lively Contest for Presidency Of the
Senate-Grand Scramble for
the other Offices.
STOKES AND THOMPSON FIGHT
snecial 10 The Jersey cita Neus.

considerably more animation about the
State House yesterday than there has
been on any Governors Day in the past
six months. None of this, however, was
produced by Democrats, but was en-
tirely due to the Republicans who are
members of the Legislature, or hope 10
be officers thereof, who thronged the
corridors. Nothing was discussed eX-
cept the organization. Almost every one
comedies the election of General Sewell
to the United States Senate; that is,
every che who knows anything about
politics. Various things, mostly UNI
pleasant, were said about Frankii Muir
phys nomination, most of which mas
already been circulated by his friends
and enemies. The hardest hin said
about him yesterday was by a man OF
sporting proclivities, who declared tnat
Mr.. Murphy as a Senatorial canoldate
was nothing more or less h a run
ming mate for General Sewell; that he
and the General had an understanding
and that Mr.. Murphy was running SIM
plv to divert attention from other can
didates who might prove more trouble
some.
,,nhe only fault with that PROPOSE
tion.' said one of the listeners. lis that
il leaves out Mr.. Murphy's vanity. He
honestly believes himself to be as big
i statesman as there is in the State
ami deserving of as much honor as any
other. When he gets all alone by him
salf he is wont to sit down and tell
himself how much he did for the party
last winter in the fight over the Senate,
ana how the highest gift at the party's
disposal is a wholly inadequate COM
pensation for the good services he has
rendered Re~pu6l4canism. You couldn't
get 4 man who has such a high opinion
of his worth as Franklin Murphy has to
i second fiddle TO General Sewell."
4 FIFE FIGHT.
Senators Hoffman of Atlantic and
Thompson OF Somerset were making
things rather lively over the contest
for President of the Sena Mr.. Thomp-
son vas out in His own behalf, While
the Atlantic Senator was working for
his friend Stokes of Cumberland: The
contest seems 10 nave narrowed down
10 these two men. Senator Skirm says
he is not in the race, and every n
else says Mr.. Rogers is not, although he
thinks he is. The majority of The Sena-
tors say that with so many good men
in the Senate, all as able and as wen, II
moi better, qualified to preside oyer the
deliberations of the Upper Chamber as
Mr.. Rogers, they don't see now ne IS
entitled to another term. e also say
that the precedent of giving a President
more than one term is 4 Democratic
one. ard they don't propose 10 nave a
Bob" Adrain in the Republican party
Mr.. Rogers was not at the stare tlouse
yesterday, but it is said that he Is max
gaer a EorarOafiH canvass alter the man
ner of a still hunt, and that senator
Skirnn is helping him This did not
disturb the Stokes men half as muca as
a story which appeared Ia a fhlladei-
phia paper yesterday morning II was
10 the effect that Senator Stokes had
STATED that he was out of the race: thaf
he was sure of being reelected, and that
he would wait until lnen and witnara"
in favor of Mr.. Thompson.
Mr.. Stokes riends were very ener-
getic in their efforts to have TINS eon,
not withdrawn and that he never made
such a statement. He was by no means
sure of a reelection, as It was altogether
against the usual order OF things IN
Cumberland county for the Republicans
to give a man TWO terms in the SEN
ate in succession. Mr.. Stokes, they
said, was entitled to the position OF
President. and they proposed to give IT
to look upon the Philadelphia story as
an invention of Mr.. Stokes enemies to
injure his canvass. They claim to have
many MIR. Stokes will be the second Off
Ger in the State. Should this happen,
Foster Voorhees,, the brainy man from
TTnion. will succeed him as leader.
THOAiPSON'S CLAIM.
Nj. ThoInpson's friends think that their
chances are good. and they say they
can't see where Mr.. Stokes gets mis-
entitled to the once Thompson is the
man. and call attention to the manner
In which he defeated young Beekman
and the Miles Ross ring last tan. M.
sacrifices for the party than most any
other Republican in the State, wl,teh m
tile him to the office What a self
sacrificing lot the Republicans are get
The Thompson men profess to be salts
fed with the situation, and say their
chances of winning are as good as any
Edward M. Fielder, who was Assistant
Secretary Of the Senate last year, and
who is Senator Bradley's candidate for
after his canvass. He might just as well
have gone home and hung up his fiddle
and his bow. the politicians said. be-
a aa General Seven had killed any
chances he might have had as dead as
one of the Asbury Park Exhibition
sharks. The stock of Henry b. Rollin-
son, the Railway newspaper man, who
was last years Assistant journal Clerk,
went Up several points and he was look
ed upon as the more likely to succeed.
THOMAS M'EWAN'S MISSION.
sCongressman-elect Thomas McEwan
was among the visitors, and after he and
r. Wayne Parker, who defeated Thomas
Dunn English in the Newark district,
had a small con~gratulatory talk in the
Governors room, Honest Tom went
out into the co riders to see what he
could DO to seeure the clerksnip of the
House for c.. Frank Sutherland. 1t did
not take him long TO find out that the
Assistant Bill Clerkship was about the
value at which Mr.. G. Franks services
to the party were held and he left early.
James P. Logan, editor of the New
Brunswick "~Fredonian," and one OF the
brightest newspaper men in the State,
is the leader in the clerkship race at
this time. He has almost the entire vote
of the Third Congressional district be-
hind him and is winning more every
4 new candidate has sprung up in
Louis Peale, Secretary of the State Com
mittee. He is a good man, and the
committee has proven him to be a capa-
BILE man. But he comes from Essex, and
the old jealousy against that county Is
beginning to lift its head.
The appearance of Eisele of Newark
as a candidate for Speaker did not seem
to think he is sure of the position. Some
nne said that the Republican rule in New
Jersey had come to stay. THIS made
Senator DAILY laugh, and he said
THE New Jersey Democrats who i'm
agined Hill was running in New Jersey
polls have already found ont what a
mistake they made, and next year will
be on deck again. He further remark
ed that if the Republicans could not