The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-04-28
A WEEK OF DISASTER
Bradley and Anderson Ruin
ing Republican Pros
poets.
OFFICE SEEKERS WORRIED
Faint Prospect of Final Adjourn
ment This Week-Brad-
ley's Position.

GpGctQt 10 tH6 JeTdCy IttU IfeWos
TRENTON, April IS, 1s94.-The past week
has been one of disaster to the Republican
party whether viewed from the standpoint
OF the goody goody accidents that attain in
the House or the practical politician and
hungry office seekers who swarm about the
State House like a lot of flies around a
honey jar. The fight over Major Ander-
sons confirmation is the disaster TO the &C
cidents. and the refusal of Senator Bradley
to be bound by the action of the caucus Is
what fills the soul OF the hungry office
seeker with woe.
1t it is true, as some say, that the purpose
the Governor had in view when he sent
Major Anderson's name to the Senate was TO
disrupt the G.. o. P. he has succeeded be-
yond his fondest hopes. Nothing the Demo
Gratis could have lone would have been more
to their advantage than this bitter contest
over the nomination of the Major to be SUI
pervisor of the State Prison. To a democrat,
or one who gains or loses nothing winch
ever way the matter terminates, the opposi-
ton to the. Major seems a little incompre-
hensible. Nor do those who are oppos-
ing him agree among themselves
as to their reason for their
bitterness. There is one thing, however,
upon which they do all agree, and that is
that the Major is competent, honest, and in
every respect capable of filling the position.
But some say that he is a Sewell man, and
that his nomination wa forced upon the
party by the Camden boss, and that they
propose to show General Sewell that he does
not W this Legislature. Others declared
that the Major has had enough from the Re-
publican party, that he has become an old
fossil and barnacle, and it was time to with
draw and give some one else a chance.
TWENTY YEARS IN OFFICE.
It is true that the Major has had consider
able from his party, having been from 1871
to 1891, q period of twenty years, an Office
holder, first as the first assistant in the
Coniptroller's office, and then as Comptroll
or. 1t is equally true that the Republican
party has received a great deal from him.
The highest salary he ever received was
only $4,000 per annum, and yet his cam
| paign contributions were always large, and
in many instances, his friends say, beyond
| his means, so that today he is a poor man in
| his old age, n really needs the position he
| seeks.
Those who are familiar with the politics
| of this State during the past decade say that
| the services which Major Anderson rem
| dered the Republican party during that
| time were invaluable, and instead OF there
being any contest over giving him a posi-
ton, it should have been conferred upon
| him. unanimously. He is a born politician,
and many Of the victories, they say. which
| the Republicans have snatched from appar-
| emit defeat, were due to his sagaclty and
energy.
The opposition to aim is confined mostly to
| the colts who are now in the Legislature for
| the first time, and who were never heard of
| until the tidal wave of last fall, which PEN
etrated every remote corner OF une State
caught them up and swept them INTO the
| Assembly Chamber. These men have heard
something of a man IN Camden named
| Sewell, upon whom they have come to look
| as a big, ferocious giant, who eats good little
| political boys like themselves three times a
| day. To them there is a disease called
| Sewellism, which is to be more Stunned than
| the dread cholera. All that this implies
they see ia Major Anderson, whose nominal
| ton they declare was dictated by General
| Sewell. and they take great pains to inform
| you that they have nothing against the Ma
Tor personally, but it is Sewell and Sewellism
which they are fighting.
SEwELL MEN AGAINST ANDERSON.
As stated in H JERSEY CITY NEWS
yesterday this is emphatically denied by
| Sewells representatives here and a glance
at those who are opposing him, they say,
| will s~ubstantiate their assertion. F1rs5,
there is Speaker Holt. The opposition is
| conferred upon him and if Anderson is re-
| jected and the election of a Supervisor Is
thrown into joint meeting, enough votes are
pledged to elect him. There Is no doubt
where the Speaker stands on the Sewe
question. Then there is Major Thomas At
kins Murphey, whose course as chairman or
| the Committee on Railroads and Canals,
| demonstrates pretty clearly where he stands.
| Assemblyman Ross of Cape May is another
| who is working against the Major, and yet II
| a census were being taken OF Seweu men the
| enumerator would not pass him by. The
| career of Storekeeper Stranger of Gloucester
as chairman of the Commerce and Navl-
cation Committee would certainly not inn
press any one with the idea that he was in
imical to the great Camden leader. He Is
| another of the anti-Anderson men.
Thursday nights conference, winch, by
| the way, was changed from a "caucus" to a
| conference to please Senator Bradley,
| who has solemnly declared that he will not
| attend another caucus, has by no means SET
| tied the fight. The failure to hold an ex-
| ecutive session this week greatly elated the
| anti-Anderson men. and they went to their
| homes Thursday night singing paeans of vic
| tory. The Majors supporters were CORE
~spondinglv cast down and discouraged. But
hey did not despair. Bright and early yes
terday morning several of his agents got to
work to repair the damage done to their
cause by the proceedings of THURSDAY, and
they expect to take up the fight on Monday
finally wins the fight has done the Republic
can party an irretrievable injury, and the
only ones who will gain anything by the
contest are the Democrats.
BRADLEY R THEM.
There is much CONSERVATION among the
Office seekers over Senator Bradley's posi-
ton. His refusal to GO into n more eau
cnses is taken to mean that he will not vote
for any more so-called partisan bills which
are nothing more or less than measures to
turn democrats out of office and turn re-
nublicans in. So rapacious have the heelers
Of Hudson and Essex become, that they have
bills in for beheading every Democratic
Office holder in those counties, from the
greatest to the humblest. Without Bfadley's
| vote, none of these can become a law, and
since he served written notice upon Presl-
tdent Rogers that he would be no longer
bound by the caucus, the maiedlctionS ana
! curses which a " been heaped upon hls
| head would fill O good sized book.
This action Of the Monmouth Senator may
have a decided influence upon the question
| Of final adjournment. The Senate has not
vet taken any action upon the resolution OF
the House to adjourn next Friday until the
first Tuesday in September. That was be-
cause the Senators did not see how 1t was
possible to get all the Democratic clusters
through by that time.
AS It is generally understood that the Gov
ernor will veto all the bills of that nature, it
win be necessary to pass them twice, and if
ali are to gog through it would take several
weeks vet to make them all laws.
But IL Bradley is going to vote against
them there wouldsbe no use in remaining in
Trenton to have them killed. 1t was this
that led Senate Ketcham to say this week
that there was o prospect that as soon as the
Board Of Works and Freeholders' bill had
tr--.-I A.. Y o~i~lo&n1ro rniuht adiouru This