The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-25
LAUNCHING BOOMS.
Senatorial and Gubernator-
ial Candidates as Thick
as Flies.
SEWELL AHEAD FOR U. S. SENATOR
A Small Army of Republican
Statesmen Willing to Run
For Governor.
SEWELL AHEAD FOR U. S. SENATOl
Speciol to the Jersey Citu Meas.

prominent repuDIcanS JnfOugnOub inc otaec
upon the self announced candidacy OF
Garrett A. Hobart for Governor, which
were printed in THE JERSEY CITY NEWS
last week, uncovered the Senatorial as well
as G~ubernatoriai candidates.
The elections to be held next November are
exceedingly important, because the House
and Senate will lave the selection in joint
meeting of a United States Senator to sue
coed John R. Mcpherson, and its import
ance is such that it has already caused some
local activity by the announcement OF can
didates in various counties for the House OF
Assembly. Not all of those who served in
the Lower House will be returned this fall
for several reasons, and the principal one
| will be the election of ~Assemblymen by
counties under the recent g~errymander de-
cision. Some Of the men would not DE
| strong enough to endure a direct county
fight.
The Republicans are confident of winning
under the system, and understand very we'll
that they will have to fight hard for it. The
Senate will be safely Republican by five
majority, but of the House NO liberal pre-
dictions can be made.
SEWELL IN THE LEAD.
There are no other candidates IN Slgnt
| other than General William j Sewell. His
/ t~orically he is entitled to a re- election and
had received the nomination of the caucus
held at the time of the election of John X.
| Mcpherson and James Smith, Jr. This will
cause him to receive the recognition at the
joint caucus next january. There was,
about a month ago, considerable talk that he
would nave a brisk contest on his hands as
several others were going to try their hand
in the fight for the Senatorial purple, but as
1,natfapc cto,d now bn ic fbQ OnlV candidate
with all the conditions favoring him.
Senator Rodgers Of Camden is disposed to
challenge his right and has become the
leader of the forces that are in opposition to
the General, but it is thought by those who
are competent to know that this opposition
will not be violent and is already pretty well
looked after. tn ,alJs t ~
Whether the announcements, OF GarfetJ Al
Hobart as a candidate for Governor and not
for United States Senator, as was supposed,
will ave any bearing upon the Generals
prospects must be ascertained. 1t is gener-
ally conceded that if Hobart is in the Guber-
material fight that he is to receive that NOM
fnation. There are none b would like to
make contests with him, because of the
claim that he has upon his party for distin-
guished services and capability as a cam
palgner. ~
AFTER SENATOR SMITHS SHOES.
There are none who dispute his worth as a
party standard bearer, while nearly every
| body in the State is surprised to know that
Garrett A. Hobart, who has helped TO make
Presidents as a member of the National
Committee, would assume the bother OF a
personal campaign and accept the trlouia-
lions that are incidental to the duties OF a
Governor. Since the announcement OF his
candidacy has been made there has been a
| diligent search to understand Just what the
move means on the political chess board.
There were those who were disposed to be-
-. I1- ALL 41o+ bn
was a candidate for United States Senator,
but those who are close to him declare that
it is not so, that he would not resort to that
kind of tactics. He Is a candidate for 0ov-
ernor and nothing else.
Major E. j. Anderson, who probably
knows him as well as any other man in the
State, and who served on the State Commit
tee with him for years, was asked the ques-
ton on Tuesday as TO what he thought 1T
meant, and he frankly admitted that Mr..
Hobart was a candidate for Governor, that
he would make a successful run and a good
Executive, and that no doubt he was put
ting himself in condition to be an available
man for United States Senator at the expirae
ton of the term of James Smith, Jr.
That looks like a reasonableiin6erpretation
of the conditions and they are all possible,
and in fact the succession of events fits very
nicely. AS q candidate for Governor he
would head the Republican ticket in 1895.
1 Dl0 Va JAW oAA1SS ~ NAo~pSNt
in 1896: he would remain in office until Janu-
airy, 1899, going out of office prior to the
time for holding the Senatorial caucus, for
the term Of James Smith. Jr., expires March
3, of that year.
The papers in Passaic County are not posi-
tive in their statements that ex-Chairinan
Hobart is a candidate. They have not been
able to verify the truthfulness of the state
ment as published by a New York paper.
The most that they do say is that they hope
that he will be a candidate II then praise
his merits.
GUBERNAToRIAL CANDIDATES PLENTY.
Although the Gubernatorial fight is a year
and a half removed 4 1t is surprising the num-
ber of candidates and available men that
nave been mentioned in connection with the
nomination. The Republicans are inspired
with the idea that they have, reached the
turning point in the political history of the
State and that they have come into power to
stay. and therefore are planning a long
way ahead. The roll call Of candidates
shows at least twelve men, good and true
Jersey men; who would be acceptable to the
people.
Arranged in an order that might he called
Chronological, the list is headed by E. Burd
Grub. exQMinister to Spain. His friends have
always cohteuled that1he was not properly
treated by Til Republicans in the last conven-
ton, that he was defeated in 1859 by frauds
in Hudson county The history of that
great conspiracy is well known. The in
designations and prosecutions landed the
ballot box, suffers in the State Prison., The
political ~valuelof that act soon demonstrated
itself by showing the rottenness Of affairs
in Hudson county under the rule
of the Davis Ring. General 1Grubb
took an ; active part personally and
financially, and the exposures, he claimed,
were made the issues of the party. He
thought that he should have been given the
nomination the second time that he might
have carried out the work he started.
KEAN WILLING TO TRY AGAIN.
john Kean. Jr., of Union. although de-
feated. was quite well satisfied with the run
he made W years ago, and is willing to try
it again. lie halls from Union county, and
in that county there is another desirable
candidate in Senator Foster NJ. VOORHEES,,
the Young Senator from Union. He is no
doubt tine brightest, the most magnetic
Young man the State possesses. No one dis
nutes his ability, but some of the older
statesmen think he IS young enough to hide
his time. No one doubts but that he will
land in the Executive Department sooner or
4 later, and then go to thelUnited States SEN
VOORHEES, has d direct claim onlhisl party.
i not only for his distinguished services but
| for a uiaananimous act during the past SEES
sion. 1t will be remembered that Governof.
Il Werts Hfominatede Him to be Circuit Court
Judee.d Under the actsof last gyearetfiree
Judges were to fbeacreated, two were appoint
ed And 1oue remained vacant. Governor
WertsRnew well that a Democratic appoint
ment Would not Unacceptable to the Repub-
licafi Senate. and finding that he was obliged