The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-21
Gubernatorial Campaign =" Garry ,
Hobart's Long Shot.

Campaign UdIly
HObart's Long Shot.
1t is highly improbable that Carrot
A. Hobart, Gus" as the boys called
him at Trenton on Tuesday, will ever
be Governor of New Jersey. 1t is high
ly improbable that he will ever be Re
publican nominee for the office. 1t is
highly improba BILE that any of the
gentlemen who are talking so politely
about him have any idea of letting
him get the nomination. 1t is even
highly improbable that he thinks
himself he can get it. or thai he could
be elected if nominated. for all he
talks SO plainly and SO emphatically
in his interview with a World report
err. Just why Mr.. Hobart pretends
that he wants to be Governor just
now. is not so clear; but people do
not expect the motive TO be clear
when he assumes a supericies OF
hearty frankness. On the contrary,
they begin to guess at what is going
to happen.
There are two possible solutions of
Mr.. Hobart's course. He may want
to be United States Senator, and, say
what they will, General Sewe IFS
friends are very uneasy. Or he may
only want to dictate who the next
Republican candidate shall be. He
is probably very tired of General
SewelI's ninepins, and he thinks he
knows men who would make as strong
a run as John Kean, Jr., and who
would be twice as useful to the So
ciety for the Promotion of Useful
Manufactures, if elected. There may
be some more occult motive, but
probably one or both combined OF
these desires was the true inspiration
of the burst OF confidence which en-
livened the Jersey sheet of Mondays
World.
But why should not Hobart want to
make the u himself? you ask Prin-
cipaIly. we reply, because he could
not be elected and he knows he could
not. Normally this State is Demo-
cratic by about 10, 900 majority. There
is no way to elect a Republican Gov
ernor except to take advantage of a
very bad Democratic nomination by
making a very good one-by Putting
ND a man whose republicanism is his
least marked quality, a man whose
personal attractions and advantages
in other directions would make many
voters forget that he vas republican
altogether. In short. under very
favorable circumstances, it is just con-
ceivable that a man like General
Grub or the late Judge Phelps might
tumble into the office by accident,
while it is a blank impossibility that
q man whose name is a synonym for
everything offensive in Republican
ism. as is that of Garret A. Hobart,
could aver make a tolerable run.
The Democratic party will not find
it hard to find strong standard bearers
in the next contest. There is a great
and growing sentiment in favor of
renominating Leon Albeit. There is
great public anger at the way the
politicians have treated him again
and again after his splendid services
to his party and the State. After all,
he is the Great Captain of the Demo-
cracy in this State, its invincible
leader under whose banner it has
never known defeat. In his digniied
retirement on the bench, he has not
been forgotten by the people, and the
troubles and defeats of later days
have melted a great murmur which
may swell into a shout of recall to the
head of the party ticket.
Then we have Job II. Lippincott.
whose name has become q household
word from end to end of the State for
i~ncorruptible political honesty and
courage. The, record made by this
admirable Democratic leader in
purifying politics of Hudson County
entities him not only to any honor
that his party "a bestow, but also the
confidence and support OF all who wish
well to the State, irrespective of party
affiliations and party prejudices.
Judge Lippincott would be a candi-
date of tremendous strength. He
would carry the war farther into the
ain OF the enemy than any other
man who can be named. He would
not only get a majority on this side OF
the Passaic, but in the rest of the
State as well. He would probably
carry, indeed, over thr~ee-fourths OF
all the counties in the State.
Another quite available man for the
nomination would be William Nc
Adoo. one of the most brilliant and
able men of his age that the State has
ever produced. In his present sltua-
ton as Assistant Secretary of the
Navy, Mr.. McAdoo displays admins
trative faculties equal TO the talents
as a legislator which he previously
displayed in Congress. Though a
young Hrapahe is older than Robert
E. Pattison was when he served his
first distinguished term as Governor
of Pennsylvania, and much Older
than the famous young Governor o