The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-20
VOORHEES, DANGER.
Thompson Likely to Defeat
Him for President of
the Senate.
THE sPEAKERsHIP CONTEST
De Rouse and Skinner Working
Hard to Win-Office Seekers
Besiege Trenton.
THE SPEAKERsHIP CONTEST
Special to the Jerseu city Ns,rs.


working for some friend, who he ex-
pected would take care of him If the
friend secured a place. Prominent in
the throng was Speaker Cross, who de-
clared that he wanted nothing for himself
and that he was only around to take
look at the field It was strongly surmised
that he was in Trenton in the interests of
his friend, Foster Voorhees,, who strange
as it may seem, is having a pretty hard
row to hoe to secure the Presidency of
the Senate.
1t was commonly supposed that Mr..
VOORHEES, had such high standing in
his party and was considered to stand
way up among the really few men who
elected Griggs that he could have any
thing he expressed the slightest wish
for But, much to the surprise of every
one, Senator Thompson, of Somerset, is
making a bitter fight against him and
at this time it looks as if he would sue
ceed. Without any pretense of an over
stock of modesty Mr.. Thompson ex-
presses the opinion that he could WELD
the -gavel of the Upper House with as
much dignity and parliamentary exact
ness as the young sage of Union and
what is more, he is emphatic in his
place than Voorhees, He says that he
has been in the Senate longer than
Voorhees, and the services which he has
rendered the party by carrying Somerset
in critical times and keeping that close
county in the Republican ranks when it
was a herculean task to do so, entities
him to the place
THOMPSON'S CLAIMS REPUDIATED.
Ia o1o 4t.o% -
year and gave way to Mr.. Stokes simply
because it was Stokes last year and there
was no certainty that he would come
back. whereas Thompson was sure of an
other year and was to have the Presi-
dency next winter.
Senator Rogers, of Camden. who was
one ofthe hardest workers in Thompsons S
behalf, was about the corridors using
these arguments and trying to get votes
for the Somerset man.
Major Anderson also interested himself
in Mr.. Thompsons behalf He went about
IN that quiet, unassuming but effectual
way of his and before he left the State
House declared with an air of conyfc-
ltfon that Mr.. Thompson had eleven votes
and would surely succeed. Unless he
was Speaker Cross, Mr. VOORHEES, had
His chief worker is Senator Stokes. who
as exceedingly desirous of seeing his
senatorial twin follow him in the
PRESIDENTS chair, in which case Mr..
Stokes will be the leader on the floor.
MT stokes is very indignant over the
arguments which Mr. Thompson and his
friends are using. He says that Thomp-
son did not give way to him last year:
he and n afc f,.:r i
son in a fair fight and the reason the
somerset man gave up the contest was
because he could not secure votes
enough.
He says that he took the chair last
winter upon the distinct and unequivo-
zeal understanding that no bargain
should be made which would in any way
stand in the path of Foster VOORHEES,
this year. Just the same Mr.. Voorhees,
3and his friends will have to do a large
amount of hustling between this and
next January if he does not wish to lose
the second position as well as the first
in the State
THE SPEAKERSHIP CONTEST.
The Speakership fight is no one-sided
contest. if the Presidency battle is.
Both Mr.. Skinner of Essex and Mr.. De
Rouse of Camden were on hand and
neither let a minute slip by without i'm.
proving it. Mr.. Hicks of New Brunswick
announced himself as candidate for
the place and worked hard enough and
long enough to give him a respectable
position in the race for chairman of the
Republican Assembly caucus, which
makes him the leader of the House In
the afternoon he solemnly announced
that he had withdrawn from the Sneak
ersnip race and had entered that for
leader Mr. Hicks has aspirations il,
another direction. He is of the opinion
fhat he would make a great improve
ment upon the Kaleidoscope Bob"
Adrain as Prosecutor of Middlesex
county and is also directing his efforts
in that direction.
Middlesex also has candidate for Ben
Lees soft billet as clerk of the Supreme
Court in the person Of. Senator Charles
Herbert. Mr.. Herbert has been in deli
cate health for some time and is now
5n retsn boe n daH He exRfeSts MS to
resume his Senatorial duties, and if
Clerk of the. Supreme Court The
fionai one. with rMiddlesex as the divid,
south of that line, but Skinner does not
conceede them. He says that although
receive rtle s ten out out Of the eleven eTeu - -
The contest between these. two men
went on merrily all day and whenever
a,
was eagerly Seized by one of the candi-
dates and after a vigorous handshake was
waited away into a side room where an
ATTEMPT was made to extract a pledge
from him. J. Virgins Thorne. mere
boy in appearance, who succeeds Exton,
the little cracker baker. who used to
think he was the biggest man in the
State was in great demand and the fuss
that was made over him by the two
candidates must have impressed him
that he was a bigger man than JACK
Griggs. Big, good natured Voorhees, VINO
gen. came down to see. what was going
on He had quiet chat with his old
friend Codding of Union. who might
have been a member of the Assembly yet
If he had not allowed a newspaper
guerrilla of Elizabeth to scare him off
ene 4 CORPORATION LEADER.
James Robertson. the tool of the Erie
railroad Company who is a Clerk in
Mr. Griggs' law Office in Paterson, was
worling up a little boom for leader of
the House. If the corporations and the
lie doubt that Robertson will get the
nosyfion. In fact, there are many who
halieve that the corporations have al
reaSSv snoken and that Robertson will be
f51e man. The big monopolfes would
find no more willing tool to. serve their
ends and further he would be the right
man IN the right place Senators "a PasTy Isr Iy
Of Hudson represented the Upper House
~ The he Gnlrver51aor-elect lr was also around.
He came down to attend the Court oi