The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-09-19

ran to such height that some one wrote a
parody on a song Of the day. and the mob
quickly picking it up paraded all about the
town. singing.
''There's only one Griggs in this race for me.
''Only one Griggs has my sympathy,
''He is SO brave and brainy, and OF high
degree,
There's only one Griggs- he'll be the
nominee"
At one time in the early part of the even
ing hope ran high in the Voorhees, head
quarters, and there was an under current
running through the crowd in the direction
of Unions hrainy young Senator. Mayor
Rankin, Congressman Fowler, Editor Rollin-
son of Railway, Alec Mclean of Jersey City
and one or two others worked like beavers
and succeeded in getting up an enthusiasm
which sent the Voorhees, hopes up to fever
heat. 1t was said that Foster had Hunter
don solid, and that the greater part OF the
Ward men were prepared to go to hun when
they gave up the Essex man, while strag-
glers from here and there were coming in
in sufficient numbers to make the Voorhees,
boom formidable.
RIVAL OPINIONS.
William H. Cort1in and his brother Charles
We're out hustling tor the Union Sena-
tor and doing good work, too At this
time the ssssiggs and the Kean men
were desperately at work in a claiming
match. Adherents OF each claimed enough to
nominate their man 3n the first ballot, and
they gave figures and counties, too, some
of them even going SO far in their enthus-
iasm as to give their candidates in some
counties more votes than the county had
delegates. 1t soon became apparent to care
full observers that Hudson and Essex were
the two most important factors in the fight
and the candidate that could get the most
votes out of the two first class counties would
be the nominee. There was accordingly
rush to get a careful estimate from those two
counties Sheriff Toffey, who almost every
one thought could tell more about Hudson
county than any one else, said that Grlgf S
would have ajority of the 124 votes, DUE
when pressed to give figures declined He
| finally said, however, that Griggs would
have eighty, Kean thirty and the other four
teen would be divided between Voorhees, and
Rogers. This claim of the SheFiff's brought
smile to the faces of the Kean men
and they declared that their man
would have at least sixty of Hud-
sons votes The Ward men main
tained their claim that Essex's entire
1853 would remain solid fer Ward as long as
the conyeution lasted. When they got away
bv themselves they would quietly admit that
Kean would finally have iO8 of the Essex
votes The kean men claimed 10. The
talk of sticking to Ward created much
amusement and at the same time sympathy
for Ward
As the night wore on matters took
change, and at midnight there was de-
cided kean feeling throughout the throng.
How it came about could not exactly be told
Perhaps it started when the Griggs men adj
mitted that Kean had ffty-thrse votes IN
Hudson. At any rate it was there, Ihe ar
Of confidence about the Grlggs headquarters
was sorneuh misty, and Congressman row
Ter and Mayor Rankin had far-asVay LOOK
in their eyes. Then came another offlinous
sign Sheriff Tofey, Garrett A. Hobart, Viii
lam Bette and Foster VOORHEES, hurried to
General Sewell's room, where they were
clcseted together for some time. linen MI
voorhees, went up TO Griggs' room and ca,ied
the Passaic man out. Mr.. VOORHEES, Mhis-
pered something into Griggs' ear. The Pas
sale man jumped, grabbed voorhees, by the
arm and hurried him back into the dark re
cesses of the corridor. There they held a
long consultation.
10 HELP GRIGGS
It was rumored that an offer had been
made to Mr. VOORHEES, to throw his strength
over to Griggs, and that the Union man Was
favorably considering the proposition. AT
any rate soon after this the voorhees, head
quarters were closed, although the light
burned brightly and the sound OF voices was
Another thing which helped the Kean
boom along was the rumor that General
Sewell was working for him. The only
foundation for this was the fact that Elisha
Gaddis, William Bette, Dick Reading and
other known Sewell men were openly declar-
ing for Kean,
While all this excitement was going on at
the Trenton House, Senator Rogers was hard
at work at the Windsor trying to keep his
boom alive But with the exception of a few
lusty lunged Camden men, whose enthusiasm
was not above suspicion, and a handful OF
colored brethren, no one came near him.
Nevertheless he went on claiming everything
in his old ridiculous manner. The State
Committee met last evening and selected
Mahlon Pitney for temporary chairman and
John Y Foster of Newark and Judge Her
bert Potts for temporary secretaries Pltney
is Kean man, which did more to intensity
the Kean feeling. Major Pangborn was
conspicuous figure at the Griggs headquar-
ters He read over the draft of the platform
prepared by the Griggs men with all the
solemnity. of an owl, ana then gravely an
nounced that they were just as he would
have written them. The look of unfeigned
delight which spread over Garry Hobarts
features when he received this encomlum
from the great man was something to write
about.
DEVILISH SLY.
In the throng was eX-Commissioner John
Macarthur, who was claimed by the Gliggs
men. He is for Kean. Assemblyman Nutz-
horn was around nursing very sickly Tof-
few BOOM The Colonel is slated for Clerk in
Chancery if Griggs is elected and if Kean
gets there he is to be Clerk Of the Court of
Chancery. Some psople wonder how this is
going to be done, but it is stated that the
Colonel is exceedingly shrewd Ek-Free-
holder Aaron Baldwin was credited with
having fifteen votes for Mr.. Kean. Judge
Blair. Judge Potts and Warden Mitchell
were among the GrIggs men present.
The Afro-American Republicans held two
conventions yesterday. They passed resolu-
tions galore, slnote the air with the eloquence
of A. B. Cosey, Colonel MurTeH and Henri
Herbert, and each chose q man for the Re
publican State Committee, to be elected by
the convention. Then both factions hurried
up to General SewelIs room to engage his