The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-10-19

ed in and opposed him tooth and nail
In this work he had an able ally IN
Charles Newell Fowler, Elizah,etih,s+ a,e n +Se nem
is his wonderful facial resemblance to
High Tariff Mckinley - :,
Fowler is Western lawyer with al
the bristle and push of the Chicago man.
in which city he followed his professiOoiii, Oii
for several years The Standard III
Company took him up and transpla1nteia rams Ti1 "a
Union county about ten years ago wneiai
he was discovered by John Rankin ana
trotted out into the ring of local poh-
He is a good talker. and ir nominatin1;g
Foster voorhees, at the recent Repuoit-
can of the e0dsnf dsy e took 4e an ps aotSe part il
Rankin's squabbles and came to be
chairman of the City. Committee. Last alsd
EsaT pnn when hsd eneh %as Sh0asnh on the districts
seat in Congress. the Republicans noml- @
mated Fowler against him he ne vas vas
and landed in the House OF Represenla55
tives. Then he became ambitious. naa M
AN enlargement Of the nead nus e ehsiiies TT,io,s
county. 1t did not take an over aStute 11
politician to see that II Mr, hean an
should become Governor ne nq1l woulo 81 nS Ds
could come pretty near making or mar
ring bosses and leaders; neither dld II
take prophet to prealet p tna9 fainted fl s4he the
slightest with the Rankin virus wouig o 4, !,
receive no consideratio at MT, tba heam ans
Of his his ambition Mr.. Fowler would have
to get Mexican out of the way and IN
order to do that he readily aceepted the
position of lieutenant under RANKIN IN
his fight against the ssDude.
UNTRUE TO THEIR COUNTY.
These men saw at once that the best
way to accomplish their ends was. to
divide the Union vote in the convention,
and the best man to do that with was
Foster Voorhees,, and how well they
succeeded is of too recent @ ofcmprence eo1a o3 of
Kean, and they are many IN TINS county
can overlook the Rankin-FoWier man
oeuvres up to the third ballot at the
convention 1t was one of those plans
which are considered fair in modern poll
tics. but what they are complaining OF
is, that as Union county men, RANKIN
and Fowler should have thrown their
strength over to Kean as soon as 1t
became evident that the man they We're
ostensibly supporting could not be noml-
mated. .a.n
soreness is none the less intense when
they see John w. Griggs name at the
head of the ticket. They say that RANKIN
and Fowler were all along Griggs men;
that they know of conferences between
them with representatives OF Hopaft
long before the convention, and that
voorhees, was to them no more than the
catis-paw that hauled the chestnuts out
of the fire for Griggs and Hobart. 1t
makes them fairly boil when they re
member how Kean went INTO the con con
and how he could have secured it If
Rankin and Fowler had only been true
to their county. ~,
So sore are they that it will require the
hardest kind of work upon the part OF
their leaders to get them into, line Tor
Griggs. and as Mr. Kean has abandoned
the field and left the State they take 1t
as indication that he does not particular
" wish them to over exert themselves,
and they are simply, doing nothing
Neither is it apparent what the Rankin
men are doing for Griggs, and SO blue is
the Republican outlook here that the
most sanguine among them will tell
YOU that they win carry the county by a
few hundred.
There is a large German vote in Eliza
beth and the surrounding country, and it
is enthusiastic for lMcGill: mass meet
ing to be addressed in the German Ian
guage, to ratify the, nomination of the
Chancellor Will be held next week in
Elizabeth. At the county convention
next week three. leading citizens wiN be
nominated for Assembly. who together
with Alexander r. McGill will carry
Union by at least 500 majority.