The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-14


IN hand by the workers. and the old ar
guments were repeated and the common
expedients were resorted TO to secure their
rousse thought ne had enough men to Sc
cure the nomination. and he thought II
was time to cllnch things, and he issued
call for conference in his room. II
was responded to with alacrity by twenty
four men. They were:-Jackson, OF Al.
Boro of o felgn hosd a
Scovel. of Camden Ludlam. OF Cape May
Minch and Austin. OF Cumberland; Cnrls-
Hutchinson, iSi ns McPhersson' Prsor' and m Thcsn 81
Mercer; Tice and Slower. of M.ddlesex;;
Snyder and Francis. Of Monmouth; Hop
son and King. OF Passaic. and Powers. of
Salem.
and saw that Messrs. Slower. Francs
ence they We're sad indeed These gen
of the sEnner rn men ai1endSa il the Astor Hous
New York, on Friday, and they had rear
son to believe that they were with them.
gn Of it. They would not admit de-
feat and went about apparently as chip
per as ever A conference was held IN
their room and nineteen men attended,
That of course settled the matter. They
knew that they had no hope of electlng
Mr.. Skinner, and with him down Went
who had hoped to secure recognition OF
their great Services to the party, They
solved to stand shoulder to shoulder and
go down with their colors flying That
look which is born of the. determination
as possible possessed the faces of each
one Of them as they filed out of Mr..
snner room and Wen into Of tfs
can. Harrison, Simpson, Harvey, Hogan
asx and aadb o of Psssac assa Ras o soas
set; Coursen, of Sussex; Clauss, Roll and
Coddington, of Union.
Mr.. Lower, Of Ocean, called the caucus
to order and Mr. Wildes, OF. Burlington,
was chosen temporary chairman. Then
came the first show of strength. General
three of the men who were supporting
Dercusse and he was afraid at the last
moment they might. go back on him, SO
be an open one SO that he could nail any
one who forgot his. promise: The skinner
men on the other hand had an idea that
among nepa was m aDous ayowe De perousse men who
would vote for him if there. was any way
So Soy after h Mr.. r. Wides had been s chosen i
temporary chairman. Mr.. Benedict, a
Skinner man. offered q resolution pro
sa shoud be ns lof 1mmeaiafey
several Derousse men were on their feet
protesting. Tney dwelt upon the iniquity
every member should be man enough to
let the caucus know whom he was vot.
ing Tor.
The Skinner men in supporting the re-
solution characterized the open ballot as
a species OF intimidation. and said that 1t
of the bosses. Their protest was in vain.
The open ballot was carried by "a to 19.
was was a gone a The hope rest st was was s easy saing s
and the Skinner men came up and smil-
ingly. bowed their heads to the blow
which felled them to the dust.
The first office taken up was that of
chairman of the caucus, which carries
gifh y the leadership ii @ 1f the House The
dlesex, the only one from that county
who stood by their leader, :, and the De-
Who put aR yames bmge
winter as a subservient tool of the cor-
porations. Robertson won by "a to. 1s.
Then came the nomination of q. Speaker,
and Mr. Derousse won by the same vote.
The election of the other officers follow
ed rapidly. No Skinner man got plum,
and those who had voted for Derousse
of Passalc; last wears Clerk. was ~ q.
was elected Reading cierk; Alexander M e;
Hunt. Of Mercer Journal Clerk Austin
A. Peirson, of Sussex, assistant; Lysan-
arms, Engrossing Clerk; Charles S. Foil
WELL of Burlington. and Henry c. STRAIT
Clerks. Andrew y. Breidenbach, of Es-
/ sex, Mr.. Christies man, Sergeant-at-
Arms; Arms; Philip Boyer, Of Bergen, and
G. Frank Sutherland. of Hudson, bill
clerk, and Frank Pullin, of Cumberland,
assistant bill clerk. The selection of the
doorkeepers and pages was left to a
committee.
When the caucus adjourned and the
e fled @ out tt there Were dark @ looks K;
leader, however, smiled but it was the
smile of despair; He said that he had
rodhng fdsa but feelings tgea Of gratitude for
They had made. good fight and it was
no fault of theirs that he had lost. He
| had the votes when he came to Trenton
he was sure. but they had been taken
| away from him.
| The only regret that he had was that
| those who had fought for him had to go
| down with him and suffer the penalties
| of defeat He said he had no resentment
against the Derousse men. His follow
| unanimous, especially the small army that
| has been planning all the fall what they
would do with the $500 or s4O0 they would
get as doork keepers or other officers. They
wore dark foreboding looks and awful
! indeed were the threats which they
breathed against the Derousse men.
members, called them chumps and other
names not heard in polite society and said
| they. We're several kinds of - fools for
not knowing that you couldn't beat the
railroads and they ought to have gone
| into the Derousse camp when they had
the chance. After the CAUCUS Mr.. Skin
U6f LOOK sill HIS supporters anu HIS ledu-
ing workers around to the leading res
| taurant. where they gathered around a
large table and drowned their sorrow
/ in pleasing concoctions.
"It's the last supper observed ABE
i Lower from another table where he and
| Mr.. Derousse, and one or two others.
ate oysters with the appetite born of
caucusing. The Senators were in an ad-
| joining room trying to get out of the
hole their buncombe policy of economy
l of last summer had gotten them into.
/ Readers of 1.-The Jersey City News" will
recall the great flourish of trumpets.
1 ringing of bells and firing of Salutes with
which they passed bills cutting off what
! offices which the wicked Democrats had
| created Among these were four offices
! in the Senate, and when the caucus met
| last Friday it was found that there
were not offices enough to go around, and
i Ward OF Salem and Ross of Cape May
/ were without patronage. When they went
/ home and told this to their constituents
/ been heard in that section since the
/ Salem base ball team defeated the Cuban
i Giants. Richard B. Starr of Salem was
/ calendar clerk and by all precedent was
! entitled to another term. He is a man OF
i much influence in his neighborhood and
a good hand to have around when the
| time for harvesting votes comes. around
1 stituents and they grasped the situation
that Dick Starr had been turned dowr
i and their Senator was a man of no in
1 fluence at the capital they began tc
/ make Mr.. Wards life miserable Mr.
| Ross experience was. of a similar nature
they gave their fellow Senators to un-
II dercfand that Souoethinp had fO he done