The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-09
LAST NIGHTS SCENES.
Special to the JERSEY Ctty Ne,ss.

TRENTON, Sep. 9, 1S96.-It was an at
mosphere of gloom and righteousness
which hung over the capital city last
night. It was unusually dull for a night
before convention. especially a Demo-
cratic convention, even so-called, and it
filed with sadness the hearts of the pro-
prietors of the hotels and places of re-
fection, who always look upon anything
bearing the stamp of Democracy as a
harvest. Very few of the 800 delegates
were present, and most of the old familiar
faces were missing. Chief among the
absentees was United States Senator
James Smith, and Tommy Lane of Sum-
init and late of Washington. who man
fully bears up under the burden of the
distinction of being the son-in-law of the
great Joe Blackburn of Kentucky, at
tempted to eject little ray of sunshine
into the funeral gloom by announcing
that ne had received letter from the
Senator, in which he said he would sail
for home today.
Further attempts at Frightening things
up were made by some of the silver men,
who declared that Senator Smith was for
the ticket and Chicago platform, no gov
ernment by injunction. income tax and
all. The grounds given for this were
that the Senator had been appointed a
member of the Advisory Committee of
the National Committee, and the Silver
ties argued that it would never have
been done if the appointing powers had
not received some assurances from the
Senator that he was with them.
Another face missed was that of Allan
McDermott. who for so many years led
the r,arty to victory Colonel Price was
also absent, but that was not due to any
hostility on his part to the free and un-
limited coinage of silver at The ratio of
sixteen to one. Ex-Speaker James j.
T,a,,ar - eso,oersa+ AIba,,+s n f,a,.p+o,, of
-, - % -, 49, = 0,.'o-i -
ex-senator Winton of Hackensack, ex-
sanator Iohn r Ncpbarsan and most
- -. -
all lhe other leaders VINO were always
seen at a convention were missing. Some
of the old timers ware on hand however
~ - -. D., - ca.s.aa.s s.I,:,
ihere was marry Fdui ol SdihoeH' bd-
ly'' Thompson's right hand man; collie"
Kelly of New Brunswick, who had been
a man Fr;dav to 4ba Roxsas father and
q iiiAi i,oas ~ ene iSoss9s Aa.rieA 80
son co. these many years lomloy
Lane and his brother of Summit 1.-THE
IIonora hla,, Fredariclx Kicsa,n Of IIl1d-
- -. m -. =, -.
son, anu others OF that ak VINO III odys
gone by were wont to keep at a re-
spectable distance were all in the front
.ao+, ,ae+ ,,irrt+ tr,,,ng 20 6lI tho nlaoes
see's9 iae'. -ieH e
formerly occupied by the stalWarts VINO
made New Jersey a Gibraltar of Democ-
raev
NJ. ..,.+ ,,-oe
ine ony ~ s..ae -
meeting of the State Committee held at
ths. Trenton House In the absence of
e..s e,,..s.,s - r,,..,r-..er,,,o,, ca,,,,,el
eendtor oin4en' ASoiiei ossii'e-A ''a.,lie
~
the first business taken up was the con-
- a. ,or;rr.4;o,s az willard
suei eltoi " eAie -. -
Fisk, Secretary Richard " Llnuapuiy,
members-at-large General hicndfq a
Donneliy, treasurer, anu oalioSi 1S ~ n.
Maiker, memper TOT MeIeef- .,slIaliod NJ
Rohoe OF ioelgen wiio ne esoIJ
ms silver prethten py Jolliiis -, sHS 80 7;,a@ 9S,@
Dugs Wtinout as Inqcn as 's;7,S es 81
IN resig hdllon. - a4so tia asas
ileH In5 - eSe LIT oIiI1 fbose
OF MT. fisA anu Tsile, a. CasT-
seletielilel aiose ~ t1ye Sie ,G s,i6 +ba+
mar osslsi seopl ~ o,,sy,,l 10
pelole uney 'ils 4tI-i,, hotb aart1s
pass ~ t 4 ,t ~; +h
men lot tllelr sslsloes as, 20 ei,s - ~
past ana eApressins trS os,.5,, IA 4
@coItlnFt.te com tiae eies Aeis eoAs = aiiieu -
pdIu 'Mseli ~ 7e r,,.s.o44 asa -, -.
.A-oeliator pdoeSsa' oas ~, siI III 1e ~
Jected 10 ihat, hot because ne hau any
opJections 10 HohoIl.4s tne sepoielneii, nut
pecause lie olu nuo wan - fa,,,d psl y iba ~
mem aha hs tss ~ IN me
useu ~ lh19ce snih " ieia. ~; ~ ~ e.Ie
committee VT. fIsk' noWeveI' WiIn1reW;
I, ftls reslghallen Mas accepleo anu DaViu 10
,: tratef Oh MonInouln Wss eteclea an
ms place temporarliy. SencrdI Donhely
resignation was discussed ana suen pres
sure prougnt 70 pear upon the Ge1erdl
tnat ne at last eonsehleu 0o WllnaraW
tee IN the capacity Oh treasurer. mol
mucn time was wasted over t1e rssigna-
tons OF Messrs. alKer ana Linaa oury.
Both Were accepteo viii aiacrity. James
w. lannlng, q Ioriner assembly u man anu
delegate to the Cnlcago Conventlon,
who was recently CHOSEN Dy ne ne Mgrcsr
County Commfttee 10 succeed MT walk
er was admitted 10 the commptlee
The case OF Mr. Pc Ronne was sore
one with the committee; Tne cool, con-
temptuous manner IN wn1cn ne pad treat
and some of them were for expeliing him.