The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-10
RACE TRACKS AGAIN
The Anti Gambling League
Preparing to Descend
Upon the Legislature.
ALL WANT TO GO TO ST. LOUIS.
Lay Judges Think They Have Dis
covered Flaws in the New Bill
70 Get Rid of Them.
Special to ths Jsrscu Csty Nears.

Special to tbs Jegscu Csty Neirs.
TRENTON, Feb. 10, 1S9s.-The exciting
race track scenes of three years ago arr
likely to be enacted in a measure in the
Legislature again this week. The Anti
Gambling League has becone exceeding
~ restless over the repeated talk of
more race track legislation this session
and when 1t was reported last week that
there was opposition to Mr.. Voorhees,
resolution providing for the adoption of
the -anti-gambling amendment to the
constitution and that there was danger
that it would not pass they could stand
it no longer. and as stated in 'sTae Jersey
City News" last week. Mr.. Kempslal1
in an open letter demanded a hearing on
the resolution. If this is granted another
large delegation Of church people Will
visit Trenton and argue all over again
the race track question.
There is no doubt that the Republicans
have been c~oqteuting with the race
track people in a manner which justiies
the -Anti-Gambling League hat there is
danger ahead. It began with Candidate
Griggs' celebrated speech in Hoboken,
when he declared himself an up-to-date
candidate and said thai ne was not OPP
posed to honest racing. but was down
on the winter tracks, where poor, worn
out beasts are cruelty run through siush
and mud. From that time on there was
q decided Griggs movement among race
track men, bookmakers. touts, stable
boys and everyone directly or indirectly
connected with a race track. Up in Gut
tenburg saloon men and doerkeepeTs got
an inside tip" that the tracks would be
open again when Griggs was elected and
they began to shout accordingly.
In the early part of the campaign
everyone conceded that Monmouth would
give McGEa an olG-time majority. But
soon it began to be whispered about the
county tf1at as soon as Griggs was elect
ed ana the Republicans were firmly en-
trenched in power Monmouth Park
/. would be opened again. This was a great
boon TO the farmer who never saw bet
ter times than when the park was in full
blast. and a decided reaction in favor OF
Griggs set in which resulted in giving
him the county by some 300 odd votes.
The same rumors spread in Camden and
I Gloucester City which used to be relied
upon to pull down the Republican major
ity, did not figure at an in the result.
When on top of this ~wall-known race
track men came to Trenton with the Lee
gfsiature and have been in assiduous at
tendance ever since. and the unmistak-
able opposition to the passing of the an
organizing resolution has developed. DIR.
Kem9sdan and his ~co-laborers deem it
time for them TO get into the fight.
The Republican State Convention to
select delegates to the Republican Ma
t4onal Convention and TO elect members
of the State Central Committee will in
all likelihood take place on Wednesday,
April IS. in Taylor Opera House. The
arrangements nave been practically com
pleted by Franklin Murphy and Carrot
a. Hobart, a subcommittee of the gem
erai committee, who were authorized to
fix a date according to the time that they
could secure the hall, but the whole
matter is subject to the ratification of
the. general committee, which will meet
early this week and issue a call.
This will bring the contest on at once,
and 1t can be expected that the situa-
ltlon will be very generally canvassed by
the time that the Legislature VIII have
adjourned, and before April l. There is
OF the party for the position of delegate
af-large. United States Senator William
J, SeMHeli will be one Of the four, n
Carrot A. HOBART will be another but
the other two are in dcarbt. Jchn Kean
wants to be THE third. but is nervous
so soon after his defeat hast summer.
He fears that the followers of Senator
voorhees, and the faction in his own
beth. when, although IT is not strong
enough to make any one candidate, has
proven itself to be, strong enough to
break Mr.. Kean, will oppose him. The
Voorhees, men, however, say that the
young millionaire's fears are groundlsss.
,rhey win NOT oppose him. but. on the
him. as his selection would be an honor
10 the county and no one else from Union
appears to want the place. The leaders
and it is urged that his nomination
would do much toward healing. the dis
S shneio among m9if the hT Repue eIaslee o 5pr U IGdae
against Mr.. Kean to threaten his cleo
s. Hancock of Trenton will enter the
race. He will not have everything his
own way. either, as Barker Glmmere.
In the councils OF the Trenton Republic
can Indians, will measure swords with
fhlra: Franklin Murphy OF Newark,
the fourth place, and so does Elias
Ward, president of the South Orange
The sentiment Of New Jersey Repubi-
cans is largely in favor OF Thomas B.
Reed for President. Several partial polls
have been taken Of the Legislature, and
a wish that Mr.. Hobart might secure
tine l1oanisation, he has followed It with
from Maine. Should the NOM ration go
ITO a Western mar the Jerseymen will
make a struggle to secure tne% second
place on the ticket for Mr.. Hobart.
The VOORHEES, judiciary BIN. which
wipes out forty-five lay Judges in the
itwenty-one counties Of the State, is
threatened with complications before the
law shall become effective. The btu pro-
vides that the Court of Common Pleas.
after April / of this year, shall consist
of only one Judge, and ne shall be a
counsellor4at-law. and the lay Judges are
supposed to cease to exist after that
period, but the lay Judges of New Jer-