The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-06
GARRY H0BARP'S BOOM
Washington Takes the Paterson
Boss Seriously as a Vice
Presidential Posi-
bility.

WASHINGTON, March 6, 1S96.-A sort
Of Presidential atmosphere hangs around
the 4th of March-particularly around
this 4th of March, because 1t is just
a year from that March A when Grover
Cleveland will march forth from the
White House and give up the keys to
his successor.
Jerseymen here feel a peculiarly per.
sanal iterest in the approaching cleo
tior, because they deem it not un-
likely that one of themselves may reach
One of the Presidential nominations. Eyes
are turning-more of them every day
towards ex-senator Hobart Of Paterson,
n. j., as the running mate, on the Pres
ldential ticket. of a Western man. The
conviction is spreading that the Repub-
lican candidate, like Lochinvar. is "to
come out of the West 1t may be Gov
ernor Mckinley; 1t may be enato Alli-
son. That the Ohio Napoleon is MAX
ing great strides is apparent to every
obs irving eye. In the event of his fail
ure. Allison is the relay horse who is be-
ing groomed to take up the race where
he may drop it.
Nothing Is more likely than that If
Allison or Mckinley should be given the
uISt pidCe Oh QlG llChtl, GeuAlur HOparl
viii be Offered the second place. The
corollary of a Western Presidential can
didate is an Eastern man for the Vice
Presidency. Some say that the second
place may be offered to a Southern man,
but 1t is hardly possible that the Repub-
lican National Convention will deem it
good politics to give the a SO cold
a cut as would be given by the failure
to recognize il in the makeup of the
Presidential ticket. And then when the
big guns come to look around for the
Eastern man, who stands more conspicu-
Senator from Paterson? Governor Griggs'
election to the Chief Magistracy ks New
Jersey has shed lustre not only upon
Governor, Griggs, but upon the friend
who worked in season and out f3r his
triumph. TIL giving to a dyed-in-the-
wool Democratic State like New Jersey,
Of a Republican Governor was an
achievement that has drawn the eyes of
the public men of the nation to Senator
Hobart and the sentiment which points
to his nomination is developing with sur
prising rapidity in many sections of the
country.
The Mckinley and Allison men down
mere oetn agree that Senator b is
a Big tlgure IN the contest, and in the
city within the last week are three or
four western papers that are devoting
good deal of attention to the claims
and chances of the genial Paterson
statesman. One of them, a Cleveland
paper, has a double column half-tone
print of the Senator and a very pleas
would be a rare distinction for New Jer-
sey to have one of her sons within the
shadow of the first place in the land.
There is a growing Mckinley sentiment
in New Jersey-at least there seems to
be one that is on the climb. It looks
as though the delegates to the National
Convention are to be chosen without any
friction. Elias S. Ward and Franklin
Murphy may lock horns for the fourth
place among the observation-disclosures. Who
of them will win is a problem. Newark
men here say that Ward VIII have Essex
at his back. But the friends of Mr..
Murphy are making an admirable argu-
ment for him when they urge that as
chairman of the Republican State Com
%caittee, hi should be given a place on the
delegation If he desires it. There is talk.
too, of a clash in the Seventh Congress
sional district, between Colonel John T..
Toffey and Colonel Samuel D. Dickinson.
But Colonel Toffey is not expecting any
thing of the kind. He thinks he and
the other Colonel will be the two dele
gates from Hudson county.