The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-16

| deep for personal purposes to put aside
/ good and tried men, he must object TO
making I1andrine's election unanimous.
Sam Dickinson was then raned for
chairman The motion was lost and
| Commissioner Kaiser fbolted the caucus,
/ saving he would not be bound by X.
Another row broke out over endorsing
the Delegateeat-Large Casey named
! Hobart, SeweN. Kean and Murphy.
Frambach moved that Ward be named
instead of Murphy. McEwan made a
speech in which he advocated striking a
blow at Essex which would teach them
a lesson for the fll1treatmert Essex has
always heaped on Hudson and he re-
commended naming Gilbert Collins for
4 the fourth place. Frarnbach thought it
too late to advocate Hudson man.
Ward, he said was a man who was
not afraid to go before the people. He
| therefore advocated Ward. The motion
to substitute Ward was overwhelmingly
lost and Murphy was declared endorsed.
Mr.. Wilke questioned the vote and a ris-
! ing vote was taken amid much confusion.
| Murphy was not endorsed After more
| sauabbling the caucus adjourned.
| AT 1880 O'Clock Chairman Murphy
called the convention to order and named
y
On assuming the chair Senator Stokes
was greeted with great appsause He
spoke as follows. being. frequently inter-
rupted by enthusiastic and prolonged ap-
plause:-
Fellow citizens of New Jersey-I greet
you today as fellow citizens though we
meet here in that capacity as Republi-
cans. l use this form of salutation ad-
VII 10 hos f,,tr
party's condition. It is suggestive of new
recruits and increased strength and it
means that for the past three years the
verdict of the polls has been SO pro-
nounced in our favor that Republican,
ism and citizenship have practically be-
come Interchangeable terms. The whole
North is unit for our cause. The great
West has renewed its old-time allegiance
| and the solid South is at last broken
forever And while we rejoice in the
knowledge that for the first time in her
history our own State has a solid Re-
| publican delegation in the House of Rep
resentatives--a delegation of whose mem
bers we are justly proud-we do not for
get the wide range of that influence that
has caused Kentucky, Delaware, Mary
land and West Virginia to answer to the
Republican roll-call
We gather here today in response to
that continued demand for a change in
the admins tration of national affairs
We have had a change in the State of
New Jersey and we rather like it, Under
the magnetic and Inspiring leadership of
John w. Griggs, the horde of yplunder and
spoils seekers that SO long dsgraced our
commonwe earth, have been driven from
power, and the banner of reform has
been planted on the capitol of the State
But the work of rescue and reform is
not yet complete The White House at
Washington is still held by those whose
interests are not the interests of the
American people; is still in the possess
sion of conspfrators, who have sold the
prosperity and THE cornrnercial welfare
of this nation to foreign capitalists and
foreign traders = conspirators. who.
though repeatedly warned and rebubed,
have refused to heed the behests of their
constituents, and insist III using the
power they yet retain to block all efforts
for relief. and to perpetuate the misery
and shame they have inflicted upon us.
Under their naalign influence, the clouds
of adversely have gathered and darkened
our fair land. I speak of this as of
recent occurrence for memory needs to
travel back but a short distance to the
time when this country smiled in happi-
ness and plenty; when labor found ready
return for its services: when capital and
enterprise went hand in hand and when
progress and business confidence were run
ing mates. In the last annual message
which that distinguished Statesman of
Indiana, then President of the United
States, sent ito Congress, he was able to
congratulate us upon the fact that so
high a degree of prosperity had never
before been enjoyed by our people
Bourke Cochran, that distinguished Demo-
era orator. admitted on the floor of the
House of Representatives at that time
that wages were never so high and the
dollar of the workingnan would never
before buy SO many of the comforts of
life. We seemed to have reached all
most the fiood-tide Of prosperity. In
deed our success terrified our Democratic
friends. They took alarm ait the ever
fncrea sing surplus in the Treasury and
warned us in dismal tones that surplus
was a dangerous thing to have around.
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