The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-02-11
NON PARTISAN GRIGGS
The New Governor Appoints
Democratic Judges in
Hudson and Essex.
FAITHFUL Wall in AGONY
Pledges Above Party-"Rod' sey-
mour and ]. D. Bedle the
Local Prize Winners.
FAITHFUL VAIL IN AGONY

TRENTON, Feb. H., 1896.-The Cover
nor's room proved a far more attractive
place for the Statesmen who gathered
at Trenton last night tina either cham
Der Of the Legislature. The usual crowds
which attend every Monday nights SEES
sion filled the galleries and crowded the
hobbies. but the large array of has
beens and wouldIbes who used to crowd
the floor. sat on the members, desks and
made themselves as much a nuisance as
possible, We're absent. They were in
the Governors large reception room,
however. and they crowded it in a way
which made one think of the inaugural
/ receptions.
"A noticeable. feature of the evening was
the absence of Hudson county men.
John J. Toffey was in Trenton merely
70 look around, you know but he did
not appear at the State House. What
ne had to say to the Governor was
whispered in the seclusion of the room
In which the Executive lays his weary
head when the last office seeker has
taken his departure. Colonel Charles
W. Fuller was also around, but he Is
not looking for any ofice-he says SC
himself. and he ought to know-and only
came down to see what was going on.
Judge Puster and that young legal in
candescent light, Robert Carey, graced
the floor with their presence. these
were about all the Hudson men who
were in Trenton.
Other counties, however, were well
represented. Essex sent down large dele
cations to look after anything and
everything. A strong delegation headed
by Frederick Evans. editor of the
Daily Advertiser came down in the
interest of Thomas N. McCarter, Jr.,
VINO want to be a District Court Judge.
They saw their mans name sent into
the Senate before they went back. There
was a big crowd from Garden trying to
fix up the fight in that city for a Dis
trict Court Judge to succeed Howard
Carrow. It was led by City Clerk Thad-
deus Varney apd ex-Assemblyman VIM.
II. Cole. in the interest of Fred Recks.
but the Governor could not see his way
clear to settle on Recks at the time be-
Gauss there are two other candidates,
beth with strong backing. They are
John H. Fort and Martin ". Bergen. Var
ney thought he would pull a strong stroke
py getting Carrot A. Hobart interested,
but 1t was not successful. Recks is we'll
backed by the politicians of Camden,
and the opposition comes from the fact
THAT three years ago he tried to get
the nomination for Senator as an indie
pendent Republican candidate, in the
interest of William j. Thompson, whose
personal legal adviser he has been for
years. He IS also called a Pooh-Bah.
because he is secretary of the Board OF
Education, solicitor to the Township OF
Stockton, and holds several other offices
that are remunerative. 1t is likely thar
this fight will continue for several weeks
and the Governor will be forced to Sc
lect a compromise candidate.
Twenty-Five of the city and county Off
ciais OF Trenton called on the Governor
TO see If they uld fix up the little
row over the District Judgeship in their
city Most of them wanted Assembly
man MCPHERSON. The Governors qualifi-
cations OF his recent declaration, viz,
that he old not say he would not APP
point members of the Legislature TO
office, but that he was opposed to doing
SO, has given the Mcpherson men new
courage. The other candidates for the
JudgeSn1p are ex-Assemblyman Barton
B. Hutchinson and Carroll Robins. Both
are endorsed by members OF the bar,
but they have little or no political back
dng.
There were delegations from Elizabeth,
too trying to have the Judge5hip in their
SS VI LIZ AASAt q INV
down to John Lowde and c. Addison
Swift. Another was one from the Liquor
Dealers ASSOCIATION to see what chance
through. This is the bill which provides
that twelve instead of six Signatures Of
Freeholders be attached to an application,
ard that a citizen can sign only one appl.-
cation.
A funny complication has arisen in
The bill requires that there shall be
one judge in each county who shall be a
counsellor-at-law. There is only one
Democrat. II would never do to appoint
q Democrat to the office. for that is NOT
the object for which the bill Is introduced,
are in a dilemma; Peter .Baches. an en-
terprising young lawyer Of this city, has
q scheme to help them out. He is q coun-
Republicans. He has a summer resi-
dence somewhere along the coast in Ocean
n poin Ee1hla9 m i t ana b 1T b 5ee Geysr 3 law. an
In keeping with the declaration which
he would appoint one Democrat and one
Republican District Court Judges in
those cities where there are two such
the names of Colonel Joseph D. Bedle TO
succeed Judge Puster and Roderick Z.
Seymour 70 succeed the late Judge Johr
Thomas n. McCarter. Republican. to sue
coed Judge Thomas Henry. and Frederick
T.. Guild. a young Democrat. to succeed
Judge John s. Truesdell.
Mr.. Guild is a son of .ex-Proseeutor
Guild. and q grandson of old Judge Guild.
who was for many years editor and
proprietor Of the defunct Newark Jour
nall These Newark appointments werA
not decided without q struggle. Senator
did not make u his mind in
favor Of Thomas N. McCarter, Jr.. for
little time. He held out for his
t tTsi5s an and nt nsigb M9rnb Elly T6ssn, e H M,Ias
and others were putting in some hard
strokes for McCarter. Mr.. Mum was des-
the Senator. and about nine O'Clock
Mr.. Mum and Mr.. Ketcham were seer
walking up the main corridor, arm in arm
and they very quickly turned into the
Governors sanctum.x The Essex delega-
tion knew that the Senator had been per-
suaded and It was My a matter Of q
names in.
Other appointments made last night
were for Passaic county. They were