The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-09-10
GREAT BOOM EXHIBIT.
Candidates for All offices
Gather at Waverly
Fair and Shake
Hands.
VICE PRESIDENT THE BIGGEST CARD
Mr.. Hobart Overwhelmed With Adj
miring Jerseymen Anxious to
Bask in His Smiles
Political Gossip.
VICE PRESIDENT THE BIGGEST Carl
Especial to .'The Jersey city News."l

ticians at the State Fair at Waverly yes
terday. There was something a heap
more attractive than that in the shape of
booms, which were exhibited in all states
of growth. There were tiny, modest little
booms for county Offices and there were
lusty, full-blown and richly-colored booms
for United States Senator and Governor,
all on exhibition for the single price of
admission. Then, towering above all
the booms, was the fruit of one that a
year ago was being carefully nurtured.
Vice President Garrett a.. Hobart came
down from his Paterson home in a cool
ing, democratic trolley car, and placed
his rotund figure in evidence of the fact
that he had not forgotten the day of his
own boom.
1t was more than an ordinary task for
the Vice President to brave the sitting
heat of the fair grounds and stroll to
the eapinence known as politicians
HILL which overlooks the whole fair
ground, with its Kaleidoscope panorama
of men, women, children, wagons, horses,
fakirs, jockeys, and the myriad of noises
which go to make a big country fair.
Still, Mr.. Hobart was equal to the task.
He arrived at 2;30 o'clock, but his COM
ing was not heralded by any blare of
trumpets, and at his request he was not
slipped some ice water, and then as quiet
ly slipped into President Tofnpkins' tent,
slipped some ice water, an dthen as quiet
ly slipped out again to greet the men who
were gathered, with the big and little
booms, under the awning outside. His old
smile had lost none of it's warmth, and
his handshake was just as hearty as
when he was a State Committeeman
hustling in a campaign.
Hello, there Gus said an old, wealth
er-beaten Monmouth county agricultur-
list who pushed forward to shake Mr..
Hobart's hand.
BLESS me, John, aren't you lost up
hereg' replied the v. P.
Lost? Well, l guess not. [ came
all the way up from Squan Inlet to shake
the hand of the second man IN the United
States, who never forgot his old neigh
bors."
That hand-shake was the heartiest of
all that were given during the day. The
Vice President was soon mobbed, but
he mopped his almost hairless head and
stood the ordeal bravely, and about A
o'clock left for home.
In i oLdlCo ocIdlOI1dl UOOIl L
tracted the most attention from the poll
ticians. John Kean was greeted as
Senator by many of the men who will
have a voice in the Legislature when it
comes to the point of comforting that
title. Mr.. Kean was in rare good hamor,
and when asked how the land lay declar-
ed that he had not the slightest notion.
Somebody had said somewhere tha he
was a candidate for the United States
| Senate, but really it was so very early
to talk about such things, and such an
exceedingly warm day that he had not
had a chance to look around to see what
it was all about, DOM you see? How
ever. it was not necessary to consult any
oracle as to the condition of the Kean
boom. 1t was everywhere in evidence.
John F. Dryden, the millionaire insur-
anee man., was there, but he was too
busy as a director of the fair to give
his boom any sort of a show. State
Chairman Franklin Murphy was about,
but he did not place his boom where any
one could see it. On the Democratic
side Johnston Cornish, the Warren coun-
ty organ man, had the field all to him
self, and the throng had no difficulty in
deciding that he had a strong lead.
Now. as to Gubernatorial booms, their
name and variety was legion, and the
judges had the utmost diff1culty in de-
Senator s%aa,a1s VIII William D. 5usi Daily. With his IA
miliar Kossuth hat, the tide-mark of
many a hot campaign, came strolling in
in the midst of a perspiring admiring
host. He had the Democratic nominal
ton practically in his grasp until Mayor
Seymour came over from Newark and
blew a whitening. melting breath upon
his glittering boom. The first Republican
Gubernatoria boom on exhibition was
up early and stayed later in the keeping
OF Barker Gummere, Colonel Chambers
and Surrogate cowell, the Trenton cam
p~aigners. While the big and little poll
ticians were critically examining the
Hancock boom along came Congressman
Mahlon Pitney with his full-blown ex-
and the giad hand. Soon thereafter ].
Frank Fort slipped quietly over from
Newark and made a great str, Tor MS
ising. 50 promising. indeed. that Pitney
stared and Hancock coughed. Congress
NJ Fowler Ebau and s Sc f 3o s voof thaf s looe-
going Sin to tell. But Senator VOORHEES, was
ms the several exhibits to worry about
his own. Ex-Revenue Collector Isaac
Moffett, who may soon drop the lex,
represented Congressman Louderslager
now on his way to take a squint at
Hawaii. and kept his W counsel Cen
eral Sewell. who is taking a needed rest
at Hot Springs. Va. was represented by
eX-Speaker DerouSse. who sawed WOOD
industriously.
is nurturing his boom for State Senator
from burlington county; Senate Presi-
dent Robert Williams. who is to have
no opposition for re~nomination: Charles
N. Reading, who has a tight grip on the
Republican nomination for senate in
i Hunterdon. ever if it is likely to elect a
Democrat. as in days of yore, were on
hand full of life and activity. There
the upper part of the State. but Dick
Reading said: Wait till this time next
year il you want to see real booms on ex-
One fact was apparent through the
maze of gossip-that the Republican
managers are doing their best to keep
the Governorship in the background until
piexion of the Legislature is settled.
Moreover. hey mean to make the Sena-
foriaI, alection. should they win the Legis-
Iature. as nearly unanimous and har-
monious as possible. Everything is being
shaped with that end in view, but then
the ~disquieting element will creep in and
there is more than a year yet to come.
Late arrivals -were:-FOrmer Congress-
man II. Hart Brewer and ex-Congressman
James buchanan. jonathan H. Blackwell.
Major Pangborn. State Road Inspector
/ Henry /. Budd of Mt. Holly, Freebooter
I, H. Wolf of Camden county. Sheriff
John Ramsay of Pennington. City
Treasurer William Malcolm and City
Clerk r. ". Tental of Passaic.
Essex county ives represented early by
Senator George w. Keteham, Freehold