The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-01-12
THE HUNGRY ON HAND
Great Gathering of Patriots
in the Trenton House
Corridors Last
Evening.
HUDSON SHY OF ESSEX
Caucus Runs Like a Well Creased
Machine-State Committee
Meeting.
Specfalt to the Jerseu can Nesus.

80 ~
which thronged the corridors of the
Trenton House, which has been made
Republican headquarters this session
was the biggest which has been seer
here on the evening of an organization
of the Legislature in several years. In
| fact it carried one back to the days OF
Governor Albeit, when the Democrats
had everything their own way and a
Republican was almost as great a curl
| osity as a Democrat was last night. This
must have been in the mind of General
Sewell. for he exclaimed, as he pushed
his way through the throng: why, this
looks like a Democratic caucus"
A man familiar to the Halls of Legis-
~lation,'' who imagines he is funny, said
that, everyone in the throng who was not
a member, a State official or newspaper
man. was an ofice-seeker. That can
hardly be strictly so. for there was
Colonel John ]. Toffey as Chesterfeldian
as ever, who as usual was simply here
ito wind us some business pertaining to
his position as ex-Sherin of Hudson"
Some one said that the Sheriff was in a
~quandary as he had only to toss a copper
to decide whether he would be Secretary
of State or Clerk of the Supreme Court
and he did not want to toss. After he
reaas touays News ne heeo give MN
sen no Iurtner trouoie, = as nsn'
senator stokes oenied the statement pup
lisnea yesterday tnat ne a oecNneo 70
take the Secretary of Stateship. The
statement was unauthorized and untrue,
he said, for he could not decline an of
flee which had not been offered to him
az YET. Inc pest poiltcai propnets SIN
~ .ha. he wan pe secretary "
S'a.e neisey : successor. one u ene
5ena.o , ciosesl liienus' however, resent
y LOU me nat MI stokes Woulo retire
rom acuve ponucs as soon as ms pres
eht term expired ana oevote ms Time 70
~ s.uoy Oh ia".
MAJOR ANDERSON OF course was Wnere
Coionei Ioffey was and near ~thereunto.
Comptroher Hancock and Treasurer
swain mingieo with the tnrong and made
themselves as agreeable as they could
~ 'Ie members. lnelr successors are 70
pe eiec.eu oy ms session ana tney are
eAeeeuinsiy anxious enat tney snouio De
HalsocA anu swain.
Jersey City vas well represented In
the throng by a number who wanted
ofica and . n,r.har - 49, -.
49,. :" 1 VIM uioa /. FRANK
higgins represented the former in his
usual vigorous stvIe. How we'll ba s,,c-
ceeded win appear later. president Mon
roe of the Fremont Club, Freebooter
Eichhorn, Samuel Christie and several
lessar 1ioh+s foru.a -
- - neu 2 picturesque sroup,
Henry Nutzhorn and
Aaron Baldwin. who looks sad If Won
ca11 bi,n char;r nuass-s ISou
- -, iepiesen.eu Hopohen'
ahu Win the exception OF A~ssemblymen
wbiskers wavad hirh 49,. As-e-
%., nen apoVe the strug-
snns hoses IKE the plume OF Henry of
Navarro. were about the only represen-
tatives that city had IN The +hr,nn o..
canatan - = ohce
senator LAZY pusneo through the crowd
to the cry of Make way for all that Is
left of the Democracy The Senator
$50 49,. -N
80 SOU naeuleuiy the cnaH about
Bryan and silver which was hurled at
him, but soon made his escape from the
note.
The history of the New Jersey Legis-
1ature contains he details of No move
trae rio anisoaa tbar ~ EN- -
uasic eplsooe IMAM the fal OF Essex
which occurred last night at the caucus.
About the first notable to arrive was the
Hon. John kean, who proceeded to Cen
oidL oSWeLL HlStOrlcdI NO. lW and pro-
ceeded to do h honors until the General
himself arrived. One of his first callers
was Colonel Sam Dickinson and for about
the space of thirty minutes he held
earnest and secret converse with the
honorable John. After that whenever a
Hudson man entered the shrine, Colonel
Sam had something of particular i'm
p~ortance to say to him and as the mem
Der Withdrew 1t was noticed that he was
thinking hard.
When Essex and Hudson adjourned
their conference Friday night in Newark
it was understood that they we've to meet
again yesterday afternoon; but when the
Essex men tried to get the Hudson men
to meet with them, the latter fought shy
and finally refused point blank to confer
with them. Soon after it was announced
that Hudson had Joined the South Jer-
seymen, and would support Macpherson
for Speaker, Derousse for leader and
Parker for clerk. In return for this Hud-
son was to nave the bill clerk. the clerk
to the clerk and an assistant s~ergeant-at-
arms, They the named for these offices
the men selected at Saturday night
caucus in Jersey City:-Frank II. Mel
vile, of Bayonne, for bill clerk; George
H. Smith, of Hoboken, for s~ergeant-at-
arms, and Frank Higgins for clerk to
the clerk. This latter office is. perhaps.
not recognized BY old timers here. Al,
though it is not a new office, but this
is the first time it has been disposed Of
by the organization caucus. When the
session has been under way a short time