The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-06
GOVERNOR VOORHEES,.
1t Looks asThough the Union
Senator Might Succeed
Griggs.
VAST AMOUNT OF PATRONAGE
President Mckinley Thinks That
a Republican Will Succeed
United States Senator
Smith.
Especial to "The Jersey City New

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| TRENTON, Dec 6, 1897. .EThe announce
ment this morning that President McKin-
! ley would make Governor Griggs a mem
Der of his cabinet, that the Governor mad
accepted, and that he would not resign
as Governor until the Legislature meets,
has put, to rest all the speculation as to
| any probable complications over a success
sor to the Governor He will be the Pres
| ident of the Senate, whoever that may be.
The most significant feature of the
| situation, however, is the remark of the
| Governor. In despatch from Paterson,
| published elsewhere in reply to a ques-
| ton as to who he thought would be
| President of the Senate, he replied that
| from the published reports it looked as
| though Senator Foster NJ. Voorhees, of
| Elizabeth would be the man. This might
| be taken by some to indicate that the
Sewell faction were willing that the
Union Senator should be Governor for a
year.
1t requires a great deal of ia tn to be-
| lieve any such statement as this. The
vast amount of patronage which the act
| ing, Governor will have at his disposal
next year will enable him to make suffi-
cient followers to insure him first class
It is a grave question whether General
Sewell, Governor Csriggs and Vice-Presi-
dent Hobart will consent to allow Foster
M. Voorhees, to become such powerful
man In this State. It is well known that
Sewell will countenance no man whom he
cannot bend and mould to his purposes,
and it is equally well known that he can
not do that with Mr. Voorhees,. This the
I occasions than one, and as recently as the
last session of the Legislature he widened
the breach which has so long existed be-
| tween him and Senator SeweTl and greatly
strained the relations existing between
himself and the Governor by his action in
| the shamlessly partisan and personal CO.
operate measures which those two illus
trious Republicans fathered.
Nevertheless the question as to who will
be elected president of the Senate is an
interesting one just now. 1t is generally
understood that Senator Voorhees,. of
Union, will be given that Office, and he
has little or no opposition. The friends
of General Skirm are urging him to be-
come candidate. and perhaps he may
accede to their wishes. At no time has
he stated that he was not candidate.
1t is not denied that he and Senator Voor-
/, heas are the Warnest personal and po-
| their pleasant relations would be dis
| turbed should they enter into the contest
for the office mentioned. They could fight
it out on friendly lines. and then the
vanquished candidate could, with good
grace, congratulate the victor. Another
name is also mentioned in connection
with the ofice-that of Senator Johnson.
| of Bergen county. His friends, too, would
like to see him president of the Senate.
He has not declared himself a candi-
| date, however, and his inclinations are
| positively unknown up to the present. AS
| to Senator Skirm nothing would give his
numerous friends greater pleasure in a
| political way than to see him WELD the
gavel during the next session Of the
Legislature. They argue further, that
he is about entering upon the last year
| of his term of office, and it is not likely
| that he will be a candidate for re-elec-
| ton, and as Senator Voorhees, has two
| years more to serve, it would be only
| fair that General Slxirm SHOULD be elect
| ed to the office. But the edict has gone
forth in favor Of voorhees,, and he will
| be the next president of the Senate.
| In view of the prediction, then, that
| Governor Griggs will become a member
| of the Mckinley Cabinet. and that the
| ceed to the Executive chair of State, it
| is interesting to note the patronage of
| Office which will be at the disposal of
| the new Governor. He can send in noni-
| nations only at the next session of the
Senate, because he will be but one year
| in office.
| The following is a list of the offices to
| be filed by the next Governor with the
/ consent OF the Senate:-
| A Judge of the Court of Errors and
| Appeals, to succeed William II. Vreden-
| Compensation about S,200; term Of office,
! A chief of the Bureau of Labor statis-
| tics, to succeed Charles II. Simmerman.
| Salary, $500; term of office, five years.
! A District Court Judge for Hoboken, to
I succeed Elijah T. axton. Salary, s2,500,
| term of office, five years.
County Judges to succeed the following.
Joseph Thompson, Atlantic: James NJ.
| Van Valen, Bergen; Robert S. Hudspeth,
Hudson; Willard W. Cutler, Morris I;
Thomas f. Mccormick, Union; William
| H Morrow, Warren. Salaries range
| from $1,000 to $1,000, and term of office,
| five years.
Prosecutors of the Pleas to succeed the
| following: E.. Perry, Atlantic;
Jonas S. Miller, Cape May; Charles H.
/ Winfield Hudson; Bayard Stockton Mer-
| Ger; Joshua s. Salmon. Morris; Theodore
simonson, Sussex; Frederick c. Marsh, da
! Union. Salaries range from Sl.500 to
| 5000; term OF Office, five years.
/ Members of the State. Board of Arbi-
! tration, to succeed the following ng:-Samuel
S. Sherwood, William Nj. Doughty, James
/ Martin, Charles A. Houston, Joseph y.
Moore. Salary, $1,000; term of Office, three
| years.
/ School for Boys, to succeed James NJ.
/ Parsons and Edwin H. Bidwel. No
| salary; term Of office, three years.
| Two trustees of the State Industrial
! School for Girls, to succeed Lewis Par
| ker ana e. Rezeau Cook No salary;
| term of office, three years.
Besides, there are a number of minor
offices to be filed, such as Fort warden
| for Hudson county. members of the
/ Board of Managers for the Home for
/ Feeble Minded Women, State Board of
| Medical Examiners, State Board of
1 Health State Board of Pharmacy, State
| Board of Dentistry and five Deputy
Factory Inspectors, to succeed the fol-
| lowing:-Jarnes Keys, Patrick Cailan, Jos.
| F. Weinthal, William w. Johnson, John
| Vanatta and John Dunn. The salaries
/ Of the Factory Inspectors are $1,000, and
| term of Office, three years.
Nearly all the incumbents Of these
/ offices are Democrats, and they will be
succeeded by Republicans, no doubt;
] most certainly those occupying judicial
| and legal positions.
| While Governor Griggs viii be glad to
| save himself from the opportunities of
| the place-hunters the new Governor
would be In position to reward his
! friends If even he held office only one
| year.
This will be the first time in the his
] tory of New Jersey that q vacancy was
| created In the oflice of Governor by a
i resignation, and the first time that a
| president of the Senate will have been
| called upon to administer the duties OF
/ the Executive office.
/ IT is evident that President Mckinley
/ expects to see another Republican United
| States Senator to sit IN the Fifty-sixth
/ Congress, and this information comes by
| the way of Newark, and 1t is based on
/ the recent experiences of John B. Dusen-
berry, a Democratic politician Of Essex