The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-01
CONDEMNS His PARTY.
General Sewe1l's Signifi-
cant Talk on the Elec-
tion atthe Inter
state Fair.
GRIGes REFUSES TO BE 4 SHOW
Politicians from All Parts of the
State Come Together and
Discuss the Situation.
Especial to ..rhe Jersey city News."l


yesterday than the officers of the cor
poration that owns the Interstate FAIR,
which has been going on here every DAY
this week. The high water mark OF at
tendance on any one day since the com
pany began holding an annual fair some
nine years ago was the Thursday of 1871,
when Governor Albeit rode around the
track in state and Al. s2l paid admissions
were registered at the turnstyles. This
record was broken yesterday, when at
least s.. 900 persons passed through the
gates. The Pennsylvania Railroad ran
special trains both from New York ana
Philadelphia and the Trenton Traction
Company ran ~trailers on its cars, wnieh
were kept moving in a procession to and
from the grounds all day
AS almost every citizen of New Jersey
knows by this time at all the fairs neid
throughout the State Thursday is known
as Governors or Politicians Day. Ger
tainly it was both at the Interstate yes
terday. Governor Griggs was there and
so was the maieffty of the politicians OF
both parties. ThSt section Of the grounds
outside the track where the president and
officers of the association pitch their tents
in the appearance bf a joint convention OF
both parties.
Governor GrigS came early. and with
him a large groiip of the statesmen from
his end of thf State. The statesmen
were a trife ou OF humor when they ar
rived because tfey were cheated out of a
pleasapxTide from Trenton. h Cover
r's<privare secretary, Hobart Tuttie,
any Lawrence S. Mott are interested In
anew palace car, and they were going to
live their friends a ride in a Jersey pro-
auction and with it a cold bite.
They made arrangements with the
Pennsylvania Railroad TO attach the car
to one of the regular morning trans
They extended invitations to the Cover
nor and his staff and prominent officials
of Passaic. Hudson and Essex counties.
to join the party. The Pullman Car
Compan heard of the trip and objected,
and the party had to ride in ordinary
coaches and leave the viands behind.
But when they once got safely upon the
ground it was not long before their dis
appointment disappeared. The Governor
and his staff, both military and political,
were met by Tony Kuser and con-
Quoted to his tent, where, amid potted
plants and flowers tastefully arranged,
they were entertained at an elaborate
lunch. This aristocracy of the State was
composed for the day OF Governor Griggs,
Senator Robert Williams of Passaie,
Major Anderson. Supervisor of the New
Jersey State Prison; Head Keeper L. ).
Moore. former Secretary of State II. G.
kelsey, County Clerk Barker Gnmmere.
Jr., of Mercer, State Comptroller Wm. s.
Hancock. Private Secretary Hobart
futile. Secretary of State George Wurtz,
former Congressman John Kean, Eliza
beth; DR.. H. C. H. Herold, Essex; Quar-
termaster General Richard A. Donnsliy,
Adjutant General Wm. Stryker, County
Chairman a Lentz of Essex, United
States Senator James Smith. Jr.. United
States Senator William J. Sewell. General
Joseph w. Cougden, General E. p
Meaney, General William ~Heppenheimer,
General VIM. H. Skirm. General Bird w.
Spencer, General William Barbour, Gen.
eral P. F. Wanser, State Banking Com
missioner William BEETLE. Congressman
Mahlon Pitney, Congressman X. wayne
Parker, State Treasurer George /.
Swain, Elisha B. Gaddis, Franklin
Murphy. Supreme Court Clerk Ben
5smin F. Lee, Supreme Court Clerk
elect William Riker, former Gov
ernor George T. Werts, Senator George
w. Ketcham, Senator William D. DAILY,
Judge ]. Franklin Fort, Judge Robert r.
Woodruf Mayor yelling G.. Sickel of
Trenton; ". w. Porter, William STAINS
by. e. ]. Spillisbury. Hugh H HamilL
former Senator Henry S. Little. Joseph
L. Naar, G. D.. ". vroom. DR.. L. D..
Ward. Colonel Harry Potter, Colonel
Sheffield Phelps, former State Treasurer,
- n rtrox E-ar1s,1and w RnAhHn0
Colonel Theodore f.. Beck. Colonel John
q. yanclefr. Colonel George FELTON,, Hem
~ c. Moore, John l.. Murphy, Forrest F.
Dryden. Colonel Nathan E. Haines, Col
onel Leon Albeit, Colonel II. T. Barrett.
Colonel Robert Adrain. Sheriff joint j.
Toffey, Colonel Charles Sterling, Peter
Doelger, Barclay Warburton. Colonel
Lewis Perrine. John Rooney, Joseph L.
Mum, Henry M. Doremus, Robert Green,
Jr., Stephen ]. Meeker. Edward +. c.
Young, Jonathan H. Blackwell, John F.
Dryden and Charles A May.
Some enterprising individual circulated
the rumor that this luncheon" would be
utilized for the purpose of launching the
boom of Tony's father-in-law, John r.
Dryden. President of h Prudential In
suranee Company of Newark, for United
States Senator, but the rumor was
~sroundless. John F. Taylor, President of
the Fair Association. and ex-Secretary of
State Henry G. Kelsey, took charge OF the
slightly less favored ones. and entertained
them just as sumptuously at a tent with
a stout wooden door, which opened only
at a complicated signal OF knocks known
only TO the member of the Reception
COMMITTEES. Major yelling Syckel.Mayor
of Trenton. also had z tent stocked WITH
were more or less open to all corners. so
that Il any q went around hungry or
with dust adhsring to his palate it was
lid own faut. About three o'clock the
statesmen gathered before their tents to
that provided AL these good things, in
eenSs In the shape Of the aroma OF fra
IS Governor stood at Colonel Kuser's
tent end held an informal reception.
Everybody who came along was at lib
to the grsctings oheerily and apparently
willingly. He did not look at all like a
disappointed man or one who BY the sheer
force Qf overwhelming opposition had
heen obliged TO pull aside the ambition Of
whit 49, blankety blank shame it is
that thsy feDced him cut Of the senatorial
Bace,'s exclaimed one OF the chief execu<
ives enthusiastic admirers, OF which
there was a large number present. He
is head and shoulders above them all lH-
tellecfdally. and would make a Senator
New Jersey han she has received in The
Senate in many a year.
rOh, you needn't worry" cynically re-
marked a Democrat, who was watching
the demonstration II HASN'T been
forced out of the race ut ali. That much
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