The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-11

ence with Passaic Some of the decent
men in the delegation, like Messrs. Fair
child and Porter, protested against me
greediness Of their colleagues VINO On weldI and
political bigots, Carl Lentz. IT appears
| that in addition to the clerkship. the
sergeanatarmns a nsa ana hseo one promised or them
Essex wanted the office of bill clerk LOT
| George Powell a Newark saloonkeeper,
who had no parsiemlairt ciaim M 70 tb any Marty n
| Messrs Porter and Fairchild and the lew
| Essex men who sided with them, opposed
any such pggsnmdesiSb ibsr ana passas abettors
| to receive Messrs. Van Doren of Somer-
| set and Crispin of Salem, the committee
Jersey delegation. At supper time they
| had come to no agreement and the con-
| ference adjourned. During the recess
| General Sewel and the other state iead-
:, ers who were on the ground got TO Worh
| on the Essex men.
| huge sign hung in the ONCE OF the
Trenton House. announcing 1haI .He
| sor Hotel at eight O'Clock. 1t was aIter
nine, however. when the Essex men We're
| brought into line, and went INTO the con-
| ference like little lambs.
No time was lost in getting to Work.
| Henry Gledhill the Passaic man, of BIZ
cycle Baggage bill fame, was chosen
chairman. which makes him the leaoer OF
| clerk was called in to act as secretary
| Something must have hit the Essex men.
| and very hard, too, for they were as 90
| cile as the proverbial lambs. and this slate
| was put through rapidly and without fric-
| ton of any kind
Speaker, David A. Watkins, of Glouces-
| ter: Clerk Thomas H. Jones, Essex; AS
| sistant Clerk. Thomas N. Hopkins, Nor
ris Journal Clerk, William N. HulSkamp-
| er. Union; Assistant Journal Clerk, Aaron
| c. Demarest, Bergen; Engrossing Ciefk'
1 (yI., IVn1r Ot s.
| sistant Engrossing Clerk, Theodore Cad
| dis Essex; Second Assistant Engrossing
T, Clerk. Carl A. Weidell, Mercer; Sergeant
alarms. John R. Flavel, Essex; First AS
| sistant Sergeant -at-Arms, Horatio e.
| Hayens. Ocean; Second Assistant, John
| v A. Van Cleaf, Somerset; Bill Clerk,
William Loppy to the
| Clerk of the House, Herbert ). Mats, OF
Essex.
It was expected that Essex would ex-
ert herself again and cause trouble on
| the page and doorkeeper matter So IN
| order that that might be avoided mo-
| ton was made that a committee OF nve
| be appointed by the Cnalr 10 s appor'tppa tpn
members. The motion was carried ana
Mr.. Watkins appointed as the commttee.
Messrs. Van Doren OF Somerset, FoWers'
| Essex; Squire, Union; Crespin, Salem,
| and Mckee, of Passalc.
were the same that have marked the
|
| publicans have come into power: The ho-
| tells were fairly well filed, but there were
not the crowds which used to be seen
here when the Democrats held sway. III, Inc
| principal point of interest was the Iren-
| ton House. where General SeWell received
| the homage of his faithful henchmen IN
| the historical room 100. He stood at the
entrance to the parlor as OF yore, ana
gave the glad hand to all who came IN,
| turning them quickly over to Wllhams
| BEETLE, John Kean, Elsh Gaddis, Barker
III J~,~ti cfrfv1 n n
| other members of the staff, who saw that
each was properly refreshed and regaled
with fragrant Key West.
The gathering OF the falthfui was COM COM
| many stars of the first magnitude IN the
Republican sky of New Jersey. There
| was John Kean, as Chesterneld1an as
| ever. shaking everybody's hand cordlaily
| and doing the elegant generally with an
| eye single to the United States Senator
| ship.
Franklin Murphy, looking much improved
| by his recent trip abroad and decidedly
out of place in Sewells room. Wnen one
thought of the same night two years ago.
when Mr. Murphy was a candidate
against the great General for United
| States Senator, and started room luo
| of his own at the Hotel Windsor. Near
| by was the clerical looking Pitney, whose
| rod to catch the Gubernatorial lightning
| has been run up so high that it almost
| scrapes the ceiling. He had great deal
|
| members, and there was general ar OF
mystery and confidence about him whlch
| filled the other candidates with appre-
| hension.
| placency nothing can disturb. sauntereu
| into the room with an air OF assurance
which was sublime. If he and Barker
| Gummere can have the fixing OF 1t, noth-
| ing can stop the Comptroller from secur-
| ing the nomination. Congressman FoWler
| of Elizabeth, the man who looks like NC
Kinley maintained statuesque positlo11
| in the centre of the room, and dlscourseo
| learnedly upon the currency question, on
which he is considered one OF the sharps
| of the present Congress- He told me tnat
| there would undoubtedly be brought into
| the House a currency bill which would
| be safe and reliable. although it would
| be radical in some particulars. II the
| Gubernatorial wants to strike IN Ine
| neighborhood of Mr.. Fowler, "Barkis is
| willin'."
| also joined the group OF Candidates, a.
! though they did not attract as much at
| tentiOn in that line as some OF the otners.
The presence of Mr.. Murphy SO close
| gave rise to much comment, ana tehoeu
| TO confirm the report recently sent OUT
that at a conference of General Sewen
| and the other leaders Mr. Murphy was Sc,
| lected as the candidate. This was an
| brushed aside by General sewer. WIZ, WIG
present at any conference in Whlcn the
| candidate for Governor was discussed
| The lesser lights, including tne LeHi-
| hers. candidates for place and the gentle
| men of the third house, called upon the
| General early and often. They tried TO
4 rour some-no doubt-valuable ln1orma-
| fion into the ear Of the General, but were
| quickly passed over to the stan, TO WnoI1
| fhey corlfided their secrets OF state ana
! looked as though the weight of the natlon
| was on their shoulders
| Governor Griggs was in his room on the
same floor and received all who called up
| on him in his usual Icelandic manner
| "Gee but that's the icy hand Tor keeps,
| one Essex devotee of Major Lentz re-
| marked after he had received an eighteen
1 below zero shake of the hand and that
stony glare that makes the dead shiver.
| THE (soyernor said that he might possibly
| send some nominations to the Senate to-
dav which gave rise to the statement that
| among them would be the name of Judge
| lanes s. Irwin, to be Prosecutor of Hud-
son county This name had no effect upon
the debonair Colonel Fuller, who was
| about last night as clipper and confident
as ever.
| ana seemed inclined to think that Erwin
| was the man. Those Siamese twins of Ho-
| hoken. Aaron S. Baldwin and ex-Assem-
blvman Henry Nutzhorn, were as insepar-
| af,le as ever and it was said that they
were trying to help along the cause Of
| Abel I Smith, who wants to be Distr1ct
Court Judge Of Hoboken. This they both
| denied. and there is reason to believe
that fhe Governor could persuade Mr..
Nutzhorn TO take the Judgeship If he
| would only make the attempt.
| There was great scarcity of Democrats
1 here last night, Mr.. Flummerfelt of War