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AVALON APOL|T|CAL N ECCA.
South Jersey Republicans
Gathered and Try to
Get Together.
Especial to aThe Jersey city News. ("

Especial 10 AltS SiS 49, NNtNN
AVALON. June Is, 1Sss.-This bit o.
| ocean-washed island must now be re-
garded as South Jersey Republican head
quarters for the torrid period at least.
Congressman FL. c. Loudenslager ran ur
the headquarters flag Saturday night
with the assistance Of nearly 100 other
Republicans from the First Congress dis
trict, and yesterday another delegation
arrived, and as Colonel Thomas F. U
tin of Millville expressed it, every man
of 'em is a prominent party worker" The
crowd came down ostensibly To greet ex-
Sheriif Allen X. Shinn, but really to look
over the political situation in the lower
end of the State. and, as ex-Prosecutor
Jonas S. Miller. the lone Democrat, ex-
pressed it.: THE Lord knows it needs
looking over badly When the party was
organized there was every anticipation OF
a jolly coming together OF the Minch anu
Stokes forces over the Cumberland coun-
ty Senatorship. Those two gentlemen
spoiled the plotters' scheme, however, 10y
coming together in a harmony conference
earlier in the week. So, when the cum
beriand contingent got aboard the train
at Mlllville Yesterday they were all one,
and ex-Assemblyman Mlnch leo tnem.
man Austin and the latter's big brother,
George. from Millville, drank out OF the
same ice cooler with ex-County my
stefan Thompson. Morris Davis and Harry,
Pierson from Bridgeton, and they were all
as happy as boys with the first day OF va
cation. 49,
berland county just now" said Augustus
Hilton, the huge game warden from An
glesea. who, one eye closed, can tell the
name of any fish that swims the sea ana
locate more game than any TOUR men
on Five Mile Beach.
While the harmony in Cumberland is
as thick as custard, Senator n n.
Hands county of Cape May promises
man H. c. Loudenslager's nomination
for a fourth term. Ex-senator Ross,
who was giving Hand such a hard fight
a year ago. is a candidate for the sue
cession to Loudenslager, and Cape May
feels that it is entitled to recognition
in the convention, because it has not had
a Congressman in fifty years. Still, Sen
ator Hand says Cape May is sure to
give its solid delegation to Loudenslager,
and that would appear to settle the mat
ter. The Congressman has some little
F. B. Ridgway. his successor in that of
flee, by the way. is said to be against
him; but internal Revenue Collector
Isaac Mofht and Surrogate Willard F;
Gloucester county, say the trouble will
not become anything serious.
Sheriff David Baird, ex-City Counsel
J. Willard Morgan and County Clerk R.
". LUZ lCPOt Gil iiiS ~
Camden; that everybody is for Louden-
sIager' there. Senator R. c. Miller and
r. f. Diament, .sthe two Dromios,"' say
that Salem county is "an right" and
thus the L~oudenslager boomers feel GER
tain that the Congressman will be re-
nominated for a fourth term at the con-
ventdon, to be held in Mlllville on July
Il.
The parry at dinner Saturday night was
presided over by County Clerk Barker
Gummere, of Trenton. who said he had a
vivid recollection of having been in a
severe skirmish last fall. Brief adj
dresses were made by ex-Assemblyman
Minch, Mayor Thomas Bray. who gave
the visitors the freedom OF the city, but
forgot to chain up the mosquitoes; ex-
Judge John NJ. Moore, of CLAYTON, who
explained the manufacture of coolers at
his big glass works; Franklin H. Smith,
J. Hampton Moore, of Philadelphia
James Martin. of the New York "Frfb-
uney' Collector Moffitt, ex-Speaker L. I.
Derousse ex-Assem5blyman Austin, Sena-
tor Hand and others. Postmaster a. Z.
Yard, of Trenton: Captain r. R.. n. Read
ing, of Lambertville; and Surrogate ]. III.
Cornell, of Trenton, represented North
Jersey, and yesterday the party was join
ed by Senator H. W. Johnson, of Camden;
Senator Z. C. Stokes, of Cumberland; ex-
City Clerk T. P. yarney, T. T. Patterson
and Major u. S. Jeffries, of Camden, be-
sides a humble from other sections.