The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-09-06
COP. CONVENTION
Franklin Murphy Appears
in a Shirt Waist and
Talks About His
Trip.
CAUCUS SLATE CHOSEN
Baird and Dryden Electors
at Large, Rappleye for
Hudson and Halsey
and Freeman for
Essex.
CAUCUS SLATE CHOSEN

Especial to "The Jersey City News'')
| TRENTON, Sept. 6, 1sO0.-In spite of all
| the effoffrts of Inc Republican leaders to
whoop things up, it is very dull here this
morning for a convention day. Perhaps
the weather, which is very oppressive is
to blame, and perhaps the knowledge that
everything is cut and dried is the cause of
the lack of enthusiasm.
| United States Senator's Kean and Sewell
| held the usual reception in room 100 in
the trenton House and condescendingly
! received the homage due them as the big
| ana little bosses Of the party.
| Mf FRANKLIN Murphy was very much in
evidence. He was attired as a shirtwaist
| man and appeared to be very busy He
and the new First Assistant Postmaste
General prepared a platform and submit
ted it to the State Committee meeting
held this morning. 1t was accepted and
| will be approved by the convention
| The Hudson delegation arrived early
and at caucus determined to support
David Baird of Camden and John F.
| Dryden as electors at large and Elbert
| Rappleye as elector from the Seventh
| district.
| If you are not particular what sort of
4 SC,
the Republican Convention, which was
held in the Opera House today, may be
| said to be a 'Shirtwaist Convention. :"
| Coats were in a large minority and palm
leaf fans were worked industriouslv.
| The delegates were slow in gathering
| in the Opera House and not even the
music of a really good band could induce
] them to get together any quicker. The
/ irf fnr~inv flft tI,n
usual bunting, with large picture of
1 PRESIDENT Mckinley over the stage
| General Sewell received first applause
when he came in, and Hudson showed
where she stood by the reception she
gave Franklin Murphy.
! 1t was 12:15 when Mr.. Murphy called
/ the convention to order. The Rev. Jud-
son Conklin, Baptist clergyman of
Trenton, prayed. Mr.. Murphy then made
"a few remarks" He made the Amer
lTican Eagle scream by talking of his trip
to Europe in an American built ship,
and declared that if every man did his
duty in the coming campaign the Re
publican ticket would be elected He
then jollied General Sewell, who was
| elected unanimously Chairman of the
Convention. The band played 'qHail Co
lumbia" and then Mr.. Sewell, escorted
by Sheffield Phelps of Bergen and Henry
NJ. Doremus of Essex, came upon the
| stage. His reception was quite enthusi-
astic.
/ The General made a speech almost as
hot as the weather and aroused consider
able enthusiasm. He relieved himself of
the usual platitudes of the general excel
lency of everything Republican and the
universal depravity of everything Demo-
cratic. He said he was opposed to taking
the Philippines. He did not like the idea
of taking such a population on our hands
but he did not think that one mans judg-
ment should stand in the way of the
party" The Philippines will come out all
right" he said and created some ap-
| plause
The roll of the counties for the commit
ties was then called. Hudson's members
/ are
Committee on Permanent Organizations,
John E. Macarthur; on Credentials, DR..
Philip Koonz; on Rules, Marshall Van
Wrinkle; Resolutions, Thomas M. Cough
lin; Vice-President, Joseph Guisto
The convention took recess to enable
the committees to prepare their reports.
The ticket selected after recess was:-
Electors at large, David Baird Of Cam
den and John f. Dryden.
District Electors:-
John Moore, Gloucester.
| 2--Washington A. Roebling, Mercer.
3-Frederick P. Olcott, Somerset.
Luther Kountze. Morris. a6s
/ 5-Willam Mckenzie, Bergen. d HI
6--George Halsey, Essex. ssHS
7-Elbert Rappelye, Hudson.
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