The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-06-20
WITH The GANG
Doings Of Jerseymen at
the Philadelphia Con-
Vention.
DECLARATION FOR LONG
Yet the Delegations Real
Choice Is Bliss.

has given the boom of John d. Long, for
second place, a renewed impetus, and the
Jerseymen are, sanguine that before the
Vice Presidential nomination is made, the
Secretary of the Navy will be the favor
ite
The Jersey delegation held a conference
yesterday and unanimously oppressed its
preference for Long as McKinley's rum
ming mate.
Delegate-at-Large Barker Gummere
favored the iron-cIad endorsement of the
New England man, but Flavel MCGEE, a
delgate from the Hudson district, sug-
gested that the action be more tmeper-
ate.
1t was then unanimously decided to
place New eJrsey on record as favoring
the Long boom, and the delegation will
further confer on the matter at ten
o'clock tomorrow morning.
The position taken by the delegates
gives New Jersey the right of line in the
Long procession, it being the first of the
States, outside of his home State of Mas
sachusetts, to push the boom along.
Among the leaders who are watching
the moves on the political chess board
the pronounced fight being made by Cen
eral Sewell for Secretary Long is regard
ed as coming direct from the fountain
head.
They argue that the President could
not make his position any palmer by
openly endorsing his Secretary Of the
Navy.
Long is not New Jerseys ,rst choice any
more than he is McKinley's. The State
is at heart for Cornelius N. Bliss of New
York.
But he is so completely out of the game
that it would be folly of the widest sort
to make any attempt in that direction
So, following the lead of Mckinley, the
State has crawled on to the Long band
wagon and is whooping it up for him in
good style.
In the big convention hall yesterday
New Jersey was very much in evidence.
The States delegation had the choicest
seats in the assemblage, being located inn
mediately in front of the speakers res
trum.
Immediately behind the Jersey repre-
sentatives sat the New York delegation,
50 that the shimering rays of Roose-
velt's lustre were shed on the men from
the Garden State.
United tSate Senator Kean was but a
few PAGES from Senator Hanna on the
platform, and in all directions Jerseymen
were in evidence.
In the front row of the stage seats of
honor could be seen the aiming head of
Senator McCarter, the bumptious young
man from Essex.
State Banking Commissioner Bettle sat
directly behind him and left the hall
after Wolcott had waded through three
quarters of the White House campaign
document.
Further back on the stage the broad,
though sparsely covered head of the Rev.
George C. Maddox, prison chaplain, and
some time member of the Board of Man
ayers of the State Home for Girls, stood
out in prominence, while in a conspicu-
Gus stand to the left on the platform was
to be seen the dapper little pastor of the
Central Baptist Church of Trenton, the
Rev. DR.. Wishart.
And there were others, too. The BEAM
ing countenance of Congressman Fowler
of Elizabeth shone from under the
spreading branches of huge tropical
plant at the extreme end of the hall
while the less prominent of his fellow
Jerseymen all managed to get good ITS.
The applause of the Jersey contingent
was greatest when Senator Wolcott paid
a glowing tribute to the memory of the
lamented Garrett A. Hobart. In speaking
of the Paterson statesman, the Coloradan
said
'Four years ago the Republican party
at st. Louis named a ticket which COM
manded the confidence and support of
the American people. 1t bore the names
of two eminent Americans, each endear-
ed by years of loyal service to his country
and his party.
s'No whisper of personal attack intrud-
ed upon the national issues which deter
mined the contest. There was a double
safeguard for the countrys welfare.
Every true American knew that if in the
dispensation of Providence our leader
should be called from his, high place, there
stood beside him statesman devoted
and staunch, in whose hands the vast and
mighty affairs of our country could be
we'll and safely entrusted.
HAD Garrett Augustus Hobart been
spared to US until today, the work of
this convention would have been limited
to a. cordial al unanimous Endorsement
of the leaders of 49,
ssDiis alter visum-and when, few
months ago, our dear Vice President left
this sphere of usefulness for another, he
was accompanied with the tears and sor-
row of every lover of his country.
stTIe distinctly lifted the high office of
Vice President to nobler plane and to
greater dignity and Importance.
J'sHe was alawys the trusted friend and
wiser of our President. sage in counsel
and wise in Judgment; while to those of
us whose great privilege it was for three
years to see him daily in the Senate OF
the United States, and to come under
the influence of his calm and kindly pres
ence and to grow nearer to him and
more endeared In friendship as the
months rolled around. his loss is personal
and deep.
s'TIe is no longer with US in the body,
but his influence still permeates the Sen
ate and will for al ltime make better and
kindlier the sons of men, and he lives in
the hearts he left hehinh.
One great society aions on earth
The noble living and the noble dead. >"
After the convention the Jerseymen re-
turned to the headquarters al the Lafay-
ette and then stared in to do the city,"
The time was very pleasantly spent,
every visitor being cared for by a card
of entrance to some club or other.
Many took in the mass meeting in the
others mingled with the throngs in the
hotel corridors and clubs.
Every Jerseyman felt it incumbent up-
an him to give the Long boom a. cliff