The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-08-29
FAVOR MURPHY
Republican State Commit
tesmen Say He Will Be
Their Candidate.
CONVENTION DAY FIXED
But All Other Business Is
Put Off Until General
Sewell Comes Back.
Especial to .-The Jersey city News."l

Especial to sThe Jersey City News.'1
/ TRENTON, Aug. 20, 1901.-As the chief
engineer of the Republican State machine
| is still on the Atlantic Ocean, the Repubi-
can State Committee did nothing at It's
meeting yesterday in the Trenton House
beyond fixing the date for the State con-
/ vention as stated in ssThe Jersey City
! News of yesterday No doubt the COM
1 mittee would not have dared to have gone
| as far as that had it not been necessary
/ TO fix a date in order to secure the Opera
House for day in the latter part of Sep
lember. The theatrical business, for some
| cause or other, is enjoying an unusual
/ boom IN trenton, and the big theatre,
/ which seems to be the only building i'll
/ the State in which convention can be
| held, is taken up by shows for the most
/ of that time. In fact the only date open
was Thursday, September rs, and some
of the Trenton leaders took that day as
the committee went through the formality
of fixing upon it as The day of the con-
veEtion
4 Nothing else was done, although it was
1 thought that some action would be taken
| on the resignation of Mr.. Franklin Muir
i ply as Chairman of the State Committee,
| but in the absence of General Sewell it
| was not considered. 1t is generally under
! stood that Mr.. Murphy will be the Repub-
/ lican candidate for Governor, and in that
4 case the eternal fitness of things demands
| a new chairman. This has given rise to
| strong der and for Edward G. Stokes,
i the Vice Chairman of the committee to
/ take the helm. Mr.. Stokes, whether right
/ ly or wrongly is credited in many Repub.
| lican quarters with being the real head OF
/ the State Committee, and many attribute
to his ability and intellectual leadership
much Of the success to which the party
4 has attained of late.
When asked yesterday if he would be
the new Chairman, Mr.. Stokes declared
Nor with an emphasis which carried
/ conviction Nevertheless he was pressed
further and said isn't no enough?
don't want to be State Chairman" When
asked who would take the office, he SAID
he could not say. which is taken to mean
| that no man can say until General Sewell
/ returns from Europe and looks the ground
| over.
i The matter of selecting a headquarters
for the committee during the coming
campaign was left to the Statel COMMITTEES
officers and it is generally understood
that they will be located in Newark in the
new strauss BullulHS dl ACaucHy eiiU
Halsey streets
There was large representation from
| the various counties present at yester-
! days meeting, including small sprinkins
/ of the colored element. Franklin Muir
ply himself came down early accom-
nar,ied by John S. Gibson, Secretary of
the State Committee, and Harry Potter
Of East Orange, one of the members from
,11cir1c 10 hEaI y
John Gibson talk of Mr.. Murphy as q
| candidate. He was sure that he would pc
| nominated, and he could not see how ne
| was going to be prevented from being
| elected. He was very popular with the
common people and the laboring men, he
1 declared, and they would vote tor him as
i one man. While Mr.. Gibson was talking
in this strain stylish barouche drawn by
two blooded bays and driven by a colored
coachman in rich livery drove up with
/ a flourish and stopped in front OF the
hotel.
..That's Franklin Murphy's turn out"
/ remarked bystander.
i eyes. and that the way he is making
votes among the common people and the
laborers.. remarked another, coming to
a State Committee meeting in such a
4 turnout as that, when John Kean and
/ other members equally wealthy either
| walk from the station or ride in troll
ley.''
4 This reminded another of a recent exhi-
1 bition of Mr.. Murphys tact which he gave
in Chicago. A man came up to Mr.. Muir
ply in the Auditorium Hotel. spoke to
i him and said he was from Newark.
ssAh," replied the would-ba Governor, in
a lofty manner, ''do you know seem to
be acquainted with more men in st.
Louis and Chicago than 1 am in New
4 ark
4 John Kean was among the early arri-
i walls. but Congressman Charles N. Fow-
ler the member from Union and the
mortal political foe of the junior United
States Senator, was not present Edward
Fry, the Hudson county member, came
4 down accompanied by Edward Woolley,
who was admitted to the councils as
i proxy for Colonel Samuel D. Dickinson.
The other committeeman present were ex-
State Senator Robert Williams of Passaic,
4 r. C. Hutchinson of Burlington, Senator
i Robert e. Hand of Cape May, Congress-
Il man Harry c. Loudenslager of Glouces-
ter, Colonel "Dick" Reading of Hunter
a don. A. NJ Bradshaw of Ocean, ex-Sena-
. tor John c. Ward Of Salem, Major E. J..
Anderson of Somerset and A. Blair Kel-
sey of Warren. William NJ BEETLE looked
after Camdens interests assisted by
Sheriff J. w. Sells and County Clerk
Frank Patterson, who were invited to
participate in the committees council.
Charles N. Robinson and A. B. Cosey,
formerly Of Jersey City, but now Of New
ark, were on hand to remind the leaders
that the colored brother was still playing
the role Of Banquo's ghost.
The basis of representation in the con-
yention was fixed the same as that for
the last convention which chose delegates
to The National convention. and the APP
portionment of the various counties was
fixed thus
Atlantic, 81; Bergen, 35; Burlington, 81;
Camden, 55; Cape. May, s.; Cumberland. "a;
Essex, 1871 Gloucester, 10; Hudson, Ill +;
Hunterdon, 116; Mercer, go; Middlesex, S5;
Monmouth, Al; Morris, So; Ocean IA; Pas
sale, So; Salem, 16; Somerset, 16; Sussex,
y; Union, 46 Warren, IA; total, 1923.
Although there was considerable talk Of
the nominee for Governor, it az summed
up in the general opinion that Franklin
Murphy would be the candidate. The fact,
however, did not arouse an over amount
of enthusiasm except among such men as
John S. Gibson. The majority Of the lea
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