The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-02-05
DOWN TO ZERO.
Woolley and His Gang
Turned Down Cold by
the Legislature.
ESSEX'S MODEST DEAL
Help Give Us the West Hud-
son Towns and We Will
Commit Any Crime
You Ask.
ESSEX'S MODEST DEAL
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TRENTON, FEB, 5, ls01.-Somewhere in
Jersey City today the sun shines dull and
cheerless and the band plays in the min
orist kind of minor key. That some
where is where Colonel Samuel d. Dickin-
son, Assistant Postmaster Edward w.
t 'Woolley. Truant Officer Frank Higgins
and other Republican leaders meet and
| discuss their visit to the State Capital
last night.
Quite distinguished array of them
came down here early in the afternoon
for the purpose of launching some legis,a-
tion which they thing will do their party
much good and enable them some day.
to carry the county
In the throng were, besides the gentle
men mentioned above, John E. Macarthur.
Howard Griffiths, Edward Mitchell and
Emile Datz. Concealed about their per-
sons was an anti spring election bill which
they had high hopes of having introduce
ed and started on the high road to the
statute book. They had been led to be-
ileve that this would be accomplished by
certain utterances attributed in newspa-
pers OF more or less reliability to the Es-
sex members of the House and influen-
tial Senator'S
FOR example, they had been informed
that Senator Reed, the leader of the Re-
publican majority had reclared that
whatever Essex wanted would be passed,
from which they reasonably inferred that
should Essex agree upon the bill it
would go through. Certain of the Essex
members have been reported of late as
being in favor of the bill The pugna-
ID,
been quoted as saying he thought the
measure was good one both for the
people and the party and others had been
equally outspoken.
This was received all the more cheer
fully because copies of the bill had been
sent to the Essex men and it was taken
for granted that they were acquainted
with its provisions. 1t is no wonder then,
that these high-minded patriots journey
ed to Trenton in high spirits.
They had not been here vefy long be-
fore those same spirits went down al
most to the point where mercury freezes.
1t took just about four minutes by the
clock for the patriots to discover that
Essex was still in the bunco business at
the same old stand.
When the Hudson gentlemen suggested
spring elections the Essex men with all
the affrontry of the crooked gambler, said
that they would advocate the measure
anolishing elections in the spring if the
Hudson men would Use their influence
and work for the passage of the bill sane
tioning the larceny by Essex of fat slice
of Hudson's territory. OF course the
proposition was TOO absurd to be enter
tanned for second and nothing further
was said upon the question.
When the Senators who listened to the
Hudson men a week ago last night bade
the gentlemen good night they said that
they would hear them again last night
When the Hudson men had recovered in
a measure from the shock their encounter
with the Essex men had given them they
started out to corral the Senator's and
pour their woes into their ears, but they
met with no better success.
AS the Senators were approached they
all with one acord began to make ex-
cuse, and there was no conference or
hearing, or whatever you may choose to
call it, between the Hudson men and the
Senators. Colonel Dickinson and the one
or two other level-headed men in the ag-
gregation soon saw the true drifgt of af-
this week at least
After last nights experience it is the
general impression among the knowing
ones here that notwithstanding Frank
lin Murphy's bid for the Hudson dele
gates in the next Gubernatorial conven-
ton the anti-Spring Election bill is dead
for this session AS to the other pet
measures which the Hudson patriots ad-
vocate-the Excise Board and Bipartisan
Police Board bills, it is not SO easy to
speak.
At this writing they seem to be occu-
pying the same plot in the Legislative
cemetery with the anti-spring election bill
and the same tree waves its branches
over the three graves. Still the session is
young and nothing is more uncertain than
a Jersey Legislature. No one can tell
what day may bring forth and the pos
sibilities are always large.