The Jersey City news., 1902-11-10
WANTED, ,ALEADER
Jersey Republicans Badly
Demoralized for Want of
a Competent General.
AFTER THE SPOILS
Week y Gatherings at Trenton
to Parcel Out the Jobs Be-
gin Tomorrow.
AFTER THE SPOILS
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TRENTON, Nov. 10, 1902.-Iaw-
makers and lawmakers elect will begin
to gather at the New Jersey State
House tomorrow for the weekly pow
WOW that has been the custom for years
and years in time between election and
the organization of the Legislature. The
gatherings that will begin tomorrow
will not be composed of so many Repub-
hcans as have gone there in the past
ten years. The number was greatly
lessened by last Tuesdays balloting,
and. if all signs are not awry, the num-
Der will be even less next year, but
that chapter of the story will come in
due time. The fact that there will be
number of new faces in the corridor
and that there are those who might
have been there but for internal troubles
of their party, will give to the gathering
added interest, and make the guessing
more acute. A s ..s---
For, after all, it is the weekly guessing
that draws the statemen thither. They
ask each other what is going to hap
pen and each knows just what to ex-
pect, but wants the other fellow to
tell Some of the wise ones fear to
tell all they know lest they betray them
selves Those who carry the orders look
Sphynx-like- and talk only in whispers
and in the secluded corners of the cor
ridor.
The fact is, however, that there will
be not so many orders to carry this year.
There is a lack of leadership that is sure
to draw heavily upon the stock of har-
mony and bring clashes in the struggle
for the plums within the gift of the
coming Legislature. There are the two
warning factions of the Republican or
ganization, and there is sure to be trou-
BILE
REWARDS FOR THE FAITHFUL.
With the smaller number of Republi-
cans to be taken care of there will be
no less clamor for the jobs, but there
win be more to go round. Counties
which have heretofore loomed up large
and commanding when the patronage
wagon came around cannot hold out
their hands this year, and there will
be all the more for those which stood
squarely up to the line and returned
something like the old-tinle majorities
for the ticket. Thus it may be possible
for the little counties which have been
compelled in years past to take of the
few little crumbs from the feast to get
something later as a reward for their
efforts.
Cape May, for instance, which broke
all its records in rolling up a majority
for Assemblyman Cresse, is likely to
make a demand for recognition which
cannot be overlooked. Camden, which
returned three members in the face of
a fierce onslaught viii loom up for its
share, Gloucester, which performed
a similar feat. in re-electing Assembly
man Avis, will not be any too modest,
even if it did elect Democratic Sena-
tor. Nor will Cumberland, which came
up to the scratch, with handsome Re
publican majority, forget to ask for
proper recognition at the hands of the
Legislature particularly as Salem and
Ocean of the South Jersey counties are
not now in the reckoning, both having
the temerity to elect Democratic mem
bers.
i BURLINGTON. STARTS IN EARLY.
Burlington's hand has gone up firsi
in the demand for the Speakership Of
the House for Assemblyman John G.
Horner, who has been returned for a
fifth turn by snug majority. Mr.
Horner was modest, careful party lead
er last term and he is sure he will make
a Speaker of whom the organization
may feel proud before he gets through
with the job. As leader he made a lot
of friends, and it is likely that he viii
profit by the goodness of heart ant
store of brains which he exhibited on the
floor at the last session. Mr. Hornel
will have worthy antagonist, however
in Edgar Williams. who has been re
turned as one of the Essex delegation.
Mr.. Williams is fortified with long
experience at Trenton, both as mem
Der and as an officer of the Legislature
and the fact that he is a bright, intelli
gent, Eustling newspaper man will not
weigh against him. Still it is usually tht
part of the Essex delegation to fish for 6
lot Of little jobs and let the bigger one.
60, so that Williams may find himself
side-tracked in the same old way
Assemblyman Stalter, of Passaic, wht
was another of the members of the las
House, is also said to be willing to swim,
the gayel from the Speakers desk, but b,
has not formally announced his candidac,
as yet. Passaic did not send full Re
publican delegation to Trenton this trip
but elected a strong Democrat, in plac
of Assemblyman Bogart. There are thos,
unkind enough to say that the countr.
could have kept up work like that with
out detriment to itself or loss to tn
s;tate.
PRESIDENCY OF THE SENATE.