The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-01-26
TRYING TO
GUST kEAN
Fight Already Begun to
Make Stokes the Col
league for Dryden.
JOHNSON FOR GOVERNOR
Deal Said to B. Engineered
BY Essex Men Lively
Scramble in Store.
JOHNSON FOR GOVERNOR
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| TRENTON, Jan 26, 1903.-United
States Senator John Kean's announce
ment sent out from Washington a few
days ago shat he will spend to night in
the State capital and hold "a reception for
his friends in room 100 at the Trenton
House has peculiar significance just at
this time in the light of stories that have
been affoat in the Republican circles for a.
week past to the effect that plans ase
afoot which are likely to make Senator
Kean's road TO reelection two years
hence an exceedingly rough one to travel.
According to these rumors a combina
/ tion has been formed among a number Of
prominent party leaders in which a slate
has already been made up for +he Guber-
Material nomination next year and also
for the 'Senatorship when Mr.. Kean's
term expires. The same story has it that
the Union County mans name is not on
this slate.
4 Among the leaders said to be parties to
this alleged understanding or agreement
as to the disposition of the party's favor
are, Governor Franklin Murphy and Unit
| ed States Senator John f. Dryden. The
slate which rumor has it has been agreed
upon by the combination is as follows:-
Edward G. Stokes for United States
SENATOR
William NJ johnson, for Governor.
STOKES BOOM A BLIND.
Since the convention that nominated
Governor Murphy /; year ago last fall,
Republicans throughout the State have
lbeenl lining up for Stokes as the next Gu
hernatorial nominee. The Chancery Clerk
has never said either yes or no to the
proposition, but has allowed it to be an
nounced without contradiction that he
would be candidate for the Executive
chair. The sudden change III the plan
announced through rumors that have
leaked out of the State House within the
past few days has given rise in many
i quarters to surmise that the Stokes GU
bernatorial boom has never been intend
ed as more than blind to prevent pre-
mature lannching of the Senatorial cam
! paign.
1 PART OF A SCHEME.
The story which is being told anent
/ the alleged Stokes-J ohnson combination
/ is that when the Cumberland man delay
j ed announcement of his Senatorial cam
1 didacy at the time Senator Dryden was
elected last winter the delay and the ,ap-
\ parent Indifference manifested by him
were part Of compact by which he had
/ agreed to aid in negative way in Dry
denis election, with the understanding
/ that Senator Dryden and Governor MUIR
ply would support him for the other New
Jersey seat in the Senate when Kean's
term was cut.
/ While the notices sent out that SEN
ator Kean regretted his inability to have
been present at the Trenton political
gathering the night before the organiza-
tion Of the Legislature are supposed to
explain his anxiety to meet his friends
Monday night by way of making amends,
it has been limited that whisper of the
j supposed combination against him may
have reached Washington and have some
thing to do with the Union mans prepa-
rations for the announced reception.
JOHNSON FOR GOVERNOR.
The suggestion of johnson for gov
ernor is thought by many to be in line
with the attitude Of the Bergen man
since he resigned the Assistant Post
mastsr-G Generalship to return to New Jer
sey last year. At that time he refused
4 the State Treasurership, offered him by
4 former Governor Voorhees, at the time of
George B. Swain's death, and since then
4 he is credited with having declined APP
Il pointneiits to several Offices, among them
place on the Supreme Court bench
i SCRAMBLE FOR KEAN'S SEAT.
That there is likely to be lively
scramble for Kean's place when his term
expires, and that. he will have a hard
fight to be sent back to Washington, is
i undohbted by anybody who has been
watching the recent developments and
trend Of Republican affairs in the State
In his own county Kean is expected to
have the opposition of Congressman
Charles ~ Fowler, who has been looked
upon as d possible aspirant for the place.
Fowler and Stokes are u friendly terms
4 and whistler the Congressman will be as
enthusiastic for Stokes as Senator as he
sI.Woulds have been for him as Governor
i remains to be seen. Ihe aHaiGef IN
81 which the two United States Senators
s split recently upon the contest for State
Il presidency is said to have played no
small ,sart in forcing the issue ON the
n Sellaforship. In tlpt fight the Governor
sand Senator DRYDEN supported Strong. of
Middlesex, and Senator Kean'ss stubborn
refusal to withdraw from his Advocacy
\ Of his own candidate. Gross, is said to
4 have been the cause of some lively dis
eilssiol af several conferences where eff
q forts we're made to compromise and end
the fight.
Senator Keans successor will be elect
ed III January 1895, by The Legislature
elected year from next fall. Governor
Murphy s successor will be elected insthe
rcampaign of next vear as will also a
President Of the United States and 4
Congress delegation
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