The Jersey City news., 1904-03-19

ated the full list as greed upon IN joint
commiftee and ii was unanimously
adopted. Joseph I. Crowell was the
speaker. Within an hour the House
was fully organized and proceeded to
business,
There We're In the membership Of that
House at least three men who may be
ranked as remarkable. These were Leon
Albeit, Daniel Corey and Goble. Mr.
Albeit was just then beginning his poll
ticai career and the promptness with
which he assumed the position and au-
thority of boss over his political asso-
ciates in that General Assembly, easily
marked him as man born to command
His tremendous energy, fertility of re-
source, vigorous will power and deter
mination to achieve his purposes, no
matter whom, whether friend or foe,
might be sacrificed, enabled him to be-.
come what he afterward was, the SUI
preme dictator of his party in this State,
before whom all the minor bosses
learned to crook the hinges of the knee.
ITO all men who were well acquainted
with Albeit. it was no secret that the
aspiration of his life was to attain
seat in the Senate of the United States,
and that to this end he directed all his
energy and subordinated all other objects
and purposes. His defeat was a terrible
blow, as cruel as it was unexpected, and
it came from a man whom he had dis
covered and made politically. What
wonder is it that he sank under the re-
verse, filed with disappointment, morti-
fcation and wrath. The old man was
heartbroken.
Daniel Corey had been in, Fort La
fayette, where he had been held pris-
oner because of his open and noisy hos
tility to the Federal Government. Upon
the complaints and afidavits of some of
his loyal neighbors, which were placed in
the hands of A. Q. Keasbey, the then
United States District Attorney for the
State of New Jersey, and by him for
warded to Washington, it was ordered
that Mr.. Corey be arrested and confined
in Fort Lafayette. Accordingly, a war
rant for his arrest was issued and placed
in the hands of Robert Lang and Charles
w. Benjamin, two well-known sleuths of
that day, and they, with the aid of some
local officials, who were familiar with
the retired spot up in the hills of Somer-
set county where Mr.. Corey resided, went
quietly one evening to his house and took
him into custody. Driving quickly to the
railroad station at Plainfeld to await the
train for New York, they discovered that
some means, against which they had been
warned beforehand. some of the prison
er's friends had, in spite of all precau-
tions, learned of his arrest, and had
reached the station almost as soon as
themselves. These people were noisy
and began to talk and act in turbulent
manner, threatening to rescue the prison
er. Corey, however, had good sense
enough to know the folly Of such a
course, and told his friends to be quiet,
that rescue would not do him any good
and would do them much harm.
When their train arrived the officers,
with their prisoner, went quietly on
board, and before midnight Corey was
quartered safely in the old fort, where
he met many who had felt just as he
did, and there he tarried until near the
end of the war, when he was released
and returned home in time for his fellow
citizens of that Assembly district, who
very largely sympathized wit hhim in his
Views, to nominate him and, by a very
large majority, elect him member Of
til House
Corey therefore came to Trenton
wearing a martyrs crown, and was
looked upon as hero who had suffered
persecution and held in high esteem by
his political friends. 1t may be said of
him in truth and justice that, apart
from his political notions. he was man
Of fair intelligence and disposed to be
an honest citizen, but, like many others,
had conceived the most bitter hostility
to every means taken for the preserva-
tion of the Union. and to every man
who stood by the North in the terrible
struggle then going on.
Another member of that Assembly
who may be called remarkable, was Mr..
Goble, from the lower part of the State.
He composed, had printed and distrib-
uted, scurrilous attack upon President
Lincoln, and all who supported him in
his prosecution Of the war to preserve
the Union. This attack was in the shape