The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-08-24
LEADERS ABSENT
Neither Davy Baird Nor Col
onel Dickinson Was in
Trenton On Governors
Day.
LENTz WAS THERE BUT slLEHT
so THE FAITHFUL WENT AWAY
UNENLIGHTENED AS TO HUD-
son AND ESSEX sQUABBLEs.

son AND ESSEX sQUABBLES.
The politicians who journeyed TO the
State house expecting 10 meet Leaders
David Baird, of Camden, and Samuel
D. Dickinson, of Hudson, and imbibe
from them some inside knowledge Of the
political situation. were doomed to dis
appointment.
There We're, however, several leading
Republicans on hand, some Of whom are
looked upon as State LEADERS, Major
Carl Lentz was among them, bnt had
little to say about the Essex situation.
When asked if there was anything new
in the Senatorial fight in his county. he
remarked somewhat sarcastically that
the newspapers knew more about it than
he did, and then he went into the Gov
ernor's private office and had a talk
with the Executive
Senator William ]. Bradley, of Cam
den, was another of the Governors call
ers. He professed to have no knowledge
of the political situation at his end of
the State, and said it was too hot to
talk politics. If he has any doubts of
his reelection to the Senate next fail,
and his selection as president Of that
body, he did not show it.
On the same train with Mr.. Bradley
came Speaker John Boyd Avis. Of Glou-
eester, who has hard fight on his hands
for the Senatorial nomination in his coun-
ty. He frankly admitted this, but said
that he considered his chances of sue
cess much brighter than they We're a
month ago. It was factional fight, he
said but if he should fail to win the
nomination he and his supporters would
Loyalty stand by the nominee Of the con-
vention. although some of those advocat-
ing the nomination Of his opponent,
George W. Gaunt. had sworn that they
could not vote for the Speaker if he
should win the fight.
An ardent supporter of the Speaker.
who accompanied him to Trenton, said
that Congressman Henry c. Loudensla-
ger was the presiding genius of the oppo-
sition to Mr.. Avis and that he was trying
to punish the Speaker for refusing to
vote for Loudenslager for United States
Senator when Senator Dryden was elect
ed. In that memorable fight the Speaker
was an ardent supporter of Governor
Stokes.
One of the visiting statesmen at the
State house was "a prominent Union
County leader with strong leanings to-
ward the fortunes of Representative
Charles N. Fowler. He was much
amused, he said, at the stories that the
people who are making war on the Plain
field machine were going to have Assem-
blyman Everett Colby, of Essex, address
the people on ssThe way to fight the
bosses" or some kindred topic. The
machine in Plainfeld. he explained. is es-
sentially a Fowler organization. and
those attacking it have the reputation of
L
being Kean men. Under those circum-
stances" the Union man went on, do
YOU suppose John Kean is going to let
anything like that be done which would
give the impression, however slight,
that he is countenancing anything like
the Colby movement against his friend
Major Lentz
It was generally conceded. he said fur
| ther that Plainfield could name the Re-
publican candidate for Senator But he
thought it would be a disastrous thing
if William M. Runyqn was selected, as,
he said, many Republicans in Union can
not forgive him the part he took two
years ago in defeating the Republican
Assembly ticket.
The Union leader also impaired the in
formation, which surprised many of his
hearers, that Mr.. Runyon really did not
care for the nomination and was not
over-exerting himself to secure it.