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OvERWORkED
FactionaI Party squabbles
All Over the State Make
'Harmonizing a Steady
Job.
HUDSON IS 'RECONcnED"
So Now They Must Send the
Dove Of Peace to Other
Counties Which Elect
Senator'S.
HUDSON IS 'RECONCILED'
Especial Is .sThe Jersey city News


Special to ..The Jersey city News')
TRENTON, June II. 1906 People
who pretend to be on the inside Of things
political say that the State leaders hay
ing stilled the Republican storm in Hudt
son are now going to try their hands at
the pacifcation Of factions in other coull-
ties where Senators are to be elected.
The leaders to whom this gossip refers
are Governor Stokes. State Treasurer
Frank O. Briggs. q. S. Senator Dryden.
Major Carl Lentz and Sheriff David
Baird. It is said these G. o. P. stars
are SO puffed up by their success in
'.reconeilingg Colonel Dickinson. Mayor
Pagan and Corporation Counsel Record
that no political tangle, be it ever 50
puzzling. can daunt them.
These men also believe that these
same leaders are devoutiy wishing thai
they could dispose Of the situation in Es-
sex as easily as they have Of the Hudson
affair. In fact, it is said that an eff
fort in that direction was made recently
and that a man who is supposed TO be
friend of the Senatorial aspirant, Ever
ct Colby, as web as Of Major Lentz.
sounded the former, who is insisting on
limited franchises and equal taxation.
with view of ascertaining whether any
thing could induce him to withdraw
from the fight. It Is even said that the
bait Of a Congressional nomination was
sdangled temptingly in front Of the West
Orange man. but that he refused to bite
1t is not Hudson and Essex alone
which are worrying the State leaders. it
is claimed. but the situation in Glouees-
ter, Somerset and Union is giving them
more than ordinary concern. In Glou-
eester, Speaker John Boyd Avis, the can.
didate for the senatorial nomination of
the Watkins faction, makes no attempt
TO belittle the seriousness of the situation
there, and freely admits that he viii
have no easy task to defeat at the pri-
maries his opponent of the Loudensiager
faction. George W F. Gaunt.
The causes of the leaders apprehen
sion for Somerset, where Colonel Joseph
S. Frelinghuysen, personal aide to the
Governor and chairman Of the Somerset
County Committee, wants the Senatorial
nomination, have many times been ex-
planned. 1t seems that the old rivalry
which divided the Republicans of SoIner-
set into the Thompson and Reed camps
has been revived. Former Senator and
Former Clerk IN Chancery Lewis A.
Thompson is incensed at the way in
which the colonel opposed the reappoint-
ment Of James +. Griggs for prosecutor
Of the pleas and got the place for John
f. Roger, and has announced his inten-
ton of punishing the Governors aide!
by appearing at the primaries as a cam
|didate against him.
The leaders are annoyed. it is said,
that this factional fight should have
broken out in Somerset at this time.
when the utmost harmony is needed in
the party ranks TO secure the election Of
State Senator who viii have a vote for
United States Senator Drvden's success
sor
There IS one prominent State leader.
whose position in the party should make
him thoroughly familiar with the situa-
tion, who takes 4 pessimistic view Of the
conditions in Union County. There is an
impression abroad that the Republican
county leaders have decreed that the
Senatorial nomination shall 90 to Plain
field next fall. According to the man rel
ferred to. this is not exactly correct. The
real understanding is that if Plainfeld
presents man who comes up to the Sem
atorial standard established for Union By
such men as Chancellor Magic, Judge
Benjamin +. Vail. Foster H. Voorhees,.
and Judge Joseph Cross she can have
the nomination: II her candidate does
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