Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-14
POLITICS ARE
NOT BACKWARD
Some of the Gossip at Trenton
The Dryden Dinner the Talk
This Week.

TRENTON, May 14.-By the end
of another week there will be a good
chance of specializing upon the out
look on the election of United States
senator by the next legislature. The
situation will assume more, definite
shape next Saturday. when Colonel
A. r, Kusera gets his crowd together
for the planked shad dinner at Wash
ington Park. The gathering is apt
to be the largest and most represent
~tative political aggregations "collec-
ted under one ten for a single adj
mission" in years. They are coming
strong from Washington, and from
every .coGner.e of New Jersey, supple
mented by'la few stars from other
states, and the show will be worth
going miles tonsee.
1t Is i6Hst a pleasant social gath
ering, customary with Colonel Kuser,
who likes to do such things" some
one has said, but when you consider
that the colonel is a son-in-law of
United States Senator Dryden; that
he was one of the principal engineers
of the senator's first election and that
every member of the senate and as
semb1y, machine men, insurgents,
democrats and all are invited to
come and enjoy the feast, the conclu-
sion that politics may have something
to do with 1t would seem irresistible.
Beside Senator Dryden's colleague,
John Kean, who has so sturdily stood
Co., a. aootfA,onfH Af tho naapIo ~
his state on the rate bill, is coming,
along with the house delegation from
this state, with several special guests
from other parts of the country; Gov
ernor Stokes and all his official fam
lily; all the party leaders from all the
counties and many smaller officials,
and workers from various sections,
and if things don't happen in that big
crowd of merry-makers, somebody is
missing a guess.
Some folks have the notion that
the announcement of George l.. Rec
ord's candidacy for senator may have
precipitated things for Senator Dry
den, for the situation had not been
clearly understood in all quarters I'M
til Mayor Pagan sprang the boom for
which so many people were looking.
OF course, the Record candidacy has
caused a good many spinal creeps in
various parts of the state, and all
sorts of schemes have been imputed
to the anti-machine men who are
back of it. On the side, too, muck
rakes are being sharpened for active
work when the need for them arrives,
and Mr.. Record will learn more about
himself than he had ever dreamed
.of.
The fact that General Grub has
come out openly for the Colby insur-
gents in Burlington county is another
serious setback for the machine men,
for no one can accuse the general OF
Interior motives in his political ac-
t~ivities. 1t is too soon since he herv-
ed the republican party well for many
of its most earnest and active sup
p~orters to forget, and the formidable
following he is likely to gather to
himself in whatever line of activity
he may pursue is not reassuring to
the machine men. If, therefore, he
should pick one of his friends as a
candidate for the assembly and Or
ganize for a real fight at the primar-
les next fall, there would be n of
the most strenuous battles Burling-
ton county has ever seen.
But there has been some intima-
ton that Senator Colby might not be
a candidate for governor next year
and that General Grub might. In
which event things would assume a
pretty fine aspect. 1t would be a bit
of political history repeated with
variations, for those who remember
the notable fight General Grubb made
for governor before, also remember
that a good many of the influential
men of the republican machine did
not shed many bitter tears when he
failed to land. But the general did
not finch. He proceeded, at his own
expense, to show that he had good
ground for the belief that he had
been elected despite the count OF the
vote and some two score of men who
donned the stripes at Trenton share
in his belief to this day, although
they would probably not care to adj
NIT 1t.