The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-08-24
HIGGINS A CANDIDATE
William Barnes, Ir., Announces
That the Governor Wants a
denomination.
POLITICAL POT is SETTLING

Jerome OaliS f1earSt an lnSpfrer OF
Assassins - Hearst Calls Jerome a
Neurotic Lieutenant of Robbers and
Grafters-Barnes Says That Higgins
Will Win.
New York, Aug. 24.-William Barnes,
Jr., chairman of the Republican state
executive committee, after a confer
ence with Governor Higgins came to
New York and announced that the
governor was candidate for renomi-
nation
Governor Higgins" said Mr.. Barnes,
sis candidate for denomination. He
never chased after a nomination, and
he is not chasing after a denomination.
He is a candidate for denomination,
but he does not demand the honor
from the state convention. He did not
expect TO make any announcement
with reference to his intention prior
to the meeting of the state convention.
apprehend, however, that the talka-
tiveness of the state chairman will at
an early date prompt the governor to
make statement outlining his posi-
ton.
"The friends of Governor Higgins
will control the state convention and
nominate him. There is not the slight
est doubt of that On the showing
made in the state committee last week
the governor will have GO per cent of
the delegates, and this percentage will
be increased when the roll call for
New York and Kings counties is had"
Jerome Denounoes Hearst.
District Attorney Jerome added to
the political excitement by his an
swer to this question:
"If Mr.. Hearst is nominated by the
Democratic convention, will you sup
port him"
whats the use of talking like that"
Jerome said. "You will never have to
face that proposition. The Democrat
ic party has had to swallow some bit
ter draughts in the past, but it will
never stand for that medicine.
"There is no question of Hearst in
this matter-that is, of the person
Hearst The question is of the group
about Hearst. Hearst the man is
man ONO ideas and of no Importance.
He is NJ 'Je Murphy. Murphy's brains
are in EUROPE. How can you expect
Murphfi Ito talk until Cram gets back
I don'N know just when Cram is due
back, but as soon as he gets here
you'll find that Murphy will have
something to say. Murphy can't think.
Cram thinks for him. Wait till Cram
gets back.
'The question about Hearst resolves
itself into the persons about him.
whose ideas, working on the added
brain of Czolgosz, armed his hand to
slay president. Working along those
lines, it is reflected in the conduct of
that great leader of the independence
league in Brooklyn, Bird S. Coler, who
went along the line of the Brooklyn
Rapid Transit last week melting riot;
also the great Sheriff Flaherty, who
acted in like manner, melting riots,
instead of leaving to be settled by the
courts the matters which belonged to
them"
Hearst Denounces Jerome.
In the Journal Mr.. Hearst has this
to say of Jerome:
''This man. with the shaking hands,
the uncertain, infiamed mind, the al
most lunatic conceit and arrogance,
what part does he play in the gov
erning of the country's greatest city?
He is the man who has made it
safe for the big criminal to rob the
millions of small people
HE is the man who has refused to
indict any criminal with money in his
pocket He is the man who has pro-
tected the ice trust, who has protected
| the insurance thieves, who has not
| only laughed at the solemn promises
| that he made, but who has the i'm
| pudence to ask of the people now an
other office.
"Who are the. men back of the pre-
posterous pretensions of Jerome? Who
are the men who believe that he can
be used once more to fool the people
as he has fooled them in the past?
''They are primarily Mcclellan, the
Office thief, and Sullivan, the king
CRATER, and the trusts that stand be-
hind them, pay them, own them and
| direct them.
rs it not national shame to see q
shaking, preposterous, half crazy,
breaker of promises held up by the Of
flee thief and the CRATER as the can
didate for governor of the state?
"Was such an insult to the public
| intelligence ever conceived? Could
any rebuke be strong enough to reply
to it?'