Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-06-19
AT THE
G. O. P. JUBILEE

PHILADELPHIA, June 19.@The
headquarters for the New Jersey del
egation to the golden jubilee conven
tion of the National Republican
League we're opened yesterday in the
green room on the first floor of the
Bellevue-Stratford. There the dele
gates assembled and received their
badges before proceeding to the hall
where the convention was held.
Previous to the opening of the o n
vention the New Jersey delegates
selected Postmaster George w. Pol
lit, of Paterson, temporary chair
man, and William H. Parry, secretary
of the New Jersey league, to act in
that capacity for the delegation.
Postmaster Alexander G. Yard was
selected to represent the state on the
committee on credentials, William H.
Parry on the committee on resolu-
lions, and f. e. Jeffries on the COM
mittee on rules.
New Jersey was well located in the
convention, on the left side of the
hall near the stage, between New
York and Kentucky. When the ON
vention opened the state was well
represented, the delegates present be-
ing General Burd Grub, Senator
John Horner and Speaker Samuel K.
Robbins, of Burlington; Postmaster
Pollitt, Judge Frank j. Higgins, of
Jersey City; Edmund c. Hill, Tren-
ton, treasurer of the state league;
William H. Parry, and Fred F. Mey-
ers, Jr., Newark; former Senator Will
liam c.. Parry, Burlington; Mayor
Charles H. Ellis, Camden; William
Fl. Chew, Salem; James B. Dayton,
Trenton, a nephew of the first re-
publican vice presidential candidate;
Postmaster Alexander G. Yard. of
Trenton; Postmaster e. Van F. Ben
ners, M~oorestown; w. Frank Parker,
New Brunswick; Assemblyman Peter
Tillman. Railway; Dennis ]. Burke,
Elizabeth; James Armit, Paterson
Carl J. Ahlstedt and Alfred B. Cosey,
Newark, Joseph Parry, Hoboken, and
Louis Johnson, Newark.
With the New Jerseymen vas Or
Vile j. Victor, of Hohokus, who vot
ed for Fremont and Dayton 1Sty
years ago. Mr.. Victor was a newspa
per man, living in Ohio then, and
four years later he wrote a life of
Abraham Lincoln, which the national
republican committee used as a cam
paign document during the campaign
of that year. Mr.. Victor has been a
resident of Bergen county for several
years.
Governor Stokes came to Philadel-
phia this afternoon and dined with
Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M.
Shaw, j. Hampton Moore. president
of the national league, and other
leading republicans at the Union
League club. After dinner he went to
the Academy of Music, where he pre-
sided over a mass meeting.
At this meeting one of the boxes
was occupied by Miss Dayton. OF
Trenton, daughter of William l.. Day
ton. In the box with Miss Dayton
were twelve other relatives of the
first vice presidential candidate. They
received an ovation when they APP
peared.
State Senator Everett Colby, pres
ident of the New Jersey league, Is TX
pected to be in Philadelphia tomor-
row. In the morning the New Jersey
delegation will hold a caucus to de-
termine which of the candidates for
president of the national league IL
will support. The Jerseymen had
ahnut decided TO sunno Slice r Rid
ding, of Little Rock, Ark. but 1t was
said tonight that he would decline to
run, which necessitated the Jersey
mems picking out a new candidate
for their support.