Modern battles of Trenton .. . s. All their plans would have been nipped in the bud by theelection of a Mayor not in sympathy with them, in the springof the following year, when Mr. Clevelands term expired. With the aid of apacked convention,Mayor Cleveland wasput in nominationagain. There weresigns of revolt on allsides, and in the beliefthat the anti-ringDemocracy would aidtheir candidate, theRepublicans were un-usually careful in se-lecting their F. Perkins, awealthy Bergen ave-nue business man, waschosen; and it becamean open secret, afterPerkins had failed ofelection, that
Modern battles of Trenton .. . s. All their plans would have been nipped in the bud by theelection of a Mayor not in sympathy with them, in the springof the following year, when Mr. Clevelands term expired. With the aid of apacked convention,Mayor Cleveland wasput in nominationagain. There weresigns of revolt on allsides, and in the beliefthat the anti-ringDemocracy would aidtheir candidate, theRepublicans were un-usually careful in se-lecting their F. Perkins, awealthy Bergen ave-nue business man, waschosen; and it becamean open secret, afterPerkins had failed ofelection, that was savedfrom defeat only bythe frauds of exposedballot-box stuff was not till the gangs of plunderers broke into two factionstwo years later, and engaged in a quarrel over the spoils ofplace, that the people succeeded in taking the control of publicaffairs out of the hands of the lawless mob by the election ofColonel P. F. Wanser to the Mayoralty. This consummation was not reached, however till most of the. Patrick H. ONeill. MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. 319- members of the combine had grown rich. Feeney figured asthe purchaser of mortgages and of houses. Davis moved fromthe tenement attic in which he had been making his home to ahome all alone by himself on Grove street. ONeill, with a livelysense of the hardships with which the want of an education hadsurrounded his own career, sent his children to the aristocraticschools. The decline of the public morals was shown by theacclaim with which the Y. M. C. A. of the city hailed him toits membership when he consented to join. McLaughlin boughtwhole rows of brownstone fronts, and, closing his little shop onPavonia avenue, moved to a handsome and capacious brown-stone front on Hamilton Park, though it must be said for himthat his wealth came from the race-tracks and not from partici-pation in public plunder. What was true of them was also trueof their satellites in smaller measure. Bar-room loungers of theera befo
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