The acme magazine . hout opposition. ShermanB. Oviatt, former Speaker of the House,was sent again to the Assembly from home district—and, it washinted, not strictly in opposition to thelatters wishes, and the Democratic candi-date in the Shrewsbury district, which liesalso along the New York and Long BranchRailroad, was beaten by a Republican to-wards whom railroad interests were notsupposed to entertain any marked antip-athy. So that with Ohattle, of LongBranch, in the Senate and Throckmortonof the First district, and Oviatt and Luf-burrow in the House, and Green just pul-ing thr
The acme magazine . hout opposition. ShermanB. Oviatt, former Speaker of the House,was sent again to the Assembly from home district—and, it washinted, not strictly in opposition to thelatters wishes, and the Democratic candi-date in the Shrewsbury district, which liesalso along the New York and Long BranchRailroad, was beaten by a Republican to-wards whom railroad interests were notsupposed to entertain any marked antip-athy. So that with Ohattle, of LongBranch, in the Senate and Throckmortonof the First district, and Oviatt and Luf-burrow in the House, and Green just pul-ing through in the reliable (?) old countyit looked a drawn battle between politicalparties in Monmouth ; and if there was alarge personal following for Abbett it cer-tainly had failed of any adequate represen-tation in the legislature. It was charged by the Abbett leadersthat there had been apathy, if not opendisaffection ; that the Blodgett peoplehad sulked in their tents ; and therewas no convincing denial. The Gover-. General William J. Sewell. nors friends, however, counted on caucuscontrol of the two men from Monmouthand loudly proclaimed them as in honorbound to support the regular candidatefor the United States Senate, which, ofcourse, could be none other than Gover-nor Abbett, with all that his nominationwould imply. The election was over and Green wasGovernor by 8,020 plurality. (This wasthe year that Clinton B. Fisk ran on theProhibition ticket, and pluralities had tobe substituted for majorities.) The re-turns were claimed by the Democrats togive them a majority of one on joint bal-lot in the incoming legislature, or forty-one for their candidate for the Senate toforty all told against him, and a margin inthe House sufficiently large to organize theAssembly in the interests of the party. However, it will be seen that this wasa boast on the part of him that puttethon his armor. The Republicans held theState Senate by the safe majority of three,there being twelve Republica
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