Modern battles of Trenton .. . lethemselves to the idea of aiding the ring to promote even him;and they looked to the Republicans to lead a non-partisan cam-paign against him. An independent Democratic organizationwas formed to negotiate with the Republicans for a union of clean hands in acommon struggleagainst the spoils-men again. Theywent in conventionat the same hour atwhich the Repub-licans assembled toselect their nomineefor Senator. Con-ference committeeswere were ex-changed. Con-vinced that astraight party nomi-nation could bringthem no victory,the Republicansagreed to
Modern battles of Trenton .. . lethemselves to the idea of aiding the ring to promote even him;and they looked to the Republicans to lead a non-partisan cam-paign against him. An independent Democratic organizationwas formed to negotiate with the Republicans for a union of clean hands in acommon struggleagainst the spoils-men again. Theywent in conventionat the same hour atwhich the Repub-licans assembled toselect their nomineefor Senator. Con-ference committeeswere were ex-changed. Con-vinced that astraight party nomi-nation could bringthem no victory,the Republicansagreed to give theirindorsement to thecandidate theirDemocratic alliesshould agree upon. So it was that William S. Stuhr, an inde-pendent Democrat, was made the Fusion candidate against Stuhr was almost entirely unknown in politics. His fatherhad been a busy factor in politics and public affairs for years inHoboken. Young Stuhr himself was a young man just enter-ing upon the practice of the law. But it was believed that the. William S. Stuhr. MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. 329 wide acquaintance his father enjoyed among the Germans ofthe county would be a valuable aid to him in the comingstruggle. The canvass was a fierce and a bitter one. The chances wereall against Stuhr because, as the reckless ring-men were fond ofsaying in their own vernacular We have the boxes, and thereturns sent in by them from the election places gave the Demo-cratic ticket which they had espoused phenomenal were surprising as well as phenomenal, because the driftof public sentiment had indicated that if the Democratic candi-dates could succeed at all in the county their majorities wouldbe inappreciably small ones. Six thousand would have been agenerous majority under the most favorable at the close of the polls on this election night of 1889 itwas announced that Abbett had carried the county by close onto 14,000 majority and that McDonald had won it by an equallyoverw
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