Modern battles of Trenton .. . s disliked and mistrusted him asmuch as ever, but having been twice humiliated by McPherson,they were not in as good fighting trim as they had been in thepast. Mr. liittle was the only one of them who undertook tocontinue the struggle against him. The convention met atTrenton, on September 13th, and a day or two before its assem-bling, Little went to Freehold in the hope of inducing JoelParker to give Abbett battle in convention. The old war horserefused to consent to the use of his name, and Little rushedback to Trenton to make a bitter personal attack upon theH
Modern battles of Trenton .. . s disliked and mistrusted him asmuch as ever, but having been twice humiliated by McPherson,they were not in as good fighting trim as they had been in thepast. Mr. liittle was the only one of them who undertook tocontinue the struggle against him. The convention met atTrenton, on September 13th, and a day or two before its assem-bling, Little went to Freehold in the hope of inducing JoelParker to give Abbett battle in convention. The old war horserefused to consent to the use of his name, and Little rushedback to Trenton to make a bitter personal attack upon theHudson Senator that was designed to so discredit him as to forcethe convention to nominate someone else. By the time thedelegates reached the hotel lobbies, Mr. Little was ready to dis-tribute among them handfuls of circulars attacking his personaland political integrity. The charges made in these circularswere that Abbett had been responsible for the Five County act,which practically permitted the mortgagor to bargain with the. Leon Abbett. MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. 213 morfgagee for a more than the standard legal rate of interest,that he had opposed the six per cent law, that he had voted forthe Catholic Protectory bill, that he had been indicted for mal-feasance by the Mercer County Grand Jury, that he had aidedthe Pennsylvania Railroad Company in seizing the water-frontat Jersey City, and that his general record in the L°gislaturewas that of a venal man. The circular had not half the effectthat Mr. Little had expected it to have. When the convention assembled, Allan L. McDermott wasmade temporary Chairman, but the State House managers scoreda point against Mr. Abbett by inducing the convention Com-mittee on Permanent Organization to substitute George O Van-•derbilt, of Mercer, in McDermotts place as permanent may have had hopes that Vanderbilt would hold the con-vention against Abbett as they had seen Abbett himself holdthe convention against Cleveland, but
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