Modern battles of Trenton .. . d by his restless activity in local affairs tomake himself both conspicuous and popular in Morris county. He had been electedto Congress, as theresult of one of themost searching cam-paigns in the historyof the Fifth district,,and he had immor-talized himself whilethere by devising thepostal card and mak-ing it a feature of thepostal facilities of thenation. His crudeoratory was of thehomely kind thattook with thepeople of that section^and when he wentinto a canvass henever missed a school-house in all of the three counties comprising his district. Atthe time of
Modern battles of Trenton .. . d by his restless activity in local affairs tomake himself both conspicuous and popular in Morris county. He had been electedto Congress, as theresult of one of themost searching cam-paigns in the historyof the Fifth district,,and he had immor-talized himself whilethere by devising thepostal card and mak-ing it a feature of thepostal facilities of thenation. His crudeoratory was of thehomely kind thattook with thepeople of that section^and when he wentinto a canvass henever missed a school-house in all of the three counties comprising his district. Atthe time of the assembling of this convention he had just com-pleted his fourth term in Congress, and a good many of theshrewd Republicans, taking his successes in his Congressionaldistrict as an earnest of what he could do throughout the State,believed that he was the man whom the party should send outto meet Abbett. But all the plans that looked to his candidacy were spoiled ata little dinner given by William Walter Phelps on the eve of. John Hill. MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. 215 the assembling of the convention. General Sewell, FredericA. Potts, Garret A. Hobart and others of the Republican chief-tains who were at the banquet, naturally discussed the politicalsituation between bites, and some one suggested the name ofJonathan Dixon, of Jersey City, as that of an available of stature and rather thin of voice. Judge Dixon was notvery imposing in form, but intellectually he was one of thecleanest-cut men in the State. His oratory was perfect in itselocution, his diction chaste, and his rhetoric trained. His ex-temporaneous speeches, printed as they fall from his lips, with-out change, read as gracefully as the most carefully-preparedorations of scholarly speakers, and it was said of him, at a trialin which both appeared, that if he had had the presence andthe voice of Robert Gilchrist—who was one of the most dra-matic orators in the State at the time—he would be one of thegran
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