Modern battles of Trenton .. . /he vicious atmosphere that was thus made to overspreadJersey City soon enveloped most of the other munici-palities. Parvenu leaders sprang up everywhere. En-trenched by being made the recognized dispensers ofState patronage, they became the heroes of the heelers andof the parasites of the party. To perpetuate their dominionthey linked arms with everything else that was disrepu-table in the State,in a movement to cap-ture the new Governorand to control the newLegislature. Severalnew race-tracks, that in-vited uncanny crowdswhich the people weredisposed to drive b
Modern battles of Trenton .. . /he vicious atmosphere that was thus made to overspreadJersey City soon enveloped most of the other munici-palities. Parvenu leaders sprang up everywhere. En-trenched by being made the recognized dispensers ofState patronage, they became the heroes of the heelers andof the parasites of the party. To perpetuate their dominionthey linked arms with everything else that was disrepu-table in the State,in a movement to cap-ture the new Governorand to control the newLegislature. Severalnew race-tracks, that in-vited uncanny crowdswhich the people weredisposed to drive back,had been planted allover the States soil andthe jockeys became theirallies. The liquor mendissatisfied with the ex-isting laws governing thetraffic, joined in, in thehope of securing some-thing more Abbett, having introduced the new throng to the sceneof action, was now asked to take the Governorship again to lead(320). Gen. E. Burd Grubb. MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. 321- them in their new conquests. He was a consenting party forthe reason that, at the expiration in 1893 of the term for whichit was proposed to nominate him, Rufus Blodgetts successor inthe United States Senate was to be chosen. To be at the headof the State was to command opportunities and dispense pat-ronage that would aid him to the achievement of his ambitionto be that successor himself. When the Democratic convention met in Trenton, in Sej>-tember, 1889, to name the Democratic candidate for Governor,his wag the only came talked of among the party was but one trifling interruption of the programme. AaAnti-Ring organization that had been formed in Hudson countyhad elected delegates to the State convention. Led by WilliamB. Rankin, a Philadelphia politician who had been Governor ofWashington Territory under Buchanan and finally settled downin Jersey City, and by ex-Speaker Rudolph F. Rabe, who brokea privacy of many y
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