Modern battles of Trenton .. . the tenor of his answers that he did notdesire to be a candidate. Still the battle for him went on andhe was subjected to endless pressure to reconsider his determina-tion. He was warned that he would be held responsible for theparty defeat that might follow his refusal to accept the nomina-tion when it had been tendered to him. His own dispositionwas to defeat this scheme by a plump public announcement of hisutter unwillingness to serve; but the Young managers thoughtSouth Jersey could be better held in hand by the Judges atti-tude of uncertainty, and it was con
Modern battles of Trenton .. . the tenor of his answers that he did notdesire to be a candidate. Still the battle for him went on andhe was subjected to endless pressure to reconsider his determina-tion. He was warned that he would be held responsible for theparty defeat that might follow his refusal to accept the nomina-tion when it had been tendered to him. His own dispositionwas to defeat this scheme by a plump public announcement of hisutter unwillingness to serve; but the Young managers thoughtSouth Jersey could be better held in hand by the Judges atti-tude of uncertainty, and it was continued. Allan McDermott and James Smith, Jr., were not slow toquote his failure to make a public declination as an evidencethat he could be prevailed upon to accept a nomination properlytendered to him, and they found their campaign in Wertssbehalf strengthened by the plea that for once the office was seek-ing the man. The battle was waged on both sides with suchskill that a day or two before that named for the holding of the. MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. 423 convention the two factions seemed to divide the Democraticstrength of the State equally. The turn of a hair was enoughto determine the rivalry. Senator MePherson was expected toturn the hair to Mr. Youngs side, and his followers hailed withhopeful enthusiasm the announcement, a week before the con-vention, that the vessel which was bringing him back to theseshores to take command of the convention had just been spoken off Sandy Hook. Two oommunities of newspaper readers saw the announce-ment in their journals of the following morning that the fear thatthere might be Asiatic cholera infection on the steamer had ledthe health authorities of New York to forbid the transfer ofeither passengers or baggage from her. One of these communi-ties was the fun-loving public who had awaited the arrival ofMiss Tara-ra-ra-Boom-de-Ya Collins with keen other was the throng of Jerseymen who learned with undis-guised anxiety t
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