Modern battles of Trenton .. . disposes one to moreworldly conceits thanhe who lives among thebooks might be expectedto indulge. JudgeFort had additional rea-sons for standing in op-position to the attitudeMr. Foster hoped toinduce the conventionto assume on this par-ticular question. Richbrewers, who had notender sympathies withteetotalism, were amonghis clients. He insistedthat an attempt to cramlocal option down thethroat of the partywould choke it—that if it was done Essex at any rate would be hopelessly beyondreach; and he insisted that the platform, if it did not specificallydisavow that
Modern battles of Trenton .. . disposes one to moreworldly conceits thanhe who lives among thebooks might be expectedto indulge. JudgeFort had additional rea-sons for standing in op-position to the attitudeMr. Foster hoped toinduce the conventionto assume on this par-ticular question. Richbrewers, who had notender sympathies withteetotalism, were amonghis clients. He insistedthat an attempt to cramlocal option down thethroat of the partywould choke it—that if it was done Essex at any rate would be hopelessly beyondreach; and he insisted that the platform, if it did not specificallydisavow that particular tenet, should at least be prudently silentconcerning it. - The discussion, started in Essex, found echoesin other counties; and there was so much protest on all sidesagainst the policy of the Local Option bill that, to emphasize theopposition, Judge Fort was made the permanent Chairman ofthe convention, f The plank in the platform dealt with the all-absorbing question after all with so much indecision that, when. J. Frank Fort. 324 MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. it was read, the Essex delegation broke into a clamor of pro-tests, and Henry A. Potter, their Chairman, felt called upon toannounce for his colleagues that Essex voted for its adoption only on the understanding that it means high license alone,,and asks that this declaration of her construction of it be madepart of the record. The campaign thus inaugurated was the second upon whichex-Senator Hobart, as Chairman of the Republican State Com-mittee, had entered with high hope of success. The manage-ment on the other side was in the hands of Allan L. McDer-mott as Chairman of the Democratic State Committee. It pro-gressed with energy on both sides and shifting prospects of suc-cess. The Burlington General went up to the Hackensackriver with an enormous vote. The result depended whollyupon what Hudson county had done. And there the returnswere gathered from the polling-places with irritating was long a
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