Modern battles of Trenton .. . ough canvass of theState. Senator Potts called it to order, and J. Weyman Jones,,of Hudson, was Chairman. There was no aspirant in the fieldagainst Mr. Halsey, and his nomination was made by acclama-tion. Mr. Halsey was undoubtedly the most popular man ofthe party in the State at the time. He was at the head of theleather manufacturing industry, a man of large wealth, and ofsuch fair instincts that the hundreds of hands in his service wereready to speak in his favor to the laboring voters in the had been a Representative in CoDgres3, and was at one timeo
Modern battles of Trenton .. . ough canvass of theState. Senator Potts called it to order, and J. Weyman Jones,,of Hudson, was Chairman. There was no aspirant in the fieldagainst Mr. Halsey, and his nomination was made by acclama-tion. Mr. Halsey was undoubtedly the most popular man ofthe party in the State at the time. He was at the head of theleather manufacturing industry, a man of large wealth, and ofsuch fair instincts that the hundreds of hands in his service wereready to speak in his favor to the laboring voters in the had been a Representative in CoDgres3, and was at one timeoffered the position of Register of the United States Treasury byGeneral Grant. He was one of the chief men in the commis-sion named by Governor Randolph for the management of theinsane asylum at Morris Plains, said to be the second finestasylum of its kind in the world. He enjoyed the confidenceand respect of the people in the northern section of the State,,,where he was best known, to an unusual degree, and was knowtt(102) \^. _J George A. Halsey. 104 MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. to have no sympathy whatever with the iniquitous system ofLegislative Commissions, under which the ring of Republicanjobbers was robbing Jersey City. The sufferings of the peopleof that municipality had aroused the public concern and sym-pathy from one end of the State to the other. Other municipali-ties feared that the establishment of the same system over themmight subject them to the same evils, and the people everywherewere consequently aroused to the perils of the situation. Thecountenance which the party as represented in several Legisla-tures had given to the system was felt to be a handicap toRepublican success, and the leaders appreciated the necessity ofoffering to the people as its candidate for Governor a citizenwhose high character and standing would be a guaraatee ofbetter methods. If opposition to Legislative Commiesions was a necessaryqualification in a Republican candidate, it was an ev
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