Modern battles of Trenton .. . is way,almost as soon as he had begun the agitation, an opening foreffective work for the cause he had gone to the city to had made his home in a part of the city largely settled by/Pennsylvaniarailroad em-ployes. If therewas a corner ofthe city wherethe influence ofthat corporationwas consideredsupreme, it wasin this ThirdAssembly D i s -trict, and it wasknown all overthe State, too, asabout the onlyreliable Repub-lican district inthe Democratictown. In spiteof its large rail-road population,Mr. Cator wentinto the Repub-lican primaries there as a seek
Modern battles of Trenton .. . is way,almost as soon as he had begun the agitation, an opening foreffective work for the cause he had gone to the city to had made his home in a part of the city largely settled by/Pennsylvaniarailroad em-ployes. If therewas a corner ofthe city wherethe influence ofthat corporationwas consideredsupreme, it wasin this ThirdAssembly D i s -trict, and it wasknown all overthe State, too, asabout the onlyreliable Repub-lican district inthe Democratictown. In spiteof its large rail-road population,Mr. Cator wentinto the Repub-lican primaries there as a seeker after the nomination for theAssembly on an anti-monopoly platform (1881). The regulars of the district hooted him as a carpet-baggerand an adventurer, and pushed Asa W. Dickinson forward inhis stead. Mr. Dickinson was then a very young man—a mereboy of twenty-three or four. He had been the legislative cor-respondent of a local newspaper and become a fast friend ofGeneral Sewell while at Trenton. He had ended his newspaper. Thomas V. Cator. 190 MODERN BATTLES OF TRENTON. career in order to go ioto the law, when the solicitations of hisneighbors tempted him into politics, and he consented to go intothe primary as a candidate against the brilliant anti-monopolistleader. The hall in which the primary was held was packed tosuffocation, and the balloting proceeded amid great the end of it Mr. Dickinson had the larger number of votes,and, in accordance with usage, was proclaimed as the partysnominee. The Democra<^8 of the district at once set up the cry that the primary had beenpacked in the interestof Mr. Dickinson bythe railroad companies,and the surroundingspointed out Mr. Catorto them as their candi-date on an anti-monop-oly platform. The con-test riveted the attentionof politicians all over theState. Mr. Dickinsontried to escape the handi-cap of being regardedas a railroad candidateby making a personalcanvass on purely par-tisan grounds, and mighthave won hi
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