The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-09-20
THE CANVASS IN THE STATE.
What the Press and Politicians Find to
Talk About.


What the Press and Politicians Find to
Talk About.
The great and good Joel Fl. Mills, with
q smile child-like and bland, when some
one suggests to him that it would be rare
honor for him to be the first Governor to be
elected for three terms but then he would
be better pleased to see ssBen Lee put in
nomination.
In BERGEN County Assemblymen Wenton
and Van Bussum will probably be renom-
mated.
The men whom the Bergen Democrats
talk of to succeed the late Senator Ezra
Miller. are County Collector John w. Be-
CERT. Peter Bogert, Jr., of Rutherford Ex-
Senator Cooper and DR.. Banks of Engle-
The Lamberville Record, Republican
paper resents an attack by the State Gazette
of trenton. on Senator Carpenter of Hun
terdon County. "We have always found
the Senator" says the Record, g acting in
a manly way, upright, gentlemanly and
able. He done honor to his county as a
Senator, and if the Democrats will con-
tinue TO fill the positions with his equals we
shall consider our county fortunate. The
Gazette does it itself no credit by its
course"
They say that Senator Smith is deter
mined to have the scalp of Governor Alb
bett, and that, to do so, he proposes to run
again. We trust this is so. 1t the Repub-
llcan candidate should be defeated, which
we don't want and don't expect, we should
prefer to have him defeated by an implac-
able and vlndictive enemy of Governor Alb
4 I, rfv bu m xub ornsf he
cajoled or bribed.--M Holly Mirror.
Almost every telegraph pole and every
fence and blank wal in Camden, was Mon
day afternoon decorated with half-sheet
poster, printed in very fine type. 1t was
headed .sOffice of the Pennsie Railroad,
and at the bottom was :. General Sewell,
superintendent in charge of the politics of
New jersey" The body of the circular
was full of scurrilous sarcasm upon United
States Senator w. j. Sewell, and his con-
nectien with the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company was attacked in bad etymology
and worse syntax.
BENJAMIN T. Lee, Clerk of the Supreme
Court, has had a little country gubernator-
ial boom started down in Salem. 1t is now
in order for Andrew Albright to dig his up
and give it a campaign polish. He might
as well be in time. -HoboleeR Democrat
Some of our exchanges have inaugurated
boom for Judge Joel Parker for Governor
next year. If we are not mistaken, the next
Governor of New Jersey will be Benjamin
+. Lee.-Salem Sunbeam.
The Democratic County Convention, of
Burlington County, will be held on Satur-
day, October 3, a week later than the Re-
publican. We make no prediction as to
the nomination on either side. vSR
The First Prohibition Executive Com
mittee of she First Congressional District
of New Jersey has engaged Ex-Governor
st. John to open the Fall campaign at l
Bridgeton on the 25th inst. IS
The Prohihitionists of Morris county will
hold convention at Morristown, Septem-
Der 21st. In the morning three candidates
for Assembly will be nominated. Ex-Gov-
ernor st. john will address a mass meeting
in the afternoon.
The Somerset County Temperance Asso.
citation met at Raritan last Tuesday, and
appointed committees to attend the Repub-
ican and Democratic County Conventions
and urge the nomination of Assembly can
didates pledged to vote for the submits
sion Of prohibition amendment to the
people.
In the First Assembly District, of Bur-
lington, Jerome Grigg, Johnny Warner and
Samuel r. Wetherill are mentioned as seek
ing to succeed Hon. Mr.. Budd.
If he is earnestly in the fight, the battle
CRY this Fall and next will be ssLeon Albeit
for Senat !" a5d it will be- a. creative, of
the es~tf1it siasm that nerves the rank fand
file to earnest work and final success, as
silicon Albeit for Governor proved in
1S83.-Salem Sunbeam.
The Burlington Enterprise names as a
candidate for State Senator, the Hon. E.
Budd Marter.
At the Burlington County Prohibition
Convention, held at Mount Holly ten days
ago, James Lippincott, Jr., of Mount Holly,
was nominated for Senator. For Assembly.
DR.. Woodruff, of Columbus, was nominated
in the First District, and Joseph Colkitt, of
Mount Holly, in the Third District. The
Second District Convention will be held at
Burlington on the 22d.
The intention of the Newark Democrats
is to hold the City Convention, to nominate
a candidate for Mayor, on Friday, October
9th, four days before election. The district
primaries will be held on Tuesday, October
9th. The fight for the nomination for
Water Commissioner, will be the exciting
feature of the Democratic Convention.
Ex-Assistaut City Counsel Samuel J.
Mcdonald is candidate for the Democratic
Assembly nomination in the Sixth District
of Essex. His friends are of the opinion
that he can defeat Mr.. Murphy for re-elec-
ton. The Democrats of the Ninth Assem-
bly, District talk of again nominating John
l.. Armitage.
The friends of ex-Sheriff Wright are in
favor of giving him the Republican nomi-
nation for Mayor of Newark.
The name of Judge j. L, Johnson. of the
Essex Common Pleas, has been very favor
ably mentioned in connection with the
Democratic nomination for Assembly in the
First District of Essex.