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TILE POLICE JIJSTICESHIP.
A PROB1BEE COMBINATION ron
H.4NsER AND SzILSING.

| Features Of the Canvass for the Places
/ Now Held by ) Justices Lawrence and
| stiIsing-The Likely Candidates.
The matter of largest local attention that
will be brought to the notice Of the next
Legislature will be the selection Of Police
Justices. Justice D. w. Lawrence's term
viii expire in March or April. Police Justice
Samuel w. StiIsings term expired two
years ago, and he has since been holds
over because of the deadlock between the
Democratic Assemblies and the Republi-
can Senates. Both are candidates for re-
election, and both, it will be remembered,
were elected Police Justices while they
were members of the Assembly. The
selection of Stilsing was a voluntary up
rising of his friends in the House in his
favor. Some one in Joint meeting sug-
gested that he be the man, and within five
minutes the thing was done. At the time
of Lawrence's selection, there was a tie in
the local caucus. The modus operd7sdi Of
choosing local officer is for the caucus Of
Jersey City members to agree upon man
and report his name to the joint Caucus.
The confirmation of the selection by the
Joint Caucus comes as q matter of course.
The local caucus at the time of Lawrence's
selection could not agree upon candidate,
and the Joint caucus had to settle it for
them In Joint meeting Lawrence was
chosen. There will be four votes in the
local caucus this winter. Assemblymen
See. Dickinson, Romano and Heck are the
Republican Assemblymen representing
Jersey City constituencies The candi-
dates before them are Captain Farmer
Wanser, Major d. A. Peloubet and Justice
ssTomD Aldridge. The Farriers have bsen
pressing Wanser for the place for years;
and Assemblyman See, who represents the
First District Ewhere that influence is
strongest is welded to HIM. Assemblyfnan
Heck is for Caspar Speck if Mr.. Speck fails
to secure one of the offices of the House.
Dickinson is willing to take Wanser as his
second choice il See will take Stilsing as
his, and it is understood that an agreement
has been reached between them There
are two votes for the Wanser-Stilsing COM
bination. Heck was disposed to Lawrence
as his second choice at first, but the inhu-
encs of Frank Cole, Jimmy" Reid and
some others has produced change of
front. He very frankly declares that he can
not vote for Lawrence. That seems to make
three votes, and majority of the local eau
Gus, against him. It is said, furthermore,
that Mr.. Heck is not so welded to Mr..
Speck that he cannot be induced to cast
the third vote for the Wanser-Stilsing COM
bination and put it through. The matter
stands in about that shape at present; but
if Speck should fail to achieve the position
IN the sergeant-at-arms department. of the
House to which he is aspiring, the aspect
of affairs may be changed. He may then
insist on Speck being made one of the JUS
tees. That would involve the sacrifice of
Wanser, and the loss through it of Sees
vote, or of Stilsing and the loss Of Dickin-
sons vote, and make the agreement of their
Assemblymen upon one man impossible.
Perhaps Romaine and Heck might, in that
event, make little combination of three
own that would tie the local caucus, and
throw the settlement OF the question into
the full Joint Caueus.I IT it ever gets there
the result cannot be imagined.
Assemblyman Heck yesterday gave the
TATTLER some new light upon the subject.
81 do not understand" he said, s'that Mr..
Speck is ambitious to be police justice.
think there is more likelihood of Gen.
Ramsey getting warmly into the race. AS
far as Lawrence is concerned, have told
him very frankly my position Wanser
lives in the Sixth Aldermanic District. /
represent the Sixth Assembly District, and
he has many friends who are warmly for
him. Most of the workers in Lafayette are
with him. He is military man, and all
the soldier boys are for him. The fremen,
too, are for him. 1t would be like turning
my back upon the men who have helped
me to be against him; | have frankly told
him so. don't know that there is any
combination for Wanser and Stilsing, but
there is kind of an understanding about
the matter"
question has arisen whether Assem-
blyman Wade should be admitted to the
caucus. He lives in Harrison, but part Of
the Eighth District, which he represents,
is in this city. He is a Democrat, too, but
then he has been elected by the aid of Re-
publican votes. as an Independent.