The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-05-09
STATE PoLTzTcs.
What the Politicians Of the State Find TO
Talk About.

What the Politicians Of the State Find TO
Talk About.
The Republicans carried Dover at the re-
cent charter election.
The Prohibitionists will hold their State
Convention ON the 9Th. at Newark.
Ex-Governor tmdlow's design alton as
one Of the Elizabeth Tax Commissioners Is
warmly urged.
State Prison Keeper Patterson says he in
tends to make some changes among the
deputies in that institution.
Senator Nichols, in his Bridgeton Pioneer,
denies that the Republicans eaucussed the
vote that concluded the Lsyerty trial
A. E. Gordon, of New Brunswick, has
succeeded in finding $40, 900 of security,
and has entered upon his duties as United
States Marshal
The Philadelphia Record givessit out that
the word is being quietly passed around
for ex-Postmaster Ward, of Newark, for
the Republican Gubernatorial nomination.
The Morris Jerseyman is authority for
the statement that the State House Ring Is
running Green for Governor, and shat Gov
Albeit favors Ex-Oengressnan Harden
bergh.
The Laverty verdict has put all the Re-
publican newspapers and the thirteen Re
publican Senators on the defensive, and
both are striving to convince the people
that the Republican vote was q conscience
vote
The West Jersey Press, strongly Rspub-
lican and a pronounced Eewell organ, says
of the recent Legislature that 1t was the
most inconsequentAl and unproduotive
session that ever convened with Republi-
can majority.
William Walter Phelps Is of Yankee
origin, native Of New York City, gradu-
ate of Yale College, member Of the New
York bar, resident OF Tea Neck, In Ber-
gen County, Al years of age, and one Of the
wealthiest men in New Jersey.
The Democratic Congressman have kind
of evened up the political situation with
the Republicans, who recently made Gen
| Sewell member Of the Congressional Cam
paign Committee, by appointing Congress
man Green on the Democratic Congress
sional Campaign Committee.
Alb we see 1t all now Major Yard has
been trying to convince the people that
there is only one Democrat in the State ft
| to be Governor-that is Joel Parker, He
has Just got Joel Parker out of the race.
And now the HunterdoH County Democrat,
on the theory, probably, that the man who
knows good Governor whom he secs him
ought to make pretty good Governor
himself, proposes that Major Yard himself
step upon Joel Parker's Pedestal.
Little Large, of Hunterdon, has written
letter to the Clinton Democrat in which
he declares that his opposition TO the con-
firmation OF ex-senator Carpenter, editor
of that paper, as Sinking Fund Commits
sioner, was out Of respect TO the Demo.
cratic sentiment of Huuterdon County. In
the Republican caucus little Lzrge -induc-
ed the rejection by the Senate of the nom
nation on the ground that Senator Car
penter had not treated him fairly in his
newspaper commands.
The following letter to Major Yard, oil
the Monmouth Democrat, explains itself
FRERHosD D, Ray s, 1885,
Dsar Aajer-Yours Of yesterday 10 received. You
state that there is general feeling throughout the
! State in favor of my nomination for Governor
! You inqsire If am candidate for the nomination
/ and If not candidate, whether / would accept II
nominated with unanimity, by the Democratic
Convention.
Although it is gratifying to have my name men
toned in that connection by my fellow citizens
| yet am not and will not be q candidate for tbs
| nomination, and should be nominated would
L
Yours,
! JONI PARKER
Mayor Klotz, the new Collector Of Rev
enue of Newark, apropos of the contest
against the nomination of Ex-Surrogate
| Zulick for Governor of Arizona, makes Q
charge of practical forgery against Ex-J udgs
Ludlow McCartsr-who Is bitter enemy
of Zulick's. An affidavit signed by Alder,
man George Smith, of Newark, and charg.
ing Zulick with having once offered TO sell
Smith an Office under him, and ca another
occasion with having tried to bribe him
with $500 to stuff ballot-box in Zulick'l
interest was the main weapon used against
the Ex-Surrogate. Mayor Klotz says that
Smith admitted signing the affidavit, but
denied that he had said anything about
money in it. ALI he alleged was that Zulicl
had not trerted him fairly. 1t is in order
now for Ex-Judge McCsrter to explain.