The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-10-31

gentleman referred to is Edward T.
Mclaughlin, and glance at his record as
here set forth, will no doubt satisfy enough
of the voters of the district that he will
represent them thoroughly and properly to
ensure his election. Mr. Mclaughlin was
born in Christie street, New York City, on
the oath day of August, 1888, of American
parents, and is consequently in his forty
ninth year. In I84I, when the subject OF
this sketch was but three years of age, the
family removed to Essex street, this city,
where the senior Mclaughlin was born.
Mr.. Mclaughlin was educated at what is
now Hasbrouck's Institute, then private
school known as the Lyceum, kept by
MessEs. Baldwin Dickinson, the latter
being the late School Superintendent. He
remained at school here till he was about
seventeen years of age, when he got en-
ployment in the Yankee notion establish
ment of Butler 8. Winter, No. III Liberty
street, New York. There he remained for
nine months, till June, 1855, when his
father, who was doing an extensive cooper
age business at 23 Old Slip. put him at
work with him to learn the trade. Edward
served his apprenticeship and rose step by
step in all the details of the business till,
on January 1, 1860, he succeeded his
father and took in two partners named
Wiley. The firm name was changed to
Mclaughlin & Wiley. Mr. Mclaughlin
still continues in business at the old stand.
Some idea of the extent of his business
may be imagined when it is stated that in
three days last week about 1900 hogsheads
were handled at the establishment. Dur
ing the years 1870 and 1872, when the
celebrated DR.. Carnichan was the health
officer of the Port of New York, Mr.. Nc
Laughlin did all the quarantine cooperage
business under him, and it can be said to
his great credit that through all his bust
ness career, he has never been involved in
| litigation either for or against any man.
When ONeill was Mayor of this city,
Mclaughlin had brush with the FIRE de-
partment which he remembers to this day.
His father was moving two houses around
to York street and his son was chosen to
superintend their location. He notified the
Fire Commissioners of his intention before
going to work. They sent him no reply, but
at their next meeting a resolution was in
troduced by Chief Farrier and passed by the
Board, restraining Mclaughlin from pro-
ceeding with the work as it was in viola
ton of the Fire Boards rules. The next
morning, while he was busy at work,
he was confronted with the Boards
resolution, but he refused to comply
| with it and he was arrested. The case
was tried before Judge Roderick B. Sew.
| mour and McLaughlin's defense was that
| the resolution of the Board restraining
him was not operative, because il
lacked the signature of the Mayor. Ssy.
mour, Mclaughlin claims. charged the
| jury against the evidence, and thereby
influenced verdict against him. From that
/ day haze, Mclaughlin has been bending
every gaoIttc t-7ea the score with Seymour.
and his o. y obi,cs in running last year for
| the Assembly, and especially as q stump
| candidate, was to knock out his score
against the Republican nominee. In 1873
Mr.. Mclaughlin acted as chairman Of the
Greenback' Labor Convention which nomi-
mated Kennedy for Sheriff, performing his
duties sc such in a most creditable manner
and to the satisfaction of the party.
Notwithstanding the fact that the dele
gates, by reason Of their igns. ance of the
rules governing parliamentary bodies,
kept the convention in an almost continual
state OF turmoil, Mr.. Mclaughlin, bit,.fry
opposed TO the ring policy adopted al
primaries more often than not, demon
Strated 10 the people of the First District
at one time how honest primaries could be
obtained by standing at the corner of
Warren and Montgomery streets, where the
primary was held one election, with a book
in his hand and keeping tally OF every
vote that was cast. At the close of the
primaries he announced the result to the
JUDGES, whom. although their figures were
no; the same as his, he compelled them to
admit that his tally was the only correct
one.
Mr.. Mclaughlin was a member of the
old First District Democratic Association,
of which F. G. Wolbert was President,
which used to meet in franklin Hall. His
open SIGHT in the old hook and ladder
house with Precinct Representative Isaac
KaYlor from whom Mclaughlin demanded
an accounting OF how the campaign money