The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-09-12
in THE POLITICAL FIELD.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE APPROACHING
STATE AND LOCAL CAMPAIGN.


Features Of the State Canvass, Gnbernator-
faI, Congressional and Assembly manic,
Presented in Terse Paragrnphs-The
Latest Guns In the Local Contests.
Ex-s, ma or J. Henry Stone, of Elizabeth,
is alai mingiy i'll.
The Newark Prees says that Congress
mau Lehlosch will be renominated.
The two Democratic Assemblymen from
Warren will be nominated next Saturday.
Ex-Assemblyman Plympton, formerly of
this County, died at Hackensack one day
last week.
The Salem Prohibitionists have nomi-
mated Robert 7. Seagraves for Assembly.
He is Democrat.
The First District Prohibitionists yester-
day nominated Edgar P. Sites, of Cape
May, for Congress.
Julius Manager, who died in Newark last
week, was once Engrossing Clerk of the
House of Assembly.
w. III. Nicholson, Jr., of Haddonfield,
has been nominated for Congress by the
First District Prohibitionists.
The next Governor will have the disposal
of more patronage than any of his prede-
eessors for nearly score of years.
Richard II. Brokaw, of Bound Brook, is
mentioned by the Chronicle, of that place,
as a likely Democratic candidate for Assem-
bly,.
The Newark Prohibitionists nominated
John R. Anderson, the school book pub
Usher. as candidate for Congress. He has
accepted. Ie
Miles Ross is reported as saying that he
wouldn't go to Congress again if a certiti-
cate of election and $40, 900 were offered
him on platter.
Ex-senator W. B. Miller, of Cape May,
has announced himself as candidate for
the Democratic Congressional nomination
in the First District.
The Englewood Times says Assemblyman
Winton will not seek a denomination, and
advises the nomination of r. p. Worten-
dyke, of Englewood.
The Second Congressional District Dem
ocratic Convention is called for Sept. 80,
at Toms River. Judge Buchananlwill be
reneminatsd by the Republicans.
Harvey Mcdonald, ex-postmaster of Mill
stone, has been nominated for Assembly
by the Somerset County Prohibitionists, in
place of George La Monte, declined.
The Third District Monmouth Demo-
Gratis have nominated Washington L. Hope
for Assembly. The Second District Pro-
hibitionists have put H. d. Wainwright in
the field.
In the First Congressional District,
= Prosecutor Belmont Perry, of Woodbury.,
is mentioned as likely Democratic can
didate. The Convention will be held
Saturday, Sept. 30th.
Tx Mayor John A. O'Neill, of Hoboken,
I Chief Engraver of the Bureau of Engraving
and Printing, has sold his house in Seventh
street, and is about to locate permanently
in Wasbipofon with hiS IA roilv
The Democratic Congressional Conven-
ton for the Second District will meet at
Toms River on September 80. 1t is proba-
BILE that Elias S. Reed, of Atlantic County,
will be nominated by reclamation.
Hon. Teddy Mcdonald says Blodgett will
be the Democratic nominee for Governor.
Teddy is usually we'll posted on Democratic
politics, and is the accredited representa-
tive of the ssshort hairs" of Hudson County.
- Camden Courier
Alta recent conference of Camden County
Prohibitionists, Mr.. Carter, the leader
among them, said that the third party was
not as well organized in that section as it
might be, and he did not expect to poll
over 700 votes in Camden County.
The anti.Sewell Republicans have de-
clared that Senator Sewell should be con-
demned and opposed for reelection for his
support of the Free Ship bill, the Fitz-
John Porter relief, and for his alleged
defeat of General Robson for Congress-.
Ex-Assemblyman Ebon Winton, of Ber-
gen, says that he is against Green for Gov
ernor, but in favor of Green's brother,
Ashbel, for United States Senator against
Albeit. He says that he is being urged by
the anti-McPherson element in Bergen
County to run for State Senator there.
The seven Senators to be elected this
Fall will have voice in the election of
both United States Senators Sewell and
Mcpherson. These are in Bergen, Hudson,
Mercer, now represented by Democrats,
and Atlantic, Cumberland, Morris and
Ocean, now represented by Republicans.
The name of u. s. Internal Revenue
Collector Samuel Klotz is published as
Chairman of one OF the local Democratic
campaign com nittees, and the Newark Ad-
uertiser wants to know if he knows that by
active participation in practical politics he
is violating one of the most rigid of Federal
civil service rules.
Judge Hyer, publisher of the Ndtioaal
Democrat, at Railway, and with twenty
years experience in the publishing bust
ness, announces that he will issue, next
week, the initial number of a new paper
under the title of "Jersey Lightning, a
humorous paper of sixteen pages, devoted
to New Jersey subjects.
The Englewood Times says it's likely
Senator Bogert, of Bergen, will stand for
denomination, all reports to the contrary
In case he should decline, Sweeting Mills
or Cornelius Christie will be nominated.
The Republicans, the same paper states,
will probably nominate Freebooter Moore,
of Ridgefeld. or Mr.. Hanfeld, last years
nominee.
The appointment of delegates by the
Democratic State Committee gives the
rural districts larger relative representa-
ton in the Gubernatorial Convention than
ever before, and under shrewd manage
ment the grangers may combine and up
set all the calculations of city politicians.
We wouldn't advise anybody to bet heavily
against Augustus w. Cutters nomination.
Paterson Guardian.