The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1886-10-24
In THE POLITICAL FIELD.
GOSSIP ABOUT THE APPROACHING
STATE AND LOCAL CAMPAIGN.

material, Congressional and Assem-
bIymamlc, Presented in Terse Para
graphs-The Latest Guns in the
Local Contests.
The wife of Congressman Buchanan died
Sunday afternoon.
Assemblyman Throckmorton is the Dem
ocratic candidate for Senator in Monmouth
county.
The Democrats of Somerset county have
nominated George E. Pace for the As
sembly.
Ex-Journal Clerk Staunton of the Assem-
bly, is to be married next week to Miss
Maggie Pellet.
The Second (Bergen) District Republi-
cans will probably nominate Peter Acker
man for Assembly.
George S. Ware, of the Rio Grande
Sugar Company, is the Republican As
sembly candidate in Cape May.
Handsome William Pintard has been re-
Nominated for Assembly by the Democrats
of the Third District of Monmouth.
The name of ex-Postmaster VIM. Ward is
mentioned for the Assembly nomination in
one of the Newark districts.
There is talk of the withdrawal of
Speaker Armstrong and the other Sewelt
candidates in Camden county and the sub
stitution of new men.
The Atlantic Republicans have re-nom-
mated Senator Gardner for the fourth term
and for the Assembly selected Capt. VIII
Liam Robinson, of Absecon.
Gen. j. NJ Drake, of the Veteran Zouaves
of Elizabeth, is out enthusiastically for
Green and Mcmahon. He was formerly
strong and active Republican.
Gen. Fisk addressed large meeting in
Trenton last night. He said the Prohibi-
ton movement would not cease until there
is an unconditional surrender of the Amer
lean saloon.
The Orange Journal says that Denny, the
Labor candidate in the Second Orange Dis
trict, is not workingman, but the Demo-
cratic assessor of the ward that pays the
best of any in the city.
Joseph W. Savage, of Railway, Demo
craLic nominee for Assembly in the Rah-
way district, is cousin of ex-Assembly-
man Savage. Assemblyman William
Chamberlain is running against him.
The Elizabeth Democrats of the Second
Assembly District have nominated James
L. Morgan for Assembly Mr.. Morgan is
labor organizations The Republicans
Squire Doron, Republican nominee for
ASSEMBLY in the Third Burlington District,
was forced to pledge himself to vote for
Sewell before he could get the nomination.
So says one of the Burlington papers.
The Clinton Democrat says that the men |
in the Fourth Congressional District who |
opposed Pidcocks denomination are also |
secretly fighting Green and the Democratic |
Assembly nominees; and that Secretary of |
State Kelsey is in cahoot with them.
The candidacy of General Sewell has
aroused the most bitter feeling in Morris
county among the Republicans, and ex-
Senator Youngblood is after the scalp of |
George w. Jenkins, the nominee for Sen |
ator, who is pronounced Sewall man.
The United Labor Party in Essex county |
mas now five candidates for the Assembly |
in the field-D. j. Brady, in the First Dis !
trict; John j. Denny, in the Second; Jas.
Carr, in the Fourth; William b. Harris, in
the Sixth, and Eugene McGrath in the
Tenth.
Camden Democratic Assembly nomina-
tions are First District Harry B. Paul.
Second District L. Chew. He is a
leading Knight of Labor and returned yes
terday from the Richmond Convention
The Convention for the Third District
nominated Henry P. Turley. a Granger.
Ex-Assemblyman John D. Rue is the
Mercer county Republicans nominee for
State senator. He Is very popular. The |
Democrat have put up an unusually strong
candidate against him, in the person of |
Surrogate Scudder. One round of Senate
rial experience knocked little George Van
derbilt clean out
Camden county Republicans have nomi-
mated Hon. e. Amber Armstrong in the
First, Philip Young in the Second and
George Haines in the Third District for
the Assembly. Col. James NJ. &eovel an
nounees himself as an independent candi-
date against Armstrong.
The Newark Democrats have made the
following Assembly nominations Third |
District, VIM. F. Wonderley; seventh Dis
trict. Frank NJ Med ermitt; Tenth District.
VIM Harrigan. Henry Ahlborn, of Cald-
we'll, has been nominated again in the
First District.
Benaiah P. Willis, Democratic candidate
for Assembly in the Third Burlington Dis
trict, is young and enterprising farmer,
engaged also in the real estate and insur-
ance business in Mount Holly. He is the |
President of the Burlington County Dairy |
mems Association.
Thomas a. Dudley threatens to sue Sen |
atOr SeWeil Tor saying at the hepuDilcan
ratification meeting in Camden last week
that Mr.. Dudley, while American Consul at
Liverpool during the war, extorted illegal
fees from sailors, and that he had grown
rich through the robbery of American sea-
men.
Mr.. Howey's Congressional record con-
sists Of the introduction of six private pen-
sion bills, four of which were tabled, one
was never repStted by the committee, and
one went to the Court of Claims. None of
them ever passed. He laid twelve petit
4ons on the clerks desk, introduced one
slll''of a public character" offered one
amendment, and made the following
s'speeches and incidental remarks . O.