The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-07-04
STATE roLIr1cs.
What the Politicians of the state Find to
Talk About.

McAdoo has got the gubernatorial bee in
his bonnet.
E--Sheriff yroom, of Raritan, rela-
ton of the late Governor Yroom, died a
few days ago.
The Prohibitionists will make a grand
showing in Cumberland county this year
[Salem Sunbeam.
The State Committee have tacitly agreed
that the Democratic State Convention will
be held about September 18th.
Congressman Phelps has secured leave
of absence, and sailed for Carlsbad with
his wife, who is seeking her health.
The statement that the old Eagleswood
Academy at Perth Amboy has been pur-
chased for the Soldiers Home is denied.
Ex-Congressman Howey is looking for
the Congressional nomination against Pid-
cock, and not for the Republican Guberna-
torial nomination.
Senator John w. Bogert, of Bergen
Congressional nomination in the Fifth
(Phelps's) district.
Mr.. KeIsey's latest candidate for the
Democratic nomination for Governor is
Rufus Blodgett, the Superintendent of the
New York and Long Branch Railroad
Postmaster Fielder, of Newark, has not
been in Office three months yet, but he is
under inyestigation-or will be. at any rate
for alleged violation of the Civil Service
rules.
The Bergen Democrat intimates that
Miles Ross is abont to tell the story of how
Schenck was made President of the Senate
by Democratic votes, two or three years
ago. He wants to get square with some
one.
Seven counties will elect State Senators
this Fall. They are Atlantic, Cumberland,
Morris, Ocean. Bergen, Hudson and Mer-
Ger. The first four are now represented
by Republicans and the last three by DEM
ocrats.
Ex-Governor Joel Parker, ex-Congress-
man Henry S. Harris, Judge Beatty, of
Warren, ex-SpeakerS John Dunn and other
prominent men. expect to accompany the
Victoria Zouaves of Elizabeth on their trip
to California, next month.
Senator Carter, of Burlington County,
who is an ex-local preacher, thinks that the
Republican State Convention should en-
dorse Fisk. In that event the Prohibition
lists should, he thinks, abstain from run
ming independent tickets in the Assembly
and Senatorial districts. See how all the
Republican anxiety is directed to the out
come of the United States Senatorial con-
test?
A friend of Gen. Fisk who has recently
interviewed him on the subject, has asked
the Trenton State Gazette to explicitly deny
the truth of the statement that the General
would not accept the Republican nomina-
ton for Governor. sOn tho contrary
this friend says, che would very gladly ac-
cept the Republican nomination if the
party would adopt progressive platform
for him to stand upen.
Camden county will be one of the live
lest backgrounds in the State this Fall.
For Assembly, it is believed that the Re-
publicans will nominatea new man in each
of the three districts. As the candidates
already slated are adherents of Sewell, the
Robesonites are getting their scalping
knives in order. If the Democrats of that
county get themselves in good shape, Alb
bett may get vote or tive right from
Sewell's home Salem Sunbeam.
In discussing the results of Senator
Sewells impossible withdrawal, the Pater-
sen Guardian says that chs withdrawal
would inevitably precipitate war of fac
tions. William Walter Phelps has the
most money to spend and could capture all
the venal element, but in his own Con-
gressicnal district Garret A. Hobart has
prior lien on the Senatorship, while the
claims of George M. Robson and George
A. Halsey, also antedate those of the Ber-
gen County millionaire. The probability
is therefore that General Sewen will be the
Republican candidate and that the Demo
cracy will sweep the State for Governor
Albeit"
We see it stated in some of the State
prints that ex-Mayor Collins has withdrawn
from the Republican gubernatorial race,
or that he has declined the nomination, or
something else of that rurport. Neither
statement can be true. Ex-Mayor Collins
is net in the race for the nomination, and
cannot, therefore, have Withdrawn from it.
To be in the race implies an active seeking
for the Conventions preference. Mr.. Col
Inns has not been a seeker, active or inact-
i've, for the place. Whatever has been said
concerning the possibility of his becoming
his party's standard bearer has been at no
suggestion of his, and entirely apart from
him. 1t has been the work entirely of par
tial friends. Nor can he be said to have
declined the nomination. It has not been
rendered to him, and he is not in the habit
OF ruSnlng out 10 announce AlS Qecunatl0n
of gift till it is offered to him. We
think the probability is that if the nomina-
ton comes to him unsought, as seems
ikely-it viii never come to him any other
way, for he will not seek the will accept
it. We must not be understood, however,
as speaking by the book on the question.
But time will probably show that we are
not much off in our pr ognostication.
The patronage at the disposal of the new
Governor during the first year OF his admin
istration will be very great He will nomi-
nate Secretary of State in place of Henry
q. Kelsey, D.; an Attorney General in
place Of J. P. Stockton, D.; Chancellor
in place of Theodore Runyou, D.; Clerk
of the Supreme Court in place of Benjamin
+. Lee, D.; Justices of the Supreme Court
in place of David A. Depue, b., of Essex;
Joel Parker. D., of Monmouth, William J..
Magic, B., of Union; Lay Judge of the