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


ing charter election in Newark.
Judge Westcott, of Camden, has decided
TO accept the Democratic Congressional
nomination in the FIRST District.
The Newark city election is to be held
nexi Monday. Tax and Water Commits
sioners and new Members Of Council are to
be chosen.
Labor Clubs are being formed in nearly
all the wards preparatory to making nomi-
nations for the Assembly and to perfect
organization for the Congressional fight.
Senator Nichols, of Cumberland, says he
| never declined the nomination for Senator
nor ever backed out of the race, but that
the letter published in Bridgeton PAPER
announcing his withdrawal, was forgery.
The Englswood Times says that it is now
generally conceded that Senator John w.
| Bogert will be renominated by the DEM
ocrats. r. P. Wortendyke would have
taken the nomination if he could have got
it.
The Passaic County Labor Committee
has made the following Assembly nomina-
tons: First District, Paul Breen; Second
District, John Donahue; Third District,
Robert A. Carroll; Fourth District, Ed
ward Fl. smith.
Ex-Speaker S. B. Oviatt was in town
last week. He is building railroad in
| South Carolina, bnt had to come home again
last week because the negroes were de-
| moralized by the earthquake that they
would not work.
Corbin went to the anti-saloon pow-wow
at Trenton, but breads cold water in the
| shape of Prohibition nomination. Lead
| srs should have the courage of their con-
| victions these days. If they wish to win
| Elizabeth Herald.
Rev. jacob Green, pastor of the old Han
| over Presbyterian Church in pre-Revolu-
| tionary times. was the great-grandfather
of Robert S. Green. The church was then
| in Whippany, and was the first one in this
section of the country.-L Morris Jersey
| man.
The Chambersburg Press calls attention
| to the fact that at the School for Deaf
Mutes there is one paid employee to
every four pupils, and that it costs the
State $218. SO for each pupil, while only
$50 "a is required for each INDECENT insane
person.
The anti-Nichols Republican Club was
organized in Millville few days ago with
a membership Of one hun bred persons, all
| pledged to suppert whoever the Democrats
nominate for State Senator. Another Club
of the same character WAS formed IN Vine
and recently.
It is stated that Immediately after the
| denomination of Senator Nichols in Cum
berland. the anti-N Nichols delegates repair
| ed to another room where, after rattlisg
| speech from J. w. Newlin, resolution
was unanimously adopted that the anti
Nichols delegates both vote and work
against the election of Isaac I. Nichols.
The Bridgeton EUeniAg Journal aeys,
| nearly all the Democrats IN North Vine
land must be churcn members, for they
omitted holding their caucus the other
night for the choosing Of delegates to the
| County and Assembly Conventions to be
held in Bridgeton till the next day on &C.
count of church fostivax which they
! wished to attend.
p. Hall Packer of Sea Bright has written
| Jim Blaine, praying him 'sFor Gods sake
| to advise our party to come out square for
| Prohibition" Jim Blaine writes book:
| p HALL PACKER. Esq;
| NV Dear Sir:-Yours Of 9Th at hand. Thanks for
your very kind advice. Yours very respectfully
| Bar Harbor, Sept 90
| Hugh Klnnard is prominently mentioned
| in connection with the Assembly nomina-
| ton in the Fifth Assembly District of
| Essex. William II. Williams will most
| likely be the Republican candidate. By
| party usage the nomination belongs to the
| Fifteenth Ward; but, as it has no cendi-
| date. Mr.. Williams will be nominated by
the Fourth Ward.-[Newark Call.
Joseph Z. Elkinton has been chosen to
| represent Upper PENIS Neck in the Re-
| publican Gubernatorial Convention. Mr..
Elkinton probably has not seen the Presi
dents order concerning ofice-holders' par
ticipation in pslitics. And, by the bye,
perhaps the President is unaware that Mr..
Elkinton is still an office-holder, greatly to
the annoyance Of the Democrats in this
county Salem Sunbeam.
The Democratic County Convention is
to be held October 18th, primaries on the
9th) und numerous prospective candidates
are announced. The Republicans, as
usual. will be little later than the Dem
ocrats in making nominations, but they
also have hosts of possible candidates,
among whom perhaps Gen. j Newton
Runycn will prove a faverits for the
Assembly Bound Brook Chronicle.
John McGreger, of Newark, denies to
the Sunday Call that it was with his con-
nivance or consent that his delegates in
the State Convention were handed over to
Green. He had refused an offer to act as a
tender for Green in the primaries, and was
surprised when he learned that the whele
strength had been taken from him at one
fell swoop.
The Asbury Park Journal hits 1t right
when it says of the result OF the Demo-
cratic State Convention, that s'this blow
to the State House ring is the sorest defeat
the faction has ever received, as it will DO
virtually wiped out of existence under the
new regime. The election of Gov. Albeit
two years since paved the way for this
result, and the antagonism engendered
from the rings opposition to MACPHERSON
conspired to force the once all-powerful
Kelsey Little coalition first to their knees
and lastly to humiliation.