The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-08-22
STATE P0LITTGs.
What the Politicians Of the state FIND to
Talk About.

What the Politicians of the State Find to
Talk About.
Congressman Phelps is to sail for home on the
9th Of september.
1t is said that Blame will make six speeches in
New Jersey this Fall.
Fitz John Porter authorizes the statement that
he is ineligible to the Governorship of the State
Col Bird W. Spencer will run tor the Assembly
this Fall from of the Passaic County districts.
Tommy Flynn says that Jim Inglis. of Paterson
will be a seeker after the Democratic nomination
for Governor.
Ex.afarshal W. Budd Deacon is candidate for
the nomination for Assembly in one Of the Bur-
lington districts.
the Somerset County Prohibtionists have NOM
mated George q. Lainonte for Assembly. Lamonte
is Democrat.
The Democratic Congressional Convention for
the Fourth District is TO be held in Someryille
the Sgh of September.
the Cumberland County Prohibihonists will
meet at MilIyille on the 9th inst. TO nominate
Senator and Assensblyman.
Senator Youngblood of Morris, says he is not
candidate for denomination and will net under
any circumstances accept denomination.
The Prohlbiti0nists of Mercer County have NOM
mated James II. Wilmington, Superintendent of
the Trei ton Iron Company, for State senator.
The Englewocd Times says that Assembymen
Winton and Van BRssum are both seeking the
Democratic Senatorial nomination in Bergen Co.
According to the Hackensack Republican. Senator
Bogart, of Berger, will not be candidate for re-
election. He Ii contented with the County Collec.
torship.
The ''siily season" this year has developed no
more ridiculous proposition than that of the nom-
ination of Fitz John Porter for Goyernor.-Cam
Fourteen men are seeking the shoes of the Essex
County Grand Jury Clerk. who died few days
ago. Ex-Assemblyman Julius G. Fitzgerald is
among them. tf
Uourtland L. Parker, of Perth Amboy, the Prohi-
bition candidate for Congress in the Third Con-
gressional district, has failed in business. His
liabilities are s., 0O0.
/ VIII. Hunt, red hot Republican, is busy just
now in trying to help the Democrats, through the
Newark Sandy Caa to make up their minds whom
to nominate for Governor.
The prohibitonists of the Fifth District have
called convention to be held in Washington Hall,
Paterson, on Thursday, Sept9 at $50 P. NJ. for
the purpose Of nominating candidate for Con-
gress
The members of the Democratic State Commit
tee have been notified to at Taylors Hotel in
Jersey city or Thursday next. tho 25th lnst to fix
upon thu time and place TOR the holding OF their
State Convention.
Some one has been circulating a defamatory cir
cular concerning Congressman Pidcock. The fact
that the circular pus Andy Albright forthe Cover
norship lays that eminently capacious bag OF WIND
open to the suspicion Of having produced it.
1t is stated that Judge John W. Westcott. of Cam
den County, who is 4 candidate for the Demo
cratic gubernatorial ncnlinaton virtually fought
his way through Yale College by giving sparring
lessons to less athletic but richer students and
thus securing the necessary cash.
The Paterson Press says that $50 far as we can
| Judge the opposition to Gen. Sewell is not more
active now than it has been in former years. and
we question whether it is as formidable as 1t has
been at some other times. We are strongly IN
clined to the belief that Senator Sewels prospects
of reelection are in no jeopardy.
Referring to rumors Of 6ewell dsaffection IN the
southern counties OF the State, Senator Nichols
says in the Bridgeton Paneer that st is time the
Republicans were done with such wrangling 1t
will be time enough to settle that matter when
Republican majority has been secured in the Legis-
lature."
The Mount Holly Herd d says that Senators
Seweu and Mcpherson are both working to dis
place j. G. W. Ravens. the Republican Superin-
tendent of tho Life Saving Service for the Fourth
district, for Democrat, because Ravens is not a
Sewell Republican. Ravens is brother Of ex-
Senator Ravens Of Ocean County, who. the Herald
Senator IN 1881