The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1886-09-26
No. Of delegates. For Edwards.


That gives Edwards majority sure,
he exclaimed, after the totals had been
struck; "but the Cleveland men won't
bother with the primaries; they'll settle
the business in the County Committee.
The remark called to mind the methods
that brought Mayor Cleveland his nomina-
ton in the Spring. He was confessedly
beaten in the primaries, but the City
Committee sat on the figures, and
packed the convention, like the infamous
Louisiana Returning Board of the memoir
able 1875. The same kind of tactics will
not be allowed to pass unreproved this
Fall, and it is doubtful If they will be tried
again or if they should be tried, that they
can succeed. The primaries must be open,
must be fair and the men who are select
ed by the party voters to choose their can
didate must be allowed to act without in
timidation or restraint, or there will be
howl throughout the county that will send
a Republican to Mr.. Brinkerhoff's seat in
the State Senate.
Mayor Cleveland is net only tireless
worker but shrewd, calculating and ex-
perienced politician; and it may be taken
for granted that he will not yield up the
ghost as leng as there is hope for his sac
cess. He is making the very most OF the
opportunities he has at his command, and
employing them for all they are worth
but without making any inroad upon the
strength of his younger rival in the race.
He is suspected of having let the impress
sion go abroad that his genial brother, Hon.
J. B. Cleveland, had been selected to cue
coed the late Culver Barcalow in the Tren-
ton lobby only for the purpose Of hasten
ing to his aid those who have been sus-
ceptiblc, or want to be susceptible, to the
peculiar Influences Barcalow used to em-
ploy in his canvasses. The fact is, that
the Hon. j. b. Cleveland has not been APP
pointed, and probably would seorn
t, be appointed to place upoA
which Barcalow brought such uni
universal disrepute. The Mayor hoped
much, teo, from an effort he was making
to bring about a reconciliation kbatw con
the Democrats in the Board of Wor1s.
But at last accounts he had not succeeded
in aiahteniDg the business out, and the
boom the flling of the Departments shsrs
with his friends might have given to his
candidacy has not therefore be n impaired
to it. He is using all the powers of his
place and all the influences he.oan COM
mand personally and officially to whip men
into tho line, but without apparent results.
If he hears of friend weakening in his
support, hs is sought at once, and be-
8Ou8Qt huu cAJOiSu OF buIeAtos . VI bAutA-
ed--the iinost servieeable weap IN il Jena
pioyed in each cass-to stand nrn Many
promise, in answer to his solicitation; bat
1t is known that at the critical moment few
will perform.
The very origin of his canvass has in
spired unparalleled energy into the Ed
wards camp; and no man in his ranks is
leaving stone rnturned. County Clerk
Mclaughlin is making suoh y canvass IS
even he has never been known to make
before. He is resolved that the enemies
who would humble him in the house Of
his friends shall not DO allowed TO triumph,
and in it is no spirit of bluff, bat because
he knows that be is certain Of the result,
that he stands ready at any moment to
back his convictions at almsss any odds the
other hide may choose to offer. Heis not
alone in this respect. The betting in polit-
ical circles lis all in favor Of Edwards, and
the Cleveland party sho~ but few takers
even at the mpting odds offered. They
are finding 1t the hardest task they ever
had to ccomplish--this Of trying to en-
graft the system of Pos-Bah-ism into our
local political system.
Those who are best acquainted with tho
relative strength of the tive candidates say
that Mayer will not have moro than Is
votes, at the most, Of the IS that will be
in the Convention; and by the time the
Convention assemblies he will have been 50
decisiveIy beaten, that they believe he will
not allow his name to be put before the
delegates.
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