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POLITICAL NOTES.

POLITICAL NOTES.
1t is said that Eddy Mcdonald Is openly
1 giving ii cut that DO Is candidate for Con-
gress this Fall. The Indications at present
/ point to the denomination of Congressman
| McAdoo.
Superintendent Ira 0ttersen and wife, of
the Reform School, have gone on q visit to
Mr.. James a. Eastman. Superintendent
of the State Institutions of Rhode Island,
at Howard.
Ex-Speaker John + .gDann, OF Elizabeth,
who is with the Grand Army boys in San
Francisco, is writing glowing accounts of
his trip to the Elizabeth Herald.
Iron-maker Cornell, of New York. has
sent his check fer $500 to the Prohibition
State Committee to help along the canvass
in this State. Another New York merchant
sends check for $780,
/ Andy Allbright's game of trying to
| Brighten the Democrats of the State into
accepting him as their candidate for Gov
ernor by threatening to run as labor can
dldate won't work. He can't get it to save
his soul. It isn't good policy for man
seeking a Democratic nomination 70 say
beforehand that il he doesn't get it he will
| bolt. That's the fellow that never gets it.
movement is on foot to groom x-Uon-
/ gresham Terrell for the gubernatorial
| Democratic nomination Mr. Terrell is the
| prince of laboring men, and President of
| the Labor Union that looks after the inter
! ests of the laboring element in South
| Jersey.
One of our exchanges says that the Had
donfeld NssoS (Rep.l has declared for Gen.
/ Sewell's reelection. Bless your souls, gen.
tlemen, the Republican press is all for
Sewell.. If the Republicans have ma
LII.
United States Senator again.
The Newark Press remarks apropos of
the bad management of the New Jersey
Central Railroad, that it is all because
President Staff Little has been kept away
FROM business for year in the preparation
of the great bombshell he is preparing to
explode under Senator McPherson's chair.
A Washington special to the Newark
Neaos says, that spiteful Logan will at
tempt to prevent the confirmation of Gen
eral Fitz John Porter to be colonel in the
army when the majority report of the
committee recommending confirmation, is
submitted at the next executive session.
As single objection will carry the report
over to the next secret session, it is pretty
certain to go over.
4 One of the Camden papers is paradinx
Senator Gardner, of Atlantic, as . soap
italist 4" because he happens to have
bought SIS. 900 of stock in the Camden &
Atlantic Railroad Excursion House.
If old Uncle Eph Emson, ex-senator
from Ocean, who was scratched by and in
i dignant school marin whom he had silli-
fed recently, runs again, as he threatens
to do, every wife in Ocean County will
work for his defeat.
i The Newark Sunday Call says, Of the Re
publicaDs named as candidates for Cover
nor, Phelps is a capitalist, and was edu-
Gated lawyer; Collins is a lawyer and is
making money fast, but has large family,
while General Ward has been in public
position for many years. OF the Demo-
Gratis, Attorney General Stockton is sixty
years old, and, of course lawyer; John T.
Bird is fifty-seven, and has been at the
bar for thirty-one years; Carrot Ackerson
is also lawyer, and so is A. W. Cutler
B. F. Lee was a country storekeeper;
Rufus Blodgett is Of Vermont Yankee ex-
traction, and is railroad maDsger: F. 81.
Teese, is a lawyer: John McGfegor, a
clothing merchant; Andrew Albright, a
manufacturer, and Major Yard, an editor
A dispatch from Washington Territory
kanounces the death Of DIR. w. A. Newell,
Jr., son of ex Governor Newell, who was
surgeen-in -chief Of the insane asylum of
that Territory. At enc time he was the
resident physician Of the Trenton State
Prison.
/ 1t is rumored that Chancellor Runyon
would accept the Democratic nomination
for Governor.
Joha w. Newlin, of the Millyills Repu5-
Ican, has withdrawn frem the canvass for
the Republican Senatorial nomination in
Cumberland county.
Senator Gardner, of Atlantic county, is
one of three men who have sat in the
State Senate three consecutive forms, and
he is candidate for fourth. General
Sewell, of Camden, and Senator Hendrick-
son, of Monmouth, are the other tive who
| served for three terms.
Il is said that the anti-Pidcock Deme-
Gratis Of the Fourth District will oencen-
trate their strength on Senator James E.
Moon, Of Warren county, and thus en-
deavor to defeat Pidcock's denomination.
Judge John McGregor, Of the Court OF
Errors and Appeals, is now being
''boomed' for the Democratic Gubernato-
rial nomination.
Col. Garry Ackerson, Of Bergen, says he
wont stand for Governor because he has
heart disease.
4 Hx-Congressman Terrell declines to
allow his name to be used as Democratic
candidate for Governor. He's for Ben
Lee.
Candidates for Assembly in the Second
District of this county are becoming num-
erous. Already in addition to Titus we
hear mentioned the names of Samuel
Mutchler and DR.. J. 2. Sheppard, of Phil
lipsburg, Martin G. Swartsweller and Mich
oias Harris, of Belvidere, DR.. Robert Bond
and Michael @. Weller, of Knowlton, with
number of towns yet to hear from. There
is some excellent material in the above list.
- Warren Journal.
The Prohibiticnists of Warren County
will hold Mass Meeting in the Park in
this place on Thursday, August Sd. Gen.
Clinton B. Fisk, the Prohibition nominee