The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-04
Democrats Who Will Repre-.
sent Hudson in the
State Convention.
HE REGULARS TAKE A HAND
A Rumor That the State Convention
May Be Postponed Run Down.


with it rumor that preparations are
being made to postpone the Democratic
State Convention. Madame Rumor did
not seem to have posted herself as to the
method by which this adjournment was
to be effected-whether by action OF the
State Committee, or by action of the State
Convention. Chairman Allan L. Nc
Dermott, of the State Committee, was not
within reach this morning, but John
Edelstein, who is a member of the com
mittee, was found at his segar factory on
Railroad avenue. He had heard nothing
of the movement and had no idea that
there was anything in it.
Ex-Governor Albeit, when questioned,
said that he had heard nothing of it.
And so there is likely not a particle of
foundation for the story.
HOW THE SLATE WAS FIXED.
"There's no doubt, however, said one
well-known Democratic leader, who was
interviewed, "that the State Convention
was fixed for an unfortunate day. 1t Is
that for the opening of the fall term OF
the courts in most of the larger counties
of the State; but then it was deemed
advisable to avoid the week in which the
State Fair is to be held, and the weeks
when the several county fairs will take
place. The State Fair is to begin at
Waverly on the sixtssnth instant, and
each of the following weeks there is to be
q county fair somewhere. These fairs
going on at the same time with the State
Convention would have kept the repre-
sentative element in some parts of the
State from attendance upon the State
Convention, and it was therefore liked
for the 10th instant"
THE PRIMARIES.
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without any excitement lntimations
had been made that possibly the Kern
kickers might claim recognition at the
polls and demand the right to vote-this
only, however, for the purpose of creating
rumpus, or creeping in out of the cold.
But they wisely avoided the advertised
polling places and there was no fun any
where. There was not even q competi-
ton between two aspiring delegates for
the privilege of sitting i'll the State Con-
vention. AS the result, so far at least as
the candidate is concerned, is already
known, the clans did not think it neces-
sary to turn out in anything like the force
they might have commanded and the
vote polled throughout the city was not a
heavy one.
The fact that the primaries were held
in precincts and that there are about
ninety precincts in the county, made the
work of collecting the names of all the
delegates not an easy one, but scores of
aggressive JERSEY CITY NEWS men
gathered in the full returns.
Some conspicuous local names figure
in the LIST of delegates. William
Barricklo, DR.. Edge, DIR. Gordon. Sheriff
Davis, and Mayor Cleveland are among
those in the First district. Thomas S.
Negus and President Charles j. Somers
will in part represent the Second. Allan
T.. McDermott. Clerk of the Court of
Chancery, and one of the foremost demo-
Gratis in The State-himself doubtless a
future Governor-and President John
Edelstein of the Board of Finance, are
among the names in the Fifth. Senator
William D. Edwards is one OF the dele
gates from the Sixth. County Clerk
Mclaughlin, Ex-Postmaster Kelly,
James G. Haskings are of the delegates
from the Seventh. Colonel Edwin A.
Stevens is one of the delegates from the
Ninth,
AT SOME OF THE POLLS.
Sheriff Davis never neglects his duty
He was at the FIRST district primary last
night on the look out for the opposition.
The enemy did not appear to cope with
the political Napoleon and he was happy
Over hundred votes were cast. There
was but one ticket and aia excellent one
it is.
At the primary for the upper precincts
of the Second district it was lively. A
goodly number of the regulars were there
In anticipation of meeting the Sheeran-
Jeffersonian contingent, whom they have
frequently wrestled and vanquished.
They came not and the regular ticket had
walk over
In the Bergen section of the Fifth dis
trict the primaries were harmonious. No
opposition was offered to the regular
ticket.
district it was quiet-eyen duh. In the
Third precinct no primary was held, at
least not at the place designated.
THE FOURTH DISTRICT.
The primaries in the Fourth Assembly
district were conducted in an orderly
manner. There was practically no OBJ
position manifested in any of the pre-
cincts; consequently there was but little
enthusiasm. A shadow of Kern's hand
was seen in the second precinct, and
Fred Mersheimer's, in the seven votes
cast for Clerk Jerry Byrns in opposition
to Hughey Costello. The Clerk is the son
of Contractor Byrns. The polls were open
one hour. There were sixty-three votes
cast.
Jacob Woltmann received the entire 63
votes and Hughey Costello So for dele
gates. For alternates, Fred Engelbrecht
received 62, Gus Eigenrauch 63 and Jerry
Byrns 1. In Charlie Esterbrook's pre-
cinct, the First, fair vote (2D was cast
for James Mcdonald, Jr., for delegate. A
good vote was polled for William Clark
son as delegate and Stephen p. Yoe as
alternate from the Third.
In Owen Nolan's precinct, the Fourth.
the polls were open two hours. The vote
was heavy during the first hour. Gus
Dakin will represent this precinct.
George Bremner looked after the Fifth.
Michael Kuntz was elected delegate and
Justice w. v. O'Connell alternate. Forty
votes were cast.
Thirtyaseven votes were cast In Hem
Prigge's precinct, the Sixth, for James
Corbley for delegate and John Kelly for
alternate.
In the Eighth precinct of the Eighth
district Freeholder Boylan polled 81 votes
for delegate.
THE NAMES
The delegates elected in the several dis
tricts are these
First District-W William Barricklo e. T.
Mclaughlin, DIR. Benjamin Edge, Robert
M. Elliott, John W. Bell, James Hunt,
DIR. u. J. Gordon, Robert Davis, Edward
Heaney, Orestes Cleveland, p. II. O'Neill,
Thomas O'Connor. James Connolly, f. G.
Wolbert
Second District = Thomas S. Negus,
Charles j. Somers, James Norton Charles
v. Foller, Bernard Hottie, John Davis,
John A. Tracy, Henry Byrne, John Nc
Dermott, John Enrfght and Edward
Third District-Owen Carroll, John
Carroll j. II. McCuetchon, Charles +.
Cassidy, James N. Davis, Charles Bird
sail. james Burns and John O'Neil.
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