The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-23

have two fights on hand. Some have
even three. The first brush is with the
Republican County Committees Patron
age Committee. This Patronage Com
mittee is the autocrat that passes on
candidates republlcanism, and It's en-
dorcement has been made sine qua non
for even consideration OF ms
name by the powers that be.
The committees business it is to receive
applications for office to determine just
whether the applicant is republican, anu
then whether he Is of sufficient weight IN
the party to be entitled to an office. Ii ne
is, a certificate of good standing is given
to him for use when 1t can do MIN the
most good.
The committees endorsement does not,
however, mean an office always Tor the
man who is favored with It, They let
scores of hungry office grabbers through
the hole in the fence to the patronage
orchard and there they continue the
scramble for the few pieces of fruit that
lay on the ground. Fifty men have been l
endorsed for Cattle inspectors TOTS
be appointed. Even Sutherland, of
the Journal, was let into the preserve.
but not till every thing handy had been
devoured by those who were passed on
ahead of him. So with applicants for the
Customs House and Navy Yard positions.
More than can secure appointments have
been endorsed. President Harrison iss
kindly allowed to make his pick out OF
the lot.
THE PosTMAsTERSHIP.
But the Patronage Committee has not
been thus generous in all OF its endorse
ments. 1t turned out but one Post
master for the President to select from.
The friends of eXPostmaster John q.
Gopsill, when they found they could not
secure his UNQUALIFIED endorsement for
reappointment, tried to divide the honors
with Colonel Samuel ID. Dickinson
and secure the endorsement of the com
mittee for both. The committee was first,
last and all the time, however, for the
handsome Colonel, and his appointment
is daily expected. So imminent is it that
general belief prevails that he will be in
possession of his new position within the
next fortnight.
A story, to which publication has given
currency, that ex-Mayor Collins had per-
sonally Interested himself in the Post
master in spite of Colonel Dickinson's
endorsement by the committee, is without
any foundation. Ex-Mayor Collins is
chairman of the County Committee, and
Colonel Dickinson's appointment has
gone forward to Washington with the eX-
Mayors name at its head.
OTHER PoSTMASTERSHIPS.
Leon H. Kendrick has been endorsed
for Postmaster of Hoboken, and he eX-
next ten days. The liveliest kind of a fight
is in progress for the endorsement of
the committee for the Bayonne Postmas-
tership. George S. c.. Bogert, Editor Ed
ward Gardner, of the BayOnne Times; Al
phonso S. Osborne, now employed in the
New York Post Office; Jesse r. Mullery
and Fred Boorman are the scrappers.
Boorman is travelling on his one armed
Grand Army record Fred Boorman says
he has the inside track, in spite of Editor
Gardner's assurance that he has a sure
thing.
THE DEPUTY CoLLECTORSHIPs.
The fun over the Deputy Collectorship
has not begun yet. TIE head of the de-
partment has not been chosen: 1t may be
Large and it may be larger. If it is larger,
just what shape it will take no
one can say. It may take the
shape of "Billy" Williams; and it may
take the shape of some other fellow of un-
certain name and build. He will have the
selection, when he is appointed, of his
assistants. When he gets in office, the
Patronage Committee und the rest of the
fellows will begin to put the pressure
upon him.
THE PORT coLLECToRsHrP.
But there is senicure now held by
Tom Kelly that the boys think ought to
be placed within their reach right away.
1t is the 50, 500 Collectorship of the Port of
Jersey City. EX-Rev. Benson, of the
Journal, is after it, but the Patronage
Committee will not pass him. +" Dick"
Williams is after it, too, and may be en-
dorsed if General John Ramsey sees some
thing better and bigger within reach
The United States District Attorney
ship has it's local bearings. Ex-Judge
Roderick B. Seymour, one OF the hardest
worked republicans in the county, is one
of the Hudson men who would like to
hold the position, and Asa w. Dickinson,
of the law firm of Dickinson, Thompson
& Heaney, is also candidate for it.
Among the recent appointments the
Kersten as Pension Surgeon in place of
DIR. Lampson.