The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-08-30

Office, over which are the names of Em-
met Mcbride anTA, Collard, Jr
TAKE CHAIR AND WAIT.
went there at four O'Clock and found
no signs of the primary Two or
three of the employees Of the estab-
lishment were working about the
door, the Office was deserted and
If there was a New Jeffersonian" any
where about he did not make his presence
known. fingered about the place la
Marie's little lamb, but no Jeffersonian
committeeman appeared.
then asked one of the employees if a
primary would be held there. He said he
thought there would and kindly gave me
q chair. L occupied the chair about
nm ,noin nopr lype Wnen one Who stOmI 6ad
authority about the place came along, and
after cycling me somewhat suspiciously,
held whispered conversation with one OF
the employees.
Then he came out where / was sitting
on the stoop and declared somewhat en-
phatically that he wouldn't have any
| primary around there.
before seven o'clock When l informed
| the gentleman that / represented The
| JERSEY CITY News he softened considera-
bly, and said:--'I told those fellows, when
| they asked me If they could hold their
! primary here, that couldn't be bothered
with them around here before seven
| o'clock"
| thanked the man for his courtesy, and
| Withdrew.
| A VISIBLE TO JEFFERsoNIAN.
About forty-fiye. minutes after six
o'clock q few ward politicians gathered
| about the feed store, and few minutes
! afterward the primary was opened. A
| segar box was set upon a table, and copies
of the following ticket were scattered
nearsthe boX:-James Burke, Charles Gran
dali, Joseph FitZsimmons, William
i lria
| Frank Howard, Herman Brede.
| For few minutes the voting was lively
| and then it fell off. Voters came in slowly
after that until quarter-past eight. when
| the judge, with yawn, said that it didn't
| look as though any more voters were
| up.
| CLOSED FOR WANT OF VOTES.
No one objected and the polls were de-
clared closed. The announcement was
| then made that 120 votes had been cast for
| the whole ticket, which was therefore
| elected
The lights were put out and at twenty
minutes past eight O'Clock the place was
as dark as one of AmeIie Rives' plots.
SIXTH DISTRICT.
| The Sixth district primary was held in
| Orient Hall, at Orient and Jackson ave-
nues. A table was selected In the large
| hall of the beer saloon at convenient
| distance from the bar at which the judge,
| clerk and inspectors seated themselves
about four o'clock A small pasteboard-
| covered book, similar to that in which
| school children write their exercises, was
| produced, and small segar box with a
| slit in the lid was deposited near the book.
THE TICKET.
| The table was then covered with copies
| of this ticket:-John H. Smith, M. j.
Kennedy, f. W. Wright, J. j. Lynch,
John w. Stout, George De Croft, Charles
Kundahl, w. T. Ritter and Thomas
| Pagan.
And the polls were declared open.
A few votes were cast during the first
hour and between six and seven quite q
| number of votes were cast.
| The majority of the voters appeared to
| be earnest citizens, but there was plen-
| tiful sprinkling of disappointed Office
seekers and strivers after the loaves and
fishes. During the evening the voting
| was rather slim, and at SIS O'Clock it was
announced that 238 ballots had been cast.
During the next half hour but two votes,
were placed in the cigar box; one by a
citizen who thought it would help the
slightly unreliable patriot who was cap
tured by the word Jeffersonian at the
head of the ticket.
NO ENROLMENT HERE.
No attempt was made as far as could
be seen to see that the voters were en-
Eus
book once in while as the ballots were
deposited.
AS there was no opposition to the ticket
mentioned above it was declared elected
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
At the primary held at Thirteenth
street, near Grove street, eX-Alderman
and ex-AsSessor Michael j. O'Rourke
bossed the job and he ran in all the
friends he could. They saw that 1856 had
voted and there was no opposition to this
ticket:-Dennis Gallagher, Michael Daily,
John Kennedy, George McLaren, Patrick
Kelly, NJ J. O'Rourke, w. ID. Connell,
James McGrail, Daniel Murphy, Thomas
Nugent, Edward Farley, j. Monahan and
Thomas Lane.
The men, with very rare exceptions,
were the same who voted for o. Rourke as
never considered Democrats. Among
them were Denni Gallagher, liquor
dealer; Edward Quinn, livery
stable; Joseph O'Connell, owner of
trucks; Michael DAILY, No. 526 Grove
street; John Kennedy, liquor dealer at
Pavonla avenue plumber. The polls at
this place did not open until seven o'clock.
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
went off in search of the primary adj
yertised to take place at the corner of
Hopkins and Summit avenues. 1t was a
VAIN SedECli. Ao oLiC SaAOO11 w iiChO oliC pAA-
mary had been advertised TO take place. |
was told by the man behind the bar that
all he knew about it was that he had seen
it advertised in the papers.
NINTH DISTRICT.
The primary in the Ninth District was
held in Carl Soeldner's saloon, No. 231
Bloomfield street. Hoboken.
SHOWING NAMES IN ADVANCE.
When | called at the saloon in the after
noon Mr.. Albert Stuhr, who said he was
secretary of the primary, showed me a
long list of names of gentlemen who he
said had already voted or would vote be-
fore the close of the polls at ten o'clock.
Among the names on the list were
those of William S. Stuhr, pres
dent of the New Committee;
Freeholder James Kenney, Poormasterf
A. Miller, Undertaken B n. Crane, f. w.
Bender, Police Commissioner Kaufman,
Street Commissioner Kelly, Julius
Schlatter, Martin Steljes, EX-SENATOR
Rudolph F. Rabe, ex-Mayor Peter Nc
Gayish, Chairman of the Hoboken Com
mon Council, Charles Erlenkoetter,
Water Registrar Lohmann, eX-Assembly-
man John C. Besson, eX-Director of the
Board of Freeholders, George p Schinzel,
Emil Vogelsang and A. Lankering.
The primary which was announced to
be held atNo. 17S First street, Hoboken,
in the Seventh Assembly district, for
some reason or another, was not held at
all. Up to half-past ten o'clock last
night nobody had gone to register his vote
theN then returned to the Ninth As