The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-08-04
Mis- paper Is Democratic IN principles
va "a Independent IN Its vtsa0S on all
local questions.
The Gubernatorial campaign.

The newspapers all over the State
have been devoting much of their
valuable space during the past week
to a discussion of the gubernatorial
situation. This is natural, and the
various speculations are interesting,
and yet they seem hardly more profit
able than the oft ridiculed guesses
which we all indulge in before open
ing the envelope with the strange
handwriting.
Only one thing Is certain. The
name of Ex-Governor Leon Albeit is
the most prominent in the discussion
Both Republican and Democratic or
gans dwell upon his candidacy MS the
piyotal fact of the campaign. The
Republicans, seemingly convinced that
he will be the Democratic standard
bearer, assail him with exceeding bit
terness, somewhat inconsistency, it
would appear, describing him mean
while as the easiest opponent they
could wish for.
Among the Democratic papers, prae-
fically only two candidates are spoken
of, Mr.. Albeit and Mr.. Edward F. G.
Young. The name of Senator Werts
crops up occasionally, but rather in
the way of being pigeon-holed az no
longer In the race For the present
there seems to be a general concensus
OF opinion that Mr.. Albeit and Mr..
Young are practically the only COM
petitors in the race for the Demo-
cratiy nomination, Much more is
he&d of Mr.. Albeit than of Mr..
Young, and this is what might well be
pected.
Being, as one might say, the Ney OF
brsey politics. the ex-Governor's
campaigning, whether personally di-
rected by himself, or merely animated
yby his spirit, is sure to be brilliant,
dashing and aggressive. On the CON
4 trary, Mr.. Young is more a man de
hberate, unde,nonstrative, slow, but
by no means OF unforceful tendency.
That he is conducting a formidable
movement is unquestionable, but his
combinations are designed to tell
xpeetedly in the critical mo-
It of battle rather than to stir up
Nal wave of popular sympathy
which eHuld bear its creator over all
resistal to the goal of his desires.
! Among the republicans who are
&talked of for the nomination, two now
#seeln foremost in the eye of the State
y press, and yet it might be said, al
most with certainty, that neither will
be the candidate. The two are Mr..
Frederick s. Fish and ex-Congress-
man John Kean, Jr. Mr., Fish has
said positively that he does not aspire
ITO the nomination, and yet the we'll
Uniformed Newark Press Register in
sists that he is in the race. Mr.. kean
Is an avowed candidate.
Besides these, numerous republi-
cans Of more or less prominence have
2been spoken Ex-senator Nevius,
Mayor McGowan, of Trenton, Senator
! Martin, and General E. Burd Grubb,
Rpf Philadelphia But, perhaps. the
ne man of all others who is most
'Sely to make the race for the Re,
,lican party, is hardly spoken of at
State Treasurer John j. Toffey,
this city, is. ON the whole,
ynost likely man in the contest,
III he does not become the
hee. it win be chiefly because the
r. OF his party propose to sur
or the fight.
he interest in this whole contest,
bur minds, centres in the struggle
the Democratic nomination, for II
simply preposterous to imagine for
koment that the Democratic eandi-