The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-11-04

utoAcfmeu anu tIouule Tor the clam men.
They viii probably attempt his defeat
again. just as they did three years ago.
Down in Cumberland it is the oyster
question tnat furnishes the orators with
material when they exhaust the tariff
question. Ex-senator Isaac Nicholas.
who no longer loves w. J. Sewell. is a
candidate for Assembly. The ovsterraeu a
are great factor In his district He de-
clares he has put more good oyster laws
on the statute books than any other man
living, but the last issue of the Bridgeton
Chronicle declares that the little ex-Sena-
tor took a cool $i00 bill from the oyster
men TO kill biil, when he never said a
word against q. for the bill was defeated
before he reached Trenton, and now the
oysternen are bowling mad.
THE STURGEON AS AN ISSUE.
In Salem the sturgeon-the festive
sturgeon-that furnishes Washington
Market with ALBANY beef and the EN-
peror OF Russia with Caviare that smells
as loud as q guano factory is the theme
The sturgeon fishermen nave been seek
ing legislation for years. This year they
have organized a series of protective as
sociations al every fishing point and
strong county association. They want n
smaller mesh. a close season, protection
from the Delaware pirates and several
other things. the candidate who pro m
ises the most gets their votes, aud so
George Stanton. the Republican for AS
sembly, and James Strumple have prom
ised to keep sturgeon Hopping around the
State House all winter.
A MUSICAL POLITICAL ORGAN
- But up In Warren the air Is full Of mu-
SIC and the old Bourbon county has the
most melodious campaign it ever knew.
johnson Cornish, son OF Joseph Cornish.
the great Democratic boss, is candidate
for Senator. Both father aud son are In
the organ business. The Republican pa
per, namely, the Apollo, OF Bciyidsre.
charges that Cornish is more fortunate
than most Democrats who are glad to gee
one organ, but he has several hundred
around the county grinding out campaign
music.
The apollo further charges that he has
put an organ in every club room, Sunday
school and church in the county. and now
everybody is singing Psalms 10 Demo-
cratic melody. The Republican organ
claims that the Cornish racket Is very
transparent. The Democrats claim that
Mr.. Cornish is a philanthropist. and the
gift OF SO many organs has no political
significance.
In Burlington the trouble seems to be
over the girls. Ex-Sheriff N. w. G. Hays
seeks to be reelected Sheriff. He has as
an opponent Charles Shinn, bitter Dem
ocrat. Ex-Sherif Hays is a bachelor.
Not exactly a society man, but one who is
considered eligible by every mamma in
the county. Lately the Democrats nave
been trying to make capital out OF the
facts that he occasionally puts on dress
suit. and some very villainous statements
are being put In circulation. The last
issue of the Mt Holly Mirror, the Repub-
ncan county paper, says
And now Sheriff Hays is again a can
didate for the Office OF Sheriff, and for the
first time he is the victim of slanderous
f0h tIxrn -
indignation. He does not shrink from
any investigation Of his personal hab-
it's"
This throwing OF mud has aroused all
the girls in the county, and they are max
ing votes every day for the ex-Sheriff.
Up in Hudson It is rum, perhaps gin,
but it's all the same in politics. Bob
Davis has promised to have the Werts
Liquor law repealed IL the liquor men will
support John McPhillips for Sheriff. The
contract has been made, signed, sealed
and delivered, All the Den0rratic AS
seniblJ Jfneh from Hudson VIII come down
with Davis tag on their lapeis, aud their
seats in the House OF Assembly VIII be
labelled "DaYis' Rum Man No II and
Davis Rum Man NO. 2. -
HORSES IN POLITICS.
In this campaign there is any issue that
fancy might crave, The three foregoing
have been wine. women and music; why
not nave LQe face-QOESe IN DOllLlcS, TOO. IN
Union the issue is horse racing, and the
campaign is trolling along IN the 2:13
class. It's the persons against the field.
Sentiment is very much divided in Eliza
beth whether it is better to have horse
racing, roughs. gambling and plenty of
business and money in circulation, than
no race and general air of respectabtllty
circulating through the pretty streets.
Election day will decide.
The little festive cotton-tail and the
quail before its gets on toast. is making
life miserable for little Eugene Cole, the
Republican candidate in Cape May He
Is little school teacher, with a voice
one-half of which he always leaves at
home or somewhere else. He is lighting
the West Jersey Game Society. Hewants
their charter repealed, so that farmers
will not be molested with Philadelphia
gunners- They have sprinkled Cape May
county with shekels, and they want to
defeat Cole, so he cannot make his long
speech about rabbits, quail and other
game, in the House next Winter.
RELATIONSHIP IN THE CAMPAIGN.
In Somerset the campaign is 10 settle
whether blood is thicker than politics
Everybody is on the alert to see whether
Father-in-law Alyah Clark, the Demo-
cratic war horse, will defeat or elect his
sonin-law, Charles A. Reed. 1t Is SAID it
will tic kle Father-in-law Clark nightly
TO sit down to Thanksgiving dinner with
his daughter and her Senator