The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-10-14
J0HNNY'S LITTLE SCREED.
All the Old Chestnuts Packed into
His Letter of Acceptance.

Bob Davis has had written for his dunn
my candidate the following puerile COM
POSITION
r. @. Wolbert, Esq, and others of the Commit
GENTLEMEN:-The nomination for the
office of Sheriff so courteously rendered
me by your committee on behalf of the
Democratic County Convention is ac-
cepted, and beg to thank every delegate
for the partiality shown and for the honor
conferred upon me by the convention
assembled, and il elected by the people
will do my very best to deserve their con-
fidence in the high Office of Sheriff of this
great county. The unanimous decision
of the convention. without single dele
gate or other person asking for promise
or pledge or even making a request in re-
gard to the conduct of the Office, adds
greatly to my sense of obligation.
Sheriff absolutely free and untrammelled.
1t would NOT be accepted upon any other
terms.
/ was taken into the Sheriff's Office
nine years ago by Sheriff Cronan, and
have been in the Office ever since. AS
Under Sheriff during the present term
have attended assiduously to the duties
of the Office and have not been identified
with nor acted with any political club,
clique or party machine. nor was / ever
SO identified or connected.
was never delegate to any conven-
tion. nor in any other way active in poll
tics, and If elected Sheriff no politician or
party or person will be permitted to use
the office or anybody connected with it
for political or party purposes in any
sense whatever, but the affairs of the
office will be conducted within the lines
and exclusively for the purposes contem-
plated by law, and lam glad to be able to
say that the malicious and slanderous re-
port spread abroad in the community
that anything else has ever been sug
gested to me by any person whatever is
absolutely false in every respect, and
those who know me best need not be told
with what indignation such proposition
would be spurned.
Cornelius j. Cronan was promoted to
the office of Sheriff for faithful and eff
cient service in the discharge of his duties
as Under Sheriff. and Surrogate James
H. O'Neill was promoted to the Office of
Surrogate for similar reasons. 1t was not
a matter of party politics in either case,
and | am encouraged to look upon my
nomination as recognition of similar
faithful service and business qualifica-
tions in the discharge of my duty and as
a similar promotion. for which am very
grateful AS evidence that the conven-
tion was justified in recognizing those
services and qualifications and granting
that promotion do not hesitate to refer
to the following judges and lawyers, who
have not been identified with the Demo
cratic parity
Gilbert Collins. Chairman of Republican
County Committee; Thomas McEwan. Secretary
of Republican County Committee; R. B. Sey
mour, George McEwan, James B. Vredenburgh,
William Muirheid William A. Lewis, Charles
H. Voorhis William G. Bum sted. Fl. v. Condict,
John Linn J. H. Potts, Washington B. Will
iams Flavel McGee, James Flemming William
H. Lewis John A. Blair, Joseph F. Randolph
Thos. w. James. Clarence Linn, Max Rosen-
burg, De Witt Van Bushrk, Isaac s. Taylor
James S.. Erwin, James A. Gordon, John
Heck, Fred Frambach, Jr., James j. Northurp
Mungo ]. Currie, Thomas p Kennedy, Colonel
G, W. Fuller, James Benny, Horace Robinson,
Charles X. Cannon, Henry Ewald, S. B. Ran
som, William ]. Davis and John s. Mahon.
Theodore Ryerson, George Ryerson, f. B.
Ogden, E. K. Saguine, James Palmer. Randolph
Parmley, John Olendorf, Earle Insley, d. d.
Zabriskie, Isaac Romaine, John w. Bissell and
G. B. Harvey
District Court Judges, William p Douglas, A.
B. Dayton and Abel /. Smith,
And many others with whom have
come in contact in the Sheriff's Office
during the past nine years.
Very respectfully,
JOHN MCPHnLIPs,
Jersey City. Oct. 13.