The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-03-15
both PARTIES ACTIVE.
The Dates for the Two
Mayora1ty Conventions
Fixed.
THE REPUBLICANS COME FIRST.
Gossip About the Candidates and
the Aspects Of the Approach
ing Campaign---Short Can
yass by the Democrats.

vass by the Democrats.
The Democratic City Executive Com
mittee met last evening in the rooms on
Grove street and fixed Saturday, March
20, as the date for the holding of the
Democratic City Convention. The pri-
maries will be held on the Tuesday pre-
ceding. All the interests agreed that a
late convention will be advisable. The
party leaders want time to find a suitable
candidate TO put at the head of the ticket.
Their calculations is that his name. when
he shall have been selected, will be such
a tower Of strength that an extended
canvass in his behalf will not be needed
to ensure his election
CLEyELANDis TACTICS.
The Cleveland gang were equally will
ing to have the nomination deferred till
the last minute, The Republican City
Convention will have met and selected it's
standard bearer and the Cleveland party
will have an opportunity to Judge whether
it is safe for him to challenge the other
nominee at the polls. Ii the Republicans
present a first class nominee, and the cur
rent of popular sentiment sets strongly
for him, Cleveland will no more care
than he win dare to go before the people
again
Another point is that late convention,
with its corrollary OF short canvass, will
not afford his political opponents time to
lay all the beauties of Mr.. Cleveland's
record before the people in the event of
Cleveland being placed at the head of the
ticket again
AN IMPORTANT MEETING
Cleveland's denomination looks just
now like an impossibility. If he had
ghost of show it would be knocked out
entirely by the big public mass meeting
nounce the great ballot box frauds, and
to take steps against their repetition
The JERSEY CITY NEWS has made it so
manifest to the community that Cleve-
land is part and parcel of those frauds,
and it is so widely understood that he
has no hope of being. elected, even if he
should capture the nomination, except
through frauds, that much of the agita-
tion at the meeting is sure to be directed
against his denomination.
The Republican City Committee met
last evening aud decided to call the con-
vention to nominate a candidate for
Mayor at two o'clock of Thursday next,
March 20, at Bergen Hall.
.,s =. WANT HONEST ELECTION OFFICERS.
eS ben this resolution was adopted:
lereas, It is necessary, in order that the
: ter election to be held in Jersey City on the
tn day Of April next to elect Mayor shall
be honestly conducted, that all those. election
officers who were guilty Of criminal and Illegal
conduct at last falls election should be removed;
and
Whereas, The first requisite of an honest cleo
therefore
Resolved, That the Jersey City Republican
Committee respectfully request the Republican
members Of the House Of Assembly, and all of
the Democratic members who are in favor of
honest elections, to Immediately pass the Senate
bill which provides for the removal of the cleo
tion officers who are holding over from last fall,
and for the appointment Of non-partisan Elec
tion Boards composed OF four inspectors, two
from each political5palty in order that such act
may become law in time to govern the appoint
ment of election officers to conduct the charter
election in jersey City.
The members of the City Committee
were emphatic in the expression of their
condemnation of the acts of Republican
inspectors of elections who last fall per-
mitted the commission of the ballot box
frauds now being Investigated at Tren-
ton 1t was unanimously decided that
not one man who acted as an election
officer last fall should be recommended
to the Board of Alderman for the position
of election officer this spring.
This resolution was also adopted with
out dissenting vote:--
Whereas, The expenses of carving on the
Municipal Government of Jersey City have been
so largely increased under the new charter as TO
become very serious burden to the taxpayer 1:
therefore
Resolved, That the Republican Executive Com
mittee of Jersey City respectfully requests the
Legislature OF this State not TO pass any law
which will create any additional Office in Jersey
City or which will increase the salaries already
paid the ofiiceholders of the city
After some discussion the following
named gentlemen were selected as Cam
,rtsff fna fhsxr -
cred by the $50 members of the City Com
mittee as being men nerfectly competent
to do tie work.
A CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE.
1t will be their duty to select halls, en-
gage speakers antf do all that is necessary
to make a rushing campaign.
First district, John Ramsey; Second
district, John w. Kull Third district,
Thomas Leather; Fourth district, Sieg-
fried Hammerschlag; Fifth district,
Thomas d. Mills Sixth district. Michael
Schulz, Jr
After some routine business was trans
acted the City Committee adjourned.
Several responsible members Of the com
mittee afterward told me that a candi-
date for Mayor had not been selected
IL was announced authoritatively that
Richard G. Washburn would, under no
circumstances, be candidate, and that
Thomas Jordan was not one thus far A
hope that Mr.. Jordan would change his
mind in the matter Ex-Finance Com
missioner Emil Datz, who is
Chairman of the City Committee, has
also been spoken to by his friends on the
subject. but he has not concluded to ac-
cept nomination if it should be rendered
him. He said, when spoken to about it,
that he thought there was no doubt that
x Republican Mayor could be elected but
he did not know who the man would be.
Other members of the committee as
lsured me that ex-Mayor Gilbert Collins
I was not candidate, and the name of
William Muirheid had been received
with much qualification. 1t is not known
yet whether his business will permit him
to accept the nomination If rendered himt
Ten Years Old and Drunk.
John Gaggan, a t. year-old boy, living
on Wayne street, was prisoner in JUS
tice Stilsing's court this morning Act
ing Sergeant Hopkins found him on the
{. street last night in helplessly intoxi-
Gated condition