The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1890-07-23
POLITICLI GOSSIP.


| citizens may nominate candidates for Congress- As
| remby. and the Common Council! The only lim,
placed this Ia that tho certificates must DO sworn TO-
and that person shall sign more than Ncats
Of nomination for any Office. THIS does prevent Il
| same three hundred from nom mating whole county
ticket and candidates for every district Office All mi.
Ia attended with expense to them except that tneT
must got their certificates and pay for the eS
penss OF having II sworn to. notary may no hired for
Ave dollars In the whole three hundred If they
| would call on him some morning In practice, how
ever, the certificates will be made separately and the
| three hundred may cost thirty dollars This with
postage and fare. amounting to probably fifty dol
lars will he all the expense that people vito want to
county ticket will have 20 In order to have
their tick ct printed and distributed This cit, Wi, have
to pay for all tho printing, distributing and Official
ticket pcdiling. Each voter no matter whether he
wishes to or notw have to take acopy of every ticket
That the Prohibticnists who. as usual ara hrst IN
the field with their ticket this point is shown by
their asking only $500 for campaign expense. Five
hundred doarsis not enough TO send pa,ter each
registered voter Tho Socialists will nnd II easy IN
have their ticket distributed properly this year In p,st
years they have been able their ticket distributed
| only in districts where there quite n number OF
Socialists. while in the brown.stono districts there wM
not Socialist ticket to be seen. This every voter
| in the brownstone district will have to receive
Socialist ticket II he does not receive It, 1t prop
ery and with care and return It, his will not 10
taken Besides that there viii he Labor ticket in
case the labor mon conclude to nominate one Tbi,
Labor ticket may be the knights of Labor
or tho Federation of Labor ticket The Central
Labor Union easily get three hundred sgncrs put
up ticket OF It's own Then there will 10 tho regular
DsmociRt ticket with possibly another Democratic
ticket and the Republican ticket This leave, ont tho
mass Of unattached citizens who in blocks OF 800 may
nominate county tickets OF their Each OF the
seventy rvo Clerical Citizens has only to get three
dtional besides his put up their ticket The
Bar AsSociaton the Produce, Exchange tho stock Ex.
change, Chamber OF Commerce and all the other com.
mercal and protes ional bodies i'll the city which do.
cIned to into tic Clerical Citizens movement may
nominate tickets of their own by having a notary
take the signature and acknowledgements of each
Der as he to meeting OF the body, with only
the restriction that one man must not sign than
certificate for the Office. All that this would
cost s the hire OF the notary and the and ink
Another side of it which Is not contemplated by the
law is the great fold this leaves open for the practical
joker. Many men may wake up in the morning when
the wepapers print the list of candidates whose cer
tifcatCs have been duly hled and dnd that they have
been nominated for some Office without their knowing
about II. There several thousand practical JokerS
in New York-enough to nominate afew hundred Con.
Rressmcn Assemblymen and Aldermen. 1t would
take very little trouble for them make tho nomnA
ton, much loss trouble for each individual than 10
would be for the man who was nominated to get of II
Employees might show their regard for their en-
ployor by nominating him for Congress for tho
walker. or their favore saoonkeeper cigar DEALER
by getting certificate I" run him for the Board OF
Aldermen. There is nothing in the law to prevent
this; 1t Is rather encouraged. Unless tho man
mated declines the alton In due legal form the
city will have print his ballots hand one $50
900 or 10000 voters. There some men TO whom
Joke OF this size would excruciatngy funny. In
he should decline tho law says: Tho olcer to
whom such notification given shall forthwith inform
by mail or otherwise one or more persons whose names
are attached to the original certificate of nomination
that such nomin alton has leen declined"
Aman who IA out of town and does not hear Of his
nomination cannot get out of it. unless he should act
legally ten days before election In order to decline
he must notify the officer with whom the original
tifcate of his nomination nod at least twelve days
before the election IL he was nominated by
ton, ten days he was nominated by called I'm
dependent citizens" This dccination must DO signed
and duly ackno wedged, otherwise the ballots would
have to be printed. Thus man may DO forced TO run
advantage is taken OF his absence from the city or
his sickness
Since tho remnants of the old Labor party havefound
how cheap II is n ticket under tho law
they have made up their minds that they will int
politics again The difficulty with their going into poll
tics is that too Of them want 10 be nominated.
This Difficulty may be solved by nominating them all
each for tho office that he wishes There must bo
at least 300 men who do not want office for every
who is actively after It This would enable all the
many candidates to have their tickets printed rres
The Central Labor Union has already decided to go
into politics and nominate ticket They have ap-
pointed Conference Committee look after It. This
Conference Committee and the Socialists trying
agree but the Socialists have withdrawn from the Gem
trail Labor Union and do not want to have any to
do with it That means Socialist county ticket
Tho Central Labor Union did 20 into the Clerical
Citizens movement but it's Secretary James P. Archk
bald il Vice President of tho Clerical Citizens. MF.
Archibad friends expect that he will get tho nominA-
ton for Comptroller from the Clerical Citizens and that
the giving the nomination for the chief financial officer
of city ought TO satisfy the Central Labor Cnion
Some OF tho Labor men have idea that tho Comp
troer fixes the salary OF tho city employees and that
he the laborers more at the expense OF the OF
Hcials with 5000 EalarieL
Mr. Archibald Is also ember of the Excelsior LaboR
Club. Knights of Labor organization. This shows the
influence that he has Mr.. Archibald was born In
Dublin. Ireland, and came to this country Ave slx
ago lie haS taken part in labor politics
since lie supported Henry George both times he ran
and presided over several labor meetings lie has been
prominent in tho Central Labor Union and has been
OF its officers for several years He fairly tall
about nve ten inches with yeowish hair and yell
lOWish moustache and large blue eyes A fight was
made against him IN the Central Labor Union
charge by one OF It's members that he took expenses
from the democratic Campaign Committee IN Issa
This charge investigated and after hearing tho Wit
neSEes Mr.. Archibald WAS re elected secretary.
An interesting young man who may 90 to the Assem-
bly, this fall is PercvaI FarIuhar OF senator Calvin
5. Brice young mon. Young tarquhar ran for tho Az
semby last fall in the Third district, and beaten by
ames A. Monaghan. At thar time the district was
MS Mr. Monaghan was the nominee Of
ne Republicans ami the County Democrats combined.
since that time Judge Really the County Demoo-
Rcy leader has bscome the Tamnany leader, and 1t
strong Tammany district MIR. Farquhar is of scotch
iescenL AS his name indicates but no lost some Tam.
many Irish through tho district because oppo
ton said that he WAS Italian. They called him
'ercvalo FArquharo and stirred up voters to send
daEO tho Assembly. MIR. Farqular frien!s tredto
onvinco the voters than ho WAS not AN Italian but
hoy could not get him around IN time lie was in with
senator Br!coh soyera! railroad enterprises and
,nown Br.ces mascot. lilo is one of tho lucGiest
Dung men in Wall street. lie has good head aud
nOws how to tako care Of himself but the Italian
tory was TOO much Tor HIM.
There is some talk OF Mckenzie somple, the present
assistant District Attorney compromise candidate
District Attorney. Mr.. sempo Is as little in politics
IS any man In tho District Attorneys Oiiice. lie
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