The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-08-06
POOLS IN POLITICS.
The Race Track People Are
a Big Element in Union
County Calculations.
HUDSoN's RING COUNTS TOO.
Who Will Be Senator?-- Marsh Has
the Best Show at Present.
VOORHEES, = RANKIN - ULRICH.
Special to the Jersey cstv Ns,cs.


ELIZABETH. August 6. 1s9O.-Even at
this early day and the thermometer flirting
with the ninetfes, the various candidates
for Senatorship of Union county are look
Ing over their fences and surveying pipe
lines. The contest promises to be an ex-
citing one. and both parties are express
sing their confidence in their ability to
win. The fact thai the successful candi-
date will vote for the successor Of United
States Senator Blodgett has lent
additional interest to the contest, and
introduced elements into the fight which
nre not brought forth every year. There
Is one point. and only one, in the conduct
Oh Inc campaign upon which both parties
ngree. and that is that in order to win
they must carry Elizabeth, and in order
to do that they must nominate an Eliza
bethlan. This rather summarily disposes
of the greet and only Judge John Ulrich,
of Plaintield, who has been posing in sew
eral picturesque attitudes as q RepubH-
can candidate during the past year.
The Republicans base their hopes of
victory solely upon the dissensions which
they say exist III the Democratic party
They acknowledge that the county Is
Democratic by about 800 majority and
that with candidate upon whom all
factions OF the party can unite the Demo-
Gratis can carry it even against such q
popular opponent and able leader as Fos-
ter NJ. Voorhees,. But they claim that
Democrats are rent asunder by schisms
and disseDsions which cannot be over
come.
Patrick Sheridan, whom John Rankin
defeated in the last mayoralty contest by
about five hundred majority, is said to be
exceedingly sore over his defeat. He is
reported to attribute it to the feeble sup
n ha n
cratic leaders and the secret hostility of
others. He has long, keen edged knife
up his sleeve for some of those leaders,
the Republicans say, which he will whip
out IN the fall and do some very savage
and indiscriminate scalping
Sheridan's friends however, deny this
They say that he recognizes that his de-
feat was caused by questions of race and
religion which entered into the campaign
and by the fact that he antagonized the
labor element by his course toward the
knights or Labor during u strike at his
factory three or four years ago. Mr..
Sheridan, moreover, is too good a Demo-
crat to jeopardize tho election of United
States Senator through any personal
grievance he may have.
THE QUARREL IN THE FIRST DISTRICT.
The Republicans are also basing their
hopes upon a little family quarrel among
the Democrats of the First district This
is the district which Foster Voorhees,
now represents in the Assembly. 1t COM
prises five wards of Elizabeth and the
townships of Linden; Voorhees, car
ried it by 1853 plurality, although Cover
nor AbDett received plurality of 6l3.
This was brought about by the manner
in which Mr.. Connolley, Voorhees, op-
ponent, received the nomination. There
were several candidates for the nomina-
tion and they made an arrangement
among themselves to the effect that the
one who should receive the highest vote
in the First ward primaries, which
is the largest ward in the district,
should be supported by the other two.
Connolly received the lowest vote, bat in
violation of his agreement he made adeal
with the delegates from the other pre-
cincts and received the nomination. For
this treachery he was appropriately
slaughtered at the polls.
The Republicans claim to believe that
these dissentions still exist and will be q
potent factor in their favor when the
election for Senator comes on. But the
Democrats of the First district are not
built that way However much they may
spat among themselves over local affairs
when it comes to an important election
like the coming one, they get together
without delay and work necessarily for
the success of tho ticket
SENATOR MCDONALD TO BE AN ISSUE.
In making these calculations the Re-
publicans have overlooked one important
cleuloHJ. WHICH Will QO more IMAM any
thing else to heal whatever differences
may exist in the ranks of their opponents
Of the First district and that is the out
rage which the Republican Senator per-
petuated upon Senator Edward f. Nc
Donald and the honest Democrats of Hud-
son County. Senator Mcdonald is ex-
tremely popular in this section of the
county, and has many warm admirers in
both parties who will eagerly embrace the
first opportunity afforded them to right
the great wrong which has been done
him. These admirers realize that this
object can be obtained only through
Democratic Senate, and no party differ
ence is going to debar them from voting
for a Democratic Senator.
The question whether the Hudson
Frauds will enter into the campaign here
is one upon which the leader will say but
little at this time.
The Democrats feel keenly the disgrace
which the miscreants Of Hudson have
brought upon the party, and are some
what apprehensive of the effect it will
have upon the campaign. The Republic
cans, though equally reticent, cannot con-
ceal the satisfaction which the discovery
of the frauds has given them, and in spite
of their silence there is a manifest dis
position on their part to work them for
all they are worth.
There is another and new element
which will enter into the canvass here.
and as yet both parties are little shy of
IL. IL is the race track people backed by
the railroad influence. From the large
delegation of clergymen and business
men who went to Trenton from here to
protest against the race track BILL and
the mass meetings and protesting peti-
aiuus which were gotten up amid an ex-
citement which it is said has not existed
here since the war, it would naturally be
supposed that the people of this city were
unanimously opposed to the race track and
their managers had not influence enough
to secure over dozen votes. But the
truth is that they have large influence
which will make itself felt in the coming
canvass. The saloon keepers, small
grocers, flour and feed men to whom the
presence of the race tracks on each side
3f the city means dollars and cents, and
who in theirvarious ramitlcation are quite
a power, are heartily in favor of them, and
will do all in their power to keep them
going.
THE RACING PEOPLE WANT THE SHERIFF.
But the racing people, it is said, do not
care a cent for the Senator. All they
want is Sheriff who will see that the
right kind of jurtes are drawn when
cases in which they are interested come
before the court. For that reason they
are ready to make a dicker with either
party on the basis that if they are given
the Sheriff they will support the Senator.