The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-10-19
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Mcdonald, Nanser and Moylan Will
Garry 1t.

The contest In the Fourth district will
on election day be a bitter one for the
Office OF Sheriff I took walk shrough
the district during the week. and met q
large number Of the leaders of both par
ties there. OF couse they were all equally
sure OF victsry, and the result was SIM
ply a question of plurality. The Ring
had the unadulterated gall to claim 800
plurality for McPhillips and 500 plurality
for Moylan for the Assembly. Every
where It was freely admitted that Nc
Phillips would run far behind Moylan.
Republicans, however. such as Sig
fried HammerschIaR, ex-President Will
liam II. Eurman, Of the Board OF Alder
men. and Counsellor William l. Van
derzee laugh at this claim OF plnralities
for McPhillips and Moyian, although
they agree With the Ring men that Mey-
Ian will poll much larger vote than Me-
Phillips will ] found in my tour
that the tax payers would prove
TO be the strongest friends of Wan
ser. for they remembered with
just indignation how the Ring increased
their Valuations TO enable the Tax Com
missioners to so manipulate the tax levy
thar they were enabled to apparently de-
crease the rate but not the amount Of tax
the owners Of property had TO pay. A
large mojorfty of the taxpayers in the
Fourth district are Democrats, aud those
Democrats who have no axa 10 grind
who seek only the welfare Of The com
munity, viii not support the Ring
NO ISSUE But THE RING.
They ask why they should support
McPhillips; and are told because he is y
Democrat The answer is laughed 81 be-
cause taxpayers know that there is no
issue of State or national politics attached
to purely local. county Office aud that
the election of Colonel Wanser will not
interfere with the tariff or with State
legislation They smart under the indig-
mites of the Ring and propose at this
election to cast their vote where they
believe it will do the most good.
These Democrats dislike unjust taxa
ton more than any other abuse of autho-
ity tnat can be mentioned, aud they win
lions OF their property was made to pay
the horde OF county and city officials who
under Ring government have had their
salaries doubled They will vote for a
change, for with Bob Davis boss of the
Sheriff's Office no change for at least one
more year can be made. Bob Davis in
control of the Sheriff's office means Bob
Davis boss of Hudson county
Edward f. Mcdonald viii carry the
Fourth district by a small plurality, for
it is Thomas McEwan's home and he will
poll a very large vote. Republicans are
inclined TO believe be viii carry it, but
Mcdonald viii probably receive small
majority.
MoYLAS SURE OF ELECTION.
For member OF Assembly the Demo-
Gratis have nominated James Moylan, a
civil engineer, who lives at No 54S Pail
SADIE avenue. He has lived in the district
many years and is popular. He is very
strong man. In fact, he was
nominated solely because of his strength,
in the hope that it would pull McPhil lips
through. He is. Of course, an educated
man, and he is a good German scholar.
This enables him to make an effective
canvass among the German voters, and
there are mauy Beside this, he is the
engineer iD charge OF the construction of
the new sewer being built By old Hudson
City and West Hoboken, which gives him
considerable patronage
The Republican can lidate is David NJ.
Durrell. New York produce dealer, who
beat E. o. Chapman for the Legislature in
1881, but was in turn beaten by Chapman
the following year. He Is what is termed
in the Fourth district one OF the silk
stockings and is not very popular. Be
side this he took the nomination after it
went a-pegging and had been declined by
Messrs. Neil, Meury, Hornblower and
PfingsteR. A nomination of this nature
is decided damper on any canvass and
Mr.. Durrsil will be defeated.
The vote far State Senator last fall was
Mcdonald, 2,312; Stuhr, 1854, Mover,
Prohibition, 20 MeDonaldss plurality,
44S Based on these figures an increase
of 30 votes in each precinct for Wanser
gives him the district.