The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-08-31
WHAT OF THE STATE
A General View of the
Fall Campaign Pros
poets.
ALL DOWN ON sEVELL.
/, Grub and Robson Both Aiming
to Fight the Camden
Boss.
BIG DEMOCRATIC HOPES.
The Vile Hudson Ring Is the Sole
Blot on the Horizon of the
Peoples Party.
BIG DEMOCRATIC HOPES.
Special to the SUNDAY Morning Ne.cs.

Special to the Satndau Morning Netcs.
TRENTON, Aug. 80. 1890 The Cumber-
land county Republicans have fired the
first gun in the fall campaign. They
made nomination for Sheriff, the only
Office within the gift of county con-
vention there. The law changing the
term of Sheriff from one to three years.
which was passed several sessions back,
terminated the office of all the Sheriffs
and made the election of new incumbents
in every county in the State necessary.
AS their terms all over the State are
alike all the counties elect new Sheriffs
at the same time, and this fall is the time
for the election.
But in advance, and long in advance,
too, likely, of the other Sheriffalty con-
ventions, the State will witness a pro-
cession of Congressional conventions.
New Jersey is to fill seven seats in Con-
gress that will be vacant next mouth, as
well as the twenty-One county Offices the
Sheriffs grow tat upon. The Sheriffalty
contests are purely of local interest, but
the Congressional elections are matters
of concern all over the State. A bird g eye
view OF the prospect in the several dis
tricts may be seasonable reading TO the
patrons of The SUNDAY MORNING NEWS.
THREE PROPHECIES
In three of them the results, not only of
the conventions, but the results of the
election. can easily be foretold Congress-
man Bergen will be renominated by the
Republicans of the First, comprising the
counties in the Philadelphia end of the
state; Congressman Gaissenhainer will
be reelected by the Democrats OF Mid
dlesex, Monmouth and Union, which
make up the Third district, and the
oft f<.E n 4 fcf,. fr,f
Warren. Hunterdon and Somerset, will
send Congressman Fowler back to repre-
sent them.
These Congressman, all first termers,
are entitled by party usage to renomina-
lions, and the strength of their respective
parties in their several districts is such
as TO leave no reasonable doubt of the re-
suits OF their canvasses. Bergen may en-
counter some anti-SewelI sentiment in
his district, and Fowler may nave to fight
some anti-Pidcock sentiment in his dis
trict, but 1t is safe to assume that neither
the General nor the ex-Congresslnan is
going TO lose his grip right away, not at
any rate in the two districts referred TO.
Pidcock is big power in his Congress
sional domain, and the First district is
Sewell,s pocket borough.
SPANISH FLY FOR GRUBB.
The General may not have so happy a
time when he comes to run things up in
the Second district. The Republican
party of that section has long worn his
badge; but he is not the complete and aD-
solute ruler of the party there,
as he Is OF the party in the
terings OF revolt are unusually loud
and menacing. Grubb wants to get even
with him for the weakness of the support
he gave him in his GubernatoriaI fight,
and old Secor Robson has buckled on his
spectacles again for a tussle with him.
Nr Tlr.E
State politics, and his threats of war may
not brighten the Camden chief.ain very
much. But Sewell has shown his fear OF
Grub by inducing President Harrison to
tempt HIM with the Spanish Mission
Congressman Buchanan is understood
to be the Generals choice. Ii he had had
but one term his path to victory would be
easy enough; but he has the misfortune
TO be in quest of third term, and all OF
Sewell's enemies have improved the OPP
portunity to rise up in revolt against his
pretensions. Grubb threatened ut one
time to lead the opposition hosts by
plunglng In Tor the nomination himself;
but he was seduced by the Spanish fly
the Administration dosed him with, and
he has dropped out OF consideration. He
is said, however, to be still d potent factor
through Senator Carter, his next friend,
who has written letter declaring that
he viii have the nomination If it can be
got. And then, ready for the spring in
the background Is that racing, tearing
hustler. MCGOWAN, who made as much
hubbub in the recent Gubernatorial con-
vention as all the rest of the candidates
put together. The chances are that
Buchanan will be renominated, however
and the political complexion of the dis
trict is an earnest of his success.
POOR BECKwITH.
Then in the Fifth district there is more
fun aud hair pulling. Beckwith, the
Mr.,
yearhng, and party usage entities him to
a denomination. But his Republican
constituents in Morris are up in arms
against him; and the chief Republican
paper ia that county editorially predicted
his defeat II the party were fatuous enough
TO put him in the field again. The trou-
BILE up there is that he didn't get an APP
D, opriation he was foresworn to secure
for a monument at Morristown. Wide
disaffection exists in Passaic, too, and al
together the managers there have deemed
the situation serious enough to require
the candidacy of William Walter Phelps
to assure the district TO the party. Mr..
Phelps has written to Beckwith that he
will not allow his name to be presented to
the convention, and that Mr.. Beckwith
may feel assured of his support, but it is
noticeable that Phelps is fastening east
ward from the Berlin Court He is ex-
pected to reach Paterson on the thir-
teenth. The thirteenth may make its
reputation good by bringing ill-luck to
poor Beckwith.
Beckwith's opponents found a new
club to beat his brains out with in the
BLACKBOARD exhibition he made of him
self in the halls Of Congress the other day,
and it will be q make weight in the
Democratic CANVASS against him in the
event of his denomination.
The district ought to be Republican,
but it has been claimed by the Democrats
in time past Even Mr.. Phelps was once
beaten by Gus Cutler, and il Beckwith be
put on the course again he may be dis
tanced by his Democratic competitor.
Democratic Sheriff OF Republican Pas
sale county, may be the competitor.
The probability Is that he will be. Efforts
have been made to tempt Senator Werts
into the rush, but then he wants to be
Mayor Of Morristown and Senator from