The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1891-11-08
AMBITIOUS LAW MAKERS.
Senator's and Assemblymen
Who Feel Called to
Weld the Gavel.
PLVRALllIES OF 7Hg SUCCESSFUL MEN.
Senator Werts Prominently Men,
toned for President and
Speaker Bergen to
Succeed Himself.
PLVRALlTlES OF 7Hg SUCCESSFUL MEN.
Special to gle stsnday 1for5,i,,o Ne,os.

Ink recording the pluralities OF the sue
cessfnl candidates for the Legislature is
hardly dry. speculation is ripe over the
organization Of both branches. Candi-
dates for President of tile Senate sand
Speaker OF the House are as thick as the
pages were in the Assembly chamber last
winter. In the Senate, George Werts OF
Morris is prominently mentioned
for presiding officer and those
who claim to know what
IS to be declare that the Morris Senator
Is to WELD the gavel and keep Senator
Gardner In order. There il some doubt
that this Is SO. Werts Is candidate for
the Gubernatorial nomination next year,
and it is not likely that he will care 10
make enemies or antagonize probable
supporters by entering the fight.
Henry Wiuton. the editor Senator
from Bergen, is making quiet but
effective canvass for the place, aud there
are many who would like to
see him secure the prize Handsome
Bob Adrain is said to be looking after
reelection after the gallant manner In
which he carried Middiesex last Tuesday,
But the State House gosslps smile at the
idea aud say nothing Is to be gained by
making Adrain President at this time.
MARsHs TENDER BooMLET
A tender little Doomlet movers over the
seat occupied by the Prosecutor Senat or
from Union. Fred Marsh Fred has had
some experience as q gavel wielder and
presided Tor several weeks over the
House during the session OF 1890. He
bns MANY friends who would like TO Sc
him succeed President Adfaiu. Exon
gresham Pedcock is said To be casting
his eyes at the office for his protege,
L.
who represents Warren county in the
Senate, and 1t is also said that the Cover
nor looks with favor upon younR Senator
Barker OF Gloucester.
There would be little surprise among
the knowing ones II, when the Assembly
organizes next January. james G. Ber-
gen should succeed himself as Speaker.
Berger. Jones from an obscure county,
OF course, aud was supposed to have re-
ceiyed the Speakership on account of the
desperate fight he made in Somerset last
fall. But the fact is, he was chosen by
the powers that be for the
have a firm hand which would hold the
Assembly down to strict business. AS it
is proposed to have another short session
this year on much the same lines as that
of last winter, 1t is reasonable to suppose
that that programme includes Mr.. Ber-
u rs Speaker.
KALIscH 4 STRONG cANprDATE.
I,epnard Kaliseh, OF New TX, is prob
IDLY his strongest rival. Kalisch WAS
| prominent member of the House of 1890,
and was considered BY many to be in the
direct line OF succession. But he
failed to secure. ia nomination last fall
and was lost Sight of. He hobs up
serenely again this fall and claims to be
entitled to the gavel. 1t Is said, however,
tina Essex's support will go TO Hardin,
The man who, the Hudson members want
to bear in mind, did more than any one
else to defeat Mnllone's bill which
sought to give Jersey City a sup
ply Of pure and wholesome water If
Hardin does not want the support. sup
posing such a thing to be possible
Thomas Smith, the Chicago Fair Com
missioner. who has just been elected for
the third time will become Essex's favor
tie son. The lark the boys had with the
sDominie, " as Smith is known here, one
day when he was called to the chair Is too
fresh in the memory of the members to
give much seriousness to his candidacy.
BURLINGToN's CANDIDATE
A candidate has loomed up In
Burlington in the person OF A. Harry
White, the milkman's advocate. This
Young man has a right to swell up a
trifie, because he jumped into a district
that had been gerrymandered and was to
be solidly Republican. and won by
nearly four hundred. His tactics we're
Gratis talked of reading HIM out Of
the party. bne he won. He traded
Perkins, the candidate for Senator,
wherever ne could and now there is row
right at his front door. He cannot help
the bad feeling that his election caused.
He would like to heap Goals Of IRE on the
heads of his friends BY making them ad-
4 dress him as mfr. Speaker" Mr.. White
absorbed one whole page of the Legisla-
tive manual last winter with telling about
his school days and his maiden political
speeches in the wilds OF New Jersey.
BANDANNA NASH TO THE FRONT,
Old Father Nasn, the bandanna states
man and picturesque orator from Cam
den. is another candidate. He comes to
the Assembly for the third consecutive
term with large majority and all the
backing Of Billy Thompson of planked
shud and Gloucester racetrack fame. H is
chances, however. are sickly. The House
could never get along without him on the
floor.
The news from Hudson that the Hon.
Patrick II. O'Neill with 500 of ths great
p II. Association is coming down here to
capture the Speakership causes codsider-
able amusement about the State House.
II is almost a certainty that il O'Neill's
candidacy assumes any degree Of serious
ness he will join Mnilone considerably
outside the breastworks.
THE MINOR OFFICES
Thomas Il. No0pau OF n udSOnzfS TO be
the Clerk OF the House again 1t is fair
fo assume that the other officers will re-
main. excent that Frank Jones of Beverly,
the Assistant Journal Clerk That raised so
much trouble last year. viii get position
ever iu the Senate because his friend
Perkins will have good pull on the
nstronape for the great victory ne
achieved in Burlington. The session is
to t,e snort aud sweet. Chairman McDer-
mott thinks at least ten weeks will be
plenty 10 accomplish what little there is
to do. ID is to be session conducted eco
nomicalIy and free from craftsmanship.
There will be no political bills.
PLUKALITIEs OF THE NEW MEMBERS,
Complete election returns, most or them
official, show that the Democratic canui
dates, pluralties in the Senatorial cleo
tions i the seven counties were as fol-
lows:-- Burlington. 5S5: Cape My, 299;
Hudson. 1.0i2; Hunt rtlon, s94: Middle
sex. l,4s0; Passaic, liz: Sussex, 46S Total.
10. 1877.
4ns pluralities Of the Assemblymen-
elect were as follows:
plnralities
pem, Rep.
ATLANTIC Samuel D. Hoffman,, ~. ISL
BEHezN7l. Samuel g. III Wright. s4s ~.
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