The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-10-20
State NOMINEES.
Certificates and Petitions
on File in Secretary
Kelsey's Office.
FIVE TICKETS In THE FIELD.
Queer Signatures to the '~'People's'
and Socialists Documents
All Regular.
FIVE TICKETS In THE FIELD.

Special TO the JERSEY city Ne,cs
TRENTON, N. j.. October 20. 1S92.-The
Assistant Secretary of the State, Alex. w.
Rich ey is preparing his certificate to send
to the County Clerks giving them au-
thority TO issue tickets for the election on
November s. 1t is the first certificate
issued under the Werts ballot law. and
1t shows that there will be FIVE canGi-
dates for Governor in the field and that
the voters of New Jersey will have the
privilege of selecting from fifty different
men to make up the electors for the State.
1t was not expected that the Peoples
party or the Socialistic Labor party
would be able to secure enough sigma
lures to their petition to enable them to
enter the present contest as regular par
ties, but contrary to all expectations
these parties have fled certificates CON
tanning $500 names which places them in
the contest. This is the first time In the
political history OF New Jersey that there
Were five State tickets before the people,
and II these petitions contain bona fde
signatures and represent the strength of
the parties In the State the situation
must necss sarily be well mixed.
Heretofore it has not been known who
are the electors OF the Peoples Party,
but the certificate attached to the petition
shows that they have placed in nomiua-
ton Joseph R Buchanan of Newark,
John wilcox of Bridgeton, William NJ.
De Camp, Blue Anchor, Camden county 4;
2. Henry Jacobs of Hammonton, job n
Hayes, Secretary of the Knights of Labor,
New Brunswick; Richard H. Carter of
stanton, CHRISTOPHER Mcguire of Pater-
GnY 3D. IOhn AoaganH - ln,1.- 0;r- -.J
Thomas S. Burgess of Lyou Farm.
The electors for the Socialistic Labor
marty are Bartlett G. Harris of Elizabeth,
Otto Hirsch of Elizabeth, Frederick
Landgrof of Paterson, Anton Steimlka of
Paterson. William Meissener of Jersey
City, James Myer Of Jersey City, Otto
krause. Town of Union; August Headline
of Newark. C. S. schoer of Newark,
and Joseph Brock of Elizabeth.
ARE THEY GENUINE NAMES?
The signatures of these petitions to
some eXtent indicate where the strength
of these new parties is located. The pc
titlon of the Peoples party contains 2,351
names. That party seems 20 be pretty
we'll distributed nil over the State, except
in Sussex, Warren, Burlington and Cape
May counties. fhe party Endorses tue
national platform OF the Peoples party,
aud it is built upon what is left of the
Farmers Alliance and the Farmers Ma
tional Political League in this State. 1t
seeks to receive support of the laboring
people and The farmers, with a particular
move TO capture the ProhibitIonistS VINO
have been in the Farmers Alliance. Jer-
sey City presents the biggest batch Of
anne No particular nationality can be
traced In these names. as they are a con-
glomerate mass of bad chirography,
Scattered through them were the names
OF Italians, a few Germans. many irish,
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lean sound. 1t is said that hand
writing indicates character, but
in this case it does not.
They are men who neglected their writ
ing masters in their Doyhood days. Very
rare is a name found that suggests thai
it was written by a man of education and
ability, in fact an expert who examined
the list reached the conclusion that many
names were signed by the same hand and
the same pen and lax. In some cases as
many as thirty-five and forty in a batch
looked rs II they were sigued in some bar
room with the writer's somewhat nervous.
The names were placed upon regularly
lined petition paper, but nc regard was
given for the lines and as a result the
petition is very Irregular, names appear
ing where residences should be and visa
versa. Take for instance the signatures
of Port Orau. They indicated that they
were all signed by one man. Secretary
Richey states that the law does not COM
pei his office to certify whether the sigma
lures are authentic. They accept them
in good faith. Newark comes next 10 the
list OF numbers, there beng between four
and five hundred names from that city, of
about the same classes as found i'll Jersey
City.
sTRoN IN SOUTH JERSEY.
A better Class of IN are found in
South Jersey; for instance at Bridgeton,
where there seems to be a larger follow
ing or the party. Camden has consider
able, also H mmonton and Lyon Farm,
Toms River, Ellwood, Millville. Shilch
and Roadstown, in Salem county. Flem-
ingtou and vicinity are well represented.
This is in Hunterdon county, where
Benjamin w. Bird, the candidate for
Governor of the Peoples party, resides.
There are no signatures in the vicinity of
Union township, his native nome, In
those of Italians living IN the southern
part of Vineiand, where there is an
Italian colony. Trenton has thirty-two
signatures. Elizabeth and New Bruins
wick have about the same number. =.
A QUEER CANDIDATE.
The PEOPLES Party will run candidates
for Congress in the Second. Fourth and
Seventh districts Daniel Derow Of
Landi-ville, Atlantic county, will be the
candidate IN the Secoud district. He
came to Trenton on Tuesday bringing his
petition with him and u asked for his GER
t~iiicate. There was some doubt as to
whether it could be issued, as he had OBJ
tanned signatures endorsing the candi-
dates for Governor, Electors and himself
all on one paper, which is irregular. The
matter was referred to the Secretary Of
State and it was found that there would
be enough votes on the big petition for
Governor and Electors and the names on
his separate petition might be
counted all for himself. He
called again yesterday and received his
certificate. He created no end of amuse-
ment AROUND the State Hous by his APP
pearance. He had on rawhide boots
we'll stained with ditch mud, a pair of
cotton made trowsers, three inches TOO
short. a jsan shirt. a long coat. scrubby
whiskers all around his face and a wide
trimmed straw hat. He carried an open
wicker basket Oh his arm explaining that
he Intended to MAKE some purchases in
Trenton hefOra he rafarpad hpma Ia tho