The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-29
JERSBYMBN FOR OFFICE
Plenty of Federal Positions
in the State. But Few Open
ings for Diplom ats.
.specfal to the Jersev City Ne,us

McPh erson and Smith will have consid.
cradle patronage to dispose of under this
ad administration. and. as the latter ad
mits the seniority of the elder Senator,
it is doubtful if he, in any way. will in
terfere with the plans of Senator Nc
Pherson.
THE MOST IMPORTANT.
The most important appointments that
the Senators will have to agree upon, is
that of Collector of Internal Revenue an d
the United States District Attorney.
Other han these there are not many I'm :
portant appointments. New Jersey does
not cut much of q figure in the depart
ments, nor in the diplomatic service. 1t
is true 1T has two clerks in the Executive
Department and a mum Der in the Treas
ury, Pension and War Departments.
In the Executive force there is Ocata-
Cus Prudens, of Morris County, who has
been q clerk through the administration
of i've Presidents. E.. F. Cox is another
Jerseyman in the same department,
drawing 81. 500 a year. There are a few
from this State employed in the House
of Representatives. but none in the
| Senate. I. J. Matthews, of Burlington,
will be clerk TO enator McPherson's
Naval Committee. He has been the con-
| fidential adviser of the Senator ever since
he began his Washington life.
Then the list is a short one in the dlplo-
matte service. William Waiter Phelps
yields the office of Minister to Germany
TO another distinguished Jerseyman,
Theodore Runyon. Minister Phelps had
as his second secretary John B. Jack
obliged soone or later to give way
tor some other Jerseyman. At Dresden
Is P. Q. Particle, who draws $4,000
a year tor attending to consular work
and is accredited to New Jersey, but not a
native of it, Edward Chatelin at st.
Paul de Loanda. gets $1,000 year. He
is q native of Portugal. aud was natural
lied in New Jersey SO that he could have
the job of doing consular work for this
country.
CONSUL APPOINTMENTS.
At Kehl there is Edmund johnson, who
was born IN New York, but appointed
from New Jersey. He receives 81, 500 a
Nagoski, Japan. HIS belongs to jersey
City. William Burgess who WAS consul at
Tunstali, in England, a pottery center, is
back to his home in Trenton and was last
Thursday night given a complimentary
banquet by the potter5 OF Trenton for his
excellent services at That port. me
patriots In the upper end of the State are
well represented in the New York Custom
House, Sub-treasury, assay offices and
| the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Those OF the
lower end get no chance IN these places.
! There are less than a dozen Jerseymen in
the United States Mint in Philadelphia.
The REPRESENTATION i'll other workshops OF
Uncle Sam Is equally as small.
The office of United States District At
torney is always tempting to a New Jer-
sew lawyer. The present incumbent is
Henry P. White, of Monmouth County.
Edward w. Evans, of Trenton, is the first
lawyer who announces himself as a CAD
didate.
The Internal Revenue Office, particu-
larly in the district in the upper part OF
the State, is the biggest. piece of Federal
machinery in New Jersey. There has
grown around the position of Internal
Revenue Collector n system which has
necessitated the employment of numerous
deputies, gaugers, storekeeDers and clerks.
amounting in salaries in all New Jersey
TO S43. 900. George H. Large was appoint
ed to the office through the efforts of
William J.. Sewell. In the lower district,
over which Isaac Moffett presides, the
force is muc smaller. The office pays
$500, and Moffett has five deputies.
Caleb c.. Pancost, $1,000; Lucien Hires,
81, 100; J. w. Caldwell, 81. 100, and William
Carson. 81, 100. Theodore N. Patterson.
son of ex- Editor Frank Paterson, gets
$500 as CLERK, and ex-Assemblyman Dorap,
of Burlington, is the gauge of the dis
trlcG, ana QeIS ices.
Nothing can be determined In reference
to the Deputy Collector until the appoint
ment of Collectors has beeu made. The
only gossip Oh the subject heard is that
Mayor Haynes of Newark is DESTROYS of
succeeding George H. Large, and tina
james Smith, Jr.. is friendly to him.
CANDIDATES IN SOUTH JERSEY.
In South Jersey there are a number OF
anxious men. as there always are. for
Federal offices. South Jersey realizes
that it gets very few State offices, and
that Essex and Hudson consider the
lower end of the State is in the wilder
ness. Senator Butcher. of Salem, Is q
candidate, aud has been for several
mouths: SO is Frank Porch, who ran for
Congress againt L~oudenslager, and
polled a good vote. He is a young man,
mailing from Bridgton, and has done con
siderable for the party in the lower part
Of the State. Isaac Smalley. of Cumber-
land, is also named, as is John Crome, of
Cape May. Within the last day or two
John Hood, a w%ell-known figure of the
st ate House, and who was induced tc
make a sacrifice by running for the Mayor
of Camden, has been considerably talked
Of by the prominent politicians OF Cam
demand South Jersey.
Senator Mitchell B. Perkins of Burling-
ton County, who thought he had a cinch
on the United States MarshalsRtp, thinks
he is entitled now to be considered In this
appointment. Perkins realizes that his
several mistakes in the Senate will retire
him from any further elective Offices. II
fact. Senator Mcpherson refused to enter
tain him as a candidate for the United
States MarshalshiD, because it would
necessitate him %resigning, and il is doubt
full whether a Democratic Senator could
be elected in Burlington County.
If matters get complicated in the First
District it is probable that Thomas Fer
rell, now employed in the State Treas
urer's Office, and who was the formel
Collector, will be given the Office as
compromise candidate. He is a McPher
son lieutenant and has given the Senators
matters his attention for the past tel
years, and on that account he Is very neal
to him.
NEARLY 900 P~osToFFICEs.
There are $50 postofices to be filled IL
the State, aud probably one-half of then
will remain undisturbed for the reason
that the money is small, and is wei
earned, while it is not easy to ind mel
willing 60 act as back woods postmasters
There are eighty-four post-ofices Of th'
first second and third class. The first
class postofices are at Camden, Eliza
beth, Trenton, Jersey City, Newark ant
Paterson. There ara twensy-six second
class postotices, paying from 2 800 =
81, 700 q year, and forty-eight thira-clas'