The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-10-24
POLITICAL NOTES.

Mayor Groy has vetoed the ordinance passed BY the
Board of Aldermen on Oct to regulate and grade
Thtrteth street from Twelfth to Thirteenth avenues"
The he gives IL conclusive: There 10 no Thir-
teenth avenue At Thirtioth street"
The Congressional veteran on the Democratic side
in the House OF Representatives 10 the Indiana watch
dog william Steele Holman hrst elected to Congress in
1859. The second Oldest Democrat In point of Con.
Erossionat service 10 p Bland tho Missouri sverite
who frat came to Congress In 1879 Mr. Holman 10
Ill Mr. Bland 10 g. The veteran Republican 10 Charles
UNciii of Philadelphia Next point OF seniority of
service tho Republican side Ia Cen Hsrmer also Of
Philadelphia. Mr.. o'Nel first came to Congress in
1858: Mr. Harmer first came to Congress in 1871 Mr..
o'NeiIl Is ~ years OF age; Mr.. Harmer 10 90,
Sofa from decreasing the dine ues incident to the
working OF tho present election law seem to grow
more serious. complex and exRsperatinR each year.
Printers are everywhere complaining that IL virtu
ally impossible to get two lawyers agree about the
construction OF OF the disputed clauses OF the law
In Onondaga. where two years ago minority Senator
was elected and majority Senator defeated by tho
inadvertence OF clerk the Republicans md them
solves unable to run candidate in the nrst district by
OF technical infracton OF the law. There 10
confusion everywhere. and at tho time virtual
end OF independent cnndiature throughout tho State
No state in the country has IMPLICATED election
law New York and for this condition Of things tho
professsd retormers are directly responsible
The two veterans Of tho Civil District Court bench
Chhres NJ CLANCY elected 1874, and Alfred Bteok-
le elected In 1884, leave ut the close of this year.
Judge Clancy is the Democratic candidate for Sheriff
Judge stecker who 10 no longer resident Of the dis.
which he has been Judge for twelve years.
tires with dignity after two terms refusinE nomna.
ton for third. and able hsnceforth to devote his
attention unrenittngly to tho Affairs Of tho big law
firm Of which he Is q member. The two veterans Of
the Civil District Court bench after January will be
Henry NJ Goifoge. In tho Fifth DISTRICT and Joseph
r Fallon in the Ninth Both elected In 1887 but
linda Fail hadh .fvlr lA.tA fnH
tho same office In 1881.
Thomas J.. Hamilton. Republican candidate for
Sheriff. has suit pending against the city for $40.
72sos for materials furnished for tho Columbian
celebration.
How must grisve the surviving County mocrats,
II there any to the Republicans passing ali the
resolutions. and doing nothing else
Another of tho grzzlod veterans OF tho Republican
party. Henry P. Leask. has passed away. He was .
Canadian by BIRTH and in boyhood apprentice In
tho hnterstrade Of Thomas Murphy, afterward Col
lector of the Port Of New York and state Senator in
Albany. He had . hat storo At Pearl and Chatham
streets and whio In business in tho Second Assembly
district was candidate for Assembly tho Repub-
lean ticket in 1871 Murphy appointed him weigher
in the Custom House Subsequently he moved into tho
Fifteenth district and became Clerk OF tho Eighth
Judicial District Court Leaving this. he resumed
position in tho Custom House. He was resident OF
Brooklyn at tho time Of his death and "a years Of
It is pretty we'll understood in tho Twenty.secopd
ward that at the rammany primaries in December
Judge Henry Murray will become tho Tammany leader
in tho Seventeenth district and exconEressman John
Quinn tho Tammauy Hall leader in tho Eighteenth dis
trct.
The classification Of tho Republican rank and file In
New York city with the present local leadership of tho
party has reached acute stage and It would be
surprise to many II Pattersons reign drow to close
even before election day.
In tho makeup of the Democratic State ticket in
New York this year geographical conditions oh.
served whereas tho Republicans. at their Syracuse
Convention very generally ignored them. Tho Demo
cratic candidate for Secretary of state comes from
Long Island. the candidate for ptroer steu
ben county on the southern tier the candidate for At
torney General from Albany. and tho candidate for
Treasurer from Cortland interior county. One
didate upon the Democratic ticket 10 OF German do
scent, one of Irish. and ono of Holland: fourth Is
prominent in jewish circles Campbell. the son
OF Lieutenant Governor. is OF Scotch descent, and
Maynard is typical New England Democrat Tho Re.
pubicans. their side. have chosen four Of their
candidates for political oce from tho cities along tho
line OF the New York Central Ra!lroad-Abauy. Utica
Syracuse. and Buffalo. Tho metropolitan end Of tho
State represented the Republican ticket only by
Judgsship nomination OF no political value. and tho
southern tier Hudson River. and northern counties
not represented No candidate on tho Republican
ticket has for State office. whereas four OF
the six Democrats have been through that ordeal and
three Of them successfully heretofore.
There arc seventeen First district mon on the pay
rolls Of the Registers Office drawing S2l 600 in SAL
aries annually.
one of the questions which Is certain to before
the members Of tho Constitutional Convention
early stage in their deliberations Is tho proposition
increase tho sa'ary OF Legislators Senator'S and
Assemblymen now paid tho absurdy inadequate
SALARY OF $1,000 year Tue amount being hxed by
the Constitution. it cannot DO changed without an
amendment to that instrument to DO adopted at tho
next election. Congressman receive $1,000. In Eng
land and Germany tho mem bers OF Parliament and OF
the ReichstaR receive no payment France pays her
Senators and Deputies 81 800 year. and the members
OF both travel free all tho State railway Inca In
Austria members of tho lower House of Parliament
receive 81 day and travelling expenses and in Hun.
gary 81. $3.50 year.
Every Senatorial candidate on tho Tammany ticket
this year has full complement Of names-a cogno
men. middle name. and surname.
For the time tho history New York city tho
Board OF County Canvassers e1clusi voy Democratic
this year-thrty Democratic Aldermen. Democratic
President OF the Board and Democratic County Clerk
Two of New York's seventy two delegates to tho Chi
cago National Convention last year elected by the
called snap Convention at Albany, are running on
tho Democratic State ticket this year. Frank Campbell
for Comptroller and Hugh Duffy for Treasurer
John R. Fellows, tho Democratic candidate for Dis
trict Attorney is 81 Year, Of aga He is native Of
Troy. Y Ashbe p. Fitch. tho Democratic candidate
for Comptroller, IL 40 years of age. lie born in
Clinton county. n Y. Miles Beach. Democratic candi
date for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas is 80
years of age. He was born In Saratoga All three
candidates hail from the samo section of New
York state. John II v Arnold. tho Democratic
candidate for Surrogate. is "a years of age.
and native of this city SO Is Judge James
NJ, Fitzslmmons. candidate for reelection to tho
City Court. lie Is So. Louis J Conan. Democratic
candidate for tho other vacancy upon tho bench
OF the CITY Court nativ. OF Oneida county, and ~
yenrs age. Edward Fitzpatrick ono OF tho Demo
cratic candidates for Coroner 10 years Of and
WAS born In Roosevelt street william II. Dobbs the
Other Democratic candidate for Coroner was educated
at the Grove street school In election districts
OF the Snh Assemble district Grove street school d
plouas arc accepted as naturalization papers There
more builders and less building in the Ninth dis.
ric than in any other part OF tho city Mr. Dobbs isa
builder and his friends in tho Ninth rayng active
iy 10 his support
During the quarter last reported the Of judg