The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-03-29
paying from 81, 100 to s1,1le a

year.
The Camden Postcfice is worth So. 100
and is now in the keeping of William j.
Browning, whose term expires within the
next sixty days,and on that account there
Is considerable activity in William j.
~Thompson's bailiwick over the appoint
ment. Captain c.. S. McGrath, editor of
the Camden Democrat. a prominent
Grand Army man, vas the first in
the field. and he is pretty well in
dorsed by the respectable democrats of
the county, but recently Frank j. Nc
Adams, who has been for several years
trying to get into the Legislature, and
who did test the seat of Assemblyman
Joseph Engard, has announced that he
wants the office.
TRENToN's POET OFFICE.
Here in Trenton, tue post office fight Is
becoming quite interesting. John H.
| Scudder has been in Washington looking
the matter up. He is q member of the
State Committee, was a delegate to the
last National Convention, and has been a
liberal giver to his party. He is a wealthy
mai and at the head of one OF the largest
dry goods houses in lower New Jersey.
He has a candidate, but whether 1t is
himself or somebody else. cannot be
stated. Everybody in Trenton is amazed
tina a man of his enormous income
would want to bother with a post Office
that pays only S., $500 a year. Many think
that he wants to get the matter in such a
shape that he will have the naming of the
man. A~ssemblyman James w. Lanning
Is also q candidate, but he is not pressing
his claims as hard now as he did befole
he Hoped on the race track bill. 1t will
be remembered that be voted for the
three Infamous race track bills, but
changed his mind the afternoon of the
big mass meeting of the Citizens League
held in Trenton.
City Treasurer Samuel Walker, a young
democrat, who is responsible for all the
Democratic partisan legislation that has
been recently given to Trenton. seeks the
office on the ground that he is a McPher-
son man in Mercer County, and made
fights for the senior Senator when the
local machine was against linn. The for
mer assistant postmaster, John Leonard,
is down or the list. and several others
have been mentioned who are hoping to
be compromise candidates.
The postmaster of Elizabeth is Samuel
S. Moore, ana he receives a salary Of
50, 100. Congressman Dunn. who will
have the naming of his successor, is
anxious to put Patrick Sheridan in tbs
office. Sheridan has been a good giver TO
the party. is the owner of a saw mill. and
helped Dunn's campaign along material
ly. j. E. Wildey, a lawyer and a friend
of MCPHERSON. has a number Of friends
urging his case.
IN JERSEY CITY.
Ex-Assemblyman John +. Kelly, now
Police Captain in the Second precinct of
Jersey City, is the man most talked of in
bob Davisville," to succeed Samuel ID.
Dickinson. Kelly was the former post
master, and is anxious again to get con-
troll Of The office, because he is a very large
patron Of Uncle Sam, being the treasurer
of a corporation publishing a number of
papers for guessing purposes, which is a
tremendous business, sending out several
wagon loads of papers every day. Director
Garrison. of the Board of Education. is
another prominent candidate, and has a
long petition, signed by the most infueu-
Iial men In the county, is a personal friend
OF Senator Mcpherson. and is making a
strong fight.
NEwARK's Po-sTMAsTERsHIP.
The only eau didate mentioned fer the
post office of Newark. is William d.
Rutan.
Senator Mcpherson has at last found a
place for ex-Assemblyman Jacob Klotz,
who was formerly his farmer at Belle
Meade. Klotz, for the past four years,
has been ~endeavorlng to get control of
the New Jersey Board of Agriculture,
and he created considerable excitement
during the past session of the Legislature
by being instrumental III having intro
duced a bill to legislate out of Office the
President aud Secretary of she State
Board of Agriculture and the State Dairy
Commissioners and have these three i'm
portant offices punched under the head of
the Commissioner of Agriculture, which
he was to fill.
The farmers organized and prevented
the bill from coming out of the COM
mittee. Klotz was much angered by the
manner in which he was treated and de-
manded that something should be done
for him, and, between Senator Smith and
Senator Mcpherson, they have %unloadeu
him on the National Department Of Ag-
riculture. and given him a commission as
travelling deputy at a salary of $40 a day
and expenses.