The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-05-25
LIKES EDDIE DUGAN
So Farmer Ward Won't
Vote to Gust the Street
and Water Board.
EDDIE's SMILE DID THE JOB
P. H. ONeill Also Finds a Friend
In Ward = Republicans
Hopping Mad.
EppIE's SMILE DID THE JOB
Special to the JerseD Csty Neaps.

TRENTON, May Is, 1894.-Among the men
who circulated among the corridors n
''halls of legislation" yesterday, looking as
though he had business there and serious
business, too, was Mr.. Eddie Dugan, Street
and Water Commissioners of Jersey City
Mr.. Dugah was now in the Senate and now
in the Assembly Chamber. One minute he
would be an interested spectator of the hum
drum proceedings and the next he would be
behind one of the screens earnestly pouring
a tale into the ear of some lobbyist.
About the same time the Republicans in
the Senate were having great tribulations
with the new Board of Works bill for Jersey
City and Newark. Big, good natured
Farmer Ward, who was elected Senator
from Salem county last fall by less than a
hundred votes through ~treachery in the
Democratic party, put his foot down most
decidedly and declared that he would not
vote to pass the bill over the Governors
veto. N
WARD MUCH TALKED OF
This action of Senator Ward has made
him the most talked of man in Trenton to
day, If not in the whole State. Much that Is
said of the big man is not at all compliment
ary and If untrue does the good natured
farmer a serious injustice. The actions and
savings OF the Senator himself in theNpre-
misses are not all his friends could wish.
He declines to say much about the matter
futher tina that he owes his election in a
large measure to the support he received
from democrats and they are jumping upon
him Town his way on account OF the large
[ number of partisan bills which the Legisla-
ture vas passing.
II don't want to discuss the question any
further" he continued, ~ don't propose to
vote to mass the bill over the Governors
veto.
1t is also said that Mr.. Ward will also
| refuse to vote to override the veto of the bill
legislating P. n. ONeill out Of office.
What strikes the unbiased observer
as being strange is hat the good
! people of Centreton, Palintine and the other
| agricultural districts in the southern part of
| the State should take such o great interest
| in the municipal affairs of Jersey City and
| Newark. It IS hard to believe that as they
| hitch their horses to the rings in the meet
| ing house sheds on Sunday these rural
| worthless discuss the chance of Judges Sey-
| mour and Douglass for the Police Justice
ship, the advisability Of making Jack
| Graham City Marsha1in Tim Longs place,
| or the necessity of reducing the speed OF
Mr.. Dave Young's trolley cars.
ASSEMBLyMAN ROSS DISAPPOINTED.
Assemblyman Ross. of Cape May is a very
| much disappointed a He expected CONT
| IDENTIFY to receive the CAUCUS nomination to
| succeed Mr.. Holt, who win resign this after
| noon to become Riparian Commissioner.
| He expects to run for Senator in his county
next fall, and he thought the Speakership
w~ouIdggive him a boom. When Judge Cross
! beat him by only one he felt his defeat
keenly. ALTHOUGH Judge Cross has been
| intimately associated with corporations for a
| number Of years he will make a firm and
honest Speaker.