The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-07-23
Think IT LOCAL OPTION
Liquor Dealers Opposed to the
New County Judge Law
More Republican Trouble.
Sneeial to the Jerseu Cstu Nears.

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TRENTON, July %, 1S95.-It is not only
the contest for the "Gubernatorial noml-
nation which is exciting the politicians
all over the State at the present time,
but also the strife over various county
offices which will be filled at the Novem-
Der election. Unless the Legislative abro-
CATION of Uncommon Pleas Judge section
of the Constitution is declared invalid by
the Supreme Court, before which the
case is now pending, each county will
elect a Judge who will be clothed with
all the powers which are exercised by
the three Judges who now dispense JUS
tice and dispose of applications for the
licensing of inn and taverns in all
places excepting cites, boroughs and
certain towns.
A list of the county Offices to be filled,
outside of the Judgeships, is as follows
Atlantic, a coroner and county clerk;
Bergen a sheriff, county clerk and two
coroners; Burlington, one coroner; Cam
den, d coroner and a register of deeds;
Cape May, a sheriff; Cumberland a cor
oner; Passaic, a coroner and a surrogate;
Somerset, a sheriff, two coroners and a
county clerk: Union, one coroner n
Warren a county clerk.
NO county Offices DGCOIIe NdSdhb ia
Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Mercer,
Middlessex. Monmouth. Morris. Ocean,
Salem and Sussex. Not Until Presidential
year viii these counties get into a tangle
over such offices. The contest for the
county Judgeships is really of as much
Importance as that for Governor. TIL
Prohibition element will not only do its
best to place cold water men on the bench
but also the extreme temperance people,
who are allied to either of the two great
parties, will ~inaugurate a campaign for
the restriction of the liquor traffic if not
its entire abolition.
NO MORE CROSS ROADS TAVERNS.
If these people are successful in their
campaign in the various counties there
will not be hereafter any wayside inns
or cross roads taverns. The new Judges
will have all the say in this matter,
Just the same as three common pleas
judges who now occupy the bench at
each county seat. This popular election
of judges is an innovation in New Jer-
result of which may work great harm
to the interests of the Republican par
t Sna T tbIsp is is a alpne fbis peM Method aor 81
of selecting county judges is fraught
with great danger to the liquor traffic.
The brewers do not take kindly to the
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liquor dealers. and the rural tavern
Keepers are trembling in their boots over
what seems to most of them a. gloomy
prospect of continuing their business;
In the lower end of the State, and in
some of the uppe counties, the most
serious trouble is apprehended. In these
sections the temperance extremists form
lutte an element in each party strong
enough, it is presumed, to dictate the
Judgeship nominations. Consequent
favor of granting licenses as literally
as is now done by the present county
courts would stand no chance for a nom
nation. Stern, %aScetic, uncompronislng
Judges are hat these sections require,
and in their selection. perhaps in many
cases. politics will be entirely ignored;
take advantage of this very rare oppor-
tunity to make their power felt. and to
deal a blow to the liquor traffic, which
MORE TROTrRIsE FOR PTEPUBINCANS.
It is an old saying in New Jersey that
when you touch a mans pocketbook you
affect his patriotism. Will the brewers
new order of things? Will those of the
Republican persuasion display their abb
Judges by kicking over their party''s
traces and voting the Democratic ticket?
Local option in disguise many, of them
they remark, I'VE c~astigated the Repub-
lean party before for having done such
a thing and now We are prepared to do
so again. luminous WOIQS, dIlu VIII
history repeat itself?
The Republican candidate for Governor
then, no matter who he may be-how
able, popular and m-agnetic-would be
Handicapped at the beginning of tho
campaign, owing to this interminable
agitation Of the liquor question. The
opinion has always prevailed in New
Jersey that the Democrats are more
liberal in their views ON this question
than the Republicans. But for some
years back it is a noted fact that a
large majority of the liquor dealers have
voted the Republican ticket. They have
been instrumental in bringing back the
city of Newark and the county of Els
sex to the Republican fold. and they,
beyond all doubt, defeated Allan L. Nc
jperpott for Mayor of Jersey City. They
swelIed the Republican vote in Passaic,
Mercer. Camden and other counties.
ers and their ticket henev oppor-
stInilty offered. Now, will the enactment
of the County Judge election law provoke
these people to make another somer-
sauls this time in the opposite direc-
That is the all absorbing question,
and certain politicians. pass sleepless
NIGHTS uynrr-yinU avar tho oi1teor7o