The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-11

NOTA PATH OF ROSES
Governor E1ect Besieged by
a Horde of Hungry
Office Seekers.
LEM WANTS KELsEY's PLACE
Republican Clubs Preparing fer a
Crest Demonstration on
Inauguration Day.
~-c.c,to nc Jersey CITY

ton next January of John w. Grigg as
New Jerseys first Republican Governor
within a generation will be made an occasion
befirting the ioy and exultation of the Re-
publicans who have so long waited Iof X
bigger bite out of the public apple NO"
that they will have the Legislature and ex-
ecutive branches of the State government
wholly within their control, and will have
not only a bigger bite, but the whole apple
they will say, along with the selfish schooi.
boy:-"There amt goiu' to be no core.
They viii probably begin to turn the rascals
out with a promptness and alacrity that VIII
make their heads swim.
The first to GO will be Clerk in Chancery
Allan L. McDermott. His term expires
March 81, but he may be given five minutes
over for good measure. This good, tat plum
S very tempting. 1t pays, according 10 NC
Dermott's testimony before last winters sit
tinrs of the Senate Investigating Commls-
sion. something like $4,000 to $4,000 per
annum. some say that these figures ran
short of the actual income OF the office, ana
that McDermott must make close to S3o-0Oo
a year.
JUSTICE DIXON ALL RIGHT.
Other offices to be filed with the beginning
of the new administration will be that OF a
Justice of the Supreme Court to succeed
Jonathan Dixon, whose term Will expire
April s. Justice Dixon is a Republican and
viii undoubtedly be reappointed if he SO de-
sires.
State Prison Keeper John Fl. Patterson
will 90 ont of April %. There are many ap-
plicants for Mr.. Patterson's place already.
Ex-Coueressman Hires name has been men
toned in connection with the appointment,
but it is thought that Governor Griggs viii
make a selection from Passaic County
There are several city District Court
Jndces who will be decapitated on the frst
day of April, and among them IS Judge
Howard Carrow, of Camden. Among bne
other District Judges whose terms expire
April l is Henry Puster ana J9nn "A. MU
Grath. of Jersey City; Patrick D. Gllnooly,
Elizabeth: Chauncey b. Beasley, trenton;
,John Francis Kerr, Paterson: John Il; Irues-
dell and Thomas S. Henry, Of Newark;
STRUGGLING FOR THE PLUMS.
On the State Board of Rallroad assessors
there viii be two vacancies on March ~.
Colonel A. r. Kuser, of Trenton, ard OhVer
Kelly. of New Brunswick. will be relieved.
Mr.. Kelly is an ad interim appointment by
Governor Werts. He was reappolnted alter
a hard fight last winter, but the Repupncan
Senate refused to confirm him. ms Is one
III the incest berths in the State. 1t pays
g. 500 a year salary, and the members OF the
Board have scarcely any work that IS not
performed by the clerk. Not less than a
dozen hungry Republicans are SEEKING Ihese
appointments. Ex-Sherln n. W.. iAeysi
OF Burlington, is one of the candidates, ana
at present seems to be in the lead IN the race.
flames Deshler, William F.. Barrlcklo and
James L. Hayes, OF the State Board OF Edu-
cation. will go out of Office on April /. but
as this is a non salaried office The applicants
are NOT so numerous. On April IS the terms
of three members of the Court OF Errors and
Apneals will expire. They are Albert Il.
Talman, George T. Smith and Hendricks h:
Brown. The members of the Court or
Appeals are also members OF the Oouro OF
Pardons. Smith and Talman are credited
with having been very anxious to aid In the
release of the Gutenberg big 4 i" and they
will have to walk the plank. 1t Is sald 10
be the declared intention of Governor Griggs
to dispose of the '.lay" end of the Court OF
Errors and that all his appointments VIII 10
trained in the law.
JUDGES AND PROSECUTORS TO GO.
Among the other offices to be filled by
Governor Griggs within a few months after
taking the oath of office and the Democrats
who will be relieved of official duty are the
following: -
Law judges Hunterdon County, Q.
G. Chamberlain: Sussex, Lew j. Mar
tin. April 1; Middlesex, J. Kearny Rice, and
Monmouth, J. Clarence Conover, who sat In
Mercer county during the trial OF the state
House cases.
Law Judges-Atlantic county, Richard j.
Bvrnes: Warren, Hiram d. White.
Prosecutors of The Pleas-Hunterdon, ID.
G. Chamberlain, April 8: Passaic, William
3. Gourley, April l.; Mlddlesex, robert
Adrain: Gloucester, Belmont Perry; Salem,
join w. S~wackhamer; Warren, w. A.
Striker. April l.
State Board of Observation-Disclosures P.
HOPPER, Alfred H. Shape, Charles c. Black,
April 1.
Harbor Master for H~udson-JaInes M.
Moore, April Il.
Board of Managers of Home for the Care
and Training of Feeble Minded Women
Annie E.. Gill ana Mrs. Caroline B. Alex
ander, March 81.
Council State Charities and Corrections.
Henry Fredericks, A. <. Baldwin, March
81; Frank p. McDermott, April Is.
State Board of Health-Dr. Franklin
Gaunt, of Burlington, May l.
State Board of Medical Examiners-A Fl.
Worthington, E. L. B. Godfrey, B. B. Lane,
May rs.
State Board of Dentistry-George Emory
Adams.
The other big positions. those of Secretary
of State. Attorney General and Clerk of the
Supreme Court, do not become vacant unit
1891, so that it is as yet too early to consider
the nfODdDIo winners OIL IucSe pIlLo5. POi
the succession to McDeT1aooS, However, q
number. of names nave been brought out
Barker Gummere, one of tho leading lawyers
in the State and now County Clerk in Mer-
Ger. was one of the managers OK the cam
paign for Griggs' noiaication, ard stands
well with all the party leaders, and he may
be the winner Of this pixie There are
several others mentioned for the place, Jaow-
ever. and il viii probably 60 to a NORTH
J~erseyinan.
Colonel John j. Tofrey has had bis eye or
that particular juicy plum for some time
but owing to the great slump III Hudson ne
will have to look in another direction. fos
ter Voorhees, is said to be the man VINO mas 9
first mortgage upon the position.
CARL LENTZ WANTS TIE ARIH
1t is now claimed that Carl Lentz, or New
ark, chairman Of the county and city com
~,ul5tees, would ike to DO Secretary OF state
to succeed Henry G. Kelsey, but it Is doubt
fIll whether Lentz would be eligible TO any
State Office as long as his brother-n-law
George b. Swan. is State Treasurer, ana Il
likely to be q candidate to succeed himself II
1897. Lensz cid good service III the can:
Iaiqn His early preference, OF course, was
JOIN Ksan. and he fought hard to secure 81,
nomination, but he fought equally as marc
20 secure the election of Jonn W; fr1ggss
and the Governor elect appreclated MS WORK
sufficiently to make a public ackno"ieog-
mcnt of it to the people OF Essex County.
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