The sun., 1896-09-08
POLITICAL NOTES.


rAphers, and 100 skied mechanics have becu put
| TO work under their auspices since the law was
| Put into ehect on AuE. rs, lSp5 On the opening
| day 500 persons waiting In line to receive
| Application BLANKS. Al present there are twenty.
ave employees OF the ciVI Service Commission in
chicago, and the Issuance Of bulletins and reports
is attended to diligently by them.
The Socialists are cutting . very small ngure In
| this campaign. Az a convention held last week At
their county headquarters 10 consider ways and
means TO obtain the use OF public schoolhouSes.
Armories and other public buiidfngs for meetings,
| II was decided 10 draw up petitions and seud one
| each to the Mayor aud Board Of Aldermen and the
Senate and Assembly. The state Senate and A.
sembly are now In session and will not be In
| session until January, 1897. There 10 law. Of
which the Socialists do not appear TO have heard,
| which prohibits the use OF schoolhouses. armories
or public buildings for political or religious uses
! The Mayor and the Board of Aldermen have no
power TO change or suspend the law.
| Gen. John Bidweli, when Prohibition candidate
for Governor OF California In 1890, poiied 10000
votes. When Prohibition candidate for President Of
the Cuitei States. years later, he polled only
$500 votes in California.
| requisltion has been made by the Board Of
Education upon the city for the payment OF eel
and expert witnesses employed In the acquisition
| OF school sites, to the amoUnt of N77o. OF this
sum $3.50 goes 10 Peter B. orey. a brother nj sec
| rotary OF State oney. who Is OF the counsel.
and 81 900 to TAvmas Allison, former Judge of
the Court OF General Sessions Edmund H. Mar.
tine, an expert witness. gets $500 of the award.
and John Hish. an expert witness, $50.
new bridge is TO be constructed over the
Bronx River at westchester avenue. and prelimi.
nary TO the beginning OF this elaborate work
plans surveys. rnaps. and pronies' OF the bridge
are TO be prepared at an expenditure Of ee 900.
The money is to be raised by the sale of revenue
bonds, And II Is intended that the Bronx
bridge when completed shall be one of the notice
able public monuments In New York. There IS
some talk Of finishing It before the East River
bridge Is begun.
The two electors at.largc from New York State
on the Prohibition electoral tickei come from Al.
bany and Brooklyn. The candidate for Lieutenant.
Governor. Charles II. Latmer. halls from the city
OF New York The Executive CouImittee of the
Prohibition organization has been empowered by
the Syracuse Convention TO fill any vacancies
which may arise among the district electors.
The compensation Of Robert Gere. collector In
the DICK Department. has been raised from 81 200
to 81 500 by the Dock Commissioners. whose
standard OF compensation Is a somewhat peculiar
one. The engineer CT the department gets 81. 900
year more salary thGn the President Of he de
partnent. the type|rteE gets 81, 500 a year. the
collections OF public revenue from the docks pass.
one oi the important employees OF the reform
Dock Department holds the ONCE OF "copyist from
manuscript" There six drauShtsnen. three
chosen from New York city and three from other
places in the nefghborhooi. Newark, v. J.. sends
one; Staten island second. and Brooklyn third
The Inspector of dredging. vino resides Astoria
L. l., IS meagrely compensated az the rate of 2j
cents q hour, and the captain OF ten derrick
nautical persorAgc, gets SEQ wees. on the other
hand, the public functionary known as the sta
tionary custodian and messenger, receives sI25
There many stationary messengers. II Is TO be
feared. in the public service, ba, stationary Gus
todians and messengers rare.
John Lind who has been nominated for Cover.
nor OF Minnesota by the Democrats. the Popuis;s |
and the Silverte Republicans IS n Swede by birth
and Is a resident OF the town OF New Tin. lie was
twice elected consresSnan by the Republicans In !
the district. which includes Blue Earth county. !
Pip.Hone county Red WOOD, Rock, and yellow |
Medicine, and he is representative Scandinavian
in Minnesota, where most OF the Scantinay!ans /
usually vote the Republican ticket There are |
100 900 Swedes. 100, 900 Sorxeg.ans, and Is. 900
Danes in Minnesota.
The term OF James II. Kyle will expire March
4. 1897. He Is OF the two Senators of
South Dakota. Richard F. Pettsrew being the other.
Pettisrew was born In Vermont: Kyle Is ohio
man. Inc nSnt Tor PFesluenilaI electors and for |
control OF the Legislature In South Dakota prom.
isrs to be what would he called in South Carolina
very spirited this year The present Legislature Is
Overwhelmingly Republican. hut the popular
vote the State Is much split. In sai the gepub
licans OF South Dakota Iolel 10000 votes: the
fopulists $4,000 and the Democrats .oOo. but In
1892 The Harrison electoral ticket Tell short of
majority over the Democrats sud Populists in III,
State. This fusion has becn affected he
tween the Democratic, the Republican. and the
fopu;ist supporters OF dr II! IN, but the Repub,
iO IN leaders OF the State process great confidence
In tue ST. Louis Convention South Dakota voted
soily for Mckinley and soiIiy for Hobart, too.
II Of the few OF the Mississippi States
which supported both OF the winners.
There is lack OF confidence In the claims
made Its behalf oy the Socialist Labor !
party. which is running Brooklyn for Presf.
dent OF the United States and Paterson. y. J., Al
derman for Eice-rresideut. In a bulletin ad.
dressed ITO the workingmcn OF the State OF New
York" this encouraging announcement appeared:
From now on and until victory IS ours. and
until freedom in cooperation has supplanted bond.
age In waSedom. there is but one true party of
labor. the Socialist Labor party" No time is
fixed for the triumph Of the labor party which
claims TO have made In eighteen years In New YORK
q gain OF 5000 votes. ~ the same ratio of IN.
crease the Socialists ~ there is no new ballot law
to prevent II, will be triumphant In 5000 or later.
Tho demand for eloquent and effective cam.
pasn orators IL more general this year than In any
preceding Presidential election since the close of
the civil war. Stimulated by the success of Orator
Bryan In Chicago. Orator Butler IN ST. Louis and
Orator Black in Saiaiosa political speakers are an.
pearing everywhere. hut the larger number OF
them, II is 20 lie feared. have mo-e willingness 10
talk than information 10 Impart. The lest trained
and most effective campaign speaEcs are without
doubt, on the sound money side. The speaking
canvas this year has begun unusually early and
one Of the speakers who has tne largest schedule
OF engagements is W. Eourkc Cochran.
There has heen much objection among the Re-
publican district leaders TO the method o, dis
trihuting tickets adopted at the Carnegie Music
Hall meeting which was addressed by Gen. Harri !
son and Mr.. Depew. IL appears that a large
number OF the tickets we.e withheld from the Re
publican district leaders who had constant and re-
peated calls for them, and were turned over in |