The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-30
streets, Wednesday night. All the Demo-
cratic candidates will address the meeting
Voters are invited.
NEWARK DEMOCRATS.
They Hope to Elect Their Mayor
Next Month-0the
Offices to Fill.


NEWARK, March go, 1896. The nomi-
nations for Mayor and Board Of Works
will. be made this week The Republi-
can Convention will be held at Kruger
Auditorium on Wednesday night, and the
Democratic Convention on Thursday
| night at The same place. The Republi-
cam primaries will be held this evening,
and the Democratic primaries ON Tuesday
evening. In addition to electing delegates.
to the City Convention, the Republicans
viii choose delegates to the conventions
which are to choose State and district
delegates to the National Convention at
st. Louis.
The Democrats will probably nominate
Mr. james M. Seymour for Mayor. The.r
campaign will depend somewhat upon the
Republican nominations, and until the
Republican ticket is in the field they viii
be quiet and watchful
In view Of the large majority by which
the Republicans have carried the city in
the several elections during the last two
years, tine interest in the contest is
| eentered en- Republican nominations.
There has never been a warmer interest
For Mayor there are three candidates,
Julius A. Lebkuecher, the present May
or; John c. Eisele, the ex-ASsemb1yman,
| ard DR.. H. C. HeroGd, the well known
party leader. For Board of Works, in
place of Abran Joralemon and Henry c.
Bailey, the candidates are these two Off
erals who desire ren0mination, Peter
Ulrloh, ex-Aiderman; George LIZ. Smith,
present Assembyman, and Abram C.
Cooper. For De4agate-at-Large to St.
ply, Chairman CT the State Republican
Committee, and Elias S. Ward, the man
ufactursr. For District Delegate, Charles
bradley of Bailantine & Co., the brewers,
IS named. the other delegate will be con-
ceded to East Orange.
Tne contest for Mayor will be extreme
~ vigorous in the. primaries, and nearly
every district in the city will be fought
bitterly. The administration ticket" ISL
For Mayor, Mr.. I.ebkuecher; for Board
Of Works, Messrs. Bailey and Joralemon,
and fer District Delegate. Charles Brad
ley AS different sets OF delegates are to
be chosen for the Mayoralty, State and
that the tickets elected viii be- the same
tnrough9Ht the city, some who prefer the
Mayor having other preferences as to
delegates. Nor is it likely that all who
prefer the Mayor as a candidate will de-
sire to vote for Commissioners Joralenlon
aad "a Bailey. There is likely. therefore, to
detailed result Of the primaries until tins
convention has met
Against Mayor Lebkueeher and Com
misSlonerS Jofalemon and Bailey are ar
rayed Or. Herold, Commissioner Stains
by, E. B. Gaddss and others wilo have rep
resented this faction of the Republican
party. They want anybody TO beat tlle,
Mayor, and would prefer DR.. Herold,
but would accept Eiseie. For Cammis-
sioners they favor $Ulricil and Cooper. ann
for national delegate are for Elias S
Ward. The main purpose of the Stainshy-
.FierQld people Is to get somebody nornl-l
mated instead of the Mayor. Others who
are Joining with them are chiefly desirous
of naming the Board of Works candi-
dates All factions would be satisfied
with the nomination of George L. Smith,
VINO is not identified with any of the
warning parties.
Many Republicans who try to look at
the contest with unprajudfced eyes, were
inclined to predict yesterday that the re-
divided. and that the. Mayor would be
rerominated with Ulrich and Smith for
Board of Works. Ulrich and Bailey were
understood to be opponents as they
come from the same section, while Jorale-
mon and Cooper were the contestants ia
the southern section. Mr. Smith repre-
sents the central part of the city which
now has no member of the Board
The denomination of Mayor Lebkuecher
was very confidently predicted by his
friends last night, and his opponents
merely said that the contest would be
close. There was talk of introducing a
new candidate into the field, but most
of the politicians considered it too lats
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