The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-12-13

the organization. when there will really
be a hot time in the old town, for there
are upward of a hundred men cianorlnS
for the minor positions. 1t is quite prop
able that less may be named for DOOR
keepers and pages than are PROVIDED TOT
in the act which regulates the number Oh
these minor appointments.
Horace Allen. of Hudson, will be the
leader of the Democratic minority. He
is a young lawyer from Hoboken, with
considerable ability. He is a young man
of dignity and acquired his legislative eA-
perience some two years ago, when ne
was an active member OF the Rouse oi
Assembly.
Senator w. d. DAILY will be the leader
of the minority in the Senate, and he
makes an eloquent and picturesque leader.
The outlook is that there will be an
interesting session. The Hudson deiega-
ton will lead in a fight for a bill when
will secure a constitutional convention
for a general revision of the Constltu-
ton. The people are realizing tnal notn-
the defects that are in the present Con-
stitution.
Constitutional commissions and amend
ments nave not been a successful expert
ment. and yet every one of the defectS
of the Constitution become more Hasrant.
1t is generally admitted that the people
have got to come to it sooner or later
and it ought to come now, WINE the
work of reform and reconstruction is go
ing on. 5
There is to be a merry fight over pound
fishing. as Well as over OyolciS, pea -
cularIy as to longing in the tributaries OF
the DelaWa Bay. There will be a n
made for a 81 gas bill and the new equal
taxation laws. The system OF raising
and distributing school money IS TO De
overhauled and some laws enacted max
ing some needed changes The OUTLOOK
is for a busy session and perhaps a long
one. 1t is the purpose OF the maJorlty
of the leaders to keep out all partisan
measures and to enact My legislation
that the people really want.
If the Governor carries out his idea
70 make all the appointments before he
yacates his office, he will cause a very
general hustle all along the line, ana
it can be expected that the poltlcai
cauldron will boil very lively over the
holiday season, because these appoint,
ments are principally law Judges ana
Prosecutor, which always stir up lively
local contests, and these fights are now
on, so the Governor VIII pc kept vesy
busy receiving delegations in favor of the
various candidates., n in some coun-
ties there are as high as six for each
office. -
on the United States Senatorial contest
within the Democratic lines. LII Senator
James Smith is DESTROYS OF succeeding
himself, he will have a hard nght, ior
the favorable signs are all concentrating
around the standard of Allan l.. NC
Dermott. He wants it, and ne mas the
biggest claim on it. He holds the caucus
nomination and he comes from a county
that has remained steadfast to Demo-
cratic principles, and he and Bob DAVIS
are now as thick as two twin brotners.
and he is sure of the united support OF
the Democratic party in Hudson, which
is very important just now.
Senator Smiths county is Republican
and even if it should go Democratic, 1t
could not be attributed to any act of the
senior Senator from New Jersey, for
the Democrats of the State cannot for
get. and consequently will not forgive
him for turning tail and running off to
Europe when the party was in sore
straits. The Democratic party of New
Jersey has certainly turned very sour on
the sugar trust Senator from Essex.