The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-10-04
CLEVELAND A JUDGE
Rumors That He Is To Be
Appointed to the Court
of Errors and
Appeals
JERSEY DEMOCRATS WAKING UP
Their Prospects of Carrying the
State Next Fall Growing
Brighter-Ganeral Polite
cal Gossip.
JERSEY DEMOCRATS WAKING UP
.a..,., !. ..rn. ,.rs.y city News.~i

Rreuarirr to enter New Jersey poiitics
has its foundation in a quiet move no"
seing mad~ by SONS eff the Democratic
Alumni of Princeton University TO secure
for him q place on the bench of the Court
of Errors and Appeals. The matter mas
been thoroughly by members
OF the faculty and members of the Al
umuf Association of both New YORK Anu
New Jersey
1t is agreed that the appointment Oh
Mr.. Cleveland TO a place on the peneh
Of the highest appellate court woufa pe
a vary graceful act to start his public
career ~ 4 Jerseyman. There is now q
vacancy en- the bench caused by the death
sf the late Judge william Lewis Dayton
ana Cleveland is to be entered as a can
didate for THAI, although he was men
Iioned for a place on the bench priar 70
the death of Judge Dayton. The demise
Of h worthy juriSt makes the eoHsum-
natisn of the scheme = possibility.
Several members of the alumni. mostly
Democrats, have been assigned To the
duty of going zts see MIR. Cleveland and
9esting his consent to be . candidate.
There il one source of information which
states that Mr.. Cleveland has been visit
ID. and is thinking very favorably OF the
plan. and that his friends are preparing
fe ret a monster petition in his behalf
The other report makes it appear that Mr..
Cleveland is in doubt about The wisdom
OF such = purse
The position of Lay Judge Of the Court
of Errors and Appeals is not
tive; it is a position of honor. 1t is worth
about $500 a year. william Walter
Phelps, after serving at the court Of the
Kaiser as Minister from the United States
accepted an appointment on the bench,
and was q member of the court when he
died.
Sormsr Governor Robert S. Green was
= Lay Judge atthe time af his death.
1t is . matter of general political gossip
that Mr.. Cleveland is willing to represent
New Jersey in the United States Senate
as soon Is al opportunity affords, and
that he would accept the nominal appoint
msnt to the lay Judiciary, SO as to fix
Almself in the public eye and be in q posi-
tisn to get the other honor.
It is also STATED that former United
States Senator John r. MCPHERSON, who
is a personal friend of Mr.. Cleveland, is
preparing to help him to secure political
henors ss a Jerseyman, and on that ac-
count DIR. MCPHERSON has again taken up
his residence at = Jersey City hotel
The Democrats are waking up. That
fact was clearly IN evidence on the big
day Of the recent Interstats Fair. when
many OF the faithful looked together,
compared notes I'M came to the con-
elusion that, despite the dependency
which psrvaded their ranks of Late years.
there was = good fighting chance for VIC
tory during the campaigns Of this year
epd next. It was remarkable, indeed, to
observe the cheerful faces, communicative
actions and clipper denaeaHor of the CO.
tsris Of leaders Of the old Dsnesraey
All were imb1ed with the idea that they
gsEs Just ser - tb ps1 snllfanf II 5ie dns II SuI she
Republican party whe strutted around
making themselves look important. And
shy asl this apparent POD nature ana ana
Democratic leaders and politicians!
THAR spekssmen al the fair grounds
seemed zen to Lay srs4t str res 6 on the sm pso6-
ment to the Constitution.
Diseensions in the dnk OF he dorni-
: party y in fRarlsas go im asa pts sSe
Democrats to talk still further of what
they. considered their bright prospects
for victory IN the great battle which
ing wedge for that victory they expressed
confidence of being able 60 elect their can
didate for senator in Burlington county.
They pretended. TO have received encour-
axsrnent from those Republicans in that
county who feel dissatisfied with the
4~suiuatIeH Of A~ssernaiy;aan Eort4n Tor
tie present nat ASsemblyHan
I'D whu were defeated for the noni-
nation BY Mr.. Bortohs were ready 70 bolt
thair party provided al acceptable. Deuo-
orat WA named for tbs ONCE Whether
this Is true or not, yet the Democrats AZ
The fair seemed to take much comfort
The Republicans who attended the fair
and they were numerous. could moi neip
r~emarkfng the unusual animation Wn5ch
uratafled in the Democratic groups And
there were more Democrats tnePt. too,
than on thu same occasion II previous
years.
ers and politicians is an event or mucn
Importance, and tho Republicans kno X.
The fereaeerw&s conveyed that the
Il. hatchsf ana smoking the pipe q
peace, and Furthermore that they intend
giving the Republican enemy. a real ed
fashioned contest at the polls next Me-
rernber az a preliminary to their girding
en- their &rmof Tor the pattle reyai OF
WWhss Il th. -anti-ssmblins amendment
has bean carried, after all, as the latest
returns now Indicate? VIII half of the
Democratic ammunition DO taken away
hlmself to the erect that Il tho proposed
amendment Is defeated his party will not
Saffer the consequence, and he always
knows what he talks about; and Senator
voorhees, said that such q result would
inure to the beneit Of the Republicans
Nv keeping alive the LANCER from race
81 course nearly all the big men OF
the Republican party were present. on the
fair green. The emily notable absentee
was Vice President Hobart. Genera
GeWell lowered above all others. and he
looked the leader for which he has long
since eaHned q deserved reputation Gov
ernor GriSgs and Congressman. Pituey sal
sid by sid on the grand stand. which
\ taken ~ a striking coincidence by
would ~ called on - succeed q other
In the Chair of State. Nearly all tho Re-
publican Congrassmen Of the State were
presant and were besiesed by of1ce5seek-
4rs. mostly by ceuntrymen who want ta
be p-oxtmasterS-
There are some csuntiss in the upper
end Of tbs State tfrat are not satisfied
fe let John Kean walk off With the
honor unceptestad. It il intimated also
an aotivs hand In the Senatorial contest,
and thst no will oppose Mr.. K6an. where-
ever ne can, and those who are gossipins
on the subject intimate that John #
Dryden is to he his candidate. There are
yet no signs OF opposing forces IN any OF
the county contests.
II there - to be = move aGafsf Mr..
Kean it viii have to mako itself mani
fest very soon. fer the Assembiymen nom
second terrn. It is an open secret that
IA United States Senatorial contests thu
man who chaIks fth6 noses first, IL the
men are honest, frequently gets theua.