The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-07-19


which is a good appointment, and places
Mr.. Brewer where he can be of great
benefit to the Government as We'll as
to his friends in the pottery business. He
viii have charge of thea ppraisement OF
this particular line
His appointment is entirely satisfactory
to all the manufacturers In Trenton and
to a host of his political associates.
There are some other appointments hang
ing fire that will be taken ap iinme-
diately after the disposition OF the tarafi
have assurances that their claims. on
the Administration will then be given
serious consideration. The grand army OF
place hunters has diminished consider
ably, because the Congressional deiega.
ton has been operating as an educational
bureau of their own, giving unweicome
but gratuitous information about the
law that govern civil service,
The hundreds who were cooking Tor
place in the departments, in the navy
yards of Philadelphia and Brooklyn, the
custom houses of New York and Phila-
delphia, know a thing or two more now
thar they did about Governmental posi-
items under civil service. Hundreds are
still keeping in line in the hope n a Presl-
dent Mckinley will rescind some of the
rules and make it possible for a few who
do not want to be department heads to
get some recognition IN minor pia aes 80
the Republican Congressman will be re-
turned for a third term. In some dis
tricts this may be against n custom
cut l1lG ItpuDl1CdlIS 1 nv CdN1i ~ -
for political custom as they ave been in
the past. The general constituency are
beginning to discover that a good Con-
gresham gains rather than loses by a
long term as Congressman.
As the custom has been, a Jersey Con-
gresham seldom ever acquired any pres
tige in the House of Representatives, be-
cause he was hardly edueated to the du-
ties before his term was over and he went
back to civil life. Other States have on
tinued their Congressman as long as they
were worthy and as a result they ac-
quired prominence and became of great
value to themselves.
When Congressman LoudenSlager, OF
the First District, came up for the third
term, there was a general howl through
out his district about custom and prece-
dent. He secured the nomination and
prove what his friends claimed for
him. that the longer a good man stays
in Congress the more valuable he be-
comes to his constituents. There is no
doubt of his getting the fourth term.
Gardner, who has been of great value to
the pottery manufacturers of his district
in securing for them a proper schedule
in the tariff bill. In the Third the gen
Howell a third term. There Is, how
ever, a candidate in the field against him,
and that is Senator Reed, of Somerset;
but it is understood that Reed will
withdraw when he finds how general is
the demand for Howell's re-election. :.
In the Fourth, Congressman Pitney will
surely Uc iStui hSu uiicSS iS OSSohicS tIO
Republican candidate for Governor. In
the Fifth there is some doubt about Con-
gresham James Stewart getting the
third term. 1t is said that Vice President
Hobart and Governor Griggs favor the
nomination of Colonel William s. Bar
bour. He is a wealthy silk manufacturer,
who is growing fond of public life. Con-
gresham Stewart is not in any mood to
give up the Office without a struggle, and
a very warm fight can be had in this
district. J.
congressman Parker, McEwan and
Fowler are all in line for a denomination.