The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-08-28
P~oErTroxE NornA

deputy suijerintendents under this Law will expire
ON Dec. II in Tho ysarin which they ere appointed.
Patrick McCatren, who 70 IN charge ~ Chair
man Of the Executive COMMITTEES Of the Democratic
state Committee. IL = native OF East Cambridge. and
was three times q member OF the Assembly from
before he was elected . Senator. and 10
now serving bs third term in the upper branch Of
the Legislature.
Another father Of the American grsenbacts 7" and
author Of the American greenback system Il dead.
This one was ex-Congressnan Alexander Campbell
ofIA Sale, nj. His title IL based on articles which
he wrote favorins paper currency. Some other
fathers Of the American gresnbsck nysteu were
Salmon p. Chase, Eldridgo @. spAulding and Francis
Il. Spinner. There were others,
This yeaTs election will be the ArSs 70 be hsld IN
the greater city Of New York - Euoh. New York II
now the largest constituency in the world In respect
TO the vote cast INF for any oandidAtes. London hasa
larger electoral population but n votes for nominees
in districts, not "At large" ~ IL the case In New
York. There are 10000 more electors In London
than there are in New York.
The late James Hall. stats deologist who diod ~
the age Of 81. was unQuestonRbly the Oldest oficial
in the service OF the state OF New York. He was ap-
pointed on the Geological Survey In leA0 and had
been. therefore. In the States service hfty-nvo yearB
at the time Of his death. Mr.. HAN was . Harvard
graduate aud the once no held was that Of State
aeoloEiSt and PAleontoloGiSt.
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A serious menace to Republican success In me
State Of Maryland, where. however, there - no cleo
ton for State officers this year. has been removed BY
the hArmonihng of the fnends Of Senator yelling
ton and senatorelectM coomas, who have buried the
hatohet. Mayor Malster Of Baltimore, the head of
the opposition to Senator wellington among the city
Republicans. has also como to terms with the senior
Senator. and tho men who recently defeated Mr..
wellington for Chairman Of the State COMMITTEES at
0 conference have decided TO elect him ct the Sep
Smberm meeting.
II IN . fact mot generally known that o1-Polioo
Justice Charles welde. Tammany Hall leader in the
Thirty.nrs Assembly district. 10 an athlete ~ we'll %
. statesman. At the recent outing Of the carondeiet
Club. of which he is q member. and Of which nearly
all the members hold ONCE, under tho Federal,
State or municipal Administrations, thorO was an ex-
citing football match. Some good kicking was dis
played, but the neateat kick OF all was by Mr.. Welde.
He sent the bali At such . pace that II throw over
Senator Cantor. and. according 70 the testimony of
eyewitnesses. congratulations bestowed upon the
former Justice for his prowesS werc 90 cordial and 90
many that they could not DO concluded until his
health was drunk In Nay wine.
Tho aovcrnorship contest in New Jersey will be
rather lively this year II the Democrats OF the State
can make II 80 in their effort to wrcst control from
The Republicans. who now seem TO be as strongly
intrenched In Trenton - they are in Harrisburg or
Columbus. Five candidates on tho Democratic side
arc regarded as actually in the neld: Elvin W. Crane
and Mayor James n. Seymour Of Newark, Senator
william D. DAILY Of Hudson county. Gen. Richard A.
Donnelly of Trenton and John P. Stockton of Prince
ton. Senator DAILY has the ardent support OF the
Organizes and Mr.. Stockton, less enthusiastic. the
solid support of the conservatives, and conservatism
counts for much in Jersey politics among Democrats
40 well as Republicans.
The Republicans of Tennessee have nominated
James Fowler for Governor to run against Benton
McMillin, the Democratic candidate. and o vigorous
contest is probable for tho ONCE. az the platform
adopted by the Republicans is q broad AID popular
one. and the Democratic party in the State il not
holding its own in the natural movement of popula-
ton. The East Tennessee Republican districts are
growing most rapidly in voting population. that
represented by Congressman Brownlow. Repubh-
can, casting in 1895 10000 votes and that repre-
sented by Congressman Gibson. Republican. nearly
10000 votes, whereas the total in the Memphis dis
ttct. Democratic. was only $4,000, and the district
represented by Congressman Richardson, Democrat.
OF Murfreesboro. only $4,000. Tho manufacturing
interests of Tennessee are mostly In the eastern
counties. into which there is the largest immigration.
The present representative in the Albany Assembly
from Essex county. IN which there has been q viGor-
GUS conflict between the Witherbee and Foote fac
tions for control OF the Republican organization, IL
james II. Pierce, q veteran Republican who repre-
sented the neighboring county OF Franklin in the
Assembly as far back as 1870 and 1871. He has not
Deon EenOmlnateu,u n n hepuDIlCanA nave CHOSEN
as their candidate Orlando Beede Of Keene. Mr..
Pierce. however. is one of the delegates to the Re-
publican State Convention. Essex county, which 10
on the Vermont border and partakes strongly of the
characteristics OF the Green Mountain State in the
tenacity OF its voters to their political views, has
always been steadfastly Republican. and all Demo-
cratic efforts to overthrow Republican control or to
shake the Republican supremacy in It have failed
utterly. In the town of Keene, from which the Re-
publican Assemblyman comes. the Democratic vote
last year was 20 and the Republican vote 14a. One
popularity Of Essex county politlcA Is found in the
fact that though 30 strongly Republican 1t contains
ono Democratic township in the extreme south
western corner of the county, on the Hamilton Dor
der line. called Minerva. Minerva Is a Democratic
town. 1t is always Democratic. Bryan carried It in
1900. and every Democratic candidate for President
or Governor has carried It. too. Minerva ia as strong
in its Democracy as Essex ia In Its Republicanism.
The Republicans Of the Auburn district have re-
Nominated Benjamin +. Wilcox for Senator in the
Thirty-ninth district. This is one of the districts in
which Republican success is regarded as assured.
though one of the two counties composing it-Seneca
c~ounty-is moro often carried by tho Democrats
than by the Republicans. Senator Wilcox was n
member OF Assembly before he was elected to the
Senate, and prior to that time was County Clerk of
Cayuga, being elected In 1882. The ONCE of County
Clerk OF Cayuga was twice held by one OF the
most distinguished residents Of the western por-
ton of the State. Enos 4. Throop. Mr.. Wilcox
began his career as an oHiceholder in 1870 as a
messenger In the apty Clerks ONCE in Auburn. of
which afterward 4 Sas chief. In respect to durA-
ton of onicial service he comes somewhat behind a
recent appointee Of the Finance Department in New
York. David Barnett. who became adeputy collector
OF city revenue on Aug. 10 by designation OF Comp
troller Coler. Mr.. Barnett has been In once for
number OF years. He was active in the politics OF
the Fourteenth ward when it was included within
the Senatorial district represented In Albany by vii.
liam M Tweed.
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