The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-11-08

other way The Republican Assembly
candidate, Edward s. Brown, who resides
in the Greenville section. ran a trifie
ahead of his ticket.
John G. Fisher also made a good show
ing and was only beaten GA votes by
Maurice Stack. Basse was behind and
James c. Clarke was ahead of the Demo-
cratic ticket, but Clarke always was a fa-
vorite in the Greenville section. The
First precinct rolled up its old reliable
Democratic majority. The vote in the
Second precinct was pretty close, the
Democrats winning by nine votes. The
other four precincts gave normal Demo-
cratic majorities.
The Democratic workers got out at the
opening of the polls and hustled all day.
Very few votes were missed. Joseph
Walsh looked out for the Democratic In
terests in the first precinct, Michael J.
Fagen, Jr., was in the Second, Miles Nc
Carron in the Third, John Prout in the
Fourth Edward Whalen in the Fifth and
Joseph Murray in the Sixth. Commis-
sioner Edward Barr drove about the
ward all day stirring UP laggard voters.
Timothy Aarons, familiarly called Tam
many Tim" also did some tall hustling
to get out the vote.
That section of Hudson county which
lies west Of the Hackensack, and which
includes Harrison, Kearney and East
Newark, went Republican by 2S1 ma
jority. Harrison, however, gave Ruemp-
Ter majority of 1885, but Rice got only
u majority in the town. East Newark
gave Ruempler 81 majority, and In that
borough Rice beat his opponent by 81
votes.
In Kearney, as was expected, the Re-
publicans scored heavily Erwin got $40
votes, whereas Ruempler got but 38s, a
Republican majority of $751; Davies. the
Assembly candidate, is credited with 959
to S4S for Rice, majority of GIL.
The balloting was unusually light, yet
the voting was not devoid of interest The
one feature which excited most comment
was the vote for Alderman Rice, of Har-
rison, the Democratic nominee for AS
sembly. Many Democrats were dfssatis-
fed with his pomintion, but few believed
that the detection in the party ranks
would run as far as 1t did. The recorded
vote does not tell the whole story. In
many of the polling places marked ballots
intended to be used by Democrats against
Rice {n one case the second precinct of
the Fourth ward, 25 were thus rejected)
were not counted. The voters were APP
parently more or less consistent Demo-
Gratis, for they had cut the heading off
regular Democratic ballots and pasted
the same over the top of straight Repub-
lican ballots. Thus they sought to sat
isfy their conscience, but the election
officers defeated their purpose by throw
ing out the ballots as marked.
AT the Park House a man was kept busy
at the telephone receiving the returns.
This place is, one of the hotFbeds of the
Democracy, and when favorable report
was received the crowd would send up a
cheer that could be heard blocks away
Dennis Mclaughlin. the former County
Clerk was one of the most interested of
the spectators. He paid close attention
to the reports of Maurice Stack, his broth
er-in-law, for whom he did much election
work When 1t became known that Maur-
ice Stack had carried the ward by over a
thousand votes the crowd went wild.
The members of the Kenny Association
Joined with the others and celebrated.
The pyrotechnical display at the corner of
Grove street and Pavonia avenue was
grand and lasted for nearly an hour. The
bursting of bombs attracted many people
to the vicinity and the police were forced
to drive them away several times, fearing
that some would be hurt