The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-04
PoITTTCxL rOaEs.

| teenth. John Geagan; Twenty -hrst ThomAs'.
Twenty. NTH r. q. Monroe; Twenty seventh .seAo
Bel, Brennan; Twenty ninth, Moses B. hyttenoere'
Thirty.nrst, W. @. welde. and Thiry-nrh' n r
Brcen.
In tho Presidential election Of 1905 Bryan re-
ceived $4,000 more Votes in New York than hoA'n-
ley did in Ohio and Mckinley polled 10000 more
votes in Texas than Bryan received In NsoraSka
Political conditions on the Democratic side arc DO
| coming animated In Queens Borough. The chiei
county once to be ned is that OF District Attorney.
for the nomination to which John d. Merrill
| is a candidate. Three Municipal Court Judges
| are 10 be elected. In the First or Long
Island City District, George Gregg and
| Charles T. Duty, former Police Court Judge,
| are candidates to succeed Judge Ksdiau. In the
Second district IL Ia probable that Judge Monteverde
will not be named To succeed himself. August Rey-
merit Of woodside. and John Trap and william
Rasquin are mentioned for the Dem ocratic nomns-
ton. In the Third district James Mclaughlin the
incumbent: Burt J. HUMPHREYS aud II. McRobinson
candidates In the FIRST district. Joseph deiser
will probably tie renomnsted for Alderman and
Charles wissel for AssemblymAn. The hrst Assem-
bly, and Alderm ,nic district Of Queens IL strongly
Democratic in night on party lines.
The :Iary land Rspu bcans at their Howard County
Convention are preparing to nominate . successor
to Register scaggs. and their brethren in st. Marys
county have nominated A. X. Love for State Attor-
ney and appointed An executive committee COM
posed Of Joseph Ching, Enoch Abel and Adam Ma
honey.
During the quarter ended July !. the disburs
ments Of the Department Of Sewers for contract
wete as follows In the boroughs named: Manhat-
tan, ss5 900; Brooklyn. $50. 900; bron1, s45,ooo
Queens, s25. 900. and Richmond none These were
tho contracts given out under public letting.
vidod by law.
1poktnn Iacl aFI m Ia
of politics in Kentucky. It has been discovered
that John Young Brown, the anti-Goebel candidate
for Governor. did not secure his own Democratic
nomination regularly eight years ago his friends in
the Louisville Convention OF May - Of that year
having decided disputed election case adversely to
Cassius NJ Clay. Jr., who the leading candidate
against Mr.. Brown. Mr.. Brown was nominated.
, however. on the second ballot and elected.
Greene county which includes the city OF Zens has
alarge colored population and some colored Republic
there they have been discriminatsd against
in the MISTER of political recognition and point
that In Greene there 1900 colored voters 1t is
the seat OF Wilboriorco University. one Of the
greatest educational Institutions for negroes in this
country. Two years ago the colored Repub cans OF
Ohio ticket OF their own for which they polled
fewer than 500 votes for Governor.
The liquor dealers Of tho Fifth Assembly District
are making strong night for the retention OF b. +.
Martin in control Of the Tammany Hall orEani ration
there. The Tammany committee in that district is
largely composed of saloon men and barkoepers.
Senator Martin was barkesper before he went into
| politics.
There are two factions IN the Tsmmany Hall or.
canization In the First Assembly District though
there ore no present indications of contest at the
primary contest Of Sept 10 As further aid to the
preservation Of political harmony. the Daniel i.
Eipp Aaeo xrhi IA oi,r u ,,,.
Grove. will have another at Terrace Garden Sept.
| IL. Assemblyman Finn is a candidate for Civil
Justice. place which the lower end Of the district
has not been able to since 1875. Mr.. Finn is
now resident of the Eighth ward
Last winter q bill passed in the Legislature
authorizing the New York Board of Estimate and
Apporonment to audit claims for pay ent for ssrv-
ices rendered during the period OF the volunteer
nromon in tho four Kings county towns. Flatbush
Now Utrecht. Gravessna and Flatlands. There were
nearly 1000 such volunteer remen. $50 In Graves
end 2s1 in New Utrecht. 22s in Flatbush aud ia
in Flatlands. The Board OF Estimate and Apporton.
mcnt has not yet acted in the matter Its exercise
Of authority In the case Is discreet onary.
Tho Democrats OF Northampton county. Va which
includes Cape Charles on the Eastern Shore PENN
sua have held their primary election for the choice
OF delegate to the Richmond Legislature to repre-
sent Accomao and Northampton counties. In the
matter OF United States Senator to succeed Thomas
s. Martin whose term expires March I. 1901, tho
voters at the primaries declared by majority of
500 for Gov. Tyler the rival candidate. as against
Senator Martin. In this part of the State Gov.
Tyler has his chief support and upon the delegates
to the Richmond Legislature from it his friends are
depending for votes.
The term OF Horace Chiffon. SO Nor Omitted States
Senator from Texas. expires in '9oI and there is
already canvass in progress for his seat q pros
pective candidate on the Republics side being
Edward II. Green. Chairman of the r>xas Republl-
can State Committee. There only two Repnbl,
can representatives in the present Texas Legislature
the membership OF which Ia 157: but Mr.. Mckinley
polled 100000 votes in Texas three years ago and
there are many Texas voters, especially in Galveston
and other large cities, who willis voting the Demo.
cratic ticket locally favorable to the Rcpubli-
can parry in National Affairs. and 1t is upon the
support OF these that the Republicans depond
not only in Presidential elections but in Senatorial
contests as we'll Mr.. Green 10 q reside emit Of Terrell
in kaufman county In the northern portion OF the
State. about thirty miles from Dallas. Mr. Chiffon
is a resident otSmth county. also in the northern
PORTION Of the State. and considerably nearer the
Louisiana State limo. He enjoys what may be de-
scrtbed a. the distinction OF being a native born
Texas Senator. his former colleague, Senator Mills
having been native of Kentucky. while his prede-
cessor Senator Coke. was native of Virginia, and
Naxey was horn In Kentucky.
At recent conference held at Bristol between
Gov. Tyler aud Attorney General II ontaeue of yir.
ginia and Gov. McMilin and Acknowledgement
Pickle of Tennessee. touching the oun larry line b,
tween the two States. 1t agreed that Att Drney
General Pickle should in October petition the United
States supreme Court for the appointment OF com.
missioners to review and remark the lines This
boundary controversy between the two States hs.
been In progress for many years but now seems in
process Of hettlement. Tho boundary line runs
through mountainous district.
When John Kelly ran for Governor as the candi.
date Of Tammauy Hall on q boiling ticket. the two
Assembly districts of New York which no carried by
substantial majorities the Fourth and ths
Eighteenth. The Fourth Assembly still bears that
designation but the Eighteenth Is. under the present
apporttonment the Twentieth, and it is a somewhat
curious fact that these two Districts two of tho
strongest Tamnany Assembly districts in town
are the two in which at this years prim..