The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-30
POLITICAL NOTES.

The expense Of printing the election Tickets FOR use
in New York city, all boroughs. in November will DO
f2a54S Tho contract entered into by the Police
Dopar tment Is for that amount.
A shoemaker announces himself as n candidate
for Mayor OF Chicago, female Socialist is running
for Mayor Of Boston and unnaturalized cloth
cutter wants to be Mayor of Philadelphia
Tho details Of the proposed improvement Of the
Second ward Of Queens Borough. now part Of New
York city and before consolidation .tituting New
town township, Of buculc chara ter indicative
OF the agricultural interests of the Greater New
York There creeks 70 hc bridged, fences to DO
replaced turnpikcs To- be lcvrcl. waste lands to be
surveyed and water courses t. I've deNected. Among
the VILLAGES included in this New York city ward
one Of the sixty fve-arc Locust Grove Glendale, ST.
James Park, Kdrcwood Heights Evergreen. wyckoH
Heights. metropolitan. Fresh Pond, Lincoln Hill,
Melvina. Maspcth, BrrlinNile. Laurel Hill odsido
Heights, Woodsidc. Charlottesville, North MuOdsido.
Hyatt Heights, W nhold, Mount Pleasant Maspeth
Heights, Corona and Louona Park.
The recent municipal election ir the city ~
In Annapolis. which was carried by the Democrats
nominee for Mayor hut by majority so small as to
lie Of doubtful legality, turned on = number u
purely local questions, the determination OF which
would bo Of little interest elsewhere. The Demo.
Cras laid much stress tho question OF meters for
natural gas. clearing In their platform against
such meters the Republican platform said nothing
al out them. On this ground the Democrats, IN
their speeches, in their party organ. and In their
houseto- house ranvassinI asserted that IL the Re-
publicans came into power meters would be pnt
into use and tho price Of natural gas increased
Tho Republicans declared that the question Of
meters was not legitimate issue in the campaign
Indianapolis is ordinarily a Republican city
Among the applications made for the appropriA
ton Of public moneys for municipal purposes are
the following 10y Commissioner Koarny Of the Do
partmsnt Of Public Buildings. Lighting and Supplies
in the horoughs OF Maintain and The Bronx;
$50 for fuel. coal and WOOL 1000 for carpen.
tcrs' hardware. $4,000 for law books. $4,000 for
safes 81 800 for awnings. $4,000 for carpets.
mats and lnolcun. $4,000 for Office furniture and
81 5000 for ice.
The defeat " George NJ. Palmer for denomination
for the Assembly in tho securely Democratic county
Of srhoharic tho only county in the State which
bryan carried in lsHG leaves the up State Democrats
without parlimentaran If experience for tho As
scmhly, If thoy should win control OF that body.
William Hutton Of Rensselaer, has been in three As
scmblics but he is not regarded a. speaking Nom
her Of tho minority. Daniel f.. Finn. one Of the
Democrats in point Of annual Legislative ser
vice FIRST elected in 1924. has been nominated for
Civil Justicein the First Judicial district. nominar
ton which is equivalent to an election.
One curious feature Of the conduct Of the CITY
Record be found in the fact that though osten-
sihly daily paper. appearing regularly except on
Sundays and legal holidays there IL no stated daily
price for it, the only hred charge being for tho year.
81 80 and any person desiring to procure copy
q number Of copic. must do under this business
announcement which is unique OF its kind among
newspapers Of the United states: The Ci'v Record
is published daily Surd, AVS and legal holidays ex-
copied. at No. city Hal. New York city. Annual
subscription $3.50, postage prepaid"
The Democrats of Massachusetts, at their Boston
| convention nominated Mayor Walter 8. Ramsdell OF
| Lynn for the office OF State Auditor, place for
| which the Democratic nominee of q year ago.
Charles T. Parker OF Boston. defeated by $1,000
| votes He declined the nomination and the vacancy
on the Democratic ticket caused by his withl avail
| has been filled by the nomination OF E. Gerry
| Brown of Brockton who is a leader of the Populst
party in the Bay State.
| The colored Democrats OF New Jersey have
selected IT will be generally agreed. inopportune
time to proclaim their independence OF political
tammcs and to prosecute their work of inducing
coored Republicans to forsake the party of their
traditional allegiance to vote the Democratic ticket
in New Jersey There is state election there this
year and the grievances of which coored Democrats
| complain lynchings in the South. disregard of
| the demands of colored applicants for Office and
trusts. There are $4,000 coored voters in the state
OF New Jersey the great majority of them residing
| in the southern counties OF the State where the
/ Republican prcponderarce is overwhelming. and 1t
| 10 not. therefore threatened by any colored defsc
ton. In 1896 New Jersey was carried by the RepuD
! Leans by $1,000 majority
Tho two most conspicuous Kerrymen in public
| Office in New York are Maurice stack. Dockmaster
and John r. Naglr Chief of the Bureau of Statistics
MIR. stack has been for than twenty active
in First ward politics. DR.. Maggie was born at Bolus
Head in Kerry and for thirty years connected
with the Board Of Health Ne a tabulator.
The newly elected Mayor OF Indianapolis has
the appointment of three members OF the Board OF
| Works. each with salary uf $1,000 year three
members of the Board OF Safety. the salary OF each
being 5000; board of three park commissioners
| without salary, a superintendent of parks at a
salary OF $1,000 board of public health aud
charities, consisting of three physicians, each at
salary OF 500 year city comptroller an salary Of
S., co. city attorney, salary $4,000, chief clerk
of the CITY Assessment Bureau at $1,000; supern.
| tendent of streets. salary $l.6OO city engineer
salary $500; building inspector at $500, IA
| superintendent of police and chief of the Fire Do.
| partmcut. each at "a salary Of $4,000; two market
masters one at salary OF .2oo the other at $780,
and sweeping and sprnkling inspector. *l.oso
Thirty United States senators went ont OF Office on
March 4, 1884; thirty more to go out of Office
| March t. 1901. and thirty more on March I. 1908.
the whole membership Of the Senate being ninety.
| OF the thirty who went out in 1899. fifteen were
| Dem Gratis. eleven Republicans. three Silver Repub-
| licans and one a PopulIst
One OF the results of Assistant Postmaster Edward
NJ Morrans work in the Twenty third Assembly
| district has been the first unanimous nomination
| made by the Republicans there for years. Ellis B
| Southworth. the candidate for Assembly. is tho
unanimous choice of tho party convention and also
| Of the citizens Union convention. This is his first
| candidacy FOR public Office, He is - year old n
| grad nat" OF Columbia Law school, member OF
| tho Lawyers club and Bar Association and has
| served re ever for some large concerns during
| litigation. . born a. Dryden. Tompklus
county, and has lived in New York tor fifteen years
The Connecticut township elections Of October.
held throu -huut the stat except in IItrtford Sew
Haven, Bridgeport AnspnIt, Derby and Nauratnck
resulted favnrahly t. the Republican party. but not
to extent great To- indicate altered ppltih
conditions IN the Nutmeg Stat. The Republicans
carried about three quarters OF thu small towns. a
slight increase the record of year ago. and tho