The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-09-06
ESSEX'S OFFICES.
Democrats Have Not Yet
Begun to Hustle Though
They Have Some
Sure Things.


NEWARK, Sept. 6, 1990-Although the
Republicans are in the thick of the ante
election fights for the nominations for the
Offices to be filled this fall, and the can
didates for the various offices are build
ing up their fences at a rate that prom
ises speedy results, the Democrats have
as yet done little SO far as the stating of
candidates is concerned
Even the face of the fight in the Repub-
lican ranks over the nomination for
County Register, the field on the Demo-
cratic side of the fence is singulariy open
at this stage Of the matter. The only
name as yet mentioned in that respect
is that of Assistant City Attorney Nelson
Abeel, the junior member of the city's
law department. Mr.. Abeel is talked of
for the nomination by people in the First
Ward, but there is nothing on record to
show that the young lawyer is losing any
sleep over the situation.
The wise men of the Republican party
say that the nomination for County Su-
pervisor, under the new Freehoider reor-
ganization act is all settled and that there
is nothing that can mar the prospect OF
Freeholder David H. Johnson of the Fiji
teenth Ward, who has the matter well in
hand and who enjoys the backing OF
former Sheriff Doremus-and that means
the support of Major Carl Lentz-but who
also stands well with the faction headed
by William Riker and with DR.. H. {. II.
Hereld also. The Johnson people are will
ing to give odds both on the nomination
and the election of their man.
(which shows the wisdom of having
both sides with you in a political fight
as one of the Republican leaders sagely
put it.
The local leaders believe that there is
chance for a Democrat to win and they
are urging the nomination of F'reeholder
John Otterbein, of West Orange for that
honor. Mr.. Otterbein has been elected
and reelected year after year from his
own township as a member of the Board
of Freeholders, until it has become an
Otterbein would be just the man for
accepted saying there that nobody else
has any business trying so long as John
of that popularity 1t is claimed that Mr.
Otterbein wants the job. On the strength
good fight and just the man who could
win Former City Expert Enos Runyou
is also mentioned as a possible candidate
for the place.
AS for the Assembly nominations, there
is not much to be said, as the situation
has not yet cleared up, but there is talk
of candidates in each of the imaginary
districts On the Democratic side the
first imaginary districts S made up of
the First and Eighth Wards, while the
Republicans make their district of the
First and Second Wards. Although there
| is nothing settled thus far as to the
| identity of the Democratic candidates
| from that section, there is a large and
| healthy boom working for A. Plume Gift
| ford, a young insurance man, who is
| about to make his bow in politics. In the
| second istrict, made up of the Second
| and Ninth Wards, the favorite seems to
be j. Bayard Kirkpatrick, a young law
yer who is associated with Senator
Thomas N. NcCarter, Jr., in the practice
! of law
The district made up of the Fourth and
| Fifth Wards has a pet candidate in Will
| liam L, Mullin, and there are others in
| that section who might be induced to run
| in case Mr.. NIullin is not eager for the
| chance. Alderman John Sinnott has the
| call in the Sixth and Seventh Wards and,
| 1t is stated, can have the nomina ton, not
for the asking, but for the simple ac-
| ceptance thereof. Freeholder Thomas
| Holzinger is also talked of in that section,
| but he is reported as being we'll enough
| satisfied with his place in the County
Board and not at alal anxious to figure
on the ticket. for a place that must be
| voted on in the county at large.
| Down over the railroad, in the Iron
bound District, they have young orator
/ named William Gill, who is the present
| choice of the leaders in the Tenth and
| Twelfth Wards. Benedict Ulrich is among
| those who are mentioned in the Thir-
| teenth and Fourteenth Wards. but there
| is a grave suspicion that Mr.. Ulrich is In
| training for a race against his friend
| Julius Bonnet, the Republican Freehold
| er from the Fourteenth, who will proba-
| bly, be renominated. In the Fifteenth
| Ward, which is in the same imaginary
| district with the Eleventh, former School
| Commissioner Edward J. Quigley is first
choice, with Major Andrews as a posi-
| bi1ity
| The Township Democrats have not yet
| begun to pick their men, and it is not
| likely that there will be much doing ii
| that respect until after the primary eIec.
| tons and conventions of the Opposition
! shall have been held, SO that the pros.
pective candidates may know whom they
will have to meet. 8