New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-07-21
NEW-JERSEY NEWS.


The first Bryan ratification meeting in New
Jersey for the season Of 1900 was held at Bor-
dentown on Wednesday night John j. Crandall.
who is probably Of the most picturesque
Americans east OF the Rocky Mountains. made
an address suited to the weather where II is
hottest, here or hereafter In fact, the at
mospheric pressure of the Grafton is said to have
been unequalled since the late Tom Florence
straddled a cannon during political campaign
many years ago in Philadelphia. OF course he
made mincemeat Of the corporations. and glared
at the octopus until he was so ashamed OF him
self that he couldn't look toadhsh which had
had I'm broken in marine scrimmage in the
face. Mr. Crandan at MS best, and Mr..
CrandaTs best is perilous-a fact of which Mr..
Bryan should be warned and make arrange
ments accordingly.
1t has come to this in New-Jersey, that every
now and then a few of the friends of some ambi-
tious young statesman in that State manufact-
ure politica! boom for him out OF wind and
soda wafer. and send him around asking every
body he meets to knock it off his shoulder. The
result generally is that the ambitious young
statesman has nothing 10 hold but the bag.
From the point of view of the New-Jersey
Democratic leaders the assertions from the
Bryan standard have reached the limit and
any IuTInef continuation or IneD VIII DC IHc
means of sounding a hurry call for discipline
within the party ranks In fact it is reported
that Alderman William F. Ritter, of Jersey
City, has laid himself liable to dismissal from
the party by declaring that he cannot support
the nominees of the Kansas City Convention,
and that there may be a committee Of the faith
full appointed 70 sit him before the moon
passes into the next quarter Mr.. Ritter is,
however, reported 20 be serenely contemplating
November.
One Of those small but significant sensations
which keep New Brunswick cheerful all the
year round occurred In court there a few days
ago. Charles A. Oliver, who combines the office
of Alderman with that of detective. and Prose
cutor Voorhees, exchanged compliments suited to
the heated term. and which suggested the pro-
priety of liberal use of palm leaf fans and ap
plications Of chopped ice. At the bottom Of the
trouble was the New-Brunswick police force.
which has hitherto been considered a harmless
and inoffensive as the Middlesex County Jail
1t is said that the outcome of the trouble be
tween the Prosecutor and the detective may
bring to the surface one of those scandals for
which New Brunswick has already unenvia-
BILE notoriety.
1t may be true that the political prospects Of
ex-Mayor Willing c. SickeI have been put into
a state of eclipse by the sudden and considerably
inflated boom for Congress of Ira W. Wood but
if they have been the genial ex-Mayor doesn't
know it. He said to The Tribune not long ago
that he hoped some day to succeed John ].
Gardner in Congress, but was in no hurry to
push himself forward long Mr. Gardner
satisfactory to his constituents and wished
to serve them, and he laughed yesterday when
told of the report that he was now a hack
number. There are we'll informed Republicans
in Trenton who say that when Mr.. Sickel gets
ready to ask for the Mercer County delegates
he will not have much trouble TO get them. for.
as was remarked "he knows them all, and they
know him"
Frequent deaths from diphthera have
CURED in Elizabeth during a brief space of time,
and the cause OF the Illness and fatality from
this dread disease is generally attributed to
the condition of the water supply Is there any
good reason why progressive and intelligent
a city as Elizabeth should not have pure water?
Surely, Mayor Mack and the members of Coun-
Gil and the Board of Health and all good citi-
zens will spare no energy TO correct an evil
for which there can be no legitimate excuse.
1t may be doubted If hope is telling the fat
tering tale to William B. Gourley that is
leading him to predict that New-Jersey will give
a majority for Bryan next November. AS chair
man of the Democratic State committee, Mr.
Gourley necessarily must be cheerful and OBJ
timistic; but at William b Gourley as every
body knows. his optimism makes a wry face
over that prediction when nobody is looking at
him. He has a just claim 10 intelligence and
political ability, but his prediction is a cripple
with not even a wooden leg 10 stand on, and he
knows that he couldn't see a Bryan victory in
New-Jersey through telescope sight that would
magnify sixteen hundred diameters at a dis
lance of two thousand yards
1t daily grows more and more evident that the
patrons of the Barbour boom for Governor of
New-Jersey have found 1t necessary to put a
bolster of heroic size under it to prevent it from
falling fiat. Republican politicians who are try
ing to carry water on both shoulders are being
marked for Identification in 1901.
FATALLY INJURED BY 4 TROLLEY CAR.
Louis Bundler, thirty-hve years old OF No as
Fltteenth-ave., Newark, crossing Tichenor-st
In Newark. yesterday morning. when he was
struck by a car Of the Mulberry-st line and
carried about forty feet. The front wheel of
the car cut off his right leg at the knee and
broke his right thigh and left leg Rundler was
taken TO the City Hospital Amos Struble- the
notorTnan, thlrty-hVe years old, of Penn
syivania,aVe and Emens Vanck, twenty-six wears
rested. The car proceeding at rapid rate
Bundler died in the hospital
JUDGE KRCEGER BTYS RPETrpv