The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-08-11
STATE POLITICAL NOTES

| If his friends can prevail upon him to
accept the place ex-Sheriff Baird-popu-
larly and generally known as eDovy''
Baird will be candidate for one of the
electors on the Mckinley and Roosevelt
ticket. 1t is said that United States Sem
ator Kean is friendly to the proposition
to put Mr.. Baird on the ticket.
Major-General Joseph w. Plume, who
| was a Democrat probably before William
j Bryan cast his first vote, and who has
never voted any other than Democratic
ticket since he reached his majority in
1860 has declared that he will this year
vote Republican ballot. 1t dosen't come
easy for Democrat who has been forty
years in harness to break away from the
party traces, but General Plume who
always did his duty as a soldier, didn't
finch when it came to doing what he be-
lieved to be his duty as a good citizen.
William B. Gourley, in addition to be-
ing the chairman of the Democratic tSate
Committee, is more emphatically opposed
to trusts and close corporations than al
! most any other politician in the State
He just revels in pounding them in all his
political talks, and there is not seven
strong enough to full yexpress his indig-
nation at the infamy of thes octopuses.
Wherefore a Paterson-Paterson is Mr.
| Gourley's home by the way, and he is
pretty well known there-newspaper calls
attention to these things in this wise:
Mr.. Gourley is director in the gas and
electric light octopus of this county He
is counsel if the trolley octopus that COW
ers Passaic, Hudson and Essex counties,
| and is reaching out into Bergen. He is
also counsel for the Delaware, Lack
awanna and Wester corporation, and is
| the wheel horse of the effort to grab a
free water franchise in this city.
There is an intimation from some of
the workingmen's organizations in the
VIIthe Congress District that they would
| not object to the nomination of ex-Assem-
blyman Thomas F. Noonan as the success
sor of the Tate William d. DAILY.
In accordance with the request of the
National Republican Committee a num-
Der of the Congress conventions in New
Jersey We're held early but others are
still delayed. Those having Republican
| representatives which have beer held are
the Ist lid, With and With, and those to
be held are the lid and With. The two
districts having Democratic represent
atives-the With and vIIth-have not been
called. The probability is that r. Wayne
Parker will be renominated by the Re-
publicans in the Whit, and Benjamin F.
Howell will surely be renominated in the
Hid District. B. F. Solomon will be re-
nominated by the Democrats in the IVth.
but in the Seventh they are all at sea,
| and will be, according to Robert Davis,
| the Hudson County Democratic leader,
| until early in September The Republicans
| have made no positive selection in the
! WITH District, but it is understood that
| John l. Blair Kelley, of Phillipsburg, can
have the nomination if he will accept it..
| In the Seventh District the Republicans
are in the same position as the Democrats.
The Republican convention for the lid
District has been calledfor September 5
| at New Brunswick.
| The Democrats of Somerset county saw
that if Middlesex and Monmouth counties
will permit them to name the candidate
| in opposition to Benjamin f. Howell. in
| the Third Congress district, they will
make things exceedingly interesting for
/ the Republicans by nominating Samuel
| 5. Childs, the New York dairy restaurant
man, whose home is in Somerset county.
| Mr.. Childs has had some experience in
| politics, and it is violating no confidence
| to say that probably his experience has
so far been more interesting to him than
/ to any one else.
| 1t is expected that Frank w. Somers
| will be renominated for County Clerk by
| the Republicans of Somerset County.
The Democrats say that they will make
one of their hurricane campaigns for the
| office.
| According to the estimates of some well
| Informed New Jersey Republicans, the
party will be fortunate if it should receive
| 40 per cent. of the votes of the dissatis-
| fed Democrats who cast their ballots for
Mckinley and Hobart in 1896. The Repub-
| licans do not complain of the present ap-
parent apathy of their party, but suggest
that it would not be mistake to get the
campaign in active motion without furth-
| er delay.
CHARLES WoBKE DROWNED.