The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-03-18
DICKINSON,
NJ CARTER,
R|K[R
Sam, Tom and Will Made
Secretary Of State, At
torney General and
Supreme Court
Clerk.
pLUMS ALL SHARED OUT
Managers and Commissioners
Named By Regiments
Personal Political
Appointments.
WHO THE WINNERS ARE
Senate Confirms the Former
Judicial Nominations
Party Leaders An
tagonized.
WHO THE WINNERS ARE

Especial to THE Jersey City News. J
TRENTON, March Is, Governor
Murphy settled once and for all discus.
Sion as to the appointments he proposed
10 make by sending to the Senate last
night the names of the new Attorney
General and Secretary of State. together
with long list of nominations covering
nearly all the positions he has to fill dur
Ing the present session. The appointments
follow
For Secretary OF State, Colonel Samuel
.. Dickinson. OF Jersey City, vice George
W-urts Of Paterson
For Acknowledgement, Senator Thomas
n. Nccarter, Of Newark, vice Samuel II.
Grey, Of Camden
For Clerk of the Supreme Court, Will
lam Rilxer, Jr.. of Newark. re-appointed.
For neu1bers of the State Board Of
Education. Third Congress District, Ed
lnund Wilson, of Red Bank. re-appoint-
ed; Fourth Congress District. Pereival
Christie. Fifth Congress District,
Charles Z. sugdam. Morristown. reap
pointed Eighth Congress District,
James ". Byrne; Tenth Congress Dis
trict, Edward Russ, Hoboken, reap
pointed.
Tor managers of the State Hospital.
Trenton N Newlin Stokes, Morristown,
re-apponteG; Cornelius S. Hoffman, Som
erville, re-appo;nted; Benajah w. An
drews. Woodbury., re-appointed: ]. Bay
ard Kirkpatrick. of New Brunswick, vice
DR.. Henry R. Baldwin. deceased: Peter
N. Raffeity. Of Red Bank, vice former
Judge Joseph Thompson, of Atlantic City.
For managers of the State Hospital at
Morris PLANS. James w Smith, of Pat
erson. re-appointed David s.. John3 of
Hackensaek. re appointed ]. Arson Nc
Bride. of Deckertown. re-appointed.
For members New Jersey Library
Commission, DR.. Ernest C. Richardson,
Of Princeton. re-appointed; Leonard j.
Gordon. OF Jersey City, re-appointed.
For members State Sewerage conmis
sion. Mayor john Hlnchliffe, of Pater-
son; Coionel Charles W. Fuller, of Jer-
sey City, both re-appointed.
For managers state Reformatory at
Railway. George W. Fortmeyer and
Richard H. Wilson, bo-h re-appointed.
For trustees State Home for Boys.
Frank II. Gaskell New Egypt; Edward
Spaeth Newark, both re-appointed.
For members State Board Of Medical
Examiners. Edward Hill Baldwin. New
ark; E. L. Godfrey Camden, David P
Borden, Paterson, all re-appointed
In this batch of appointments the selee-
ton 81. Colonel Dickinson as the new Sec
retary Of state and Senator Thomas n.
McCarter as Attorney General stand out
most conspicuously first. because they
are the most important OFFICERS in the lot,
and. second, because of the motives which
prompted the selection.
Both are in every sense of the word per-
sonal political appointments. Colonel
Dickinson is a Hudson County Republican
politician too we'll known to require an in
PRODUCTION to the citizens of the State
He has been the head and frent Of the Re
nubliean machine in his own county for
many years and his claim for the high.
office he is to fill lay in the fact that he
supported Mr.. Murphy in his gubernato-
rial aspirations from tht outset. swinging
Hudson Republicans into lire for the Es-
sex candidate at an early stage in the
proceedings
Governor Murphy has had some auaiIns
regarding the fitness Of Colonel Dickin-
son for the position, but the Hudson man
was imperative in his claims, and as he
declined to be satisfied with any other
poSition II was declueu bN thc FAStusiNc
to sacrifice Secretary George Wurts.
This he did in the face of the opposition
Of sussh men az fcernsr Attorney General
Helm w. Griggs and Assistant Postnass-
Ter General William NJ. Johnson, both Of
whom advocated the disappointment OF
Mr.. Wurts-
Mr.. Griggs came to the Capital las
night with the Intention. It Is understood,
Of raaking final effort in behalf Of his
friend. Mr. Wurts, but learning that this
was useless took his departure without
troubling the new Governor with 50 much
as q eali Governor Murphy has been as
snred that Colonel Dickinson viii be al
Ire Secretary Of states Office every day.
hut there Is a suspicion that it might be
iust as well for the office sheu:d he
change his plans and arrange % attend to
his duties In Jersey City during six days
and follows the practice 3 his brother
state officials by visiting the Capitol once
q week during the busy season
Colonel Dickinson. II i said, has 'prom-
r1 ruRE a COLD In ONE DAY