The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1905-08-15
POLITICAL.
ASPIRATIONS
Offices to be Filled at the Ap-
preaching Election Start
the 0ffice-SeekerS.
SOME CANDIDATES in THE FIELD

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The election machinery of Morris
county has started and will keep NOV
ing until the 7ttfsi faff of November when
the election viii be held. The County
Committee has asked the local com
mittees to send in the names Of men
to be appointed on the several election
boards, and all recommendations
should be in this week. The appoint
ments will be made before the end Of
the month and the boards will com
mence their work on the fifth Of Sep
tember, and the primaries will be held
on the twelfth.
The general officers to be elected this
year are a sheriff and two oassemblymen.
For the former office there are several
announced candidates. Freeholder e.
w. Schoneberger, of Passaic, has been
in the field for some time; George
Shaw, of Succasunna, whose name was
mentioned at the convention three
years ago, is a candidate this year.
AS there were rumors that he would
not accept the nomination a communi-
cation was sent and in answer he said,
g am candidate for the Office Of
Sheriff, and trust that this will set at
rest all runors to the contrary. .
Calhoun Orr, keeper of the jail, is
also candidate and expects the sup
port Of his friends Samuel Leonard,
of Morristown, is in the hands Of his
friends and win take the nomination
+ if it comes to him.
Freeholder ]. D, Smith has been
talked OF, but says he is for Orr first ]:
but if the convention wants him he is
willing. Former 'Assemblyman White
head is receptive candidate and ex-
poets the support Of his township, and
there are others who will probably get
complimentary votes. With the num-
Der Of excellent men to select from
there is sure to be a good candidate
selected
For The Assembly the party usage
and Mr.. Mills excellent record of last
winter will insure his denomination
and election. The other Assemblyman
viii naturally come from the upper
end 0f The county, and as the people
about Lake Hopatcong have lively
interest in the matter their prefer
ences will have considerable weight in
the convention.
The municipal and township officers
will be elected on the general ticket
this year for the first time Chosen
Freeholders will be elected 10 all the
wards of Morristown ard Dover, and
in Montville, Morris and Rockaway
townships. Clerks will be elected in|
all the boroughs and all the townships
but Morris and Mt. Olive, Assessors
f in Pequannoc and Randolph townships,
and Butler and Netcong boroughs
Collectors in Randolph and RockawayI
townships, and Butler, Mt. Arlington
and Wharton boroughs. Committees
men in all the townships. Hanover and
Rockaway electing two Surveyors OF
Highways and Commissioners Of Ap-
peal will be elected in all the town
ships, and Justices Of the Peace in
Boonton, Chester, Hanover, Montyille,
Mt. Olive, Pequannoc, Washington,
Dover and Morristown
One Alderman for each ward will be
elected in Morristown, and municipal
officers In the other towns and bor
oughs.
The County board of Election con-
sits Of A. "A. Vance, chairman; O. A. \
Fairchild, secretary; Sidney Collins
and Eugene J. Cooper.
The Morristown Central Committee
has organized by selecting Charles H.
Green as chairman; E. Hurtzig as
secretary and j. A, Blanchard, as
treasurer.
In view of the very general feeling
in the town that more frequent
changes should be made in the per-
sonnel Of the election boards it was
resolved that beginning with this year
appointees for the election offices
would not be continued on the cleo
tion boards but for two years. This
gives an opportunity for the infusion
Of new blood and enlarges the know
ledge of the technical working of the
election machinery.
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