The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-04-12
s O'CLOCK
[ X I R A!
II IS FIGHT NOW.
The Board of Finance
Determined to
Hold On.
POLICE MAY TAKE A HAND
And Put the Mayors
Appointees in Pos
session.
IS IT DUAL GOVERNMENT?
IS IT DUAL GOVERNMENT?
The Board Conference Today
and the Warlike
Result of It.
The die is cast!

There is to be local war for the posses
sion of the city offices of magnificent pro-
portions and excitement
In the article published below the atti-
tude of affairs in the Board of Finance OF
today as to the new charter is given, and
a statement is made that a conference is
in progress this afternoon as to what
should be done tomorrow.
The Board of Finance today consists OF
Messrs. Datz, Jordan, Hardenbergh-
Edelstein and Warren.
Mr.. Edelstein will be out of the Board
of Finance tomorrow, and John d. Frazer
will be in his place.
The Board of Finance of tomorrow con
cluded consultation at one o'clock as to
whether to surrender their offices to the
new city government or to fight s---
The determination reached and reached
unanimously, too, it is said--is to fight.
The new Board of Finance will meet at
half-past ten o'clock tomorrow morning
and organize by the election of new
President and of a new clerk. They will
then formally declare themselves to be the
legally constituted Board of Finance, and
resolve to. contest their right to their
places with the new Commissioners in the
Courts. AS the City Treasurer, City
Comptroller and City Collector hold the
moneys of the city, they will control the
financial affairs of the city in the face of
Mayor Cleveland's new Commissioners.
Other Boards encouraged by the de-
fiance of the Board of Finance to the new
departure may also resolve to hold on to
their places, though this is problem that
only the developments of time can solve,
and within the next few days the city may
have two conflicting and battling govern
ments.
1t is said, in some places, that the Mayor
will invoke the aid of the police to take
possession of the city offices these defiant
hold-overs propose to keep.
And another rumor is that Sheriff
Davis will send posse to put the new
charter appointees in possession.
The prospect of unusual local excite
ment is, therefore, wonderfully promising.
How far the attitude of the police may
be influenced or determined by the fact
that the Chief of Police is republican,
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seen.
OF course the officials who have deter
mined to make a fight declare that that
the interference either of the Sheriff or of
the police would be without warrant of
law, and that it would be an act of revo-
luton that they do not believe Mayor
Cleveland would stoop to.
'sMore than that" said republican,
who is cognizant of all the facts, this
afternoon, .'every official who becomes a
party to such an act of violence
would be subject to Indictment
and impeachment. If the republicans
should get hold of the Legislature within
the next two years, the gentlemen con-
cerned in this latest piece Of enterprise,
they would probably be deprived for ever
of their right to hold Office for the rest of
their lives"
Hasty interviews with some persons
who hold no individual or personal rela-
tions to the controversy showed general
concurrence of view that, if the new
charter can be successfully attacked in
the Courts, the men who lose their places
by the vote of the people should fight on
the outside.
When Mayor Cleveland was sought for
his view as to the situation he was not at
his office.