The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-07
IT'S FALLING TO PIECES.
Kern's Republican Annex
Losing Its Few Good
Men.
M'GILL AND BRINKERHOFF GO.
They Couldn't Stand II to See the
Knife Whetted for Democrats.

A kick within a kick, and the Kern
kickers are kicking over the traces.
This Republican business is altogether
too yellow for Democrats, and before long
the Kern annex will be only the echo of
kick. That conference committee to ar
range bargains with the regular Republi
cans was measure that spoke too loudly
of the intentions of the "blighted, be-
nighted and short-sightedn band. Then
the Union Hill absurdity with its ahund-
ance of wind and scarcity of hearers,
faithfully portrayed in THE SUNDAY
MORNING NEWS, showed the weakness of
the bonds which held the kickers to-
gether.
DIR. M'GILL wITHDRAws.
DIR. J. d. McGill announced his inten-
tions to JERSEY CITY NEWS reporter this
morning of severing his connection with
the Kern Republican annex.
When asked what was his special
grievance, he replied:-"Oh, well, don't
care to express my opinion too freely, be-
cause, personally, / like some of the men
engaged in the movement, but fear there
are others who would sacrifice their
party to accomplish their own ends.
Here they are hob-nobbing with
Republicans for deal. Pm
Democrat, and one as much interested
III any genuine IeIorm as man
can be, but when they talk of
dealing with Republicans to oust Demo-
Gratis imagine there's something wrong
somewhere.
81 have been waiting for weeks to see
the new faction endorse Albeit. Prac-
tically they have not done SO and it
would not surprise me greatly, If, in
order to carry out proposed ends, they
endorsed Grubb. That has settled the
matter with me. / shall send in my
resignation tomorrow"
SENATOR BRINKERHOFF, Too.
In connection with the withdrawal of
DR.. John D. McGll it may be stated that
Senator William Brinkerhoff, whose name,
more probably than any other, has lent
respectability to the movement, has been
dissatisfied with the delay, II not the re-
fusal, of the Kern kickers to endorse ex-
Governor, Abbettand that he has been OPP
posed to and advised against
much that the Kernites have done.
He, for instance, advised against the
sending OF delegates to the State Conyen-
ton at Trenton, and when he was solici-
ted to speak at the Third District Demo-
cratic meeting recently, he wrote letter
in which he practically said that he would
have no active connection with the COM
mittee till they had endorsed Mr.. Albeit.
He was asked, so it is said among the
Kernites, but he declined to appear
at the meeting in Union Hill last
Saturday night for the same reason. The
proposition to fuse with the Republicans
Is said to have made him even sicker. It
cannot, indeed. have escaped notice that
he has not been identified with any Of the
recent public appearances of the commit
tee His name has appeared in no calls.
nor any manifestoes; and it is an open
secret that he is laying back to see
whether the kick is wholly in the inter
est of such men as Kern, Wankin and
Noelke, or whether it can be turned into
a channel where it can be Of public SER
vice.
When sought Mr.. Brinkerhof this
morning for an interview about the mat
ter, he declined to have anything to say.