The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-23
KERN'S LATEST SCHEME.
Preparing to Found a New
Democratic County
Committee.


The announcement in THE JERSEY CRY
NEWS of yesterday that President Kern,
of the Board of Works Commissioners,
had secured o. H. Meyers hotel, on the
hill top, for political gathering of some
kind, made the boys talk SO much last
evening that the purpose of the meeting
was let out.
1t is nothing less than movement for
the organization of new Democratic
County Committee, and must prove of
large interest to big and little politicians
all over the county. 1t has its pretext in
the action of the Democratic County
Committee, when, few even
ings ago, they hauled the
ing on to their places under the old
charter oyer the Goals of discipline. Sew
eral Commissioners of the old government
who have been identified with the Demo
cratic party were cited to show cause why
they should not be read out of the party.
THE BEGINNING OF THE FIGHT.
Commissioner Kern, of the Board of
Works, was one of these. 1t is q matter
of history that he made stiff fight against
the charter when it was submitted to
popular vote last month He has been
breathing vengeance ever since against
everybody who aided to put the charter
through. His first bette ftOjr was Colonel
Heppenheimer; and as Sheriff Davis took
a big part on the other side in the charter
fight, the Sheriff, too, has become an
object of his bitter attack.
Assuming now that there are many
democrats threatened with the loss of
their places under the old government,
and many others disappointed at their
failure to secure recognition under the
new, he hopes to secure enough diSaffected
democrats to organize new County Com
mittee to contest for recognition with the
Committee that Sheriff Davis, the other
evening, committed to formal recogni-
tion of the charter.
He does not stand alone in the move
ment by any means; and neither he nor
those who propose to identify themselves
with it intend to confine their operations
to this city.
NORTH HUDSON RECRUITS.
They are rot without hope Of stirring up
disaffections in Hoboken and in North
Hudson that will send recruits to the sur
face for the new committee. The fact
that Hoboken, politicians are disguised
with their failure to secure recognition
and offices at the hands OF the County
conventions may not be an lncon-
siderable factor in securing Hoboken
recognition for the new Committee North
Hudson demOcrats-some of them, at
least--made a strong revolt against the
interference of what they call the Court
House Ring with their Assembly nomina-
tion last fall, and they declare their in
tention of avenging themselves for Fran
cois' candidacy. They urge. besides,
that, notwithstanding that large part
of the Democratic majority in the county
comes from that section of it, they have
been almost entirely tabooed in the choice
of county officials for many years back.
The organizers of the new movement
entertain hopes that this disaffection may
give them stronghold among Tenth dis
trict politicians.
The County of Hamilton agitation was
the visible expression of these discontents
in Hoboken and North Hudson, and the
new Committee hope to have the backing
of all the two-county-m
The effect on approaching elections, of
an organized revolt against the authority
of the County Committee il, of such proper
tions as this threatens to assume, need
not be described.
Every reader of THE JERSEY CITY
NEWS can size it up for himself.