The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-12
THE SHAM REFORM.
Republicans Select County Figure
heads Under the New Law.

The Republican State Committee was
locked up for an hour and half in social
confab in room No. 23 at Taylor's Hotel
yesterday afternoon. Ex-senator Garret
A. Hobart, Of Passaic, ruddy and stout,
sat in the presiding officers chair, and
John Y. Foster, of Newark, the editor of
Frank Leslie's publications, officiated as
secretary. The meeting had two points
before them for discussion. The first was
the selection of the Republican half Of
the County Registry Boards in the several
counties.
UN1MPoRTANT COUNTY BOARDS.
Incidentally they fell into a desultory
consultation as to the scope and effort of
the new Ballot Reform law. under which
the Boards are to be created. 1t was plain
to the assembled wisdom that when The
State Committee nominated its two men
in each county, and the Democratic
State Committee had in turn nom
mated its two men in each county.
the Governor has no power save
to appoint the men named to him: but
when the Boards shall have been thus
made up, what will they amount to?
What powers or prerogatives have they9
1t will De their high privilege to learn
from the members of the County Com
mitteeS whom they would like to have
serve at the polling places. and then to
put those individuals into commission,
and there their functions-the functions
Of the County Boards, that is to say
seem to end. Having made known TO the
world the desire of the County Commit
tees in the premises, they might as well
go out Of existence till the County Coni-
inittees. at the beginning of another year,
would want them to read off another list
of poll officials to the public.
IN 10 Sfofa n 10 in
their minds that the business they had
in hand was not such great shakes after
all. but they went to work picking out
their men with the same caution they
might have displayed if the destiny of the
State depended upon them. The plan
was, OF course, to have the State Com
mitteemen announce the selections for
the counties in their respective districts;
but they abstained from doing this in all
places where they had not been instruct
ed by the County Committees. Several
of the County Committees had not yet
made up their minds whom they wanted
on the County Boards; and so the list, as
finally made up, was far from complete.
THE SELECTIONS
The appointments as far as made in the
counties that were ready to report names
were as follows:-
HUDSON, (as reported in last evenings
JERSEY CITY NEWs)-John Reid and E.
w. Woolley.
ESSEX The Republican City Commit
tee OF Newark had agreed that ex-Assem-
blyman William r. Williams should re-
present Newark in the County Board for
that county; there seemed to have been
no agreement as to the man who should
represent the townships. and ex-Judge j.
Frank Fort, of East Orange, was pro-
posed. He was not anxious for it. how
ever, and when ex-Surrogate Munn'S
name was proposed he Withdrew in his
favor. The State Committee feared how
ever, that there might be a kick against
him, and while his name went down on
the list 1t is liable to be taken off again.
BURLINGToN-Na Nathan Haines and Henry
J. Trick, one of old JoseDhus Sooy's bonds
men.
MoRRIs--M. Condit and - vreeland.
MERCER Joseph II. Mount and George
r.. Whitaker.
CAMDEN-Edward BEETLE, well known
Pennsylvania Railroad statesman, and
Louis H. d. Rouse.
OCEAN George W. Cowperthwaiu and
that we'll known fog horn orator, ex-As-
semblyman Jonathan Goble.
CAPE MAY--Afred Cooper and an un-
known.
The other counties will forward their
names through their State Committee
men to Chairman Hobart before the 9th
inst.
NO MONEY FOR THE FRAUD HUNTERS.
During the sitting of the committee
number of the anxious servitors of the
late Senate Elections Committee anxious
ly hung about the hotel corridors. 1t had
been given out when the Assembly re-
fused TO pay their claims that the State
Committeeman would take steps to settle
up with them, and they waited around
yesterday in the hope of hearing some
good news.
But" said Colonel Toffey after the
meeting was over, ''the committee did
nothing for their relief. The committee
had nothing to do with their bills as a
committee. Their demands are against
the individual members of the commit
tee, and the only way for them to do any
thing Is to put their hands in their pock-
cts and pay over the amount Of the claims
as gift"
'sDid they do that?'
"Well, not today"
Meanwhile the mon who made the Sem
ate's Elections investigation success in
sist that the State Committeeman have
put themselves under legal obligations to
pay their bills, and they have employed
lawyer in Trenton to bring action against
them to recover the moneys