The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-09-24
X 7 7 RA!!!
TO BEAT THE RING.
A Strong Club Movement
Said to Be In the Wind
to Put a Citizens
Ticket in the
Field.
REPUBLICANS TO GET THE SHERIFF
MeAdoo May Be the United
Nominee for Congressional
Honors If He Will
Accept.
REPUBLICANS TO GET THE SHERIFF

The anti-Ring fighters are not discour-
aged by the turn affairs took at the meet
ing of the Hudson Democratic Society the
other evening. One of the gentlemen
who attended the meeting said TO me
this morning that an active sentiment
had been aroused and that is bound to
grow. If the proposition that the society
take political stand had been made six
months ago to the members it would not
have been entertained. The members all
recognize that the situation is so serious
now, however, that the protection of the
community from the further plumber OF
the vandals demands action wherever it
can be had.
s, in Q fair attendance of members, the
minority that favored action was almost
equal to the majority that discouraged il.
Even those who moved that independent
action be taken scarcely expected to have
the motion, as it was put, carried The
time was scarcely ripe for it. The man
for the honor had not been selected. The
plan of campaign had been marked out.
There were reasons why the particular ac-
tion that had been moved should not
then be taken, and it wasn't The object
was to start agitation in the hope and
with the expectation that it would take
root, and spread and grow till it bears
fruit in action, That object is being ac-
complished. The Hudson Democratic
Society is fast being leayened to the point
of creating an anti-Ring upheavaL
A GENERAL CLUB MOVEMENT.
But the movement. as The NEWS has
already intimated, is not confined to the
Hudson Democratic Society. There are
other clubs in the city whose members
have citizens interest in the overthrow
of the rascals who overrun the public
places. There are the Palmas, and the.
Jersey City Athletics, and the Carterets,
and the Berkeleys. They take in the
cream of the 'city's citizenship. Why
may they not get into the fray? A move
ment tending IN that direction culminat-
ed III meeting that was held somewhere
in the city last evening. where, those who
attended it refuse to say; and they are
equally reticent as to what it accom-
plished.
The only thing positively known about
it is that it was attended by an equal
number of conspicuous Democrats and
Republicans, and that they agreed that
basis. of union can be agreed upon, and
that the citizens movement, which every
honest man in the town SO earnestly
hopes to see put on its feet, is no longer
mere problem of the future. The con-
ferees do not intend TO commit the clubs
as clubs to a formal and official partici-
combine the active members of all the
clubs in the agitation. A mass meeting
will probably be held, and ticket that
will probably set the pace for all the sub
sequent conventions, will be presented
for consideration. 1t is assumed that the
ticket whatever it may be, will be of
such a character as to command the sup
port of the Republican convention, of
the Jeffersonians and of the Labor men;
and that the line of battle when it is
marshaled for the fray will show all the
people in solid front on one side, and the
Ring, with its Myrmidons alone, on the
other. 1t has not transpired whether
they intend to present a full ticket or not.
1t is probable, however, that they will
turn their guns only upon the Sheriff's
office, and thai their followers will be
lett to make their own choice out OF q
full list Of regular and irregular candi-
dates for Congress.
WILL M'ADoo RUN STUMP?
The holding of the Democratic Con-
gressional Convention today has given
fresh impulse to the speculations con
corning the Congressional situation.
Edward i. Mcdonald will be the I'M
doubted outcome of the gathering The
query is how the other factors in the com
munity will meet his candidacy. The
Republican disposition is to nominate
straight candidate against him. The
Jeffersonians will not be disposed, if they
are to be forced to accept Republican
candidate for Sheriff, to take Republic
can candidate for Congress as well.
The discarding of so prominent figure
in national politics as CONGRESSMAN Nc
Adoo is of course attracting its share of
attention, as one of the features of the
situation; and the possibilities of his
future course enter largely into the gossip
of the DAY. There is feeling all around
that although the deal made between the
leaders the other day, puts the machine
in ofi hav ia ha ic of
yet entirely outof view. His close friends
say that he would likely consent to ac-
cept the Jeffersonian nomination,
and run as an independent candi-
date on the record he has made sfor
himself during the eight years OF his SER
vice in the national halls of legislation
They believe that he would command
many Democratic votes; and some of the
Republicans say that if he be wanted as
a coalition candidate. they might accept
him. Such course would, il is believed,
spike Mr.. McPherson's guns against the
opposition tickets, and so diminish the
strength the Ring men can marshal to
the support of their ticket.
BOB DAyIs's sNUB.
The friends of Mr.. McAdoo are making
a great point OF the treatment he re-
ceived at the hands of the Sheriff one day
last week. Mr.. McAdoo was in the conn
ty to look after his fences, and naturally
he was impelled TO seek the leaders of
the local party to learn their feelings
concerning his candidacy. He went to
Sheriff Davis Office and found the inner
sanctum door closed. He sent in his
card. He waited an hour without
word, and two hours. At the end of two
hours and half the Sheriff called one Of
his deputies in.
"Just tell McAdoo," he directed his
deputy, "that am too busy to see him.n
That, after two hours and q half
wait.
Mr.. McAdoo's friends find that the
knowledge of this incident is making
him friends. wherever it is told amor q
| the anti-Ring contingent.
| 1t has served to start the inquiry
| be so little in favor with the Davis ele-
ment as to make him particularly de-
| sirahle anti Ring candidata The answer