The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-06-19
A BRANDED CROWD.
The Committee of Fifty Asks
That the Indicted Ones
Be Suspended.
NOT FIT TO HOLD OFFICE.
List of the Indicted Who occupy
official Positions.

The Committee Of Fifty held its regu
lar weekly meeting in the First district
court room, Weldon Building, last even
ing. As usual there was but small at
tendance. The dozen or more gentle
men, however. who were present are
earnestly engaged in devising plans and
raising funds to push the recount. In
this they are greatly encouraged. Chair
man Charles Krugler presided
Mr.. j. I. Arbarbanell offered this set
of resolutions:-
Whereas. The following persons uuder indict-
ment for an infamous crime against the purity
OF the ballot box are holding positions of public
trust and honor in the various departments Of
indicated; and
about to be tried for offences involving the very
stability of our form of government is a public
scandal, discreditable alike to the heads Of the
departments in question who SO retain them,
and to the citizen who does not Indignantly pro-
test against such action; therefore be it
Resolved, That the Committee of Fifty hereby
request the heads OF said departments to sus-
pend said above named persons from the posi-
| tons held by them until the question of the
guilt or innocence of such persons Of the crimes
been determined by trial
Resolved, That the secretary be directed to
send cory OF these resolutions to all depart-
employ
In presenting the resolutions Mr. Ar
barbanell stated that Notwithstanding
the Street and Water Board had aDpar-
emily suspended Mike O'Mara, it was all
mere blind. Mike was still in the em-
ploy OF the Street and Water Board.
O'Mara had been suspended for repeats
ing in Staten Island. He was certainly
no worse than the men who stuffed the
ballot boxes in order to keep themselves
in power.
STRIKE THE RING.
Mr.. George McEwan seconded the reso-
lutions. He said it might be urged that
this was prejudging their cases. But let
it be remembered that the only excuse
these indicted officers yet put forward Is
ignorance. They did not mean to com
NIT crime. Do we want such men as
clerks In our various municipal depart
mentss" said he. sThey are not compe-
tent to act. They are merely held in
Office to commit frauds for the ring, and
by asking that they be suspended we
strike at the very centre of the ring
power"
Mr.. McEwan alluded to the letter Mike
OMara had sent to The JERSEY CITY
NEWS denying that he was still in the en-
ploy of the Street and Water Board
He said:-"The very day Mike O'Mara
wrote that letter to THE JERSEY CITY
NEWS denying he was still in the employ
l.
myself at the books in the Office of the
Water Department. saw him there the
next day. He is not under suspension.
| And it becomes us to show that we are
not to be thus hoodwinked =
Mr. John A. Walker admitted il was
| prejudging their cases. But. 4 safu ne.
| ''let us remember that the Grand Jury
| has indicted these men for crime; and
| that they are still receiving taxpayers
money IS an outrageous offence against
common decency and public scandal =
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted. The lisG of names was not COM
plete last night, but will be furnished be-
heads of the various municipal depart
| ments
BOARD OF STREET AND WATER COM
MISSIONERS. Thomas Fallon, janitor;
James Hart, clerk; John S. DAILY, super
intendent of sewers; Thomas Trotter,
saperintendent g OF pipe lines; Joseph a.
clerk; Michael Kelly, inspector; James
clerk; John A. W6alen, clerk;
z. j. Kennedy, clerk; Edward
| Norton, laborer; Frank Coyle, laborer;
| Edward S. Mccormack, laborer; Thomas
| German, clerk; Richard Whalen, clerk;
| Christopher A. Holderer, clerk; Cormack
T. Dolan, clerk; John ID. Egan, clerk;
| Mery1n L. Flynn, clerk; D. E. Stringham,
| clerk; p. T. Cassidy, clerk.
| BOARD OF FREEHOLDERS. Jacob Mos
chell, keeper; Harry Speers, keeper;
Joseph d. O'Donnell, bridge tender;
joseph Mulraine, keeper; J. W. Stewart,
| keeper.
C1TY COLLECTORS OFFICE. james II.
Jordan, clerk.
| POLICE DEPARTMENT. - William #.
| Howe, driver.