The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-08-27
The Tribune" Called the
Junior Americans
Names and They
Are Mad.
THREATEN TO KNIFE TIE TICKET.
They Have Over One Hundred Thou
sand Members Who, They
Say, Will Vote for
Cleveland.

On Sunday last a very uncompnmens
tary and insulting report of the parade of
the Junior Order United American Me-
chanics at Asbury Park, on August II.
was published in the NelD York Tribune.
This report will cost Mr.. Whitelaw Reid
many thousands of voters next fall. The
members of the order are already prepar-
pairing to strike back. and a large major
ity, if not all, OF the Republican members
of the order will retaliate by voting the
Democratic ticket.
August II is observed as American Day
by the councils in this State. The event
was celebrated this year at Asbury Park,
and the feature OF the observation was
the parade. In the report CT the parade
the Tribune said
AWKWARD UNGAINLY AND UNCoUTH.
1T probably was the most awkward, un-
gainly, uncouth and uncarre1 procession
that ever raised clouds of dust on sun
beaten streets. The procession was COM
posed OF men bronzed, s1ope-shouldered,
| uncouth and begrimed with dust. Their
clothes fitted lily, for the most part. and
they had no ideas OF marching. They
| merely plodded along, not seeming quite 10
understand, stolid, unconcerned, and, in
| a certain sense, dignifed-a pace and a
an assemblage of the spraddle-legged
men of The middle class, whose hands
were bent and shoulders stopped from
delving and constructing. had never ap-
peared TO an Asbury Park summer crowd,
and the latter was vaguely amused"
| MORE THAN THE MECHANICS COULD BEAR.
| This was more than the Junior Me-
| chanics could stand and every member
| whether Democrat or Republican when
| interviewed spoke of revenge. The order
| is a purely patriotic one. Every member
was born in this country. The rules are
very strict in regard to membership and
none but an American can join.
| The american Eagle, the official organ
of the order in New Jersey, In this weeks
| issue prints the Tribune article in full
and comments upon it as follows:
"The order in New Jersey, and, in fact,
| in every State, regards the above as an
| Insult, and it becomes all the more glar-
| ing when we consider the relations ex-
| isting between the paper which published
| it and the man who occupies second place
| on the National Republican ticket. and
| is asking for the support of over $780, 900
| members of the order.
| WHITELAw MUST APOLOGIZE.
while our order is in no way parti-
san one, and this paper, as the organ of
| the order, has no right to recommend the
order to take partisan action, yet We
feel that this action on the part of a
newspaper SO widely circulated anu pos
| Sesslng SO much influence as the Tribune
does, and under the control of Whitelaw
Reid, candidate for Vice President of the
| United States, calls loudly for a retrac-
tion, and the Councils of New Jersey, we
are sure. will waste no time in asking for
this, and il it is not righted they ought to
: know what to do on election day. An
apology to the order In New Jersey by
Mr. Reid should be made through the
| columns of the american Eagle"
In another editorial in the same issue
the EUgle says
The New York Tribune deserves to be
| boycotted by every American Mechanic
in the United States for having assailed
the Ordet in its last Sunday issue"
| THE MECHANICS THOROUGHLY AROUSED.
These editorials have thoroughly
aroused every member of the order in
this CITY, and nothing else is talked OF in
Junior Mechanics circles.
There are 130 councils in the State with
a membership of over sixteen thousand.
In Hudson County there are eight coun-
cils, with nearly one thousand members.
The councils in this county are Clinton,
Summit, Valley Forge, Industry, Lafay-
cite and Greenville Of this city; Garfield
Council of Union Hill, and Bayonne
Council of Bayonne City.
Nearly all these councils have called
special meetings to discuss the matter.
One Republican mechanic, who is a mem
ber Of Clinton Council, in speaking Of
the matter this morning said:--
81 for one will not vote the Republican
ticket this fall. Our order is truly Amer
ican and this insult is more than ! can
stand, I have always voted the Republi-
can ticket, but will have to break away
this year. I have spoken to number OF
other Republicans in the council and
they all declare that they will knife the
ticket. 1t is unpatriotic for candidate
for one of our highest Offices to assRil an
order composed of true and patriotic
Americans. When election day arrives
am sure that nearly every member of the
order in the United States will resent the
insult by voting the Democratic ticket" !"