The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-08-16
A Few Men Creating Dis
cord in Company G. for
Personal Reasons.
DECIDEDLY NOT INCOMPETENT
Had the Consent OF His Superior 10
Leave Campfire Casting
OF Warrants.

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created no small amount OF excitement
in National Guard circles. The fact that
the case is without a parallel in the his
tory of the State seemed to make the
surprise all the greater. Not n few OF
the officers OF the regiment look upon the
action Of che members as highly mutin-
Gus and consequently advance the opin-
loo that all those members who signed
the petition requesting the removal of
Captain Lampert and his lieutenants
rave made themselves liable to dishonor-
able discharge from the National Guard.
The prospect of dishonora ole dis charge
does not worry the members, however,
they declaring that they would far rather
be dishonorably discharged than drill
under their present officers, whom they
consider Incompetent and decidedly OBJ
j~ectionable.
The story. however, did not surprise
Captain Lampert. He knew of the
trouble aud of the petition now in circula-
tiou. When interviewed by a reporter OF
The JERSEY CITY NEWS last evening he
Said
CAPTAIN LAMPERT'S DEFENSE.
"The trouble In the company has all
been caused by two men, Privates James
As ! 4ao AL AAASA
mel have caused all the discord. Why
they are dissatisfied I am ut a loss to
know. Private Dixon, | understand
Is very anxious TO become First
Sergeant n this may have
caused him to become em5ittered
against me. AS for Private Trumble
all / can say is that / am extremely sorry
that he is in the ranks, as this Is not the
first time that he has been implicated III
trouble. He Is an ex-member OF Com
panv A of the Second Regiment and was
dishoporabiy discharged from that COM
neglect of duty. Both of these men are
guilty OF mutiny and l will take steps to
have them arraigne.i on that charge.
"Dixon is employed by Cnarlss Welles.
who was a Candidate for First Lieutsn-
ant and who was defeated. Isuppose
that the defeat of his employer has sm-
Uttered him against nae. II Is plain to
to see that mis- whole trouble is
being caused in the interest of
Sergeant-Major Samuel G. Bouker. who
Is anxious to don a captains uniform. and
WeiIes, who now holds a commission as
second lieutenant of Company C. It Is q
significant fact that tine members of
Company C are now circulating a pstition
to Colonel ADernethy, requesting the re-
movaI of Welles. But the members OF
my company do not kuow what they are
doing. A number OF men who signed the
petition when asked why they did SO
could give no reason. There ale also on
that petitition the names OF men who
never signed it. The men do not kno W
what they ARE doing.
BY NO MEANS INCOMPETENT.
"As for the charges of Incompstency /
think they are nothing short of ridicu-
lous. In the first place, If | or my lieu
tenants are Incompetent. why did Colonel
Abernethy allow as to take command?
Via ncazad the necessary examination
and were deemed ht to command the
| AT the State camp Colonel
Abernethy personally compliniented me-
for the manner in which The company
went through the drills and parades. Al
though I had but n snort time in which
to prepare the company for camp l sue
ceeded IN putting che members IN u cha, g
| that reflected great credit not only upon
themselves but upon the officers as
well. Company Ii made rs fine,
aud In certain cases q better
| showing thar some Of tue older
tenant Martin, l consider him as conlpe-
! tent as any lieutenant in the State. He
has served ten years in tins National
| Guard and fer foul years he acquitted
himself with credit on the Regimental
staff as Quartermaster Sergeant.
~ understand thaG certain members
| are finding fault with me because I
/ VA6AU0 Ol0NQA -e -
Girt for eight dollars each. All have to
| say about this is that no man was
| compelled to sell his warrants at the
| reduced figure. Every man who did SO
did 1t willingly aud with full knowledge
of the fact that he would receive but
IS in return. Certain members even
| offered to sell their warrants for So. l
adopted no sly tactics when I cashed the
warrants and told every. member whose
warrant l cashed that I would give him
but IS before | took his warrant.
HIS BsENC A NECESSITY.
SIN regard to my absence frou camp
wish to have 1t understood that had not
left for the short space of time that | did
/ would hay suffered q financial loss Of
nearly $500. / secured permission to leave
camp from Lieutenant Colonel Mason,
! but had Iknown that my " l~ieutenants
would be unable to look ont for the COM
pauy during my absence / would not
missed company drill and battalion
drill. / left camp Tuesday evening after
dress parade, aud returned Wednesday
morning at ten O'clock. / left this city
on the 7:45 train. and was at camp at ten
o'clock. / do not see how I can be
charged with neglect of duty, as I had
secured permission to leave camp.
LAS to the charge of my retaining
funds belonging TO the company, /
would say that the reason why / did not
turn over the surplus of SIS to Treasurer
| Reincke at the last meeting was because
when I had adjourned the meeting and
distributed the packages which the men,
hers placed In the camp chest, Treasurer
Reincke had left for home. I had no
opportunity before then to attend to the
matter. The surplus money will be hand
ed owe TO Reincks as soon as l meet him.
The reason why ! will not pay to the
self appointed committee which arranged
the refreshment- affair at Reiseuacer's
hotel the 81. so. which they borrowed from
Treasurer Reincke, is because / do moi
see how l can rightly do SO, inasmuch az
The entire affair was arranged outside OF
the company. / did not appoint the COM
mittee aud consequently cannot recog-
nize the members of it. I think 1t would
be wrong for me to order the debt which
they contracted cancelled"
The members of the company still de-
clare that they will not serve under the
present officers and will present the petit
ton to Colonel A~bernethy sven il they
do make the mselves liable to dishouora'
BILE disch arge. The paper will probably
be forwarded to the colonel during the
next few days.
MAJOR BRENsINGER's VIEWS
Major j. II. Brensiuger of the Second
Battalion, Of which Company G Is a part,
said this m~orning:-"It is unfortunatt
for Company G. for the battalion, the
Fourth Regiment, and, in fact, fol-
the National Guard of The State, that
this petition has been gotten up. IthiuI
the siRners have made a big mistake. II
Is not long since the officers wers chosen
by a fair vote of the company. | do moi
see any grounds for the complaint,
It IL alleged that Captain hampers