The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-12-16
REPUBLICAN, PRIMARIES
!"Jaek' Graham Not in 1t in the
Fourth-Result in the
Other Districts.

gave Jack" Graham defeat, the effects of
which Graham will never survive Mr..
Brennan is the Fourth District Republican
leader and made SO by the votes of the Re
publicans Of the district. The primary for
the election of members to the Republican
County Committee from the First, Second,
Third, Fifth, Sixth and Seventh precincts,
was held at No. 257 Washington street..
As soon as the poll opened the voters be-
gan to pour in. The excitement was so in
tense that Roundsinan Hopkins and police
man were compelled to remain on the scene
and preserve order.
Jack" Graham's name was at the head of
the ticket he supported. His brothers name
was also on the ticket.
Robert McAndrews was at the head of the
Brennan ticket, and when the votes were
counted McAndrews and his associates had
ninety and Graham fifty-two. This was sup
posed to be Graham's stronghold, but he was
hopelessly showed under
At No. 1913 Montgomery street Mr.. Bren-
nan headed his own ticket, while Graham re-
lied on Alfred G. Mead and Charles w.
Pierson. Brennan secured 125 votes to the
Graham delegations fifty.
LIVELY. FIGHT IN THE SEVENTH
There was the liveliest kind of fight at
the joint primary of the Jersey City end of
the Seventh district held at the little barber
shop No. 322 st. Paups avenue Heretofore
1t has been almost impossible to drum to-
gether enough Republicans at primary in
that section to act as judge, inspector and
clerk, with three or four voters to give it
the semblance of a primary but under
cover of probably one of the densest fogs
ever known in this section a battle royal
was fought there last night, in which 234
men took part, and at the conclusion of
which the political gore of the Johnstown
Brigade OF Kickers, numbering sixty odd
men, under command of Alonzo Sturgis of
the city's sanitary squad, mingled with the
black mud and slush of that hitherto neglect
ed section, turned the color of the street to
that of the red clay of the Boulevard
NJ. E. Pierrels fruit wagon and a grocery
wagon which had been chartered to convey
the brigade to the scene of action were CON
verted into ambulances to convey the slain,
sixty, back to Johnstown. Sturgis and Lieu
tenant Pierre were slightly wounded.
THE KIcKERs' GRIEVANCES.
The army of regulars against which the
valient Johnstown kickers hurled themselves
was in command of Thomas F. Coughlin,
superintendent of Station H of the Postoffice
Department, who, for the past ten years, has
been the recognized head Of the
district Republican forces The grievance
of the "Kickers" was that the men selected
to represent the Sixth precinct in the Gener-
al Committee, William F. Calhoun for two
years, and John Evans for one year, were
not representative Republicans of the dis
trict. Beyond this, they had no particular
grievance, yet they placed an entire district
ticket of their own in the field From the
Sixth precinct they named NJ. E. Pier for
two years, and Martin Schukraft for one
year
The regulars ascertained before the battle
that Sturgis and Pierre would run wagons
from the Heights and Slopes of Johnstown
in order that none of the kickers would be
lost in the fog. Several vehicles were i'm
mediately- secured, and the homes and
rendezvous of unalarmed regulars as far up
as the reservoir secured in search of rein
forcements. By seven o'clock both sdivis-
ions' were in line of battle. But they were in
one line. Two policemen insisted upon this.
There were frequent individual squabbles
for position. The line was several times
broken by the 'squabblers"
In the fog and darkness it was almost i'm
possible to see where breaks occurred or who
were the individual contestants, The line
extended away in the darkness for nearly a
block and half from the polls. The breaks
We're numerous. Two policemen were not
sufficient to stop up the gaps. One got
scared. Reinforcements arrived from the
Third Precinct Station House in the
form of another strapping big patrolman
armed with heavy club. The three
PdtroInen Hau InelT nanQS Iull, ana IN some
instances, when Individual scraps occurred,
the scrappers were thrown into the street
and allowed to settle the matter between
themselves. No one received severe bodily
injuries, however, and no arrests were
made
The ticket headed by Lewis Martin was
elected.
Among those elected were:-R. B. Sey-
mour, Mayor Wanser, Gilbert Collins and
James H. Love in the Third district; Fire
Commissioner John j. Brennan and A. B.
Cosey in the Fourth district; Hum
phrey w. Carr, Postmaster Dickinson,
City Hall Commissioner Datz, Martin
Fink, Clerk Of the Finance Board; and Will
lam Barry in the Fifth district; Justice of
the Peace Frank 7, Lockwood in the Sixth
district; Anthony ) Volk and Shirley At
wood in the Ninth district; John Reid, Aaron
s. Baldwin and John Henry in the Tenth
district.