The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-02-10
REPUBLICAN FISTS
Played An Importans Part At
the County Committee Meet
ing Last Night.

There was fight, not with words but fists,
and Committeeman William Calhoun is to-
day nursing a bruise on his face, which was
given him in the Federal Club parlors. 1t
is reported that Committeeman Evans
was similarly assaulted, but there
is some doubt as to the latter
as in the mix up no one saw just who was
struck The blow struck Calhoun is charged
to Policeman Sturgis of the Sanitary squad.
Sturgis denies the charge and intimates that
it was struck by President Burns of the
Seventh District Republican Kickers Asso-
citation.
CAUSE OF THE ROW,
The fight was the outcome of the hostili-
ties between the Johnstown brigade of re-
publican kickers of the Seventh Assembly
district and the regulars.
In December last, when the primary cleo
tions for members of the County Committee
were held, Sturgis, who is hustler IN the
Jersey City end of the Seventh district, and
his aide-de-camp Milton E. Pierre, objected
to the nominations Of John T. Evans and
Mr. Calhoun Calhoun was district leader,
and it was openly charged that republican
voters were not permitted to enroll their
names on the registry. lists. When the
on December IS, sturgis and
his followers at once made the
accusations that Republicans were shut out
from voting and the Democrats cast the bal
lots which elected Evans and Calhoun. Ev-
ans election did not please Sturgis and his
followers but they did not complain to any
great extent about him. Calhoun however
was attacked right and left.
Sturgis and his followers, after the cleo
ton organized the Seventh District Repub-
lican Association, and wholly ignored Cal
houn as the district leader and committee
man The association then prepared pc
tition for presentation to the County
dnm''ge the regular Hs'an0 district tsrg organiza
ton. 1t was then decided to pro
test Calhoun's election. The necessary pro-
test was drawn up, and, on behalf OF the
Sixth Precinct Association of the Seventh
Assembly District, was filed with the County
Committee.
When the protest was read at last nights
meeting it was referred to the Committee OF
Appeals.
COMMITTEE TOOK NO ACTION.
The County Committee adjourned, and
when the report reached Sturgis, Pierre and
the others they made the iveliest kind of a
kick. and freely charged that there was a
ring in the County Committee. Accusations
flew right and left and Calhoun and
Evans mingled with the crowd from
their district 1t was in the midst
of this excitement that Calhoun was struck.
The loud talking and lively scuff1ing dis
turbed the City Committee, which was then
in session in an adjoining room, attempting
to effect an organization. The members
rushed out to see what the trouble was, and
in short order the Johnstown kickers
were hustled out of the place and promised
that their protest would be honestly dealt
with 1t was after the first excitement had
passed away that it became reported that
Committeeman Evans was struck. Someone
informed him that it was Sturgis
who struck him, and he at once declared his
intention of causing his arrest. He. was ad-
vised, however, to keep cool and satisfy him
self by preferring charges against him be-
fore the Police Board.
The matter is to be thoroughly investi-
gated by the County Committee and the of
tenders will probably be bounced from all
Republican associations.
NO COMMITTEE OF APPEALS.
One fact which irritated the johnson kick
ers was that their protest was referred to
the Committee of Appeals, and at the pres
ent time there is no such committee in exist
ence Chairman Woolley, however, has de-
cided to appoint an appeal committee at
once.
Aleck Dusenberry and Hugo Kraus had a
run in" Kraus charged Dusenberry with
insulting him. Mr.. Dusenberry, not wish
ing to become engaged in any conflict, in a
polite way told Kraus to shut up.
TROUBLE IN THE EIGHTH.
The protests against Doscher from the
Fourth precinct of the Eighth district and
Jonathan Woods from the Fourth precinct
of the Seventh district, and the com mittee-
man from the Seventh precinct of the Eighth
district, who. defeated Henry Rohlfs
all for illegal doings at the primaries, which
have been published in THE JERSEY CITY
NEWS, were filed with the committee and re-
TO Of
Appeals The Committee of Appeals will
report ON all the protests at the next meet
ing of the County Committee.
AFTER M'EwAN.
Another kick up in the Eighth district
was disclosed when a protest signed by
eighteen members of the Eighth District
Association was presented to the committee,
in which it was charged that Assemblyman
McEwan was made President of the
District Association, and the Dis
trict leader Illegally. The members charge
that there were thirty-six ballots cast at the
meeting, and that eighteen were for Doscher
and eighteen for McEwan. This protest will
also be acted upon by the Committee of
Appeal Reports were received from the
First, Second, Fourth, Fifth and Sixth dis
tricts to the effect that dis
trict organizations in the districts
mentioned had been perfected Committee
men Dusenberry, Doscher and Coughlin
were directed to secure new quarters as
meeting ROOM Lahey Brothers, the owners
of the club house, propose converting it into
flats.
CITY COMMITTEE ORGANIZES.
The City Committee organized after all
the .sboutsn were settled, by re-electing all
the old officers. They are:-E. W.
Woolley Chairman; Thomas McEwan,
Vice President; A. w. Mitchell, Second
vice President; John J. Erwin, Secretary
Frank Higgins, Assistant Secretary
Michael Schultz. Treasurer, and A. B. Cosey,
Sergeant-at-Arms.
HOBOKEN REFORM DEMOCRATS.
City Committee Organized Under the
Most Favorable circumstances.
The Reform Democratic Committee means