The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-26
DOSCHER IS REAL MAD.
He Says MeEwan Was Elected
Leader of the Eighth
by Fraud.

At a meeting of the Eighth Assembly Dis
trict Republican Committee, held in Schuet-
zen Hall at Hutton street and Cambridge
Evan defeated Freebooter John Doscher for
leadership of the district bya vote of 16 to 10.
The committee held a primary for the cleo
ton OF a leader two weeks ago. McEwan and
Doscher were the candidates then and the
election resulted in a tie. Last nights cleo
ton was followed by a beautiful row. The
seven delegates from the Seventh precinct
did not vote, and Doscher claims they were
kept out by fraud. He accused Mr.. McEwan
to his face OF not being loyal to his district,
and said that he would protest to the County
Committee. He was very angry and said:-
MR.. D~oSCHER's MAD GETS UP.
'They kept out my delegate from the
Seventh precinct. I had four of them sure,
and if [ had received three votes more I
would have been elected. Mr.. McEwan never
was legally elected even chairman of the
committee, as be only received eighteen votes,
and as there are thirty-six members in the
committee, nineteen votes are necessary for
a choice. Mr.. McEwan received eighteen,
Mr.. Mehaag seventeen, and one blank vote
was cast. That constituted 10 election, and
this matter will also be submitted to the
County Committee"
w. M. FL. ohnso was also considerably
excited, and being a Doscher man jumped
up and shouted out that Chairman McEwan
had utterly ignored the delegation from the
Seventh precinct because they were Doscher
men, but admitted the delegation from
the Fonrth precinct because they were
out for McEwan, and such proceedings were
unconstitutional, md consequently he was
not legally or honestly elected. The dele
gates from the Seventh precinct voted at
the previous election when Mr..
McEwan was elected Chairman,
but since then the Executive Committee
have scratched their names off the list,
without, it is said, the sanction of the whole
committee. Consequently their names
were not read off at last nights meet
ing, and they could not vote.
R H OUT.
The reason the Executive Committee gives
for crossing off the names of the Seventh
precinct delegates is that the committee,
comprised of one delegate from each pre-
cinct, with President McEwan and Vice
President Mehaag, had met before
the regular meeting and decided
that the Seventh precinct delegates were not
legally elected. In regard to the protest in
the Fourth precinct, which was signed by
Justices of the.Peace Lansing and Wilson the
committee threw the protest out and de-
cided in favor of the delegates.
This Executive Committee was appointed
at the meeting held January II, for the pur-
pose of Investigating the protests that were
presented to the District Committee by the
defeated candidates of these two contested
precincts.
DosCHER's MEN WILL CONTEST.
The Doscher men claim the committee was
not appointed to finally decide the contests,
but simply to investigate them and report.
A protest and petition, signed by eighteen
members of the District Committee will be
presented to the County Committee. asking
that body to investigate last nights election
and another protest will be entered against
his election as Chairman of the District Com
mittee, as he only received eighteen votes
and to be legally elected, he should nave had,
at least, nineteen.
The eighteen members who will sign this
protest are chiefly members of the Fremont
Club. and all strong Doscher men.
After the meeting held in Schuetzen Hall
last night the Doscherites adjourned to
the Fremont Clubs rooms and held
a sort of indignation meeting.
A few McEwanites got inside, and for a few
minutes things were pretty lively. Peace
was only restored when someone shouted
out, stCome, have something, everybody
Immediately the angry discussions closed,
and everybody" accepted the invitation.
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