The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-04-18
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REPUBLICAN Ms GOT IT
Hume Says the Bonuses Re-
ceiVed on State Monies
Went Into the G.
0. P. Golfers.
DID NOT AID DEMOCRATS
Budd Deacon's Faction Responsible
for the Election Of Senator
Mitchell B. Perkins.
DID NOT AID DEMOCRATS
Special to the Jersey City Nsans.

BURLINGTON, April Is, 1884 the
session of the Senate Investigating Com
mittee at Trenton Tuesday Joseph S.
Hulme, CHER clerk in the State Treas
urer's Office, said that the $12,0 600 which
he received from Burlington county
banks in return for his alleged services
in helping them secure deposits of State
money was spent by him for political
purposes. Hume lives in Mount Holly
and has been a prominent Republican
politician of this county for many years.
1t was limited at Trenton yesterday
that the political purposes for which
Hume used the money were of a Demo
| cratic color. This hin has been thrown
out regularly by the Burlington county
/ politicians and echoed in other parts of
the State ever since it became known
that Hume was likely to suffer an ex-
posure. 1t was then charged that in
1891 Hulme helped to sell out his party
on the State Senatorial fight and ac-
complished the election of the Demo
cratic Senator, Perkins. over the Re-
publican nominee. ex-Sheriff Nathan W.
c. Hays.
Quite a different view of the matter
is taken in the section where all the
facts have been generally known for
some time. The fact is that the good
money which GIulme got from the banks
was used to help THE Republican candi-
dates in every campaign, and there is
ample proof of his lying about loose all
over the county. The charge of Hulme's
disloyalty to his party is regarded as a
joke here. Hulme was a liberal con-
tributor to the campaign funds Of his
party. The bank money he received
went to help THE Republican cause each
year.
BIG REPUBLICAN FIGHT.
Hume began drawing money from
the banks in 1890. Thai year there was
Of Burlington County. The fight began
the previous year, when ex-sheriff
Pra t W Hs e; bays g tT make to b. DsrI posts
master of Burlington. Hays was in
dorsed by the local Republican Execu-
ported tlaa d0n Malme m sna o mes q fe hfa aHpp anP-
ers. Budd Deacon, the United States
Marshal, and all Deacon's friends had a
ever W and t dea: m Maislg@ t to deSeii' Hays hoM.
ont the county, and Hays. Hume ana
break UP what they called the Deacon
ring"
IN 1890 the ring smashers made their
crowd in the Republican County Con-
vention and nominated ex-Sheriff Hays
for Sheriff. The Deacon element got
nominee. charIes shinn. was elected.
The next year a Senator. was to be
elected; Hays and his followers again
carried the convention That conven-
ton showed quite conclusfvely that so
far as influence was concerned among
the rank and file of the party the Dea-
con men had run to the end of their
tether. Hays was nominated for Sena-
tor, but again the political knife got in
its fine work, and Perkins, the Demo
Among the members of the Republican
party here there was never any ques-
zion i la as toh where Joseph s. Hnlme stood ,ga
own fight against that gentleman, and
besides was a personal friend and sup
porter of Hays. That is why the story
as a Joke put out by the Deacon crowd.
DEACON RoUTED EACH TIME;
was continued in 1892, 1898 and 1884. and
Hays routed Deacon at primaries and
Which nominated Dr.. Parry, the present
Senator from Burlington, and elected
him. Deacon and his followers have al
and Federal officials than their political
been %tireless in the hunt for Hulme's
fell across the bank scandal they went
to Trenton by the first train and have
since been working it for al it is worth,
3Nl1 ~ ~ IN III civ "a nov
Hume helped the Democrats to get
ELECTED in Burlington.
yHulme seems willing manfully to take
his medicine for the bank scandal. but
he resents the charges that he used the
money against his own party. He was
seen by a reporter at the State House
today.
''The charge that I used my money
against the Republican party is las alb
my statement before the committee to
stand. I wanted the money for political
PURPOSES The banks gave t to me to
not for the State. Any one who knows
what a fight we had Town in our county
knows that we needed all the support
Did you help in any way to elect
That charge is Ridiculous. Mr.; Hays
for himself because the year before these
men, who now accuse me of disloyalty,
had defeated him at the polls. I thought
insisted, and he did run. That year Mr..
Gray was at the head of the State Treas
uarer's office, and felt that it would not
cratic officer. to be too active in poll
tics. I heartily supported Mr.. Hays as
a muSr IA cg my 'p oaa ne The mem W Who
defeated Mr.. Hays were Federal office
holders, who betrayed their party be-
cause they were not allowed to dictate
THIRTY-FoUR YEARS A REPUB.
Hume further asserted that for thir-
ty-four years he has never voted any
thing but the Republican ticket, and
that he never scratched a candidate but
once. when a. particularly close friend of
his was running for Congress in 1878.
Ex-Sheriff Hays was found at his
farm near this city. The ex-Sheriff is a
modest man. but he does not hesitate to
express his pride at the way The Dea-
con ring has SO often been defeated
under his leadership. He was quite
willing to talk on Hulme's political
status
aHulme has always been a strong and
faithful Republican" he said. when
ran for Sheriff in 1880 he supported
me to the best of his ability and he con-
tributed to the campaign und very lib
orally. My opponent. Charles Shinn, was
elected on the Democratic ticket. and
my defeat was not caused by Hume
or his friends"
sHow about the Senatorial election of
1891, when Senator Perkins ran against
you and defeated you""
"That story Is briefly told. Hume
was with me, though he advised me as
a matter of politics not to taxi the nom
nation. I did take it. however. I
wanted it on a personal vindication.
Hume helped all he could and. as in
other campaigns. he contributed liber-
who accomplished my defeat and the
election of the Democratic candidate
cnsers. George R. Gray was State
Treasurer at the time, and it was not
deemed advisable that Hume. being an
official under a Democrat, should take
an active. open part In the fight. That
fact that Rulme helped in q quiet way,
hc4h narconallv and 6nancially.r