The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-09

fact Mr.. Hennemeier proposed three
| cheers for the different candidates at the
! cheers We're given with viii by about
| quarter OF those present, the others
The one point that the League Club
members cannot expurge from their MEM
| orfes is the absolute turn-downa they ex-
perieneed PEI at the hands Of the Minkak-
'They knew Mr. Bennett was our Ia
| vorite for the nomination for constable
and they would not give. him a place
said prominent Lacquer last night. Now
| they ask us, to come around and elect
the men they have thrust upon u.s. a
win this election. What will be the tenn
perature If the Minkakwa candidates
Before. attending the meeting of the
League gluD the Campaign Committee
ted butstlae committeeman, and no one
but they know what occurred there.
most violently opposed 70 the Minkakwa
Club fretted under the wholesale occupa-
ton q rneir clubhouse by the Minkakwa
rights in their own home.
The Greenville Press sheet with q
| good local circulation, handles the situa-
tion in caustic style in its current issue,
1.-THE Aldermanic fight wakes hot, and
up to date the odds are about even.,
Messrs. Barr and Gotthardt, the Demo-
| cratic candidates, are hustling, and with
| good effect, too, not permitting the pollti-
cal grass to grow under their feel, and
taking advantage of every point in their
favor. they are playing good and pos
sbly winning game. being singularly for
tunate in the fact that the local Republi-
can camp is divided against itself. Mr..
Ed Schultz and Mr.. Lauer, 1t may be said,
| are not idle Recognizing the fact tbat
| the situation, from Republican stand
point, Is not a particularly roseate one,
they are straining every nerve and ex-
winning post. But they are seriously
! handicapped by the failure to accord the
Republican League Club representation
| on the ticket In this instance, at least,
| the folly of the "rule or ruin" policy of
the Minks is certain to be very nnpleas-
| antly demonstrated; that is if Indications
sessed but 1.-THE of the wonderful politi-
cal acumen to which they SO modestly lay
| claim. they would have at least namsd
Mr.. G. S. Bennett for constable This
| would have healed differences and insured
united vote. Their. failure, inspired by
greed or stupidity to do so has widened
the breach, and will result in a genuine
election day surprise for the Minks. If
| defeated. Messrs Schultz and Lauer must
place the blame where it belongs-at the
| MinkalSwa door.
IN endorsing the ticket the RepubM-
can League Club swallowed a very un-
| the nausea it produced will not require
for & It's use a Democratic emetic.
1.-The political itch can be very effect
lively cured by judicious and persistent
| scratching on election day.
~Mr; G; s Be Bennett n : is thorough and
man, and sound physically. He is an
independent candidate for constable, and
| if elected will be able to attend to his
duties without taking medicine. He de-
serves and should receive the earnest sup
port of all who believe in. placing eompe-
tent men in important official positions.
il NSw VOW the MinSs are sorry they invested
that the fruits of their victory will per-
sh in their hands is rapidly producing
that tired feeling for which sarsparilla Of
certain kind is said to be cure
In this contest political considerations
and partisanship should be. cast to the
will best advance the interests of Green
vile.
A blind, stupid adherence to party dis
cipine is not demanded by and is. in
consistent with true Republicanism The
political collar long ago assumed tine dust
fashionable, Today the intelligent citizen
votes as his conscience dictates even
though such course necessitates the
smashing of political states and the
1t should be. Every American citizen iss
a sovereign. but he loses his sovereignity3
and his God-given birthright of absolute
freedom Of political action when he rem
ders servile submission to the will
and the dictates of a boss or of party.
|. Vote as you please.
ln the political garden the bud of
promise is in full bloom. After election.
It will wither, fade away and become
but memory
1.-THE Republican League Club. at its
meeting last Wednesday night. endorsed
the Mnk-beg pardon-Republican tick
et But only after lively debate A
motion TO- lay the endorsement resolution
on the table was made, and the vote in
its favor, considering the audacity of the
proposition, was a large one Had it not
been for the efforts of the conservative
brigade. strengthened by the pathetic, al
most hysterical appeals of the tread easy,
don tina ake-a- noise, political pacifcator
w. G. Hutchings, the resolution would in
an probability have prevailed, as the in
We're eager to demonstrate their true-blue
warranted to wash Republcanism by pro
testing in this manner against the ques-
tionable methods through which and by
which the recent primaries were won.
But the hit-me-again element won.
though the ticket was simply and coldly
endorsed, much to the chagrin of the
aforesaid Mr.. Hutchings, who tried his
best to still further humiiate the club
by endeavoring to force from it a pledge
OF hearty support" Another motion en-
G. 8. Bennett was defeated through the
same agency, and the club was deluded
into the folly of Withholding its support
from one OF the best and truest Of its
members. All this of course, is in ac-
cerdance with the party discipline. and in
the interests of the conservative brigade,
as 1t saved the "Repubicanism'' of the
club But just the same dt is inconsis-
tent with the dignity of the organization
and With the principles of Republicanism.
The following committee has been ap-
the Democratic candidates: Messrs Paul
REVERE, DR.. Edward Vreeland Joseph
Walsh, George B. Riley, Martin Roehren-
beck, Eugene Donovan, James Cassidy.
q lll y
The committee will meet tomorrow even
ing at Prout's Hail.
SOUTH BERGEN'S ELECTION.