The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-11
RE|NIZE AND
HOLLYWOOD
Excellent Democratic Can
didates for the Street
and Water Board.
COMMENDED TO THE PARTY
Selected By the Conference of
One Hundred and Fifty at
Last Nights Meeting.
TO Be VOTED FOR AL THE PRIMARIES
Exceedingly Enthusiastic Gather
ing of Representative Party
Men = Victory in
the Air.
TO BE VOTED FOR AT THE PRIMARIES

Fifty invited by the Executive Com
mittee of the Democratic City Com
mittee to suggest the names of men who
wou.d make strong candidates for the
Street and Water Board, were in Fisch-
erss Hall. at Newark avenue and Erie
street. last night. 1t was gratifying to
the gentlemen who thought of this plan
of ascertaining the sentiment of Demo-
Gratis who never take any active part in
politics, to find that of the whole num-
Der named on the committee more than
two-thirds responded. Organization was
effected by the election of ex-Street and
Water Commissioner John J. Gone as
chairman and John ]. Mulvaney as seere-
tary.
After a lively debate. a varied express
SION OF opinion. and balloting for nomi-
nees, the committee without a dissent
ing voice recommended the following
gentlemen TO the voters, to be ratified as
the regular party nominees at the
primaries to be held on March 25:-
FERDINAND HEINTzE, ~ex-Sheriff of
the county.
MAJOR CHARLES ]. HOLLYWOOD, a
hardware dealer at Pavonia avenue and
Grove street.
Both gentlemen were present and
agreed to accept the nominations if they
win at the primaries.
AS told In The News" yesterday,
Democrats feel that victory is in the
air and as a consequence candidates are
plentiful Ever since the Committee of
One Hundred and Fifty's plan of recon-
mendation became known, candidates
sprang up on ali sides and a silent hunt
was begun for members OF the commit
tee. Wire pulling would have been the
order Of the day had not the members
of the Executive Committee of the City
Committee discreetly kept the names
from becoming public. The result of this
move was that last night not a. member
of that committee was pledged to any
individual or individuals.
No sooner had the organization been
effected than Mr.. Rochester of the old
Fourth district took the floor. He said
his section of the city had two candi-
dates to name, either one of whom might
be selected with advantage. He said the
citizens of that section felt they had a
right to Calm a place on the ticket. He
named Messrs. James Nolan and R. j.
Mcmillan.
Mr. f. Il. Spengeman promptly moved
that the question of nominations be re-
ferred to a committee of two members
from each ward in the city, to be select
ed by the chair. to. suggest nominations
at another meeting to be held on Thurs
day evening. An amendment was pro
posed to this that the representatives of
the several wards be named by the Ex-
ecutive Committee members.
Mr.. James Luby in speaking to the mo-
tons said:-.If we are to introduce a
ward spirit into these proceedings, we
had better go home and cave the choice
of candidates to the primaries. We are
called here to speak for the whole city.
We have two nominations to make and
it is obvious that every ward and even
every section of the city cannot have
a representative on the ticket Our duty
is to select two men big enough and
broad enough to take care of every part
of the city. no matter where they may
reside.
Further opposition was made to Mr..
Spengeman's motion on the ground that
it was diiatory and as representative a
gathering might not be secured again.
The motion was tabled, and one took its
place that the meeting proceed at once
to the selection of candidates.
This to me seems an unwise motion
said Judge Kenny. II came here in the
Interests of the Democratic party. It is
useless for us TO be hasty and nominate
men we cannot elect. We want men
whom we can elect and feel assured that
they Will remain Democrats after elected.
We have plenty of time before us. We
should meet more than once and discuss
the situation that confronts us. Why
should | nominate a man to be knocked
down.? Let rs place in the race men who
have no axes to grind. Let us, I repeat,
proceed slowly
W. were called together" interposed
Secretary Muivaney, sto name two men
for the office of Street and Water Com
missioner. Never again will we be
able to draw together so many repre-
sentative Democrats. Now is the time
to act. We have new men with us
who have never before aided the party
with their counsel WHY should we now
be asked to transfer that power to some
other committee2 Why nouid we hes
itate to act2 We all have the interest OF
the party at heart, and I suggest that
we take advantage of the opportunity
given us to place clean. strong men in
the field"
.It's all right to talk said John Boyd,
ssbut / tell you it will be wise to proceed
slowly. There are various elements to
consider in making nominations. W.
have a City Committee and we have an
Executive Committee The members OF
those committees should certainly have
something to say about the making OF
nominations. We must be careful whom
we elect to head us or defeat will fol
low. / think it would be much better for