The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-03-19
HERE'S AN OPEN bolt
Greenville Leaguers Beaten By
{ Minks Threaten to Vote the
Democratic Ticket.

Precincts of the Seventh Ward, held
Jointly in the Minkakwa clubhouse at No.
ga Ocean avenue, was remarkable for
the large number of votes polled the Bit
terness of feeling displayed on either
hand and the threatened diversion to the
support of Democratic candidates of forty
per cent. of the Republican votes of those
precincts.
The balloting resulted in complete
overthrow Of the Republican League Club
which, throughout its ten years exist
ence. has never been SO bitterly opposed
to the Minkakwas as at present. With
vote whichs varied about the 300 mark the
Minkakwa ticket won by nearly 100 votes.
James S. Erwin polled S02, Michael
Schultz, Jr., 30, and Isaac F. Goldenhorn
2S9 for delegates to State and Congress
sional Conventions. The defeated candi-
dates were Charles A. Rose, Benjamin
Franklin and Theodore H. EMS, 2o3, 2oi
and 206 respectively So the vote ran
throughout.
The League CfSb ticket was beaten
from A to 2, and while the usual excited
charges and counter-charges were not
brought out by members of either club
the air was full of the storm which was
L
of the vote could not be passed over with
out comment, however, and partisans on
either side state.: in an aside to report
er for 'sThe Jersey City News that the
other club had packed the primary with
Mugwump voters. There were sos votes
polied. No one ever dreamed that so many
Republican voters would appear at the
primary, and it is fact that they never
did appear before
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ternoon evidence of the struggle to come
was apparent in the presence of a few
loiterers on Ocean avenue in the vicinity
OF the clubhouse, where such a sight is
rare. As soon as night fell and the shops
began to light up these few loiterers in
creased in number until over hundred
were always standing somewhere in the
half block between Danforth avenue and
the Minkakwa clubhouse. Inside the plac>
was crowded and the prominent parts
ans of either side were surrounded by
knots of eager takers.
The vote as compared to that polled for
Griggs on last election day shows only
127 less. They gave the present Governor
The large vote cannot be charged to
any accident. A month ago both sides
showed signs of activity Both began to
At the nomination of enrolment and
primary officers by the Seventh Ward
Republican Club the Leaguers were cons
spieucus by their absence. Only two or
three members were present and but one
secured a place among the officers, the
rest being chosen from the Minkakwa
ranks
The Leaguers believed they were not
treated properly They had arrived at
a similar decision long previous to this,
them by the latter action of the frater-
nal organization. The Minks claimed the
fault lay. with the Leaguers in not at
tending that meeting in greater numbers,
but the neglected club asserted pre-
science of the result as an excuse for
staying away.
Now the Leaguers say they will knife
the ticket and bolt to the ranks of DE
mocracy. If that occurs this Republican
stronghold may go Democratic at the
Said a prominent member of the League
Club last might've have been staunch
and true Republicans for the decade III
which we existed. In all that time we
severally cast our ballots for candidates
nominated by the Ocean avenue crowd
and then sat by and watched them grab
all the good things. We are tired OF 1t,
and we intend to get out for the oppo-
sition This not an action of the moment
resulting from hysterical spite; we nave
debated it at length and have come TO
our decision slowly and positively
The work of the League Club was char-
'acterized by an ingenious rankness Whlch q
fore-armed. the enemy: But the ways OF Of
their efforts the last straw was added
which broke the back of the Leaguers'
forbearance when three coaches were
kakwa voters to the polls.
The winning ticket is as follows
Delegates to State. and Congfssss;iosnal' ss;as,n a.
s6fa r. ana eodenhorn ldgl Mehel afaf
nate-William H. Smith.
Delegates to City convention-Adam
Reid, Chas. B. Relay, Robert Guy. VII
Geo. W. Dunn, Chas. G. Rode, Edward
Clark. James Greer and Harry Hunt.
Alternates-David Hale and Gustave A.
Delegates to Ward convention Merese-
les Wauters. John Grosklaus, Chas. P.
Boos, Peter Dafeldecker. Michael Con
ser. John Hovedon and Chas. Merker. Al
ternates- Mang and Walter II.
Kay
This was the League ticket which. lost:
Delegates to State convention-Charl
A. Rose, Benjamin Franklin and Theo-
dore H EMS.
Delegates to City nvention-Herman
Albrecht, Alexander Richter. Joseph
Hampton, George W. Spencer. Peter
Fichtl, Adolph Rocholl, John s Sothern;
George w. Vanderpool. Alternates--
Benjamin Wittnebert, Charles Craft and
William A. Rurade.
Delegates to Ward convention-Charle
S. Bennett George Fremgen, Theodore
Muhlberg, William ]. Jordan, Robert j.
Lutz John H. Geraghty and JAS. Lam
fSl5Gl Thomas H. M McDonald and and George Cant
"A peculiar phase of the situation was
the appearance of two Minkakwa bal
lots The first one issued was wider and
shorter than that of the League Club
so that they could be readily distin-
guished by this fact alone. Last night
there appeared another Minkakwa bal
lot almost a fac-simile of the League
Club ballot In size, shape and arrange
ment of names. A member of the Min
kakwa Club hastened to explain to the
lreporter Of THE Jersey City News, :
That's a funny thing about those two
ballots, isn't it? You would think we
were trying to mix people up over the
so, though You see, one was printed
in Jersey City and one in New York
and that's how it occurred. And yet
there are some people in Greenviile mean
enough to hint that the conservative
Minks actually did attempt to deceive
voters with a tgold-brick scheme.
There was a hot contest in the Seventh
precinct. Eleventh ward. in the back
portion of Hansen's S saloon at the corner
of Griffith street and Palisade avenue.
There were two tickets IN the field, a
regular ticket and an independent ticket.
John H. Koepplinger headed the regular
and Samuel H Monroe headed the opposi-
ton. The regular ticket polled sixty
one votes. and the opposition thirty four
votes.
Munroe was the regular candidate until
three days ago. when two of the County
mjtteemen. one of whom was Her
had decided to run another ticket as the
regular one. This was to be headed BY
John Koepplinger. Monroe's friends
urged him to run on an indenefadent ticket,