The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-09-18
QUIET PRIMARIES,
Ticket Favored by the Party
Chieftains Wins Over
Whelmlngly.
ALLAN M'DERM0TT CUT
Silver Extremists Refrained
from Voting for the Gold
Democratic Leader.
HELLER's TREMENDOUS STRENGTH
The Lewis-Jacob Combination Cuts
No Figure = Kimmerly's
Pledge of Loyalty.
HELLER'S TREMENDOUS STRENGTH


tion. were held last night. The victorious
candidates were
For CONGRESSMAN. Allan L. McDer-
'''Fea For SHERIFF, william Heller.
For SURROGATE, James + Lillis.
For CORONER, Robert Schlemm
ASSEMBLYMEN:-
Jersey City-Edward Hoos John E. HeW-
tit. John Wahl Queen, Carl Ruempler,
Pierce J. Fleming and Adolph waiter
Bayonne-Lewis E. Leary.
Hoboken-John MarDell and Horace Allen.
Harrison and Kearny-Michael Brueder
North Hudson-Charles I. Bauer.
FREEHOLDERS:-
Jersey City
First Ward-Alexander Clement.
Second Ward-Michael Kenny.
Third Ward-Frank McNally.
Fourth Ward-James Trenble.
Fifth Ward-Phillip McGovern.
Sixth Ward-William McWilliams.
Seventh Ward-James Murray.
Eighth Ward
Ninth Ward-Gregory Judge.
Tenth Ward-Joseph Fltzs:mmons.
Eleventh Ward-Peter Mcclure.
Twelfth Ward-Charles P. Schmidt
Bayonne-Patrick Gallagher and Jacob
WoodholtZer.
Harrison-Joseph A. Riordan.
Kearny-M. ]. Mccarthy.
East Newark-Joseph Duffy.
Union Township-Emil Groth and Fred
erick Ripe.
Guttenberg-Charles Klein
Town of Union-Phfllip Bindernagle.
West Hoboken-Timothy Bailer.
Weehawken-Simon Kelly.
North Bergen-Conrad Dietz.
The Executive Committee is in session
this afternoon to canvass the votes. The
County Committee will meet this evening
in Fischer's Hall. and unless protests are
fled, and it is understood there will be
none. the regular nominations will be
ratified and steps taken to have an ag-
gressive' campaign begun at once.
AS rule the primaries passed off in an
unusually quiet manner. A tremendous
vote was polled showing that the several
candidates and their followers had left no
stone unturned to win. A fareical feature
OF. the primaries was the absence of any
one connected with the Jacob-Lewis sore
heads at any of the large precincts 1t
had been regarded as reasonably certain
that after all the talking Dan Lewis had
done that there would be trouble at nearly
every precinct If there We're any Lewis
watchers they apparently found out early
in the day that there would be no occa-
sion to watch anyone.
The hottest fight was of course for the
Shrievalty nomination. On the outing of
Nhe Robert Davis Association Frank
Kimmerly announced that If fairly beaten
at the primaries he would get out and
hustle for the fortunate man.
With this understanding Davis directed
Heller, Kimmerly and Bergkamp to hustle
for themselves. Director Heller had made
a canvass of the county and formed clubs
of workers, and as a consequence was
better prepared to fight than his oppo-
nents Bergkamp was at no time an i'm
portant figure in the contest, and as
consequence the fight resolved itself into
one between Messrs. Heller and Kim
merly. Judging from the returns which
had been forwarded to Secretary Meyer
Of the County Committee, this morning,
$dr. Kimmerly was not a dangerous fac
tor either. At no time does he appear to
have been in the race. The First ward
failed to tally for him. The Second
ward gave him a few. The Third ward
failed TO score for him and the Fourth
ward gave him four votes. And so it
. went until the stronghold OF Dan Lewis
was reached. In the Eighth and Ninth
wards Lewis and the croakers managed
to put up good fight The Eighth ward
is so very close that it looks as though
Lewis may have carried it for Kimmerly
The complete returns have not been re-
ceived from there as yet In the Ninth
ward. the Lewis people were showed under
and as a whole the fight of the eroakers
and old political hacks had an inglorious
ending.
Kimmerlys supposed strength was
myth. 1t was expected that in his own
ward at least he would succeed in shut
ting Heller out. For two or tbree days,
however, a disposition showed itself
among some of the Kimmerly men to
quit. That they did so at the primaries
is apparent. Kimmerly's own precinct,
however, gave him 135 against II for Hell
Ter. There are 400 enrolled Democrats in
the precinct. Kimmerly carried the ward
by a majority of 217. When he heard the
returns from his own ward, he acknowl-
edged that he was badly beaten man.
He went home early, but not without hay-
ing first announced that he would do all
he could for Candidate Heller
conservative estimate of Director
HeAer's majority is $500. He ran ahead of
all the other candidates. and in many
wards ran ahead of the F'reeholder cam
didates Thar Director Heller had made
hard fight was apparent on all sides
his friends
The contest for the Congressional nomi-
nation was between Allan L. McDermott
and Mayor Kenny of East Newark Alex
ander Young having withdrawn from the
race. Kenny was not in it at any time
IN the Eighth ward Kenny ran ahead OF
Nj. McDermott, owing to the Lewis-Jacob
influence. Kenny also won in East New
ark and Harrison. In al other parts of
the county Mr.. McDernott beat him out
of his boots. Mr. McDermott won by
about 2,0e0 votes. The fact that he ran so
far behind William Heller has caused con-
siderable comment il political circles. It
WAS noticeable at all the down town
primaries that the silk stocking element
turned ont we'll. Gentlemen who are
rarely seen at primaries and who are now
closely identified with the sound money
movement took an active interest and it
Is regarded as certain that to man they
voted for Mr.. McDermott It is apparent
by the returns that he was badly scrat tched
BY the silver men. IN nearly every ward
In the city he was scratched, though
Kenny was not supported The ballots
simply show that Mr.. McDermotts name
had been marked out.
An effort was made by the ward and
precinct men to pile up handsome vote
for Mr.. McDermott, but it was reported
at midnight from different sections that
many laboring men positively refused to
vote for him. This fact has led many OF
the ward leaders to believe that the county
will surely go for Bryan and Sewall
was reported today that Mayor Ken
see~ed running on an Independent
e has already been pledged the
the Jac6b-isew.s combination
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