The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-30
DANES AT WAR.
Some Of the Colonial Brand
Excited Over Election
Literature.
MRS. ]. D. BEDLE's BOOM
But Some Say That Circular. Was
a Mean Stab in the Back
so There.
MRS. J. D. BEDLE'S BOOM

6
ago when they received the announce
ment that ethe fifth annual meeting Of
the New Jersey Society of the Colonial
Danes of America will be held at the
society rooms, No. West State street,
Trenton, May 4, at eleven O'Clock. There
will be an election of officers. reading OF
reports and the annual exercises. with
this announcement came the printed re-
port of the Committee on Nominations.
The report was headed by the list OF offl-
GERS and the times of their election. IL
was printed in the latest shade of blue
ink on super-calendar note paper. It
read:-
officers and Board of Managers OF
NEW JERSEY SOCIETY OF COLONIAL
DANES
of America.
President,
Mrs S. Meredith Dickinson.
First Vice President,
Mrs. S. Duncan Oliphant~
Second Vice President,
Mrs Henry M. Barbour
Managers
(Term expires May 4, 1872
Mrs. Francis c. Lowthorp,
Mrs. William L. Dayton,
Mrs. Hugh H. Hamill,
Miss S. NJ. Carpenter,
Miss Helen Green.
(Term expires 1882
Mrs. Cleaveland Hilson,
Mrs. Alexander Jameson,
Mrs. Frederick c. Lewis,
Mrs. Charles b. Dahlgren
Mrs. Erastus G. Putnam.
(Tern expires 1S99.)
Mrs. John H. Janeway, Jr.,
Miss Caroline e. Nixon,
Miss Justina L. Atterbury,
Miss Mary Dickinson,
Mrs. Albert H. Atterbury.
,aC,,Iay y,oaa+j,.or of +L,e -
Managers, held on April Il, 1887, the un-
dersigned We're chosen as Committee
on Nominations.
AS Mrs S. Meredith Dickinson and Mrs.
S. Duncan Oliphant have notified the
Managers that they will not be ca1ldi-
dates for the Offices of President and First
Vice President respectively, for the com
ing year, and Mrs. Henry M. Barbour
having written to the chairman, asking
that another name should be substituted
for her own as Second Vice President we
according recommend the following cleo
tom
President.
Mrs. Joseph ?. Bedle, Jersey City.
First Vice President
Mrs. Francis Lowthorp, Trenton
Second Vice President
Mrs. Hugh H. Hamill, Trenton.
Board of Managers.
Mrs. S. Meredith Dickinson Trenton
Mrs. William l.. Dayton, Trenton.
Miss Helen Green Trenton.
Miss Susan NJ. Carpenter, Camden.
MISS Mary Sherrerd Clark Belyfdere.
EMMA B. ATTERBURY,
Committee.
Bring this with you.
Enclosed with the report was ballot
with vacant places left for the names
desired.
So far everything was clear, but later
mail brought another communication.
This read
THE NEW JERSEY SOCIEY COLONIAL.
DANES OF AMERICA.
Finding that the Committee on No,oi
nations, appointed at the last meeting of
the Board, have misapprehended their
duty under the bylaws, In recommending
election the enclosed ticket, made in
strict accordance with the bylaws, is
sent for, the information of members
BY order OF the President
BEULAH A. OLIPHANT,
Secretary pro tenn.
The following bylaw is referred TO. as
passed last year by the Board of Man
ayers as permanent method of election.
and 5alt was ] ratifled by the Society at the
last annual meeting. 1t is now embodied
in our new bylaws, as adopted by fhe
Board OF Managers for final presentatfon
to the society,"
-, When sl :. the notice Of the annual meet
ayers is sent, there shall be enelnssad
herewith to each member of the society,"
at least one ballot, whereon shall b.
pflntSd the names of these officers ami
managers, whose time of servioa sbalI
then expire, under their official titles re- re-
spectively, with sufficient margin on tha
,3all, nslrou, WReIeon VI TO write substitutionaI
names. II any vacancy among said off5 :.
GERS or managers shall have been filled
pursuant to the bylaws, such fact ehe1i
be briefly noted on said ballot
With this was enclosed another bal,o+
Inc ballot read: President, Mrs. S. Mere
dith Dickinson; First Vice Preside,t
Mrs S. Duncan Oliphant; Second vgoe
President, Mrs. Henry M. Barbour. MAJ
ayers Mrs Hugh H. Hamill Miss Helen
=. Green, Mrs. Francis C. Lowthorp Mrs
VIM. L. Dayton and Miss S. M. Carmen
ter. AT the side of the first three names
were stars. The star meant edecIine .
reelection
The second announcement was bewil-
dering. But the dazed condition of ~
DANES was as nothing to the state of
mlnd they were in when third com
munication came. This was in the form
OF a typewriter letter from the commit
tee on nominations The committee sta+-
ed in this letter that the action Of the
committee was in accordance with the
instructions given and that in spite of the
announcement and ballot ordered by the
President, the procedure of the commit
tee was right and proper.
In every place In New JERSEY where
there are two or more DANES there have
been consultations over the meaning If
these announcements. Some of the DANES
hold that it was merely mistake: that
the managers found it out and correcf
ed it because they wished to have the
election proceed according to the rules Of
the society.
Other DANES say that it is a ssput-up
JOB, that the managers want another
ticket than that proposed by the com,
mittee and that 1t is an effort to make
impossible the election of the ticket or
fered by the committee. The staterne,,t
has been made that the Trenton dar1as
have tried to run" the society. fhN
they have tried to prevent any but Tren
ton DANES from holding office and that
they will do all In their power to prevent
the election of any ticket but that hav-
ing a predominence of Trenton names.
Certain it is that the Trentonians tried
and failed to pass bylaw making ii
obligatory to have Trenton danes sas
officers,
The affair closely affects the Jersey Citv
danes, as they are, Of course, desirous
of having Mrs. Bedle, of this city. as
President. They say it must be simply
mistake, and not malicious endeayor
to down her, for, they say. Mrs Bedle
Is extremely popular in the society," All
the danes are SO anxious to ascertain
the meaning of 1t that 1t is probablestne
meeting held next Tuesday will be urls
usually well attended.
People buy Hoods sarsaDariila year after.