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NEWARK. Dec. IA, 1S97.-Colonel E.. L.
Price, as chairman of the Democratic
County Convention, held at Belleville on
October 81, Will formally announce today
the names of the members of the new
City Central Committee and the new
Democratic County Committee, appointed
in accordance with a resolution adopted
by the convention. The announcement,
it Is said, will prove the assertion made
by Colonel Price when the plan of re-
organization was assailed, that the ac-
ton was preliminary to his retirement
from active participation in the affairs OF
the county organization. According TO
Colonel Price himself, he will not be
an active member of the committee or
connected with it in any way, other
than in an advisory capacity. The reso-
luton providing for the reorganization as
adopted by the convention was as follows:
Resolved, That the chairman of this
convention is hereby directed to select
from the party in the city of Newark,
on or before December Is, 1897, two per-
sons in each ward, who shall constitute
the Democratic Committee of Newark,
and from each ward in Orange and from
each township and borough one person,
who, together with the members of the
City Committee of Newark, shall consti-
tute the general committee of Essex
county. That the members of said COM
mittee shall hold Office for one year from
the late of their appointment, and i'm
mediately after organizing shall proceed
to call primary meetings in each polling
precinct of the county for the election
of precinct leaders. Upon the organlza-
ton OF the county Committee, selected
as herein provided, the terms of the
present members h end"
1t was presented by M. C. Ely, as
Chairman of the Committee on Resolu-
lions, shortly before the convention ad-
iourned, and was, for the latter reason,
Sharply criticised. Another ground for
complaint was the supposition that the
change was a return to the old Iammany
investigation showed that such was not
the case, because the proposed plan pro-
vided for an organization, part elective
and part appointive, while the Tammany
plan was entirely appointive and self
p~erpetuating. This, in a measure, tended
to remove some of the objections, and
ton relative to the probable personnel of
the new committee. 1t was generally
supposed that Colonel Price would be one
of the members and it was even suggested
that he would be chairman of the new or
ganization.
AT this point in an interview with a re-
pOIleI SDlOlC1 0CldIS pOoillNSlJ
that he would not be chairman under any
conditions, and that it was not probable
he would be a member of the committee.
Yesterday Colonel Price said
II am not prepared to announce the
membership of the new committee or dis
cuss it in any way further than to say
One reason is that l do not propose to ap-
point myself, and another is that | cannot
devote the requisite attention to the place
and act at the same time as Chairman of
the State Committee. City Counsel of
Newark and attend to my private af-
fairs
pointed nave been consulted and each has
signified his willingness to accept. To
day or tomorrow they will organize and
probably select George R. Gray as chair
man. Other names that nave been men
ton in connection with the office are
Judge Kruger, Elvin w. Crane and An
drew Albright, all of whom are mentioned
as probable members of the committee. In
some of the wards of the city, each of
which is entitled to two members, and
the wards of Orange and the townships
and b%oroughs, which will have one repre-
sentative each, considerable difficulty
was found in securing available candi-
dates who would accept. In others the
candidates were too numerous to mention
but it is said all have been selected with
out friction. AS near as can be ascer-
the following list, most of whom are
known to nave been rendered and accept
ed the appointment,
L L ~ W oAN 49, Ato L. -
Conlon.
second ward-Elvin ". Crane, Howard
w. Hayes and James R Nugent.
Third Ward-Judge Gottfried Kruger,
Andrew Albright and John +. Kruger.
Fourth Ward-George R. Gray, Alder
man Thomas Smith. NJ. G; Ely.
earthly and School Commissioner Charles
Clark.
Sixth Ward-owen A. Cahill and Albert
Hahn.
Seventh Ward-M. F. Mclaughlin. Thos.
Harlan and Alderman William Dimond.
Eighth W~ard-Owen F. Conlon, William
II. Brown John Birkenhauer and Ste
Ninth Ward-Reuben Trier, John B..
Dusenberry and William Ward.
Neider, Alderman Minard Knapp and T.
]. Preston.
Eleventh, Ward-Peter r. Cunningham,
William II. Shurts, William Tunison,
mar A. C. Denmah, Judge George Fl.
Lambert and R. Heber B%reintnall.
Twelfth Ward-George Rabenstein and
Thirteenth Ward-Benedict Ulrich,
Charles F. Herr and John Breunig.
Fourteenth Ward.Philip Lowy and Al
derman ". c.. Trabold.
Fifteenth Ward-Alderman James A.
Rowe and Stephen Beers.
Soon after the committee organizes an
Advisory Committee will be appointed,
consisting of some of the men mentioned
above. who will not be active members,
and Others like Eugene Vanderpool, Ed
ward Balbach' Judge And na9an Kkirfkpat-
n. Flemming, Owen McCabe. and Jos.
Hensler. The number to be appointed on
the Advisory Committee has not been de-
termined upon, but it will make no ma
terial difference. for the members so ap-
pointed will not have a vote.
The first REGULAR business to be perform
to elect district leaders in every district
ia thu county. The leaders 50 elected will