The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-17

GOLD MEN DEBARRED
Democratic State Committee
Decides to Give Them No
Positions of Honor
or Profit.
PLUMs ARE ONLY FOR sILyERITEs
An Active Campaign to Be Started
at 0nce-Summer Meetings at
the Seashore.
PLUMs ARE ONLY FOR sILyERITEs


democrats VINO have controi OF the STAT
Committee demonstrated at the meeting
of the committee held here yesterda,
what it means by harmony ant
getting all factions together for the goot
of the party" They took possession o
the party and passed the death sentence
politically upon all those Democrats WHIT
voted or worked for Mr.. Mckinley las
fall, and pronounced various terms o.
Punishment from all positions of honor
trust or enolument on all those WHIT
voted for Palmer and Buckner. There
were present at the meeting the following
members:-At large. Richard S. Kuhi
Pennington; VIM. D.. Daily, Hoboken
and Richard A. Donnelly, Trenton; VIM
B. Pugh. Bergen; Harry B. Paul. Cam
den; Philip P. Baker. Cumberland; Ed.
ward L. Price. Essex: B. S. Cox
Gloucester: Paul A. Queen. Hunterdon
James w. Lanning. Mercer; Oliver Kelly
Middlesex. David S. Crater. Monmouth
Thomas H. Hoagland. Morris: Charles l.
Rogers, Ocean, Robert Gwynne, Salem
Vim. J. Keys. Somerset: Samuel Fowler
Sussex; VIM. D. Wolfskeil, Union, ano
Johnston Cornish. Warren.
The absentees were Comanitteeman-at-
Large Rufus Blodgett. of Monmouth: b
F. C. Young. Hudson: Eckard p. Budd'
Burlington: Alvin P. Hildreth, Cape May,
and Louis F. Braunn. Passaic.
AS stated in these dispatches yesterday
the main object OF the meeting was
to nam Democratic members of the
County Election Boards. The following
were those chosen
Atlantic-John 7. French. Hammonton;
H. S. Scull, Atlantic City.
Bergen-William Ely, Cherry Hill. John
Kehoe. L~yndhurst.
Camden-James Fitzgerald. Camden;
John Beaston. Gloucester City.
Cape Mays. e. Ewing. Cape May; w
Lake, Ocean City.
Cumberland-John Ogden, Bridgeton;
George w Deckert: yineland
&Essex-Leonard kalisch, Newark; Il. "A.
Gloucester-Thomas c. Dilts. Mantua;
Charles Wolforth. Clarksboro.
w. Rich West Hoboken.
Remington; Oliver I. Blackwell. Rim
Mercer-w. S. Grover. Princeton juno
Middiesex = Hendrickson H. Brown.
Browntown; st. George Kempson. Me-
Monmouth-John P. Walker. Freehold;
D. NJ. Magee, ManasQuan-
Morris-Paul Revere. Morristown; Oscar
1iuQtey, GT96n Village.
Ocean-John Beatty. Toms River. Chas.
T. Rogers. Manchester.
Salem-Minard Riley. Shirley. Charles
C.. Ford. Salem.
Somerset. H. Mattison, %Somerville;
Jacob Schurts, Somerville.
Sussex-Peter P. Schwartz, Coleville;
Ernest H. Bell. Flatbrookville.
Union-John F. Crowell, Railway: p. A.
Ryan, Elizabeth.
Warren-Henry NJ. Welt. Bloomsbury;
J.. Henry Miller, Washington.
This result was not reached. however.
without considerable friction; more. per-
haps, than has yet permeated through
the doors of Room No. 100. which guards
so many political secrets.
There was a long discussion about the
decapitation of Samuel Semple of Bur
lington county. He was a Democratic
member of the Burlington County Board.
but it was charged that he voted for Nc
Kinley and worked for him openly. HIS
case attracts more attention than any
other. for the reason that Semple has
been the holder of several offices through
the generosity of the Democratic party,
and his attitude during the campaign was
lime to the organization of the
Democratic party in his county 1t was
deemed necessary to remove him from
his OHIO dllu " dQQOt III Ills ptlCc 1OW-
ard Matthias of New Gretna. Burlington
county. Prosecutor Budd, who represents
Burlington in the State Committee, was
not present, consequently the contro-
versy was one sided, and Mr.. Semple was
without defence.
There was some revolt against Paul
Revere. He was named from Morris
county, and, while it was known that he
was a gold Democrat no charges were
made tha he supported Mckinley 1t
was simply a matter of .rumor. but as
nobody had taken the pains to enlighten
the committee his appointment was un-
disputed. There was a disposition also
to find fault with Jacob Shurtz, of Somer-
vile. but there were more who thought
that he was regular than there were who
thought him irregular. and in the absence
of documentary evidence he went through.
The trouble in Mercer was adjusted by
the committee ordering the members OF
the County Committee to come together
select a new county chairman
Strange to say, the names OF Allan NC
Dermott and Henry p: Winton, the former
the leader of the Mckinley Democrats
and the latter the leader of the Palmer
Democrats. were not referred to at n
time during the discussion
nustain the action of the Democratic
Senators in their position In the matter
Of the confirmation Of Joseph Rice, who
was a gold Democrat. The committee
minority Senators in refusing to confirm
Rice was a good one.
IN making up the list of appointments
no one has been named for Passaic
county. This is due to an oversight
caused by a rather lively discussion on
q member Of the Election Board from that
county, but who supported. Mckinley and
did so with more or less parade of feelings.
Demott formerly came from Hunterdon,
where everybody was a silver Democrat:
and where political apostates are hated
without honor in his party, so that there
IS now no pardon for his inconsistency
Hfa political head has now a price upon
it. IN turning down Demott, the naming
OF his successor was forgotten. The
State chairman, however, is empowered
to ail omisstons Ct this -ras,s cnaracaer s. 4ns
staAe Committee, both caused by Illness
Rnbert !. Byrnes of Atlantic will be sue
ceeded nv John 4. French of HammOn-
ton. andsJ3W, Rodan has been appointed
in place Of A. p. Hfdreth Of Cape May
The addrsssthat y tq pc ana
Tor linked action at once on the part of
all consistent Demoerats. It Will advise
q General stimulation of county organiza-
lions andSuDge = fight In the coming CAM
paign on the sips Of commission and
omission Of the Republican party. The
records Of the. last ty7o LEGISLATURES are
minute detail, SO that the Democratic
voters and the citizens generally who
have supported the Republican party VIII
see how much humbug has followed IN
the wake of the great tidal wave reform
~, ~ a q 1f3vo Nom that thew have