The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-09-01
ROWING REPUBLICANS.
The Loaves and Fishes Hope
lessly Split in the Seventh
Ward.

The political atmosphere about the Re-
publican party is stormy at present, even
though election day is nearly ten weeks
away There is a deal of trouble brew
ing in the Seventh ward despite the pro-
tests of some Republicans to the con-
trary Ever since the split between the
League and Minkakwa clubs some time
ago, things have gone from bad to worse.
Row after row has. taken place between
them. charge after charge has been
made. and meetings to patch up the diff
ferences have been held, but all to no
purpose.
The meeting between the Harmony
Committees from the two clubs last fail
resulted in nothing despite the fact that
harmony agreement was drawn up and
signed by the officials. Both clubs have
openly showed time and time again that
the rules agreed upon "cut no figure
with them, and less harmony has pre-
vailed than before the agreement was
signed. When one club was invited to
participate at an affair where the other
was sure to be present, the members of
either or or the other would remain away.
No attempt was made to be congenial
and now the chasna is wider than ever.
The climax was capped last spring when
the Republicans were badly beaten in the
Seventh a ward they claimed could never
be lost The Democrats won hands down
and with little effort The readers OF
ssThe News will remember how the clubs
were all at sea last spring and how at
the ward convention, held in Belvedere
Hall, Old Bergen Road and Danfortn
avenue, the delegates could not ger
enough men to fill the ticket. Henry
Petty, the president of the League Club,
was nominated for Justice of the Peace.
He insinuates that his defeat was due
to the members of the Minkakwa Club,
because they did not work for him and
thereby broke the agreement. The mem
bers of the League Club nave not for-
gotten last spring and that is the reason
trouble is a-breWing
The Minkakwas showed last Monday
night. that they did not care whether the
Leaguers existed or not. because tney
endorsed their president. Charles Merker,
for the nomination of Boulvard Commis-
sioner This hit the Leaguers hard. as
Edmund Birch had been endorsed by them
for the same nomination. A member or
the League Club said. last night, that
l.he supposed the s.Mnksn were out for
themselves as usual and would give no
other club in that ward any show.
awould not surprise me. he said, III they
also put up a candidate for the nominal
tion for Freeholder and in that way try
to freeze out President William Reed of
the U. S. Grant Association. It is a
foregone conclusion that the League
people will be shut out from getting any
thing if it lies within the Minks power.
1t also shows that the Minkakwa people
are still sour ON the Leaguers; otherwise
why would that organization put another
man in the field for the same position the
Leaguers are after?'
The. member further said that some-
| thing was going to happen in that ward
: ~ IN prot rc-
thing very soon At the meeting, last
evening Of the League Club there was a
conference with a member of the U. S.
Grant Association. It is pretty well un-
derstood that Reed will be supported by
the Leagues delegates at the coming
convention.