The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-10-13

/ mott had the race had even the suspicion
of becoming close. Up in the Twelfth
Ward 4 fight was made for Kenny by
/ McDermott's old enemy. Billy Kern.
Kern knew there was little chance Tor
Kenny's winning out, but he took the OPP
| portunity, however to show that he dis
| likes Mr. McDermott as much as ever.
4 Kern's fight WAS not against Mr. Nc
/ Dermctt alone He appeared to have q
knife up his sleeve for all the regular
party nominees. In the Sixth and Sew
/ enth Precincts Kern had a ticket of his
| own In addition to Kenny he had Sc
| lected Arthur Corbett and T. j. Tebben-
hoff for county committeeman. Samuel
Nagle, the leader of that section, cut
4 away from Kern, and nominated Theo-
| dore Schutzbaeh and EDWARD j. Bruton
| for county committeeman. Kern made
4 the fight of his life. He is down hearted
today. His unpopularity was demon
| strated to him TO entire satisfaction. His
candidates. Corbett and Tebbenhof
managed in some way to get seventy
| eight and seventy-two votes, respectively.
/ Schutzbach and Bruton polled 1lS and ll2,
respectively. or the whole number of
| votes polled 2J6. kerns great influence
/ secured fifty-three for Kenny, while Nc
| Dermott received 2os Whatever grip
| Kern may have had on the Twelfth Ward
| he has lost. New and strange men have
! sprung up around him and his political
retirement is predicted. Kern may make
4 a fight against McDermott on Election
day. but the regular party workers say
he win accomplish little if anything.
I Out in Harrison and the other towns be-
yond the Hackensack. Kenny ran fairly
| dent Of that section should have Had
! the party men made stiff fight against
/ Kenny, they say, they could have beaten
support to McDermott He does noe
| propose antagonizing Mr.. McDermott,
| and thereby sacrifice any chance he may
have Of securing county nomination IN
| the fail of 1899
! For the eleven Assembly nominations
at the disposal Of the party there was
carroll. aiT + James I Hall, Fergus r Kelaher,
4 Maurice Marks James j. Murphy and
John Vollers were elected without opp2osi,
lion. The same honor was GO conferred d., on Z
Walsheid and Allan ]. Benny.
! Out in Harrison there was fight for the
| nonnation which belongs to that local
! ity Michael j. Bruder was the represent
tatlve last year. He demanded re-
nomination. The party workers declined
to give it to him and asked him to re-
| tire. Brujer refused TO abide by the de-
/ cison OF the party men ard declared ne
would run without their support. Bruder
started his campaign early and repaired
| his fences all along the line
Edward j. Rice was selected to oppose
him. Rice was pledged the support of the
several precinct committeeman. A house
to house canvass was made and every
thing seemed 10 indicate that Bruder
would not be in it. When the polls OPEN
ed last night Bruder was discovered to be
/ precinct committeeman did not do the
work for Rice they promised. Rice de-
veloped no strength at the primaries. At
ter an hours balloting the Rice men re-
allied that they were not in it and prac-
tica,ly made no further effort to eject
him. The result Is that he was beaten
man man and will vote with the other mem
bers as though no unpleasantness had
occurred His is the only instance where
the regular party man did not win last
night.
Bruder's strength in Harrison was ua-
derestimated by the committeeman of
that section, the party leaders say
The Freeholder contests We're lively.
Alex. Clements had no opposition in the
First ward. In the Second Nvard Michael
]. Kenny won handily.
John Cleary, who bucked against
Michael F. Kenny for the Freeholder
nomination, saw early in the evening
that he wasn't in it, and practically with
whelmingly elected. Clearys friends,
however, were legion especially in the
northern section. Cleary claimed he was
unfairly treated, intinating that Chair
man Erickson had lodged him in order
to withhold his signature from the Gre
dentials of his appointed wafclerS Inc
latter We're around only with credentials
signed by Secretary Murphy, and IN some
precincts We're not recognized. The
News reporter was unable to see Mr..
Cleary last night, but close friend Of
Mr. Cleary, who said he was authorized
to speak for him, declared he would run
on an Independent ticket. Mr.. Cleary had
only one committeeman with him in the
whole ward. He was Timothy Buckley.
Today Cieary is satisfied that Kenny
beat him fairly. He will not run on an
independent ticket, as was intimated last
night. AS matter of fact, Cleary re-
was not in the race He would have
withdrawn had he been permitted to have
done so by his followers. Clearys show
ing was bad one. His boasted strength
was found to be mythical. He had the
regular party men against him. He was
beaten by more than 3 to |. Cleary will
In the Third Ward Frank McNally
was rencminated without opposition. The
Fourth Ward returned James Tremble,
Sixth stood for Mark Fallon. and the
Seventh Eighth, Ninth Tenth and
Eleventh for Joseph Murray: David r.
Barry. Frank Scott, Joseph Fitzsimmons
and Peter r. Mcclure respectively.
In the Twelfth Ward there was a fight
Alderman John E. Boldt pulled out of the
race. He had no chance of winning.
by his friends an hour or two before the
primaries. He gave all his supposed
strength to George Guthmuller The COM
have any effect upon Charles Schmtt's
candidacy. Guthmuller managed TO poll
about $50 votes against one thousand
OF more given cculnllt. tTulIfiuQtleG uid
not have followers enough to make the
fight even Interesting for Schmitt Guth-
muller is disappointed but he will work
for the election of Schnitt. The regular
party organization of the Twelfth Ward
is one of the best in the county.
In the Sixth and Seventh precincts of
the Twelfth ward, John Connolly a
Schmitt man, and Samuel Wilson,
Guthmullerite, got into a row. Connolly,
it is alleged, punched Wilson for calling
him liar. There was considerable ex-
1sf,f, fef
ance No arrests were made. Friends of
Guthmuller made all sort of charges of
unfair treatment but when the result
of the ballOting was announced and 1t
was found that Guthmuller wasn't in it
even at the start, the sensible Guthmul-
lerites shook hands with their contest
ants, while few hot headed adherents
of the defeated candidate punched the at
mosphere full of harmless holes in wild
gesticulation and went in quest of repre-
sentatives of Republican papers to give
them what they are pleased to call
'.colyume spread.
The following Committeeman were
elected without oppostion:-
COUNTY COMMITTEE.
JERSEY CITY
First Ward-Heifry Fuhring, Eugene
Condor, John Boyd Bernard Lennon.
Second Ward-William j. Murray John
Smith Jos. r. Feeley, Anthony Connolly
Michael Egan, Timothy j. Buckley.
Third Ward--MaTtin J. Purcell, Arch.
NJ. Henry, John P. Feeney, John T. Nc
Grath.
Fourth Ward-Charles II. Dayton,
James Hennessey. Chris. F. Smith
Fifth Ward-Thomas Cox, Frank
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