The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-12-21
HOW THEY LOVE EACH OTHER
The Q. S. Grant Club
Has a Fine Row at
Last Nights Meeting.

How we love each otherg' exclaimed
member Of the Y, S. Grant Association
last evening after the meeting of that or~
garifzation had adjourned. The @scrap'n
ana dissensiop now on in that club sur
passes anything of the kind the Leaguers
ana Aainks ever put UP. A movements -
on foot among a few misguided indiv-
iduals, 70 disrupt that assocfations ana il
sisey IAN it viii not be because they have
LETT stone uuturned TO accomplish this
disgraceful object
Tnere are. two factions in the League,
one led BY Alfred Hargen. the recently
elected County Committeeman from the
| flIth precinct Of that ward, and the other
red by William Burns, who was beaten by
Mr.. Ifargen. Burns will not give in and
has remarked that he was beaten by out
siders.
However, he was beaten, and Is dying
hard. He is still trying to retain his
grip, but has only eight followers. while
Hargen has enough constituents to over
wReln him.
The cause Of the remark quoted IN the
| first paragraph, was due to another dis
graceful scenes such as characterized the
| meeting last week Burns got square
| for the treatment he received at that
meeting Two members proposed by
| Hargen were blackballed, each receiving
three dark eolored spheres, the requisite
number to disbar them from member
ship. AT last weeks meeting Burns pro-
posed the names of Henry C. Petty and
| Edmund 7. Birch, both of the League
| Club It was hinted at that time that
| Burns was making an attempt to mar
shal his forces for an onslaught on the
4 r.nf1
side out of the precinct in which the
/ League Club is situated, and runor had
/ it that both were anxious to sever theiT
connection with that organization, in or
der to work in the Grant Associations
and when their names We're brought up
last week Birch was the first voted on.
/ He was blackballed to the tune OF fiyes
! Petty's name was then withdrawn. Burns
then and there resolved to reciproeate. At
the same meeting, Mr.. Hargen proposed
/ the names of w H. bod and Charles
Koehler for membership. Under the
rules these propositions are held over for
| a week. They came up last evening, and
President Reed remarked before any yot-
1 ing was done that he hoped matters
| would pass off smoothly
s14et there he no personal IeeIllIgs Is
/ gentlemen, he said, stand no more black
balling.' s.
He added in a roundabout way tnat y
/ there was going to be any such proceeu-
1 ingS it would be well 10 let the matter
be known in order to give the one wfEo
1 handed in the propositions a chance 70
4 Withdraw them. Not word was saldz
4 Thesvote was then taken, with the result
| before mentioned. 1t was then that tEe
Il bitter enmity became known. Hargen ;
forces realized that they had a hgHt on
their hands. Now both sides are pre-
pairing to fight to the finish II was
i thought that there would be trouble Fynetl
4 the matter relative 10 the nomlnatlon Of
] officers for the ensuing year was brought
up.
This matter however, passed on very
/ quietly. There was not a word Of oppo-
sition. Those nominated were.--Hreslae eHts
| William E. Reed: Vice President. Snrls-
tian I4auer; Recording Secretary. Aifred
Hargen; Corresponding Secretary, W. .
| Sothern; Financial Secretary, Il smith ;
Treasurer, William Rowlands; Sergeant
| at-Arrns David Jones' Trustees. lanes
Mckinney John Largaramisino, Paul u.
Martin, Charles Heaney and Inotl2s
Bourns. The majority, or in tact an ol
the above member, aye with Hargen- anu
Burns will now be frozen out. de is as
liked for his ''babyish manner, as II l5
called. and it is said he is making more
enemies every day by the manner IN
which he takes his recent defeat
ssWe will crush that fellow out ana pury
him. remarked one member angrily. .V1s
is trying to disrupt this club, but ne can
pof do ~