The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-04-11
TOLD The MINK III LIED,
Republican Fight in the Seventh
Ward Gets Down to
Calling Names

The mass meeting held under the
auspices of the Seventh Ward Republican
Association, Saturday evening, was any
thing but enthusiastic. In fact, the meet
ing was a decided frost. The hall was
about filled and those present were most
ly from the Greenville Republican
League Club. To cap it all, there was
a conflict between one of the Leaguers
and a number of the 'sMinks.' The
doors of Belvedere Hall, where the meet
ing was held, were opened about half
past seven. BY eight O'Clock almost
every member of the League Club was
seated in the hall waiting for the meeting
to open. There was scarcely a member
of the Minkakwa Club present, and the
Leaguers began to smell a rat. Mr.. John
Geraghty. a member of the League Club.
and the one man who has really kept
the rival clubs so close together during
the recent trouble, went down stairs
where the .sMinks'' were gathered and
~endeavored to get them to go up to the
meeting.
Mr.. G~eraghty approached Mr.. Merker,
who is president Of the Minkakwa Club.
and asked him to nave the members of
his club go up to the meeting as the at
tendanc was very slim. Mr.. Merker re-
piled in a sneering way hat he had un-
derstood that the League Club could fill
the hall without the assistance of the
..Minks.'' Mr.. Geraghty was surprised at
this remark from the president of the
Minkakwa Club.
Geraghty replied that if he was going
to take it in that way, why, Of course, it
was all right. Nj. Geraghty then went
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Charles, what his father had said. The
son went down stairs. where his father
was standing, and asked him if what he
had heard was true. The president of
the Minkakwa Club denied having said
any such thing. Charles Merker then
went upstairs and told Mr.. Geraghty that
his father had denied making the state
ment.
Mr.. Geraghty and Charles Merker came
down stairs again and confronted the
Mink's president. Again he denied hay-
ing made any such statement, where
upon Mr.. Geraghty called him a liar.
Nothing more was said by either of the
men. Many of the Minks failed to attend
the meeting, although they stayed in the
hall below during the whole time the
meeting was on. The above remark made
by the Minks' president only goes to
demonstrate what The News" has stat
ed for some time, that the Minks are
going to "get square as the member
call it, for the League is cutting Edward
Schultze, who ran for Alderman some
time ago and was beaten. The Leaguers
deny cutting Mr.. Schultze. the Minks'
candidate, but the members of the
Minkakwa Club think different.
A member of the League Club said,
yesterday, hat it was very plain hat the
Minks were going to slash the ward
ticket to pieces and especially Henry
Petty, the Leaguers' candidate for Justice
of the Peace. The Minks will not talk
on the matter, but the knowing ones
wink their eyes when the subject is mem
TONED. OF the meeting little can be said
save that it was a very tame affair and
the frost was SO thick that many drew
their overcoats tight around their bodies
for fear of catching cold. Speeches were
made by Robert Carey, Isaac Goldenhorn,
John Weastell and William Speer.