The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-10-20

JACK GRAHAM REWARDED.
For His Dirty Work He Is
Named for Preeholder
in the Ninth Ward.
BETTER ELEMENT REPUDIATES HIM.
Ten Delegates Refuse to Make
the Nomination Unani-
Sub Boss Ely
Mad.
BETTER ELEMENT REPUDIATES HIM.

The Republican delegates Of the Ninth
Ward, in convention assembled last night.
| nominated Captain Jack Graham as
their candidate for FreeholGer TO run
against former Alderman Frank NJ.
Scott The convention, which was held.
| in the rooms OF the Bergen Republican
Club, was one TO be long remembered.
The bosses controlled the convention. and
ran things their own way. The. delegates
who were in the minosity were not con-
sidered in any of the rulings Of the chair
man. When they demanded a fair count
of votes on motion to have asreeess they
were siIenced, and by an arbitrary ruling
the Organization delegates were given
an opportunity to caucus and arrange
their little differences SO Chart when they
returned to the convention they were
solid for Graham. George Hayward, who
made the motion for a recess, was heard
to remark to ED. y Mitchell after the
| convention
IF we hadn't gone into that room
when we did we never would have won.
1t was generally conceded that had 4
fair vote been taken on the motion to
take a recess that it would have been lost
as ait least one of Dickinson delegates
was wavering and was leaning strongly
toward the ten who stood solid for Mason
The 'anti-organization' men retaliated
by refusing to make the nomination. of
Graham unanimous.
A row occurred between John Landrine
! and William Ely while the voting on the
question OF making the nomination unani-
nous was in progress. The convention
Tnl,,
Pringle presided He WAS evidently act
/ ing under Instructions direct from Boss
Dickinson. His methods proved il Frank
Higgins, one OF Dickinson's chief hench-
men, was on hand TO see that things
We're run all right for the machine
John Landrine as chairman cf the
Ninth Ward Association, called the CON
venIion to order. Lewis SteubenVoll CALI
ed the poll of delegate All We're pres
ent. The delegates were:-John z. Pfin-
gle, George o. Osborne George e. Shar
rot, Robert j. Taylor, William ). Miller,
Neilsworth X. Clynes, George Johnson,
Sr., Adna underhilI, George Haywood, Jr..
Garret Felter, Robert A. Atberts, Robert
Cook. Alaln Mclean. Harvey Coward,
Thomas Game. George Rowland. y. Nor.
gan Jones, John Monncey and Edward y
| Dixon
The first eleven were elected on the cor
ganizationn ticket. The other ten stood
solid against anything that savored OF
DickinsoiAism Nominations for permar
nent chairman were next called for. Rob
ert ]. Taylor nominated John 7. Pringle,
and John Mooney nominated Allan Nc
Lean. The vote stood 10 10 for Pringle.
Neither of the candidate voted. Pringle
was declared elected. The Dickinson dele
gates permitted the election Of Robert A.
Alberts as secretary. On taking the chair
Mr. Pringle said =
Il take this opportunity to say that 7
convinced
nominee of this convention may be he
will receive the hearty support of all the
Republicans in this ward and throughout
the city. We may have our differences
at the primaries, and we may be against
each other in Our anti-election fights, but
when il comes to the question of electing
Whether one of the four gentlemen who
are candidates or some one not yet named
gets the nomination / feel sure that we
will all unite in giving him our hearty
support
There was an ominous silence on the
part of the 'anti-ring' crowd as
Johnny made his little speech He fail
ed TO take warning from it, as was pre-
sently shown. Pringle next called for
Freeholder by precincts. George O. Os-
borne, OF the First precinct nominated
Robert J. Taylor. Of the First precinct,
nominated Captain Jack Graham. He
said
1T gives me great pleasure to place in
lIOutllldttOll d 1ildfi hilOWIi 10 You AL.
believe that 10 those who do the work
should come the reward. The man | am
about to name has done work that al
times some of us would not or could not
do. He has done it without any reward.
The party | Will name has recaived Iittie
but promises, and promises are not nuen
III any party or any organization. be-
lieve that this gentleman will not only
bring out the full Republican vote, bat
viii receive the support of d number Of
young Democrats as well il he is noili-
mated. The man | desire TO name as
candidate for the nomination is Captain
Jack Graham "
the hall greeted the mention of Graham
name. Adna Underhill of the Second
precinct seconded the nomination OF John
II. Coyle. The Third, Fourth and Fifth
precincts We're for Charles S. Mason who
was placed in nomination by Robert A.
Alberts, of the Third Aprecinct. George
Haywood of the Sixth precinct. nom
mated William S. Barry The Seventh
precinct went for Mason.
Prinsle asked how the voting should be
done Allan Mclean moved that the dele
gates vote by secret ballot. The motion
was carried, and the chairman appointed
William j. Miller and Robert Cook. tel
lers. A few sheets Of paper We're secured
from the reporters and the delegates
were directed TO prepare their ballots
Louis Steubenyoll whispered to Pringle
John Landrine called him down for doing
SO. Keep ybur hands Oft. Louis. ne
said. Tor they win accuse us of interfer-
ing., The delegates were preparing their
ballots when FssngIe Interrupted them
and said that his attention had been cali
ed to the constitution Of the County Conn
mittee. which provides that in al nomi-
rating conventions the vote shall be by
Wards, Precincts or Districts, a chairman i}s
being appointed in each Ward, Precinct
or District, whose duty il shall be to an
nounce the vote of the delegates.
1t seems said Pringie. that we can
not have a secret ballot.
A vote by precincts was taken with the
result that Graham got votes; Coyle, z;
Barry 2, and Mason 10. The Third,
Fourth Fifth and Seventh precinct dele
gate were solid for Mason. The First
precinct gave four votes for Graham and
he got two from the Second precinct. and
one from the Sixth precinct. The Sixth
gave two for Barry and the Second two
for Coyle On the second ballot the Sixth
precinct delegation dropped Barry and
gave one of his votes to Graham and the
other to Coyle, making the result
Mason, 10: Coyle g. and Graham, s.
After the second ballot George Hay
wood made motion that a recess be de-
cfared for five minutes or subject 70 the
call of the chair, to give the delegates
an opportunity to confer together Prlngie
called for "a yes and mays on the motion.
There were few responses. Robert ..
Alberts called for division Of the vote
Pringle refused to recognize his demand Of
listen to the elamoring Of the HAnf i-Ifng
delegates for the division fIe. declared
the motion carried despite 1.-THE protests
I9l=, elrven y;Ff&aAization delegates
Ef@Eed Iii d back room. Adna Under
zhflb who was 1qr Soyle WIS 5las o9ly 91s'.