The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-01-19
Lafayette Republican As
ISOLATION Won't Ama1ga-
mate With the
Battery.
THEY CAN'T FORGET THE PAST
The Way in Which the Artillsr-
lists Despised Them When in
Power Still Remembered.

.'Will the two organizations amalga-
mater" asked a News reporter OF an
Independent Republican in Lafayette last
night, alluding to the efforts OF the Bat
terry people to entice the members OF the
Lafayette Republican Association within
its fold.
Mo The answer was emphatic. The
same question was put to a prominent
member of the association. .
Let the Battery fire away. It's making
all the noise just now"
That's all the answer the prominent
member of the association would vouch-
safe.
But the Battery is not firing just now"
modestly ventured the reporter IL, p
pears to be holding out an armistice.1
Masked battery The words were nail
mumbled, and he who mumbled them pro
ceeded with a friendly game OF whist
which had been interrupted.
The assembly room OF the ASSOCIATION
members. The prodigious efforts OF the
Battery to absorb the association seems
only TO have drawn the members closer
together, and try as one Will, he viii IaH
TO md the slightest indication of the Bat
tery's success. The members of the assoc
cia alton show no Indication whatever TO
discuss the matter. They CONSIDER II d
question beyond discussion, one that has
been settled, so far as they are concerned,
long ago. They appear to be absolutely
independent, and apparently at least rev,
if any, of them care a snap Tor once OF
the Battery's adverse opinion.
A lone policeman on his beat was asked
if he had seen any evidence OF a rusn az, o.
Don't know anything about IT, ne an
swered, except what / hear II that's
any indication it will be a pretty cold Gay
in some future January when the rush IS
made.
s9What do you hear about it?"
Nothing except that they won't JOIN
hands. Il hear that everywhere"
"How can you expect the association to
be scooped in by the gang IN control 81
the Battery's affair?' volunteered a cltl-
some time. I'm a great lover of fair play.
All the association has asked for. as IN
derstand it, is a fair representation in the
County Committee, and in the control OF
the party's district affairs, and the rights
of all Republican voters. This the Bat
terry, which represents the machine, has
which caused the split. When the Repub-
licans were temporarily in power the Bat
terry people fairly rubbed it in ON the
association members. The association is
composed of men mainly who are not like
iy to forget such treatment. Besides, 1t IS
composed of men who will not be led by
any gang. Now that the gang is out they
turn with piteous appeals and supplica-
ton for assistance at the hands of those
whom they in the hour of triumph des-
pissed, scourged and otherwise treated
with contempt.
.sNot much. / shall be very much mis-
taken if am-alganation takes place. One
of the principal contentious, / understand,
is about the holding of primaries. The as
sociation has many member who live
some distance from the heart of the Sixth
ward. They are men who do not fall
over themselves in efforts to obey a po-
litical boss mandate. They want primar-
les held in. their own precinct. This the
Battery politicians are afraid to allow.
They want a joint primary of the pre-
cincts held down near their headquarters"
1t has not been given out yet what ac-
ton was taken on the typewriter invi-
tation of the Battery to the association
to attend it's recent "housewarming,' but
the general impression CLEANED is that it
at least Etboiled no water"