The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-13

REORGANIZATION
Alleged Harmony Now Ex-
lists Among Seventh
Ward Republicans.
SOME ONE TO EAT CROW
No Details of the Sacrifice of
Either Club Given to the
Committee.

Alleged harmony at last exists among
the Republicans of the Seventh WARD
Committees from the U. S. Grant Asso-
citation and the Seventh Ward Republican
Club met last night and, according to re-
ports. settled all differences. The SUD
COMMITTEES of the Reorganization Com
nnittee had been requested to meet at the
Grant club house last evening in an at
tempt to settle the differences between
the two warning organizations.
Five of the eight members were pres
ent. Their services were not needed, how
ever, as the Grant committee reported
that all differences had been settled and
that the members of the Seventh Ward
Republican Club will march to the Grant
club house next Tuesday evening ana
again become members Of the u $. Grant
Association None of the members OF the
Seventh Ward Republican Club were at
the Grant club house last night and the
terms of the agreement could not be
learned.
The only information that the Grant
committee would volunteer was that all
differences had been harmoniously settled.
The Reorganization Investigating Conn
mittee received this vague report and
seemed highly pleased to have the matter
settled.
It appears strange that the investiga-
ting committee should receive the report
of the Grant committee and act upon it
without receiving details. The facts pre-
serted In the case would appear to show
that the Republicans desired harmony
even at the sacrifice of principle of one OF
the organizations
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Wcolley. Morgan Thomas, B. ". DEM
Arrest, James j. Kennedy and Winfield
Dunn were the members of the Reorgani-
zatlon Committee present. Mr.. William
Reed President Of the y. S. Grant Club,
acted as spok and delivered the re-
port to the committee. Mr.. Reed said
that all differences had been settled har-
morsiously, and he hoped that the Seventh
Ward Republicans would never again
have occasion to require the service of
an investigating committee. Mr.. Reed
seemed jubilant because of the harmon
ious-esading He did not state the saeri-
.hce by whl$h it had been attained
Mr. Morgan Thomas, as chairman of the
Investigating Committee, said that it gave
him great pleasure to witness the amicable
settlement of the controversy He hoped
that the lesson would prove beneficial to
the various dissatisfied Republicans
throughout the county.
Mr. Edward Fay, chairman of the Exc
cutive Committee of the County Commit
tee, who is mainly responsible for the
settlement, made short address, ex-
horting all Republicans to work together
in the interest of the party.
In short address, Mr.. e. w. Woolley
chairman of the Republican County Com
mittee, said that the object of the In
vestigating Committee was not to issue
Instructions to the various organizations
throughout the county, but to work in
perfect harmony with the ward associa-
tions, and, as a third party in the disa-
greements, endeavor to assist in settling
the differences to the satisfaction Of all
concerned. A speech in the same strain
was made by w. B. Demarest. The MEM
bers of the Grant Association and the
subcommittee threw bouquets at each
other for the mastery settlement of the
affair.
The committee adjourned to meet at
Lafayette Hall, No. 100 Palisade avenue,
West Hoboken. The Republicans in that
section are at war and the committee will
make an effort to harmonic matters.
The committee has plenty of work on
hand as there are any number of factional
fights all over the county.
The bitter feeling between the Seventh
Ward and Grant Clubs was over William
Burns and John McManus, active mem
bers of the new club who were called
traitors by Henry Smith of the Grant
Club The accused men were tried and
convicted by an alleged impartial COM
mittee and expelled from the Grant Club.
1t would appear that if Burns and Nc
AIanus are again reinstated the Grant
Club will be compelled to devour an entire
large and unappetizIng dish of crow.
The members of the Ward Association
agreed to meet at the Grant Clubhouse
last night. but William Reed was the only
one who put in an appearance.