The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-06-12
REORGANIZATION
Republican Committee Read
It's Letters Saturday
Night.
ALL WERE FROM KIGKERS
HSo Of Course They Were
$ No Good-Talk of the
Members.

Judging from the remarks of the mem
bers of the Republican ORGANIZATION
Committee who attended the meeting
held Saturday evening in Lincoln Hail.
on Pavonla avenue little progress has
been made toward solidifying the badly
disrupted forces of the G. Q. P. An aw-
full blunder-one that put the committee
back at least a week in its work-Was
made by the committeeman. When the
plan to gather opinions was adopted the
committeeman We're instructed to seno III
lists of names of Republicans in their
precincts.
The names came in all right-about
three hundred of them. Letters were sent
to these persons. But imagine the horror
cf the members of the Organization Com
mittee upon opening the opinions TO
md that every one of the ninety answers
received was from a dissatisfied Repun-
licaa All of these had little kick COM
ing The mistake dawned upon the com
, mitteeinen. 1t was rectlfied by notlfylng
the members OF the County Committee
to send IN a list of Republicans who had
advice 10 give--not the aiekers-
The meeting, or conference, Saturday
night was productive of nothing out OF
the ordinary. a general discussion OF
the contents of the opinion" took
place, but no definite plan of action was
decided upon. Many of the letters con-
tanned vigorous kicks BY next Saturday
evening all the replies will have been
received, tabulated, and report Will
be ready for the committee. The result
will be made public, in order to give
Republicans on the outside an idea or
the labor the Committeeman have been
performing for the general welfare OF
the party.
AS the letters were read Commttsee-
men ave-sa to any change charged that
the writer was actuatad by pique in con-
demning Dickinson. Woolley and Guisto,
and the majority Of the writer's of let
ters were accused of either having
sought an appointment and failed or
having been active in endeavoring to
secure a place for some friend. A de-
eided effort was made 70 create the i'm
preston that all the dissatisfaction came
from defeated aspirants for political
honors.
At the conclusion of the star chamber
proceedings, Commissioner Robert Ur-
quhart was asked what he thought was
tine consensus of opinion.
THAT the committee is all right" re-
piled he.
When asked if he knew this to be true,
he replied
You'll have to wait until election day
to find out that. There was absolutely
nothing accomplished at the conference.
About ninety letters have been received,
and every one comes from a dissatisfied
person. A great many of them are per-
sons who were disappointed in the way
of jobs"
He went on to say that Republicans re-
fused to be whipped into line, and want
ed to run things on their own hook. He
added that the "scrappers" in the Ninth
ward, as he termed them, were response
BILE for the trouble In the party, they
having started the rumpus.
Chairman Aaron S. Baldwin would give
no information regarding the transactions
of the committee, and Chairman Edward
S. Fry of the Executive Committee, who
is assisting Mr.. Baldwin to compile the
letters, was also reticent.
Mr.. Edward Mitchell of the Ninth
ward, who has been instrumental in con-
Quoting the affairs of that ward in the
interests of the machine. with the as
sistance of Graham, Stubenvoll and
few others, also refused to give out any
information but referred the reporter t.
Mr.. Urquhart.
The committee is anxious that all wht
have not answered the letter should az
so at once, as the committee is desirou'
of being in position to complete tn
work before it, which cannot be dom
until all have been heard from.
Chairman Baldwin calls attention t
the necessity of sending In reply o.
returning the letters as a complete re
port will be demanded by the Count.
Committee. The committee will make ev
cry effort to make the report complete
Chairman Baldwin says that the reclpi
ents of the letters can help the commit
tee by sending in their replies IN TIM
for the meeting Of the Organization com
..4.-. roxt SATURDAY. eVening.-