The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-12-04
.BAYONNE'S HEBREW VOTE.
Republican City Committee
Relegates Harmony to
the Background.

After holding two or three meetings OF
a peaceable nature The Bayonne repuo-
rcan city Committee had another MONKEY
and parrot time on Saturday evening. AZ
Artist Killing calls it. Harmony with
large H." was relegated to the back
ground. and the factions clashed as Oh
yore.
Last fall the Enrolment Board OF tne
First precinct of the Second ward refused
to enroll about thirty applicants, most Oh
whom were Hebrews They, however, en-
rolled double the number of votes cast
FOR the Republican candidate for Recorder
a. the ApriI election. A protest was maos
nv Justice of the Peace Solinsky, VINO
presented the refused names.
solinsky,s protest was referred TO the
Appeals Committee, which presented 10
ranort at the meeting. In the report lns
E,nrolI,nent Board was severely censured
for carelessly conducting business IN ieaV7
ing the enrolment place and sitting on tH7
front stoop and allowing one OF the mem
bers to be absent during part Oh the
time the Board was in session. Inc re-
mort also recommended the enrolment OF
the rejected names.
Committeeman Freeburn, Ten BroecK
and Thorpe objected to the adoption OF the
renort The former declared that the ap-
Mica nts for enrolment were not Repupil-
cans as every one of them had voted Tor
Hvnan Lazarus, the Democratic nominee
for Recorder.
Committeeman John ]. Bechtold and Z.
]. Roake insisted that the HEBREW WE
was Republican, especially on Natiohai
issues and that it would be PAD pones
to estrange it, That the vote Went y
Lazarus in April was not denied, put tnat
was for racial reasons. 1t was also oe-
clared that the Bayonne Democratic leao-
er Thomas Magner, had said to Sohnsky
''If the Republicans won't enron you
come over to US and we will
After considerable more wrangling the
report was adopted by large majority.
The committee also INDUCED in still
more fierce row over the decision OF HON.
Flayel MCGEE that Committeeman OSBORN,
who had moved from the Seventh to the
Third ward, had thereby lost his member
ship The committee had declared Os-
borne's place vacant and had recommend
ed the name of Charles L. King to fill the
vacancy. Osborne protested and the mat
ter was left to Mr.. MCGEE, with the above
result.
King is particularly obnoxious to the
Ten Broeck-Thorpe faction of the COM
mittee. He is a caricaturist of some abil-
ity and has used his talent to ridicule
members of the faction referred to-
Messrs. Ten Brock, Thorpe and others
tried to have Kings name withdrawn; a
half dozen motions to dispose of the mat
ter were offered in quick succession, but
Bechtold was too much for his opponents
and convinced them that Kings name
having been recommended by the COM
mittee to fill the vacancy it was the end
ing of the matter.
Committeeman Bogert helped to close
the fight by suggesting that king had
probably paid his dues and the money
had been accepted.
At the tail end of the MCGEE opinion
some one had tackled a resolution that,
at the election of members of the Coun-
ty Committee, to take place on Wednes-
day, one member be elected from each
precinct and the balance at large. This
provoked an emphatic and decisive ex-
preston from nearly every member
Committeeman Bechtold resented the
reception of the resolution, seeming to
take 1t as a personal matter ne comes
up for election on Wednesday and will
have strong opposition His opponents
said after adjournment, that the resolu-
tion emanated from him and was one of
his stock games to insure his election as
an "at large member.
Knives are being sharpened for the
scalps Of Chairman Morgan Thomas and
Committeeman Bechtold and Roake, and
hard fight, with probabilities of de-
feat stares them in the face.
Mr.. Bechtold says he is no quitter and
is in the fight until the finish. He also
says that he has been target for abuse
ever since he has been member of the
committee. He is member of the Coun-
ty Executive Committee also.