The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-12-07
RING GETS SIX IN NINTH.
But Among the Other Five
Is Johnny Ian
drine.

ward at last night $ ,RepuDllcaii " pima
but their opponents were not far DENIM
in the fight. capturing five Of the eleven
committeeman. In only one precinct was
there trouble of a serious nature ~
there were little tilts in every one OF iiie
five polling places
Tn the Fifth precinct the entire electloh
hoard were arrested when the poiis closeu.
Owing to the illegal form OF the Warrant
cantain McKaig refused to hold the men
en,,aro u,ara no names on the warrant
drawn up by Justice of the Peace weed.
Tho 1saner simply called for the arrest
~ Aha election board. The officers, acting
pnaer the advice Of Police Justice j. II.
ports. Marshal Van Wrinkle and VIM. n.
Harrison, refused to submit to arrest Until
the polling was ended.
This rumpus was caused In store al
the Boulevard and Stuyvesant avenue Dy
John Mailly. Mailly now resides IN the
seventh precinct, but he had been en-
rolled in the Fifth precinct. He asked
the election officers for a transfer TO the
Seventh precint which would entitle MIN
to vote. This was refused on the ground
that he was a nonresident of that pre-
cinct. He repeated his demand. It wal
refused a second time, while Flavel Nc
Gee Justice Potts, Louis Stubenvoll and
Marshall Van Wrinkle looked on. These
officers received their Instructions from
the Republicans standing about.
MaiIlv then hunted up Justice Weed,
swore out a warrant for the arrest of the
election board and retired to watch the
proceedings. Justice Weed swore IN
Thomas Seweu to serve the warrant
sewell appeared with the piece of paper
and no attention was paid to him
Justice Potts told the officers. J. W.
Booth. w. Cook and A. Craven. not TO
recognize the warrant, as it was irregu-
lar. Sewell could do nothing but stand
around with the paper in his hand At the
conclusion of the count the officers and
the leading Republicans went to the
Montgomery street station. Captain Nc
Kaig said he could not hold the men on
the warrant as no persons were specined
All were discharged
In this precinct, where Marshal Van
Wrinkle and w. r. Harrison. ring men,
ran against Allan Mclean and Isaac Ro-
maine, nearly dozen anti-ring men were
refused the right to vote, some on the
ground that they were not enrolled, others
because they were charged with being
traitors to the party, having voted the
opposition ticket on election day. One of
these was Abram Walton. Three times
he offered his ballot and each time no
notice was. taken Of him. The police were
instructed to put him out, but this they
would not do. The ring men won two 70
one.
In the First precinct. the machine won
hands down. Its men, Louis Stubenvoll,
Frank Higgins, John Pringle and Ed
ward Mitchell, received 126 votes to the
16 polled for the candidates put up by
the anti-ring people The defeated men
are Isaac P. Van Derbeek, John Row
land William Reed Robert A. Simpson.
This precinct is the stronghold of the
ring people. Fear of defeat caused them
to work like beavers to get out their
vote
The Third precinct stood by the anti
ring men, sending them to the County
Committee by vote Of 54 to s. Charles
s. Mason and Robert A. Alberts are the
anti-ring men and A. S. Perine and John
Pringle, Sr., the ring candidates.
The Fourth precinct was also carried
by the opposition forces after a hot fight.
The vote stood SS for George g. Row
land and F. A. Sofield, and 80 for John
H Coyle and Robert Livingston. The
Fifth precinct elected ring men. John
P Laadrine, who was prevented from
running in his own precinct, the Sixth,
by a trick of the ring in showing Jack"
Graham into that precinct when it really
should have been vacant was elected
overwhelmingly in the Seventh precinct
by a vote of 81 to is. Robert T. Burns
was his opponent. There was no dis
turbance in that precinct
The election OF five anti-ring committee
men is bitter pill for the ringsters. They
had hoped to elect at least eight of the
eleven. The real blow Is the power given
to Mr. Landrine by virtue of his election.
He goes back to the County Committee
and Ward Association. In the latter body
the ring controls by majority of sixteen
to eight. The anti-ring people have In
creased their forces by the addition Of
two committeeman and are now prepared
to fight harder than ever. Mr.. John p.
Landrine who is looked upon as the anti
ring leader, was pleased at the result.
The conceding of precinct primaries to
the anti-ring forces ended disastrously to
the ring men. This chance the anti-ring
element worked for nearly two years.