The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-12-01
such HARMONY !.
Ninth Ward Republican As
sociation's Little Scheme
Revealed.
RING PRIMARY FIXED
All the Precincts Must Com
bine to Choose Commit
teeman.

Last nights session of the Ninth Ward
Republican Association showed up the
ring in great shape A beautiful under
handed scheme was worked on the anti
ring members of the association. 1t was
so plainly worked that it's legality was
questioned.
The Ward Association composed of the
members of the County Committee and
numerous ward men elected also ats the
primaries, is usually looked upon as the
supreme body of the ward. Last nights
meeting proved that such was not the
case in the Ninth ward and that the mem
bers were no more than puppets in the
hands of the leaders.
Owing to the failure of the leaders to
call meeting of the Ward Association
sooner, the anti-ring men assembled early
in the week and demanded a meeting to
consider next weeks primaries. The meet
ing was held last night and numerous ex-
plantations were offered by the ring men
for their negligence in not calling a ses-
sion much earlier. One reason was that
they forgot
1t was evident from the start that the
anti-ring members had but slim chance
of carrying out their prearranged busi-
ness. There were twenty-one members
present. Mr. William F. Ely presided.
A motion was put, asking the associa-
tion to endorse the actions of the County
Executive Committee, which committee
had kindly and for the benefit of the rng
fixed the plans for joint primary to be
held in Phillips's Hall. When the anti
regulars heard this they opened up for all
they were worth.
Mr.. John P. Landrine was particularly
plain in his denunciation of this piece of
work. He declared that the ward asso-
citation was to be considered such in name
only when the Executive Committee could
arrange and complete all the work for
them. He said that the work of pre-
pairing for primaries and all other ward
business should be transacted by the as
ISOLATION which was organized for that
purpose Mr.. Landrine stated that never
in the history of the ward had such a
mean piece of business been palmed off
on the anti-ring men.
Several others spoke harshly of the
game. They declared it should be con-
tested. One of the members was simply
frantic over the scheme. He said that
the ring men knew that the decent peo-
| pie of the ward wanted clean politics and
that in allowing the Executive Commit
tee to do the work instead of the Ward
| Association, the ring men were simply
feathering their own nests.
A vote was taken ON the motion and
1t was carried by eleven to ten. An anti
ring man said that it would have made
no difference if the association had failed
to approve of the Executive Committee s
action. The prearranged plans would
have gone through just the same.
Mr.. Edward T. Mitchell, Jack Graham,
of the First precinct and Edward john
ston and William McComb of the Second
precinct were selected as election officers.
The First Precinct elects no committee
men this fall and the anti-ring men can
see no reason why that precinct should be
represented on the Board of Election
Officers. Twelve committeeman will be
elected Wednesday night. The anti-ring
| men have prepared no ticket as yet, but it
| is quite likely that even in the face of
such tremendous odds they will put up an
opposition ticket.
The anti-ring element is trying to figure
out by what authority the Executive
Committee arranged the ward matters.
Louis Stubenvoll the former chairman of
the Ward Association, gained many
| friends by his open remarks last evening.
He declared himself in favor of clean
primaries and said that he would stand
for no ballot box stuffing. He intimated
that any who dared to do crooked work,
would be likely to find themselves
answerable to the law.