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LENTZ DIFFERS.
The Major Doe esn't Like
Murphy's Choice Of
Congressman.
Especial to "The Jersey city News."l

Especial to 1.-THE Jersey City News
NEWARK, June o, 1960.-Other Republi-
cans of the district do not take the same
view of the situation as Chairman Muir
ply of the State Committee, who has
come out strong for Wayne Parker. The
fact that Major Carl Lentz has taken a
hand in the fight and is making personal
matter of it has made many of the work
er sof the party incline toward any man
who is not backed by the Major.
"Major Lentz mas been sending for men
who are supposed to have more or less in
fuence in their election districts or
wards, and putting them on the rack in
the effort to accomplish the turn down
of John S. Gibson" said a Republican
worker. "He has undertaken several big
| contracts for the next campaign, and he
| is losing no opportunity to make capital.
| 1t is well known fact that the chair
man of the Essex County Republican
Committee has set out to secure a re-
nomination for Congressman Parker and
to defeat former Comptroller Gibson In
addition to the proposition to beat Glib
son the Major has also planned to de-
feat Register John P. Dexheimer for the
nomination for that Office next fall and
| to get for Assemblyman John W. Wese-
man the nomination for County Super
| visor, under the law enacted in the last
session of the Legislature.
| The three contracts thus ia mentioned
as on the majors schedule will, it is fig
ured, keep him busy for a time. The
| friends of Gibson and Dexheimer have not
| as yet effected coalition, but it is on the
cards that such combination will be
formed shortly, with such help as can be
obtained from other men whose political
| slaughter has been decreed by the major.
| Among the men who are on the Majors s
slate for political decapitation are Assem-
| blyman William Mungle and j. Harry
! Bachelor who, according to the state
ments of the Majors lieutenants, must
| be beaten at any and all times for their
contumacy in refusing to handle his pet
| bill in the last session, the measure in
! tended to wipe out the spring elections.
All kinds of arguments were used on Mr..
Bachelor to induce him to take hold of
/ the bill, but he resolutely refused to do so,
/ because he did not believe that the people
of Newark wanted it, The fight against
Mr.. Mungle is of older growth, but is if
anything, even more bitter than that
! against his younger colleague.
| All these influences viii be arrayed
against the Major in the coming fight.
in addition to the battle that will be waged
by the people who are supporting John
P. Dexheimer and John S. Gibson, for the
nominations for Register and Congress
man, respectively.
Mr.. Gibson declined to discuss the state
ment of Chairman Murphy in any way,
but there was a knowing smile on his ia .
| ~ rao5 +,o ,,,,1,lie1,a,4
81 am candidate for the nomination of
Congressman from this district entirely
on my merits" said Mr.. Gibson. 1
think I can say, without appearance of
being egotistical, that can safely go be-
| fore the people in that way. I have made
study of the conditions of this great dis
trict, great because of it's vast manufac-
turing interests and because of its large
and growing population and I believe that
! if elected I could represent the people of
the district in manner that would salts
| fly all. No, will not talk about the situa-
| tion just now, except to say that am a
| candidate for this position and that I am
| in the race to stay
| 'sMr Murphy's statement is, to say the
| least, premature" said Republican poll
tician in discussing the position taken by
| the chairman of the State Committee
'It does not seem to me to be the proper
thing for man so prominent in State
| politics to be trying to influence opinion
at this stage of the fight. Nor do l think
| it is at all becoming for Major Lentz,
as chairman of the County Committee,
| to be sending for members of that body
and telling them that if they are not
with him in this fight they must be
against him, and that they will have to
stand the consequences, which may mean
any old thing from the loss of their po-
sitions to the utter ruin of their Political
prospects. The function of the chairman
of the County Committee is to elect the
nominees of his party, and not to make
nominations"
Republicans generally resent the Majors
action in making a personal matter of the
| fight against Gibson and Dexheimer The
Majors advocacy of Asaemblyman Wese-
man for the position of County Supervisor
has aroused a considerable amount of op-
position and has served to strengthen the
cause of the former Comptroller and the
present Register.
This IS the Majors last fight" said q
Republican politician and office-holder.
'rHe is stalking his power on the fights
against Gibson and Dexheimer and the re-
suit will practically determine whether or
publican politics hereabouts."