The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-08-14
TO FIGHT LENTz
G. 0. P. Opposition to the
Doughty Major Is to Be
Conducted Fairly.
PLANS FOR ORGANIZATION
Leaders Who Are Opposed to
One Man Power Talk
About the Battle.

Plans are being perfected to organize
the opposition to the one-man power of
Major Carl Lentz as tho supreme dicta-
tor of Republican politics, and the Major
will soon find himself face to face with
the hardest proposition that has yet con-
fronted him in his political career.
'1Had anything definite been done in
this matter 1 should of necessity, de-
cline to talk of it, was the answer re-
turned by William Riker, treasurer of the
State Republican Committee, yesterday.
"But as the matter now stands, 1 can
say that there have been mo definite steps
taken. That does not mean that such
steps will not be taken. There will be, if
1 understand the situation Alright, def
mite and determined opposition to auto
cracy and an organization to further the
cause of the people against one-man
domination. OF course, YOU will under
stand when 1 say that, am simply ex-
pressing the sentiments of people who
are actively interested in this matter.
would not presume to predict what shape
the organization will assume"
Other Republican leaders in this county
are less reticent than Mr.. Riker. They
boldly announce that plans are being
formulated for the organization of the
Lentz opposition on basis that is in
tended to bring about the discontinue of
the doughty Major.
Il see that the Major invites the oppo-
sition to get together and fight him." said
one of the men who is active in the prepar-
atoms for the coming contest. If the
fight was open, square and above board,
we would win hands down. But everybody
who has been in Republican politics
knows that the Major does not play fair,
and that he has trick of stacking the
cards deftly. We propose to fight the
Major fairly, and, if we win, we will have
the satisfaction of winning fairly and
honestly This is fight for the people,
and the people-the real people, mean,
not the men who bow to the will of Lentz
and claim to be the people-it is fight
for the people against the man and the
clique that assumes to say who shall and
who shall.not receive the Republican nom
nations.
Il am a firm believer in organization
and 1 am willing to admit that Lentz has
the knack of organization down to
science. But he has gone a little too far
and has driven from his support scores of
men who, several years ago, would have
gone through fire and water to serve him
in political way.
''The plan will be to organize all these
men into direct opposition to the tyrant
There will probably be one or two men
selected in each ward and township to
lead the fight and get the people in line
who believe that the choice of candidates
for places on the Republican ticket should
be left to the voters and not settled arbi-
trarily by the chairman of the County
Committee.
1.-THE people generally in this county, as
elsewhere throughout the country, are OPP
posed to the installation and domination
of a self-constituted Czar.
''But the people want leaders, someone
whom they know, and in whom they have
confidence, to direct their movements. The
plan of organization will probably include
the selection of such men in every sub
division of the county. And we will win.
too despite the Majors stacked cards.
The leaders in the opposition to Lentz
are busy with another phase of the case
Just now, in the attitude of certain In
fiuentia1 men, who are opposed to Lentz,
but who, for obvious reasons are we'll
disposed toward Congressman Parker.
whom the Major has decreed must re-
ceive denominations for member of Con-
gress from this district. These men hav-