The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-05-12
CHARGES SHEL. we'd
Appeals Committee Fails to
Hear Hoehl and Prit-
chard Cases.
WOOLLEY URGES ACTION
Tells Republican County Com
mittee Work Must Be
Done Next Year.

The final session of the Republican
County Committee was held last evening
with few startling results. The commit
tee will not meet again until September
To sum up the meeting, there was
nothing doing TO cause any heated ar
guments or warrant the calling of names
It was prosaic session, pure and sim
pie Four Guttenbergers, who believed
that the party would go to smash with
out their valuable advice and assistance,
handed in their designations because they
could have but one census enumerator,
when they believed that at least two ap-
pointments were their just quota. They
said that it was the only thing they
could do.
At the opening, Jacob Strauss, on behalf
of a committee from the Fifth Ward Re-
publican Committee of Hoboken, present
ed the County Committee with goid
framed portrait of the late Vice-PresldenI
of the United States, Garret A. Hobart
Mr.. Strauss delivered neat presentation
speech, and Chairman Woolley repIlea
with brief but appropriate address oil
acceptance on behalf of the committee.
On the back of the picture is the lnscrip-
ton. presented to the Hudson county
Republican Committee by the members OF
the Fifth Ward Committee of Hoboken-
Edward w. Beebe. President; Jacob Ga
bel, President; James Benson, Treas
urer; Jacob Stevens, Secretary; Leonard
Schroeder, William Dod, Albert Diehi-
mann. Alexander Sehoenfelder, ]. ID.
Won Driel and John J. Finn
The resignation of these four Gutten-
berg committeeman were then read
Henry ]. Gordan, Robert Haantz, g.
Smeath and Joseph Schultz.
Chairman Edward Fry. of the Executive
Committee. offered this resolution, which
was adopted
Resolved, That the Organization
Committee be and are hereby instruct
ed and empowered to prepare Tor ana
hold an enrolment and primary, as IN
their Judgment may seem proper. ~
the township of Gutenberg, tor tne
election of four members OF the County
Committee, to fill the vacancies created
by designations recently mace ano
this Gay accepted. Said enrollments
and primaries TO be held Wlthlh phe
next six weeks.
Chairman Woolley called attention TO
the fact that this was a great year Tor
the party and urged them TO earnest
actions He told them that he sincerely
hoped that they would return larger
majority IOT the CoH1iiiS AAOAhA1AS~7 ~3%----
was given to Mckinley and Hobart four
years ago.
Robert Carey reported the doings of the
League of Clubs reported fully in last
nights News The Executive Com
fnittee was instructed to cooperate with
the Executive Committee of the League of
Clubs to insure the success of the State
Convention on September 1s.
a 1QnQ Cneoch
on the necessity of organizing a Repub-
iican club that all classes of Republicans
could become members of, taking fling
at the Union League Club in the course
Of his remarks. He emphasized the ne
cessity of such action and asked the
County Committee to interest itself in the
movement.
Morgan Thomas of Bayonne said that 1t
was possible for the Democrats to or
ganize such clubs, bat the Republicans
never would stand for bossism, and would
Fly the COOP
Mr.. Louis Stubenvoll the self-appointed
leader of the Ninth ward, in beautiful
pratorical display, denied that he would
give the Democratic party his valuable
advice and assistance especially in TINS
great campaign, and said that all stories
regarding his doing the Topping act were
basely false.
The Appeals Committee failed to gather
enough members to settle several cases
that came up last Wednesday night, but
which were laid over. Hoehl versus
Tresouthwick and Pritchard versus Hen
derson, both went over until the fab.
Pritchard Gays Henderson is no citizen
and is ineligible to the County Committee,
and Hoehl charges Treaouthwick with
using fraudulent methods in securing his
election.