The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-11-24
C. 0. P. HOPES.
All Kinds Of Legislation
Planned for Hudson
County.
THE REPUBLICAN COMMITTEE
Ring Candidates Will Proba-
bly, Be Reelected Who
Will Run.

: A long session of the Hudson County
Republican Executive Committee was
held last night in Lincoln Hail. Chairman
Edward Fry presided There was a
large turnout of ward and other leaders
to discuss party legislation and talk over
pet schemes for the "betterment'' of the
county and the community in general.
The primaries, to be held on December
5, throughout the county, for the election
of delegates to the County Committee,
was arranged. The call will be issued
next week, and the places of holding the
primaries will also be announced There
are few wards where scraps" are
scheduled over contests, and in these par
ticular wards the leaders will take good
care that joint primaries are held If the
situation looks dangerous to their inter-
ests.
Among the prominent committeeman
who are to seek reelection are:-
First ward, William H. Eaton and Will
lam H. Hooker; Second ward, Robert d.
Urquhart and George B. Harper; Third
ward, George N. Harding, Samuel D.
Dickinson and Emil E. Datz; Fourth
ward, w. H. Simmons and Harry H.
Holmes; Seventh ward, Edward Fry,
William ]. Charlock and Charles Merker;
Eighth ward, George w. Decker, George
w. Robertson, A. l.. Wilson and Joseph
A. Dear, Jr.; Ninth ward, Thomas D.
Mills, Flavel MCGEE, j. Herbert Potts,
W. G. Nelson, William F. Ely and Isaac
G. Sutterlein Tenth ward, George r.
Patterson and Charles w. Laws; Eleventh
m.
ward, Thomas McEwan.
Hoboken-Gregory Guisto and Jacob
Straus.
Bayonne-George S. Bogert, T. M. Ten
Brock and G. H. Cadmus.
North Bergen-Otto Wittnebert.
West Hoboken-B. w Demarest.
1t is safe to predict that the machine
will land all its candidates. having plan
ned joint primaries where there was any
doubt of the election of the machine
men.
A resolution was passed favoring the
appointment of legislative committee of
five to go to Trenton this winter and ad-
vocate various measures favorable to the
party. The abolition of spring elections
is looked upon as moral certainty All
the leaders are for it, and At is more than
likely that an Essex representative will
father the measure The committee
hopes to secure the passage of bill
calling for the closing of the polls at
five O'Clock and the adoption of the Aus
tralian ballot system. A nom partisan po-
lice bill for Jersey City is also among
the many little favors Hudson would like
from the Republican legislators. A meas
ure providing for the payment of chal-
lengers will probably be introduced The
county will, under the bill. stand the
ties. Chairman Woolley of the County
Committee spoke on these matters at
length and said it would be advisable to
secure all the legislation discussed at the
meeting. In fact the leaders seem to
regard the passage of the bills mentioned
above as certain. An excise commission is
also included in the batch of bills.
The legislative committee resolution will
be submitted to the County Committee
at the next meeting and the five mem
bers will then be selected. Messrs. Ed
ward w. Woolley, Joseph A. Dear, Jr.,
and Samuel d. Dickinson were appointed
a committee to audit all bills incurred in
the recent campaign.
The committee of 1900 goes out of busi-
ness after the session of December IA.
Many interesting matters will then be
brought up. The new committee con-
venes on January II, when officers will
be elected for 1900. The following is a
list of the present officers, who will prob
ably be reelected
Edward w. Woolley, president; Flavel
MCGEE, first vice president; Edwin Cad
mus, second vice president; Frank T.
Lockwood, secretary; Edward w. Martin,
assistant secretary; Michael Schultz, Jr.,
treasurer, and Albert Blake, sergeant-at-
arms.
These are the trustees and the dates
of the expiration of their terms:-
One year term, expires March, 1901-D.
j. Gibson and T. M. Coughlin of this city,
c. Eichhorn of West Hoboken.
Two, year term, expires March, 1902
John Mitchell, M. Schultz. Jr, F. w.
Angel.
Three year term, expires March, 1903
Jacob Diehl, P. F. Wanser and E. W.,
Woolley.
Four year term, expires March, 1904
F. H. Melville of Bayonne, j. ]. Guisto
of Hoboken, James Freeman Of Kearny
The heads of the various committees
will in all probability remain the same
for 1901, though some of the other mem
bers may be shifted about bit. Ed
ward Fry heads the Executive Commit
tee, Martin Finck the Elections Commit
tee, Frank J. Higgins the Appeals Com
mittee, John H. Weastell the Finance
Committee Edward T. Mitchell the Or
ganization Committee, William O. Arm
bruster the Patronage Committee, and
Joseph A. Dear, Jr., the Printing Com