The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-07-30
UNIONS FEUD
Voorhees, Fowler and Kean
Factions Of Republic
cans Still at 1t.
GOVERNORS MASYERSTROKE
He Gives His Faction Con.
troll of the Election
Officers.
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ELIZABETH, July 80, 19O1.-Union
County Republicans are aroused by what
promises to be the liveliest kind of
rumpus over the appointment by Goyisr-
nor Voorhees, OF Henry G. Carr as a
Republican member of the County Board
of Elections. Carr is an adherent of the
Voorhees, Fowler faction and was not the
choice of the county organization which
is headed by Hamilton F. Kean, brother
of the United States Senator.
Carr is believed to have received his
commission, but his actual status is still
somewhat in doubt. So bitter is the feel
ing between the Kean and the Voorhees,
Fowler wings of the party in Union, how
ever that Hamilton f. Kean has retained
Richard ". Lindabury to make "a legal
fight against the Governor to nullify
Carr's appointment Mr.. Lindabury, 1t
is said, is only awaiting definite informa-
tion as to whether the official commits
sion has been made to Carr before he
begins proceedings.
The Union County Republican Execu-
tive Committee, which is in sympathy
with Senator Kean and his brother
unanimously recommended the appoint
ment of c. Addison Swift, q lawyer
who is an ardent worker in the Kean
ranks. Swift was turned down by the
Governor, and, while the Kean forces are
vowing vengeance, the other side is calm
ly laughing in its sleeve and telling with
more less gusto that the Keanites are
simply being dosed with some of their
own medicine.
of Z.
explain that when John D. Barr was the
unanimous choice of the City Central
Committee for postmaster of Elizabeth he
was turned down simply because he was
allied with the Voorhees-Fowler wing,
ana Palmer H. Charlock was given the
job through Senator Keans influence
In the postmastership fight the beaten
side accepted the result simply because
there was nc other way out of it, but in
the County Board of Elections matter the
ISeans are not inclined to give in to de
feat without a struggle. That they are
fighters when aroused has been demon
strated ere this, and that they are thor
oughly aroused over the Governors re-
cent action is beyond question
The situation is a little peculiar in eAat
it is said to be the first time Cover
ror's stppoiirtntent OF member OF a
County Board of Elections has beer called
into question. The election law, revision
of $685. in providing for county boards,
stipulates that they shall be composed of
four members, two each from the political
parties casting the largest and next larg-
est number of votes. AS to the method of
appointment the act says
ssThe chairman of the State Committee
of each of the two political parties .
may, in the month Of June, in writing,
nominate two members of his own party
in each county, qualified as aforesaid. for
members of the County Board of Elec-
tions in and for such county; and if such
nominations be made in said month of
June the Governor shall appoint such
nominees. ~
Since County Boards of Elections were
established it has been the unwritten law
that the chairmen of the respective coun-
ty committees shall forward the names
of the candidates they want appointed
to the State chairman, and the latter
sends in the list, so made up, to the
Governor. The Union County organiZa-
ton declared for Swift, and Hamilton F.
Kean, as chairman, submitted Swift's
name to State Chairman Murphy. The
nomination to the Executive, and the lat
ter turned it down.
Governor Voorhees, withheld the Union
County appointment for some days, but
it is said that he notified Chairman Kean
one day last week that he had decided to
appoint Carr. Mr.. Kean lost little time
in engaging Mr.. Lindabury to make
fight, and, though the Union chairman
was advised to let the mater drop rather
than stir up muss in the party, he
would not be swerved from his purpose to
displace Carr If possible.
If Mr.. Murphy nominated Swift, as it
is believed he did, and if the nomination
was sent to the Governor in June, as it
is believed it was, and as the statute pro-
vides, then. ask the Kean faction, how
could the Executive escape the statutory
mandate that 'the Governor shall ap-
point such nominees AT all events the
Keans are said to be determined to carry
their fight into the courts. cost what it
may. to test the validity of the Cover
nor's action.
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