The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-05-11
SOLID FOR MURPHY
Hudson Machine Repub-
licans Instructed to
Vote for State
Chairman.
INDEPENDENTS FOR GRUBB
Meeting of County Committee
Last Night Was a
Tame Affair.

The meeting last evening of the County
Republican Committee at Lincoln Hall
was very tame. The attendance was
small and very little business was trans
acted. Chairman Woolley presided. The
special committee appointed at the last
meeting to inquire into the Gutenberg
representation in the County Committee
reported progress. 1t will be remembered
that John Graham called the attention
of the committee to the fact that the
party made no fight at the last election
and that the opposing forces carried
things their own way. He wanted to
know at that time why there were no
committeeman in that township to pre-
pare the ticket to be voted for at the last
spring election. This committee, headed
by Edward T. Mitchell. who is chairman
of the Organization Committee invesu-
gated and held one meeting. 1t is prob
able that there will be no committeeman
from Gutenberg until the fall, when a
special primary may be held. This, how
ever, is at the discretion of this commit
tee There are four men who are entitled
to places on the committee from that
township.
Graham, who started the ball rolling a
month ago, also spouted bit last night
on the same matter.
The routine business was rushed through
very quickly. The City Committee, with
Edward Fry as chairman, met imme-
diately after the adjournment of the
County Committee ana discussed plans
for the fall campaign. 1t was decided to
meet at the call of the chair in August.
when matters pertaining to the primaries
for the selection of delegates to the State
Convention will be arranged.
From what could be learned the dele
gates from Hudson county who will be
controlled by the machine will go to
Trenton solid for Franklin Murphy as the
Gubernatorial candidate. The anti-ring
men of Hudson county say that some
Hudson delegates will not go to Trenton
favoring Murphy's nomination. These
people have E. Burd Grubb in mind as a
candidate.
There will be no meeting of the County
Committee until next September, when
the fall work viii be outlined and as Mr..
Woolley puts it. "a vigorous campaign
will be prosecuted
The committee, consisting of Charle
Eichhern of West Hoboken, William
Armbruster of Union Hill and Henry
Frank, Jr, of Weehawken, with Chair
man. Edward T. Mitchell of the Organiza-
tion Committee, recently appointed to
make arrangements for filing the Gut
tenberg vacancies, reported that one meet
ing had been held and another arranged
for next week, when the probability
was that the four vacancies in that town 5
representation wiuld be filled.
A communication from the recently or
ganized Samuel D. Dickinson Association
enclosed number of blanks for applica-
tions for membership and notified the
members that the next meeting would be
held at the club house on May %.
The different ward committees were
notified to have their selections for elec--
tion officers in the hands of Martin
Finck, chairman of the Election Commit
tee, not later than July l.
Attention was called to a mistake on
the printed list of officers of the COM
mittee, in which it was made to appear
that Frank H. Melville was second vice
president and member of the Executive
Committee. The Bayonne member who
holds that dual honor is ex-Freeholder
Edwin Cadmus.