The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-09-27
HOT FIGHT
Chairman Nugentl Issues 9
1 Snap Order for Prim-
aries Tonight
! N PRIVATE HOUSES
Col. Price and Seymour's
Backers Protest Against
the Machinels
HINTS or COLONIZATION
Stories That New Workers
Have Been Imported
Given Credende.
HINTS OF COLONIZATION

NEWARK, Sept. q, 1s01.-With both the
Seymour and anti-Seymour factions fully
prepared to fight. lively times are expect
ed at the Democratic primaries in Essex
County tonight. The call for the pri-
maries tonight was very sudden. being
issued only yesterday
Great excitement prevailed this morning
when the list of polling places for to-
nights primaries was given out, and 1t
was discovered that many of the prim-
aries were to be held in private houses.
In the Fifth, Tenth and Twelfth Wards
more than one-third the polling places
are in private residences of machine
County Committeeman Colonel E. L.
Price and other Seymour men are about
town protesting vigorously against the
action of Chairman Nugent and the ma
chine.
Chairman James H. Nugent, of the
Democratic County Committee, has in
vaded the Seymour prefincts and
laced tickets in districts where there
are nothing but Seymour men, while
Colonel e. L. Price, Mayor Seymour S
right-hand man, has put tickets in pre-
cincts where the machine more than runs
things. Colonel Prices idea in invading
the territory of the machine is to worry
Nugent so as to keep him from med
ding in the precincts where Mayor Sey-
mour has the following
The bitterest contest, it is said, will be
wased in Colonel Prices own precinct,
the First Precinct of the Fifth Ward.
Chairman Nugent, it is said. has been
importing large number of New York
ers in the past week and has colonized
the entire precinct. The Colonel, who.
warned Nugent and {his machine men
that h il any trickery resorted to in any my
own, some heads be smashed.
Orders have be( ISSUED to the police
captains in all rts of the county to
have a sufficieI lumber of men at each
49lling place to arrest the first man
who starts II Aightest disturbance The
primaries to ght are expected to be the
most bitter contested ever held in the
county by ther Democrats or Republic
cans.
It is coD6mon talk that the Seymour
delegates, (even if elected, will be refused
credentiafs, as the members of the Gre
dentials /committee of the County Com
mittee Are all machine men and under the
thum1 of Chairman Nugent.
A<meeting of the delegates elected to-
zght will be held in Lyric Hall, Plane
street. tomorrow night, for the purpose
of adopting the unit rule. Both factious
are in favor of the rule, providing they
have the majority of delegates. The
minority, however, it is said, will oppose
the proposition to the bitter end, as the
Seymour men If they are outnumbered
will never consent to cast their votes with
the followers of Senator Smith. The anti~
Seymour men have been instructed by
Chairman Nugent not to vote with the
Seymour men. under penalty of political
DEATH.
Chairman Nugent laughs at the talk Of
foul. play on his part, but the Seymourites
say they know him too well and that he
is up to all kinds of tricks. They say
they will carry the fight into the conven-
ton and demand their rights IL Nugent
and the machine deny them in the County
Committee.