The Newark journal., 1902-06-06
SOME PERTINENT FACTS.

nlucn lnueGeSbeu III the 9iug- rue tactics which developed at the re- cent meeting of the county central committee. There has been, for some time, systematic effort on the part of a certain clique, headed by one J. E. Gray, to fasten upon the democratic party of the county one of the worst frauds ever per petrated on an unsuspecting public.
 Mir. Gray has been a sworn enc my to honesty from the very mo- ment that it was found that some of his friends and kinsmen were defeated in the primary, and since that time he has left no stone un- turned in his endeayor to perpe- trate some kind of fraud. In fact, Fraud or bust" seems to have been his motto, and that he has lived up to 1t there is no plausible room for doubt.
 What amount Mir. Gray has re- ceiyed for his efforts in this direc- tion we are unable to say, but it is an evident fact that he has been well paid or that his retaining ca pacity for corruptness is unlimit- ed and this, coupled with a he'll born desire to disrupt the demo- cratic party in his endeavor to heap undeseryed and uncalled for humiliation on one of the county s banner democratic townships, is at the bottom of this affair
 The idea seems to prevail with this little clique that the control of the central committee means the control of the democratic party, and that the democracy of Inde- pendenee county is an organization of the clique, by the clique for the especial benefit of the clique and it's favored friends. However. some day the rank and file of the party may grow tired of this kind of domination and bring about a reaction that will result in the DO Iitical funeral of the entire gang.
 That this clique has managed to secure the control and cooperation of certain members of the central committee k no honor to them or their methods, and tends in no wise to eXonerate their proceed ings in this attempt to thWart the will of the party.
 Be 1t said, to the honor of the members of the committee who represent the s5aunch democratic townships, they have stood firm and have exerted every honorable influence to settle the question in dispute in a satisfactorily manner. They have, with one accord, fay ored and fought for new primary to settle the nomination of the dis pu5ant nominees, but the friends of Mir. Natheny, especially this Gray-headed clique organized in Barren and other populist-republi- can townships, have fought the proposition for a new primary with zeal born of desperation. Their one hope and chief aim has been to perpetrate fraud of some kind, prevent new primary to un- cover 1t and then lay the blame of onto Big Bottom township.
 They want to make Big Bottom the seape-goat, create a prejudice against Big Bottom and then ride into office on the effect of that prejudice.
 One of the best evidences of the fact that Mr. AIatheny's claim to che nomination is doubted, even in his own home and by 6 member of the canyassing board which made the recount of the primary re- turns from Big Bottom, is the fact that Hon. Ernest NeilI, central committeeman from Ruddel town ship, Matheny's home, and who has no doubt been a friend to MT. Matheny and probably would liked to have seen Mr. Matheny receive the nomination, voted at the re- nnnt nnatino of the eOmn1ittpn for