The Newark journal., 1902-08-15

What amount MT. Gray has re- ceived 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 undeserved and uncalled for humiliation on one of the county's banner democratic townships, is at 1 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- pendence 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 po- litical funeral of the entire gang.
 That this clique has managed to secure the control and cooperation of certain members of the central committee is 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 staunch democratic townships, they have stood firm and have eXerted every honorable influence to settle the question in dispute in satisfactorily manner. They have, with one accord, fav- ored and fought for a new primary to settle the nomination of the dis putant nominees, but the friends of Mr. Matheny, especially this Gray-headed clique organized in Barren and other populist-republi- can townships, have fought the proposition for new primary with q zeal born of desperation. Their one hope and chief aim has been to perpetrate fraud of some kind, prevent a new primary to uncover it and then lay the blame off onto Big Bottom township.
 They want to make Big Bottom the scape-goat, create prejudice | against Big Bottom and then ride into office on the effect of that prejudice.
 One of the best evidences of the fact that Mir. Matheny's claim to the nomination is doubted, even in his own home and by 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 friend to Mir. Matheny and probably would liked to have seen MT. Matheny receive the nomination, voted at the re- cent meeting of the committee for motion to hold a new primary between the disputant candidates, thus showing that he does not be- lieye Matheny is at present entitl- ed to the nomination.
 It is an evident fact that Mir. Neill does not believe the judges and clerks of Big Bottom town ship were a set of theives, and it is evidently his beleif that Matheny is not honestly entitled to the nomination, else he would not have voted for new primary between Matheny and Arnold
 Mir. Neill is representative cit iaen of his township, he undoubt edly knows the sentiment of the democracy of his township, there fore, in the light of reason and common sense, how can Mir. Ma theny expect to receive the sup port of the right thinking demo crats of the county when, by his vote, the committeeman from his own township has gone on record