Perth Amboy evening news., 1906-05-21
Edwin S. Quin Announces That He
Is a Candidate for Mayor In Op-
position to Joseph A. Herman.
FOR A BIC VOTE
Quin Explains His Action in the
AssessOrship Fight and Asks
the People to Support Him.
Chrome Citizens Have
Demands.
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Special to the EVENING NEWS:
ROOSEVELT, May 21-Politics
is becoming more strenuous here and
with election on tomorrow exciting
times are anticipated The much
talked of harmony was broken up to-
day, when Edwin S. Quin came out
with the following statement and ad-
dressed the following TO the citizens
of Roosevelt:
Address to Citizens.
81 respectfully announce myself as
a candidate for mayor of the borough
of Roosevelt.
My candidacy is a protest against
boss rule and political treachery. If
elected l will give every man a square
deal of political faith and | pledge
myself not to enter into any contracts
for the borough that will result in
personal gain.
II further pledge to be a peoples
mayor, not to be controlled by cor
poration and realty company inter
ests but to protect the small holders
as well as the large.
In justice to myself I wish to
make the following explanation of
my recent position in regard to the
assessorship. -sa-7~rsi'ss
81 did not know that Mr.. Brady
was a candidate for assessor until
his name was presented to the con-
vention. No one there was more sur
prised than myself, but my withdraw
al at that last moment would have
put me in bad faith with my sup
porters. Otherwise | never would
have consented to run against Mr..
Brady. A number of business men
and property owners had urged me to
run for assessor and l had promised
them to stand for that Office unless
defeated at the citizens convention
EDWIN S. QUIN."
Excitement is running high and a
big vote is bound to be polled. Mr..
Quin was first slated for assessor.
Having lost that he has gone direct
at the head of the ticket and will put
up a stiff fight for mayor
Meeting Held Saturday.
The first inkling of this movement
was made Saturday night, when a
meeting was held in Canda Hall,
when the citizens of the Chrome sec
tion of the new borough protested
against the choice of the citizen ,
meeting.
Saturday morning there appeared
on the streets a circular signed by
Jacob Steinberg, one of the candi-
dates for council turned down at
Thursday nights meeting, held on
the hill, calling on the citizens of
Chrome to meet at Canda hall in the
evening, to protest against the action
of the citizens meeting, when five
out of the six councilmanic candi-
dates nominated were selected from
the hill, or Carteret, end of the bor-
ough "We want equal representa-
tion,' said Mr. Steinberg, in opening
the meeting. Il do not think it is fair
that we should consent to let this
matter pass without taking some ac-
ton Personally | do not desire to
run, but believe that in justice to
ourselves we should either select two
men from Chrome and put another
ticket in the field, or cry and induce
two of the five to withdraw from the
ticket nominated at Carteret, and put
our two men in their place"
After some discussion, in which
several took part, it was decided to
wait until the fall election.
The meeting was above to adjourn
when Mr. Edwin S. Quin, the defeat
ed candidate for assessor, announced
himself candidate for mayor in OPP
position to Joseph Herman. Mr..
Quin declared that he had been made
the victim of a conspiracy, that Mr..
Herman had promised to support
him, and afterward sought his defeat.
He explained that Mr.. Herman had