The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-13
HUDSON HARMONY
PEACE COMMITTEE M
BY REPUBLICANS.
fast Nights Gathering Called for Elec-
tion of New County Committee
at State Primaries.
Especial to the Evening star.l

JERSEY CITY, Aug. 1s.-Declaring
against one-man political power, for the
election of a new Hudson County commit
tee at the open State primaries on Sep
tember 10 and for the equal division by
Sheriff John C. Kaiser, county chairman,
Of the Republican election officers between
the two factions, 80 thai fair play at the
State primaries is assured, the harmony
committee of the Republican party last
night delegated to n subcommittee tho
task of locating the common ground on
which supporters Of Mark NJ. Pagan and
followers of Colonel s. ID. Dickinson may
meet and light shoulder 10 shoulder for
the party's candidate for Governor this
fall and the reelection of Mayor Fagan.
Mayor Pierre Garvin. Of Bayonne, who
was selected to preside. appointed as the
peace ambassadors Judge james S. Erwin,
Judge Frederick ]. Stuhr. Harry ]. Louder
bough. Herman Walker and William j..
David. Mayor Carving is eX-ofiicio a mem
Der of the committee. which will wait upon
the executive committee Of the Hudson
County Republican Committee at its regn-
lar monthly meeting at the Dickinson
Clubhouse tonight. A special meeting OF
the executive committee of the central Re-
publican committee will be called to meet
the committee.
What this peace committee learns will
be reported TO the general harmony COM
mittee next Monday night. The committee
will sound the machine men and the New
Idea men as TO what each demands as
the price Of peace. and 1t will lay before
the regulars tonight -he statement adopted
as the sense of the meeting. The gist of
this Is given above. 1t recites the present
disruption and what 1t means as affecting
the party's chances this fall, but 1t does
not go into the causes, the trainers pre-
ferring to have future harmony as the
topic of discussion rather than the liking
of blame.
Freedom of thought and liberty of ac-
ton is called for and the statement sig
nihcantly says:
I'm the first place. we maintain hat in
order to command the confidence of the
party voters the organization in the future
must be beyond the individual and arbi-
frary control Of any one man in this
party"
Seated in the banquet room on the second
floor OF Elks' Hall, with a long table run
ming down the centre of the room and
covered with a clean, white cloth, emblem
attic of peace, some fifty Republicans, rep
r%esenting both factions of the Republican
party and the neutrais, met last night In
open session. Several preliminary meetings
OF the leaders Of the harmony movement
had been held prior to last night, and the
ANCull VI 1ltlCct dtilOCialiOilo dPPCcA GU IA
the shape of a statement that was adopted
with only one dissenting vote that of
Judge stuhr. who Is a lieutenant of
Colonel S. d. Dickinson.
Herman Walker, of North Hudson, until
recently q Dickinson lieutenant. called
the meeting to order when 1t became APP
parent that probably because Of the warm
weather DO other Republicans would at
tend. He named Mayor Pierre Garvin, of
Bayonne, who is a member of the machine
committee, as chairman.
There Is an undercurrent of bitterness,
strife and f~aetional feeling" Judge Erwin
said. which is probably confined to Jer-
sey City. In talking with men of both
factions | find that there are certain radi-
cal differences which separate the sides
and when you get to the gist of these diff
ferences you strike two classes of men.
one composed of men who look at this
question from the standpoint Of their own
interests. and the other made up of Repub-
leans who have the view point of good
citizens
"All questions of self-interest must be
eliminated In settling this tight. The
greatest desideratum among organization
men is the maintenance of regularity, and
| can find no evidence that they are will
Ing to concede anything TO the other side.
Unless the organization shows a spirit of
willingness TO listen to our suggestions
nothing can be done.
Herman Walker announced that the Re
publican State COMMITTEES would meet to-
morrow cruesdny), and he moved that a
committee be appointed to wait on the
state Committee and call its attention to
he disruption in Hudson.
state has authority and will
bring about peace with a big stick, If
necessary" Mr.. Walker said. 1.-THE regu-
lars of whom / have been one. are not
meeting the question In the right spirit
II a few men of the regulars for per-
sonal reasons or for spite are acting and
talking as they do to prevent harmony
to step In and and the question"