The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-09
HOT WARD FIGHTS
IRVINGTON STIRRED BY
LOCAL ISSUES.
In Third Ward Boerger, Sharp and Hay
ward Are Making Fast Run
ming for Council.

The primary contest in %Irvington is
made locally interesting through the bat
tie for councilmanic honors In the Third
Ward. IN that ward the heat is crowd
ing the thermometer to the fever tempera-
ture mark, and the three candidates,
Ernest Boerger, the present incumbent;
Frank Sharp and George L. Hayward.
each of whom has had several years as a
councilman to his record, are fighting with
might and main.
Charges of unsavory nature are being
hurled back and forth. 1t is being openly
asserted by Me. Boerger and his allies hat
the brewery interests are doing their ut
most to defeat him because of his stand
against the granting of a license for a
saloon at the corner of Myrtle and Spring.
field avenues in the town centre. The
rumors nave been perslstently connected
with the name of Mr.. Sharp, and he has
been moved to issue a circular denying the
charges and declaring himself TO De In
dependent of any controlling forces. Mr..
Hayward is also named as the breweries'
candidate, but so far he has been quietly
disregarding what his and Sharp's allies
claim are Interpretations thrown out by
their opponents In an effort to bring down
the disapproval of the public upon them.
The latest matter of interest is the dis
covery made by Mr.. Boerger that half of
the ballots to be used in his ward con-
TAN eIIOIS WHICH 1uNdlludte them. lniS
concerns Mr.. Boerger especially, as the in
correct ones, he said, were to be tent to
what is regarded as his stronghold, around
Lwenty-nrst street. The errors, are the
constable over the name of John Wolf,
who is a candidate for constable, and of
the word Choice for Assembly over the
Choice for Governor" Such q ticket
would be regarded as a marked ballot il
voted.
Otto Heintz, of SO L.ittleton avenue, this
city, who printed the tickets, says that a
mistake was made, and that was all.
Boerger. who appears to have charges in
Vulnerable to make, stated this morning.
and he had a witness to back him up, that
John J.. Bonscher, a roadhouse keeper, who
Is proprietor of the headquarters of the
Third Ward Improvement Association,
came TO him with the proposition that
II he agreed to vote for a license for the
saloon in question that about fifty votes
Association would be thrown his way.
When. interviewed, this morning, Mr..
Bonscher denied that he had made any
Hayward is working quietly but with
the experience OF an old campafgner in
his Manhattan Park stronghold Sharp Is
equally as active about the centre.
In the First Ward. Councilman Webb
is working hard for the nomination. His
opponent Is Thomas Jones. Mr.. Webb will
poll strongly from the centre, his friends
assert, while Mr.. Jones, a newcomer on
the l~rvington political horizon, Expects to
carry the Hill section solid, but his draw
Ing power Is an unknown quantity.
In the Second Ward August L. Lacombe,
who has been in the Council for four
terms. is finding an opponent In c.. Will
lam Pfeil. Pfeil, it is said. is packed by
the GlorieuN faction, and a close contest
is expected.
There will be a fight between the Regu-
lar and New Idea adherents to elect Stare,
county and town convention delegates, as
elsewhere In the county.
The Democrats are practically out of
the primaries. AS told in the EVENING
STAR they will nave a ticket in the First
Ward Only, and that will be lacking the
delegates to the town committee. They
Will use posters elsewhere.