The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-08-21
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Peace Committee Wouldn't
Fall Into Trap Set by Dick
inSOn--W War to Knife.
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JERSEY CITY, Aug. 21.-colonel
Samuel D. Dickinson last night broke
or all further peace negotiations with
the Judge John A. Blair harmony COM
mittee and the New Idea Republicans.
This sudden step was taken at a meet
ing of the executive committee of the
Republican county committee. The
Secretary of State was not there, but
he had been informed by telephone of
the demand of the New idea Repub-
licans that he retire from politics as
discredited leader, and he issued the
order that terminates the peace con-
ferences.
1t will be a bitter fight, from this
time on, the followers of the Secretary
of State decided last night. New Idea
Republicans need expect no considera-
tion,a 1t has been decided by the col
onel that he will drive them out of
the Republican party even If he has to
sacrifice the Republican candidate for
Governor, the Republican county ticket
in Hudson and the Republican city
ticket in Jersey City.
The political extinction of Mark NJ.
Pagan will be accomplished. if pos
sible, no matter If the party is dragged
uOWn 10 lno uepllS OIL uSledl. n us
credited party boss will wreak ven
geance OF all who ppose him.
AT the meeting of the executive COM
mittee last night County Clerk John
Rotterdam reported the result of the
harmony meeting of the afternoon and
said that the New idea men insisted
on the retirement of the colonel. He
said that Dickinson had refused to
agree to hat. He asked the commit
tee to indorse his stand and it did
so unanimously. He asked why the
New Idea Republicans had not agreed
to the resignation of George L. Record
as corporation counsel of Jersey City
and his retirement from political life
if the colonel would step down and
put.
The committee voted that the New
Idea Republicans were not seeking
harmony when they attacked Colonel
hutchinson, and when they refused to
agree to pledge themselves to abide by
the results of the Republican primaries
and conventions this fall.
LET it be war to the knifel' a friend
of Colonel Dickinson cried, and the ex-
ecutive committee so decided.
The demand of the New Idea Republi-
cans IlaT COlOne1 DlchluSOn Itbitt
politics. the denial of the same by follow
ers of the Secretary Of State; the i%ntroduc-
ton of a "joker'' resolution by machine
representatives and postpOnement of ac-
ton on II by n close vote of 5 to Z, ana
the calling Of Corporation Attorney Robert
Carey a liar by former City Clerk George
M. Mccarthy, marked the three hours
session of the Blair harmony committee
with committees Of similar size from the
rI.1eo. rSo,,1+x, ID oraIhlfaan Ofnmift and
the Central Republican Committee of
Hudson County.
The demand for the retirement of
Colonel Dickinson Is the rock upon which
the peace conference will go to pieces,
and the Blair committee foresaw that yes
terday afternoon and put Off the evil day
by making an adjournment to Thursday.
The Dickinson followers left the law
office of Judge James S. Erwin. where the
conference was held, talking loudly and
angrily because they had failed In an at
tempt to tie the New Idea representatives
hand and foot before an agreement had
been reached.
1t was an apparently Innocent resolution
that County Clerk John Rotheram intro
iduced as soon as the conference of the ff-
heen with only the press and Marcus
Aurelius H~igginbotham, a Dickinson
1eader, present, opened. 1t ran that 1t was
fhe sense of the meeting that those pres
emit pledge themselves to the earnest sup
port Of all of the candidates of the Repub-
ncan party who may be nominated at the
ensuing Republican primaries and conven-
lzions.
Had this resolution. which was the work
Df George M. Mccarthy. been adopted the
Dickinson followers would hav held the
whip hand. for with the control of the
Republican election officers they could
carry the primaries by fraud and force
the New Idea Republicans to submit by
virtue Of the pledge.
The break in the peace negotiations
lcaused by the refusal of the Dickinson
,anachine to further participate, will not
prevent the Blair harmony committee and
the New Idea committee Of five meeting
tomorrow afternoon in Judge Erwin's Of
flee. 1t was stated today that the Blair
committee has something up its sleeve and
thai It will issue a statement tomorrow. 1t
may be that the committee, finding that
the Dickinson followers want no peace,
will appeal to the State Republican com
mittee to take charge of the party affairs
in Hudson. to the end that a Republican
Governor may be elected this fall.
Tho Blair committee will probably tell
the State committee that the Dickinson
faction has decided on a rule or ruin"
policy in Hudson this fall.