The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-05
NO FEDERAL LETTER
AS TO DEPUTY'S POLITICAL
DOINGS. SAYS HEROLD.
Heard from Another Source of Cav
anagh's activity" But Exonerates
Him-Mullen Talks.

Internal Revenue Collector DR. Herman
G. H. Herold denied today that he had
received a letter from the federal authori-
ties asking him to make an investigation
into statements that Joseph l.. Cavanagh,
one OF his deputies, had been unduly active
politically in the Fourth Ward.
81 received a report from a certain
source" said DR.. Herold, that Mr.. Java
nagh had been active politically. and I in
stituted an Investigation on my part into
the stories. l found them to be absolutely
baseless."
Then the federal authorities did not
ask you to investigate or send you any let
ter?" he was asked.
mo. sir: this office did not get any such
letter as you speak of. The investigation
was made from Information gotten from
another source. The matter is now closed
and Mr.. CavanaPh was found to be blame
less in the affair"
Deputy Cavanagh said that he had not
been politically active except to vote on
election day for fourteen years.
Alderman Michael Mullen. Of the Fourth
Ward. who lie opposed to the election of
County Collector P. j. McGuinness and
Joseph J. Kennedy as county committee-
men. which fact has caused the trouble in
the Fourth Ward. was more explicit than
Cavanagh. He said:
"At a meeting Of the Joel Parker Asso-
citation my appointments and the distribu-
ton of patronage in the Fourth Ward
we're criticized and I was told emphatical-
ly that 1 would not get another nominal
ton. / answered that 1t was all right;
that / would get before the people myself
and see IL my conouct had been satisfac-
tory. and that II the members were bent
on running me publicly l WAS going to
find out why 1t was. I protested again
against Phil Lasor and Billy Roebling
coming down there. These two gentlemen
told me that they were coming there again.
l then made up my mind that I would call
the people of the Fourth Ward together,
or as many of them as had confidence in
did and we nominated a full ward ticket.
THE only fight that we have is over
the members of the county executive COM
mi6tee; we b propose 3 x t. elect hs ro our "
In the county committee by men Of our
own choice. If we are successful we pro-
post to send Daniel O'Connor, of the First
District. and James Mccain, of.the Tenth
District.
wv have no fight against the present adj
mlnistration. We are all loyal to the ad-
ministration. and If we are successful, we
wilh still be loyal; II we are defeated we
will be more loyal. So far as 1 know. Mir.
Cavanagh has had nothing 70 do with It
except that he is friendly to me. 1t Is
true that he has given me some informa-
tion from his experience before he left
politics. but he is in no way connected
have concerning the complaint made
against him is that pr. McGuinness went
to Mr.. Nuge-t and complained against Mr..
Cavanagh being oyer-active in this fight,
and Mr.. Nugent went to Frank Book and
asked Mr.. Book to go to see DR.. Herold
and insist upon Mr.. Cavanagh not taking
any part in this primary contest. Now We
consider that unfair. as we are all Demo-
Gratis. and we feel that as City Counsel.
Mr.. Nugent went a step too far in asking
a Republican commissioner to reprove Mr..
CavanaEh.
IT feel that 7 have been in line on every
Democratic question with the exception of
the Heisler affaif. when he was a candi-
date for police commissioner, and on ac-
count of my a~f1liation with labor organi-
cations I could not consistently vote for
him. In regard to the Block Lighting
Company's fight against the Public Service,
7 found that over !. 700 residents of the
Fourth Ward had signed a petition in
favor of the Block Lighting Company, and
I voted for 1t principally on that account.
This explains why the Public Service -peo-
PIE are after my scalp IN the Fourth
Ward"