Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-10-31
DALRYMPLE BARS
MAJOR LENTz AS
CAMPAIGN ORATOR
Threatens to Call Off Lewis
= Meeting ii He Is to
~ Speak.
UNITY CHAIRMAN ISSUES
T. SQUARE-TOED ULTIMATUM
T.
Insult to One-time Party Leader
Is Bitterly Resented by
Friends.

"If you insist on having Major Carl
if1cation meeting at Wevers's Colos-
scum Tuesday night l will call the
meeting off" is the way in which Alfred
N. Dalrymple, chairman Of the county
Republican committee, is said to have
informed Edward E. Gnichtel, Republi-
can candidate for mayor, and Freder-
ick r. Lehlbach, a prominent leader
of the younger Republican set, that
Major Lentz was not wanted in this
campaign.
II have absolutely nothing to say in
connection with the affair" said
Chairman Dalrymple today.
Lentz Is silent.
IT will not discuss the matter for
publication" said Major Lentz, the
man who made Mr.. Dalrymple chair
man Of the county Republican COM
mittee. and Messrs. Gnichtel and Dali
rymple are equally reticent.
Little else is talked of, however, in
political circles In the Thirteenth, Four
teenth and Sixteenth wards-the Hill
section which is to be covered by the
Colosseum rally.
Major Lentz is and always has been
popular In that section, and the blunt
refusal Of "Dal" to permit him to ap-
pear as a speaker after he had been
urged to do so by Gfiichtel and Lehl-
bach is being severely criticized.
Favored for Chairman.
The latter two are personal friends
of Major Lentz and favored him as a
candidate for county chairman against
Mr.. Dalrymple last year. They be-
lleved 1t would be good idea to have
Major Lentz take the stump during
the closing week of the campaign.
Their desire was prompted by the
fact that William P. Martin and Ed
mund w. Osborne, the Progressive
leaders who were treated with such
scant courtesy at the state Republi-
can convention. were expected to talk
for the ticket for the balance of the
week.
DnIrympie Blocks Plan.
Major Lentz agreed because he con.
sidered himself in a measure under
obligations to the two men who asked
him to talk tomorrow nigh. They
were delighted. and so informed "Dal."
Then they were told In so many words
it will be either mo Lentz, or no meet
ing"
This deliberate snub to Major Lentz
is causing much trouble in the section,
and will be resented, following as 1t
does the summary ousting of an ad-
visory member of the executive c7rn-
mittee Of the Fourth district, Sixteenth
Ward Republican committee because
he said he favored the reelection OF
Mayor Haussling.
AS stated, Chairman Dalry'nple re-
fused to discuss the situation, as did
Major Lentz. The arrangement tor
speakers, Mr.. Dalrymple says, was
made by the executive COMMITTEES of
the three wards and included, with
the candidates, a professional cam
paign orator, former Congressman j.
Adam Bede, of Minnesota.
According to Dali the selection Of
speakers for the Colosseum meeting
was made by the joint ward commit
tees in the section where it is held.
GnichteI Lentz's Sponsor.
Gnichtel and Lehlbach are two Of
the prominent members OF the Six
teenth ward committee. In their judg-
ment Major Lentz would prove bet
ter drawing card than a paid orator
from Minnesota.
'Dal" said mo-" and that appears to
settle it, inasmuch as the name Of
Major Lentz does not appear In any
of the advertised lists Of speakers.
Candidate Gnichtel, who is booked
as one of the speakers. along with Can
didate Lewis, evidently concluded IL
was better to have the Major" turned
down than to have the meeting called
off, as threatened by "Dal."