Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-08-21
MANCINI SAYS
THAT CHARGES
WERE INSPIRED
Declares Rival italian Political
Leaders Are Behind Mrs.
Van Winkle's Attack.
HAS LEFT Mr.. RAYMOND;
is NOT PAID BY Mr.. NUGENT
Produce Letter from City coun-
sci Frazer, Showing No Money
Was Paid Him.
HAS LEFT Mr.. RAYMOND;
is NOT PAID BY Mr.. NUGENT

Highly indignant at the attack
made upon him by Mrs. Nina C. Van
Wrinkle, president of the Woman S
Political Union of New Jersey, to the
effect that he was a hired mercenary
in the service of James r. Nugent,
the lacol Democratic leader, Fred
Mancini, of 1856 Market street, a real
estate man and a campaigner against
woman suffrage, issued reply in
which he challenges the suffragist to
make good her charges.
incidentally, Mr.. Mancini charges
that the attack was inspired by Mayor
Thomas L. Raymonds followers as
part of a carefully conceived plot to
discredit him with his fellow Italian
American citizens in this city. Be-
cause of this he makes public chap
ters of the story of what he declares
to be the secret distribution of city
offices and patronage by Mayor Ray
mond.
The attack which reused Mr.. MAN.
cini to action was part of a letter
written by Mrs. Van Wrinkle to the
Evening Star under the date of Au-
gust II, and published in this paper
at her request. In the course of the
letter she remarked:
I'VE have read in the local papers
that the Association Opposed to
Woman Suffrage has engaged the SER
vices of an Italian named Mancini
In the Italian quarter 1t is stated
that Mr.. Nugent is paying Mr.. Mancini
q work
frage movement"
Mr.. Mancini was out of the city at
the time that the attack was made
upon him, but hastened back in order
to defend himself. He issued the fol-
lowing statement at his office today:
II herewith state that do not know
Mr. Nugent at all; that | never had
occasion to talk to him.
IT heard of Mr.. Nugent while I was
campaigning for Mayor Raymond at
the last election. defy Mrs. Van
Wrinkle or anyone else to prove that
/ am engaged by Mr.. Nugent or that
L ever received a penny from him.
Il can prove that 95 per cent. of the
Italian vote of the State of New Jer-
sey Is opposed to woman suffrage.
However, / will have occasion,
perhaps. to meet Mr.. Nugent during
the coming election, when / will fight
in the First ward in support of DIR.
A. r. Bianclri for alderman on the
Democratic ticket, in an effort to
prove that there is no man or group
of men who can control the Italian
vote.
mo Man Can Control Italians"
'I am willing to make an affidavit
to the effect that Mr.. Nugent has not
been connected at all with our anti
suffrage movement. / am fighting
Mavor Raymond and his admins
tration in the first ward for the pur-
pose, as stated, to prove that nobody
can control the Italian vote That
is the reason why ! am opposed by
the few professional Italians who
claim the Italian vote in the First
ward as their personal property.
Before / go into the story of the
facts underlying this charge which
has been falsely made against me"
continued Mr.. Mancini, 'let me say
once and for all that | am being paid
by the Association Opposed to Wom-
an Suffrage. There is no disgrace
in that. Most of the suffrage agi-
tators are also paid workers. ] have
been campaigning for the 'Antis'
through Monmouth, Morris, Somerset
and Essex counties and l can assure
Mrs. Van Wrinkle that the bluff and
noise and automobiles of the suffra-
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