The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-11-04

When Wittpenn and kinkead and the
Factions of County Democracy They
Head Were Daily Accusing and Viii
lifying Each other-A MaIodorous
Scandal.
Newark, Nov. 1.-The Democratic
candidate for Governor, H. Otto Witt
penn, is a resident of Hudson County
and a Hudson County politician. 1t is
recognized in the annals of American
politics that Hudson County, New Jer-
Sey, has been II of the most noto-
riously -mismanaged and politically pill
fered counties in the United States.
Likewise is it recognized that Hudson
County is the stronghold of the New
Jersey Democracy. 1t will therefore
be interesting to the people of New
Jersey to know what the Democratic
leaders of Hudson County thought of
each other as recently as one year ago,
SO that the light of their own testimo-
ny may be thrown upon the candidacy
of Mr.. Wittpenn for Governor and of
Mr.. Kinkead for member of Congress.
The files of the Jersey Journal, the
leading newspaper of Hudson County,
have been searched for this purpose.
A bitter controversy has existed for
many years between the so-called Witt
penn faction and the so-called Kinkead
faction in the Democratic party of
Hudson County. The two factions
have been unsparing in their denuncia-
ton of each other and in their accusa-
tons and counter accusations of boss
ism and graft and fraud. Ostensibly,
for the purposes of Democratic victory
this fall, the two factions have patch
ed up a truce. but the truce is only
skin deep and the public is entitled to
be made acquainted with the kind of
men and the kind of politics that are
now seeking to gain control of the gov
eminent of New Jersey.
Wittpenn a Regulated Boss.
In the Jersey Journal of September
II, 1915, Eugene f. Kinkead had this
to say about II. Otto Wittpenn: Witt
penn is Il r%epudiated boss. He holds
no elective office himself. He quit UNI
der fire the last time he started and
since he joined the gutter class the
candidates he has picked have been
regularly and ruthlessly beaten. 81 # =
Now, Mr.. Wittpenn. tell the people
what right you have in politics, except
as a private, or at best as corporal
Secretary Of State Thomas f. Mar
tin, a Kinkead adherent who has en-
tered into the temporary truce. fell in
for his share Of attack a year age.
Martin. Kinkead and the Others" de
clared Assembly Candidate Alexander
Simpson. Il Nittpenn lieutenant. in the
Jersey Journal of September Is, 1915.
are sowing the seeds of discord in the
Democratic party. You can't go around
calling a man James and ~yillifying
him until September 2S and then eX-
pect everything to be all right on Sep
TENDER 20. 1t is a rule or ruin policy.
AS Secretary of State. Martin solemnly
advertises for bids for printing and
supplies. He places these bids solemn
ly on a table before himself and hen
passes upon them and the contract is
awarded to Martin. Martin, Kinkead,
Hague. Egan and their like are band
ed together, not because they care any
thing about you, not because they care
about the Democratic party, but be-
cause they are determined either to
sail the Democratic ship themselves or
sink it"
Wittpenn's Invisible Government.
On September 20. 1915, the Kinkead
faction inserted a four column adver-
.tisement in the Jersey Journal which
read as follows:
"a RESULT OF THE RoTTENNEss
OF INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT IN
HUDSON COUNTY under W~ittpennism,
Jersey City sells 81 ,111,090 AZ per cent
bonds and receives seventeen bids and a
premium of $l0,5S1. rs. The County of Hud-
son sells 81 ,050, 600 AZ per cent bonds and is
forced to cancel one sale and receives in
the second sale only one bid and a pre-
MUM of but $1,S40. This means investors
do not want Hudson County bonds while
this county is controlled and governed by
Pink Tennessee Marble freeholders."
In the same issue of the same paper
there is found the Wittpenn side of it.
"On the one side reads this adver-
tisement, ''the side of the Progressive
Democracy. you see a compact, deter
mined, honest party organization, re-
solved to continue giving Hudson
County an efficient, constructive, eco
nomical administration. On the other
side, what? \ coterie of would-be
leaders. each seeking to outwit the 9th
ers and become the supreme boss him
self. = s. 4 Kinkead, with his rat
tle-headed talk and family department
store, ever open for city and county
acquisitions. Martin, with his swag-
gering buster and state printing graft.
= = y Hague, Red Dugan's FRIEND
whose specialties are frame-ups q )
taking the bread out of the moutySSa