The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-09-18
LIQUOR DEALERS CONVENTION.
Officers Elected and Resolutions Adopted
by the State League.
special to be Jersev oity Nelos.

Special to the JERSEY City Nescs.
CAMDEN. Sept. II, 1889. = The State
Liquor Dealers League met here today
in Hillman's Hall on. Market street
About 800 delegates were present from all
sections of the State.
Hudson county was represented by Al
bert Kast, Alfred Burly, James Roche.
President John Edelstein, of the Board
Ian, Freeholder Andrew Cullen, Police
Commissioner James E. Kelly, ex-DirecJor
of the Board of Freeholders p. McGovern.
ex-Police Commissioner Thomas Nugent,
Edward McGinnis. John Cullahan,
Thomas p. Crotty, Paul Decker, William
Henry Rouse, f.. J. Farley, p. McArdle,
John Hart, Martin Kelly, William Barry.
J. A. Engle, Owen Farley, Henry Byrne
and John Moran.
The Camden Association met the out of
town delegates at the depot with band,
and escorted them through the principal
streets of the city to the hall. Arriving
there bountiful lunch was found await
ing 1.-The League and the delegates lost
no time in doing it full justice.
At one o'clock the Executive Committee
held secret session, at the close of which
Owen Farley, president Of the League,
called the convention to order.
1uG clCCulOu VI OIlCclS lOl buO CuodlnE :
year was the first business transacted.
! and resulted in the choice of Mr.. Farley,
president; John Steinbeck, of Camden,
| vice president; S. Jacobs, of Newark, sec
retary; John Hart, of Jersey City, fnan-
cial secretary, and John Edelstein, treas
urer. Michael Coyle was elected mem
| Der of the Executive Committee from
| Hudson county.
| Mr. Farley, in accepting the Office for
another term, called attention to the
work which the League had done during
| the past year and said that it had q -four
| ishing branch in almost every county in
| the State and three times as many mem
bers as 1t had a year ago.
These resolutions were adopted
| Whereas we, the United Liquor Dealers of the
| State of New Jersey, in convention assembled
| representing in the aggregate large vested in.
terests throughout the State, the present and
| future values and usefulness of which are en-
! tirely dependent upon the establishment and
maintenance of the general prosperity and hap
piness of all classes OF the people comprising the
/ commonwealth; and
Whereas Those interested in the business we
| represent are now, as ever willing to submit to
| fair and equitable excise laws and to conduct
| their business with proper regard to the good
| they live; and
| Whereas They pay in license fees large
| share of the public burdens, thus relieving the
| taxpayers from heavier impositions than they
would of necessity be otherwise subjected to;
and
| WHEREAS, 1t is only honest and fair dealing
that their rights should be protected and they be
relieved from petty annoyances and unjust ex-
actions on the part of those who desire to injure
| their business and destroy the value of their
property; now therefore, be 1t
| Resolved. That we cheerfully reiterate our
acquiescense in the passage and enforcement OF
fair excise laws, but we protest against legisla
ton or official exaction which seeks to drive us
| from business by prohibition or injure our bust
ness by petty annoyance or oppressive legisa.
| ton which in no way advances the interests of
| the people of the State; and be it further
| Resolved, That the abuse by fanatics of those
| engaged in our business is wholly unwarranted
! by any facts, and is founded upon a gross mis-