The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-10-24
SToCKTON'S GREAT HIT.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL MAKES
Il ROUSING SPEECH.

ocracy's Enthusiastic Rally in Bergen
Hall.
A large and enthusiastic meeting was
held under the auspices of the Demo
cratic General County Committee last
evening in Bergen Hall. Previous to the
meeting there was brilliant display OF
fireworks in front of the hall. which drew
a large crowd to the scene. Patrick Rem
ney called the meeting to order and nom
mated f. G.. Wolbert as chairman. In
taking the chair Mr.. Wolbert referred to
the majority secured by Leon Albeit
when he WAS elected Governor six years
ago, and predicted a larger majority for
him this fall Mr.. Wolbert then intro
duced as the first speaker of the evening
Thomas f. Noonan.
Mr.. Noonan, in his usual brilliant man
ner, called attention TO the main issues of
the campaign and arraigned General
Grubb for his attempts to steal into the
Goyernorship by evading them by parad-
ing his war record.
ATTORNEY GENERAL STOCKTON.
Attorney General John p. Stockton
followed Mr.; Noonan. In beginning his
speech he referred to the fact that in
almost every campaign he had spoken in
Library Hall.
''In this hail." he said, 81 appealed TO
you TO vote for Samuel ]. Tilden Zap
plause). | spoke to you again here urg-
ing you to vote for Grover Cleveland Zap
plause). No man who voted for
Cleveland has had occasion to regret it,
for his administration was the only one
twenty-five years. ] stood in this hall
with your fellow-townsman, the late
Attorney General Gilchrist, and urged
you to vote for Leon Albeit, and here /
am again urging you to vote for him."
(Great aDDlauSe,)
The speaker drew parallel between
the war Governor, Joel Parker, and Leon
Albeit, showing that the same excellent
qualities distinguished both men.
THE FRIEND OF THE WORKER.
The Attorney General then referred to
Mr.. Abbett's action in having the store
orders in South Jersey abolished, and de-
clared that every laborer of that portion
of the State owed it to ex-Governor
Albeit that they received a dollar for a
dollars worth of their labor.
He told how the system of State Prison
labor came TO such pass that the shoe
makers and the hat makers of the State
were taxed more than other people, and
how Governor Albeit remedied the evil,
so that now the State Prison labor does
not enter into competition with the manu-
facturer of the State.
Formerly, he said, the railroads used to
borrow money on bonds and mortgages,
and then after going SO far wind up,
cheating the laborers and employees out
of their earnings. Leon Albeit had
bill passed through the Legislature MAX
ing wages the first lein on railroad prop
erty and then went before the Chancellor
and without fee or reward secured for the
employees of the Central Railroad S400,0 900,
which they would not have obtained in
any other way.
RAILROADS.
Then the speaker directed his attention
n A f1s, l.
ject of equal taxation. He spoke of the
difficulties which the first railroad COM
panies in this State had in obtaining cap
ital for building their road. The fran
ohises were hawked about New York and
Philadelphia, and no one would bid, be-
cause no one thought That the roads
would pay, and SO the State gave them
exemptions from taxation to encourage
them. This was o small matter when the
little road between Camden and Amboy
was built, but when it came to be the
United Railroads of New Jersey, leased
to the Pennsylvania Railroad, it became
a great matter.
The question was taken to the United
States Supreme Court which declared
that these exemptions from taxation
were irrepealable contracts and that the
State had bartered away its rights, and
could not take them back and collect
taxes The Attorney General then
tional and said that this was the condi-
tion of affairs when Leon Albeit was
elected Governor and enforced the con-
stitutional view of the question.
The speaker then stated the facts about
the railroad tax law clearly and dis
tinctly.
THE CAPTAIN OF THE CITY TROOPS
In speaking of General Grubb he said:-
81 know very little of him but have heard
that he had a country place in South Jer-
sey and was leader in Philadelphia So
ciety have heard that he was the colo
signed that to become the captain of the
First City Troop, of Philadelphia. AS
such he took commission from a Penn
sylvania Governor and no doubt took an
oath to support the constitution of Penn
sylYania. see that he is going about the
State saying that New Jersey has long
needed better government than it has
had. don't know what he means and
thought would ask you if you did.
NEW JERSEYS GOVERNORS.
General Grubb, captain of the First
City Troop of Philadelphia, tells you that
the State needs a better government Let
elected s ted Joel Parker (appiause), then then we we
followed him with Randolph. Then came
Parker again, then Bedle, and then GEN.
eral Mcclellan Qond applause). Ludlow
followed him, then came Leon Albeit,
then Green, and now we are going to fol
low him with Albeit Qong applause and
cheers).
what does this captain of the First
Philadelphia City Troop meani Does he
mean to tell the people of New Jersey
that he is a better man than Joel Parker
or Theodore Randolph Does he mean to
tell the Army of the Potomac that he,
Captain Grubb, is better soldier than
George B. Mcclellan? Cheers and ap-
plause.)
docs he, with every fibre of his heart
Republican, who did not vote for Nc
Clellan or Hancock, appeal to the Grand
Army of the Republic for their votes on
the ground that he is better soldier
than McClellanf
Leaving party aside would any one in
business take such man as +. Burd
Grubb in his employ to succeed such men
as Parker, Mcclellan, Randolph or Alb
bett? New Jersey may have long needed
a better government, but there is no State
or country in the world that can point to
a long succession of better or more patri-
otic men in the Governors chair than the
State of New Jersey. (Cheers.]
"They have all had a clean administra-
ton, have given you q judiciary whose
decisions are quoted and respected all
over the civilized world wherever the
common law prevails. New Jersey justice
is quoted today in all parts of the coun-
try as the purest and best, and shall it be
made better by an experiment with such
a man as General GrubbT' loud cries of
"no.n 'snon1
Tcdward n Mcdonald clorad the n,aat