The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1889-10-06
.KHRN'S QUEER KICKHRS'
They Raise Their Dismal
and Republican Wall
in Union Hill.
BUT FEW GATHER TO HEAR IT.
Bills Great Political What-Is-It
Doesn't Draw Crowded
Houses.

Iucre were -
Kern, the indicted.
Wankin, the delighted.
O'Rourke, the affrighted.
Stuhr the benighted.
Rabe, the short-sighted, and
Thinker, the blighted.
1T was at meeting Of kickers where
klckers were q majority that this charm
ing Sextette was observed.
The meeting was held at Ruth's Hall,
Y mon Hill, III room that adjoins the
bar-room. This was fortunate selection
for the bar-room-for 1t was better
patronized than the meeting. counted
in the hall one hundred and nineteen
chairs when the meeting was in full blast
and found but fifty-eight occupants.
AT half-past eight o'clock ex-Judge
Wankin was pacing M and down the
aisle in an apparent effort TO boil down
his feelings at the lack of interest that
was displayed by the good citizens of
Union Hill. The more he walked the
more he meditated; and the more he
meditated the worse he appeared to feel.
Had not that disciple of virtue and
hater of brides and the statutes relating
to them, ex-Assemblyman Rub, put in an
appearance, the Lord only knows what
would have become of Wankin When
he saw Rub rs he made his 479th lap of
the aisle he stopped abruptly, and with
undisguised eagerness clasped his hand,
murmurinR:-"Hhere amt many here"
GATHERING THEM IN.
"Well, let's get 'em in, said Mr.. Rub,
and straightway he proceeded to get 'em.
He fiShed up, as said before, fifty-eiRht
unsophisticated residents of Union Hill
from the barroom.
They were composed of disgruntled
Hoboken men and the habitues of the
barro0m with very slight exception
The most prominent exceptions were
Boss Kern, Alderman O'Rourke, Captain
James HI. Symes, ex-Assemblyman FROM
bach and ex-Mayor Timken.
Charles Rub called the meeting to or
der and asked VINO should preside. This
honor was conferred on Captain James
H. Symes. Half dozen vice presidents
and as many secretaries were, at the in
stigation of Mr.. Rub, elected. Two of
each took seats on the platform.
Chairman Symes read blood -curdling
circular that Kern, Wankin & Co. had
caused to be distributed, which called on
the people to down ring rule and ballot
box stufiing," and said that ex-senator
Rabe would address the few persons
present.
RABE BEGAN WELL
: He sa1d:--'.Mr. Chairman / see before
me goodly number of rebels, kickers,
fellows who want office, dissatisfied fell
lows who don't want to, pay taxes
to put them in other PEOPLES pockets. =
Had the speaker stopped here he would
have remained strictly within the truth,
| but he did not. He spoiled what might
have been the beginning of new
and veracious career, by reverting to the
well word themes ofthe kickers. He closed
with bitter attack on Sheriff Davis and
rehearsal of the dismal failure of the
"Jeffersoniansn at Trenton.
THE WILD AND WINDY wANKIN.
Then he stopped, and ex-Judge Wan
kin took off his coat, actually and meta
| phorically. Oh, how he talked 1t was
the first chance he had been given for q
long time, and he improved it. Nothing
in the shape of wickedness, not barring
| Sodom and Gomorrah and the very
Old Nick himself, could compare to
that in the Democratic party. and es-
pecially the Democratic County Commit
tee. He told his unenlightened hearers
how he had struggled for years to stamp
out wrong doing, but forgot to say what
he did when member of the committee.
and begged all present to follow his noble
example. He also forgot to tell his list
eners how it was that Kerr of Hoboken
did not receive nomination for Congress
three years ago.
The ex-Judge was positive that the
party was run by three men who had
neither education nor brains.
William Stuhr, ex-Mayor Timken and
others followed him with remarks, and
some resolutions were adopted setting
forth their grievances.