The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-23
RLABBERGAST.
( A Talky, Talky "Indigna-
tion" Service at the
Tabernacle.
CHEERS FOR MAYOR CLEVELAND.
Perkins Was Not There and No
One Missed Him---Dr. Pangborn
chucked Cold Water
on the Whole
Affair.
CHEERS FOR MAYOR CLEVELAND.

Despite the efforts of few disgruntled
Republican politicians and their allies
the Jeffersonians ~, the Mugwumps and
the Prohibitionists. the meeting at the
Tabernacle last night was not the success
the Republican leaders anticipated.
Fire works, parades and brass music
failed to draw more than an ordinary
gathering of the curiously inclined. The
speakers all talked of it as big meeting,
but that did not make it So The few
Republicans present looked very blue all
evening.
At eight o'clock there were many
vacant seats. A row of street arabs
fringed the gallery ledge Later, some
casual passers by sauntered in and stood
up in the rear OF the auditorium, and
some who did not wish to identify them
selves with the affair climbed into the
gallery and interpolated their whiskered
faces anon those of the roguish, half
slee py gallery gods.
A number of women also strolled in,
and two "cullud ladies, whose connection
with Gardner's In vestigating Committee
had led them to deem their presence a
highly important factor at voters in
dignation meeting, occupied seats "way
up front. The squawking Of an infant in
the rear indicated what straits the pro-
genitors of the meeting had resorted to.
to give the meeting the appearance of an
overflow.
ON THE PLATFORM.
The big church organ was draped with
an American flag and a ballot box, deco
rated with small American flags and la
belled Hands Off, rested on the ledge
of the improvised platform. Fifteen
minutes after the appointed time the door
stage opened and a small squad Of gem
tlemen, headed by Mr.. George McEwan,
climbed up the steps of the platform.
w 18th one or two exceptions. could not
ind out who these gentlemen were. No
one seemed to know them Those whom
Recognized were DR.. Pangborn, Jimmy
Irwin aud Z T T. Altemus
Later in the evening several clergy
came in. They were DR.. Mitchell Dr.
McKelvey, Pastor Halloran and the Rev.
j. L. Scudder
The trrepressibie Charles D. J.. Noelke,
disguised by shaving off the sides of his
whiSkers, but clinging to the proverbiaI
red boutonniere. climbed into front seat.
DR.. J. N. Quimby, Max Salinger, j. r.
Abarbanell and James Chapman took
front seats.
Mr.. McEwan called the meeting to or
der and introduced Washington b. Will
Jams, a heavy weight, as chairman, in or
der, as Mr.. McEwan, with exquisite taste,
put it, to give weight to the meeting
Chairman Williams had just begun to
explain the absurdity of talking to Jer-
sey City audience audience about ballot
box stuffing, when one of the indignant
republicans in the rear of the auditorium
who had been taking fluid consolation
grew hilarious. A blue-coat promptly
hustled the said hilarious individual
through the open door.
"Boomp' sounded an exploding boom
outside.
The audience turned to see VIII ere the
hilarious individual had landed.
MIR. Williams resumed, amid cries of
"Louder Louderl' Subsequently ne in
troduced Assemblyman James S. Irwin,
the champion of Ballot Reform
VERY TIRED.
Mr.. Irwin, looking somewhat weary,
glanced over the top of his Spectacles and
said the subject Of Ballot Reform made
him tired. He had talked SO much about
1t in the Legislature. He would leave
that subject to others. Then he attempted
TO amuse the audience about the Jersey
heirs brilliant imagination, and how we
might get rid of the .Old Man of the
Sea-" and finally got back to the old song
and said, III we don't get ballot reform N
this time, we'll ultimately get it,"
Double ex Assemblyman Herbert
Boggs, OF Essex, president of the State
Ballot Reform League, and alleged
author Of the Kane Ballot Reform Bill.
an irascible looking gentlemen, attempted
to explain how his pet bill was defeated
Three years ago, he said, he went down
to Trenton to get his system adopted and
could find neither democrat nor repub-
lican to introduce it. Last year it re-
ceived a large vote in the House, but was
defeated in the Senate Today every
ringster in the State was in favor of
ballot reform. This allusion to Senator
Gardner made those on the platform visi-
bly, uncomfortable. Mr.. Boggs next
talked about St. Anthony's address to the
much tickled. They said St. Anthony's
criticisms Of their habits were just, but
all the same the eelers went on ceiling,
the pipers Went on piping, the
carpers went on carping ST. Anthony's
speech reminded him very much of the
attempt to stop frauds in Jersey City.
The Feeneys," said he, .go on Feeney-
ing, the O'Neills go ON OsNeilling, and
the Cievelands go on as Mayors. Politics
has become trade-and that not half so
respectable as rum selling-because the
saloonist at least gives you whiskey for
your money even if it is common. Mr..
Boggs is from Essex.
Both parties," he declared "were an
organized band of fmercenaries whose pur-
pose was to plunder the public treasury"
Mr. COLLINS SPEAKS.
Gilbert Collins buried himself deep in
the folds of the big flag that draped the
organ, but he was fished out and intro
duced.
's1'he contest" said Mr.. Collins, sis
entirely impersonal It is not who,' but
swhats' If Mr.. Cleveland was elected
Mayor, for Gods sake let him be Mayor
(Enthusiastic applause.) But Mr.. Col
Inns had his doubts Frauds would go on
indefinitely unless the people were will-
ing to spend little money to discover
and punish the perpetrators.
A long list of resolutions was offered at
this juncture. These protested against
the passage of the Werts' Ballot Reform
bill and the seating of Mayor Cleveland
When a vote was called for several peo-
pie stood up.
Richard ]. Allen next made a speech
AS he concluded gentleman in the audi
ence arose and wanted to display his
oratorical accomplishments Zone min
ute," cried Chairman Williams. We
have a number of let ers ilere to read
After they are read we'n hear from the
rantleman who have been invited to