The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-07-14
CoMpLIMENTs ALL AROUND.


COMPLIMENTS ALL AROUND.
The speech making was begun by Com
missioner Edelstein after coffee was
served. He said he sincerely thanked the
host for the pleasant evening he had
passed; and he wanted to commend the
Commissioners Of Appeal for the faithful
manner in which they had performed the
duties of their Office.
81 hope, Mr.. May Or" the speaker said,
"that in all appointments you may. be
called upon to make you will select just
such men for Office" Commissioner
Edeistein then shook hands all around
and hastened away to fill another engage
meut.
Counsellor Erwin responded to the
toast. Jersey City, Its Preseut aud Flu
ture Prosperity" He spoke at length
pleased some and disp1eesed Others. but it
was Liberty Hall and everyone had
right to express his opinion and no one
was offended. Mr.. Erwin said:-"Jersey
City has motto. 1t is. "Let Jersey Pros
per-" If we had few more gentlemen in
the municipal government like see here
tonight It would be good thing, for the
such men for Office who infuse into
the work their consciences as the
members OF the Appeal Board have, Jer-
sey City will prosper. There is no reason
why TINS city should not be most pie asant
place to live in. Its natural advantases
are such that it should equal Brooklyn in
growth and prosperity, and with a good
municipal government It would. Mayor
Wauser has already cured many evils,
and the Commissioners he has appointed
have not disappointed the people.
They have sought to do their duty.
They have afforded every man
who appealed to them a careful hearing
nd hon oil
property complained of end in no case
have professionally or otherwise heard a
single complaint from the people that
they did not get justice. The new charter
made the Tax Commissioners the Appeal
Board. They sat in Judgment over their
own work. The Democratic party saw
that this was a mistake aud that the peo-
pie were dissatisfied and tnat it was
necessary to have an indepeadent board.
They created the Board of Appeal.
MR.. ERWIN EFFERvESCEs.
II believe that If Mayor Wanser will
now prefer charges against certain
Boards he will strike pu0lic chord. The
people want this. They said SO last
spring when they elected him Mayor. |
am approaching delicate question for
an occasion like this. but 1t is certain the
people want a change They would like
the Mayor to prefer charges against the
Street aud Water Commissioners and re-
fer them to the proper authority, and
place the responsibility for the condition
Of affairs where i belongs. It
ripe for it, I believe that the Mayor,
with all the Irregularities he has dis
covered, can go q step further and do
this. l know from my professional duties
tnat there is now more confidence felt in
the city. People who were anxious to
sell property short time ago now refuse
for soil fprf f1,atr 1.If nt, g.
the better has begun. II the Mayor will
prefer charges ana the authority above
him refuses to remove the officials the
people will resent it, We want a govern
ment here such as Seth Low gave Brook
lyn and the people will stand by the
Mayor in his efforts to give it to them"
GOOD REPUBLICANIsM AT HOMESTEAD.
Ex-City Treasurer p. H. Nugent spoke
next. He said: II am Democrat, but
Democrat as | am, must acquiesce in
what my friend Erwin mas said. / am
sorry he is not a Democrat, for il we had
few like him, this city would never have
been controlled by ballot box suffers.
Taxpayers do not care who governs this
city, il the party in power gives good
government. I have known Mayor
Wanser since he was a little
boy and l know he will be heard from
and that he will give us good govern
mont, and if he don't deliver the guards
be Will regret 1t. That Is good Dem
ocracy. don't know what good Repuh-
licanism is, unless we have it at Home
stead. The Democratic party--T don't
mean the ballot-box stuffers-don't want
any man in office who does not earn his
salary"
Finance Commissioner Bedell said he
though some of the remarks made during
the evening aconcerning men In office
were upcalled for. II am not O politic-
ian," he said, s'and am not living on my
salary as an official. / think Mayor
Wauser has friends in the Board of
Finance who will aid his administration
in matters of genuine reform. l have
known the Mayor for many years. al
though have never had the honor of vot-
ing for him. hope the Mayor will have
a successful administration, and / will do
my part by voting against nsjust bills"
SUITS HIM. OF COURSE.
Mayor Wanser, being requested to
make some remarks, thanked the mem
bers Of the Board of Tax Appeals for the
eminently satisfactory manner in which
the Board had acted You have honored
the CITY," he said. land l have not single
regret for appointing you. / hope my
other appointments may be as good. I
have been in Office a little more tIan two
months and am trying to do my duty. 1t
takes time to bring about reforms, and,