The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-09-21
DEALERS Mild.
Only McArdle Thinks They
Own the Earth in Fee
Simple.

Jersey owned Hoboken yesterday, and
were royalty entertained by the local
association.
The occasion was the sixth annual ron
vention of the Liquor Dealers Protective
League OF New Jersey. The first part Of
the day was taken up with meeting dele
gates aud escorting them to the coaven
ton hall 1t was one o'clock before all
the delegates had arrived, and the pleas
ures and work of the day began. The
Committee OF Arrangements had made
elaborate preparations for the entertain
ment OF the delegates. and all their plans
were carried out in a satisfactory manner.
A collation. was served at Philibert's AS
semblv Rooms. The hall was tast lily
decorated and the tables were well sup
piled. In the parade the delegates made
a good showing with their bright colored
badges, banners and flags.
The delegates assembled in the hall at
three o'clock aud the convention wa at
once called to order by Vice President
John B.. Mccormick, of Camden. The
Committee on Credentials made its re-
port, after which the delegates were
seated. There were about 100 present.
STATIONS HEART GLAD.
Mayor Stanton was then Introduced by
the Chairman and made Il short speech of
welcome to the representatives of the
League. He said that he was glad to
welcome such a representative body Of
men in Hoboken and he felt assured, from
the reputation for hospitality that Hobo
ken enjoyed, that every membe of the
convention would be well cared for dur
ing his stay. He. said he was fully in
sympathy with any measure that would
lend TO advance the interests of the liquor
dealers as a body and Put them on d plane
with other branches of business.
Officers were tnen elected 80 follows
President, August Koehler, of Orange;
Vice President. William @. Towne, of
Long Branch; Secretary, John McEntee,
of Jersey City; Treasurer, John He'll
man, of Camden; Financial Secretary, l..
G. Philibert, of Hoboken. The Executive
Committee was made up as follows (lwo
delegates from eacA OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
rick MeArdle and john Edelsteln. Hud-
Julius Schlatter, Hoboken; Philip
Veinno and J. J. Bolau. Orange; james
NJ. Butler AMI Edward H.. Emmous,
Monmouth; P. Greenwaldt and John
Meyer, German Association of Camden.
and James Stanley and Michael Dunn
English Association, Camden.
WILL VISIT LONG BRANCH
Mr.. Coyle suggested that next years
convention be held in Monmouth county
and G. Ewing Paterson of Long Branch,
on ehalf of the Monmouth Assoc alton,
invited the convention to meet at Long
Branch. A motion TO accept Momouth's in
vitatIon was carried and Mr.. Paterson theu
asked that the date be fixed earlier than
usualin order that the delegates might be
entertained at one of the hotels. Tbs first
Tuesday in September was set as the day.
Tho new officers of the league were
then introduced by John Edelstein and
each of them made q short speecu OF
hanks.
President Koehler took the chair and
on a call for new business. PATRICK Nc
Ardle moved that the officers be author
lied to confer with The State League OF
New York with a view to forming a
National League. The notion was car
ried.
WHAT TREY WANT.
Mr.. Schlatter spoke on the advisability
of sending a committee to Trenton this
winter to secure legislation in the interest
of the liquor dealers. He said That an eff
fort should be made to secure the repeal
of the clause in the Werts bill debarring
q saloon keeper, who has been convicted
twice of Keeping a d~isorderly house from
holding q license. He declared this
clause to be unjust and bordering on
persecution. He also spoke earnestly in
regard to the language of the ''disorderly
house" clause. These words, disorder
lily house. should be changed" he said.
1T is an outrage to our children that
such words should be applied to our place
Of business. for the puOlic in general do
not stop TO define the words, 'disorderly
house, but at once conclude h the
salooukeeper-who has most likely been
convicted of some slight fnfractlon of the
LAWS guilty of keeping a house of i'll !
fame. We do not objecs to this clause
but object to words which stigmatize Us
and our families"
Several other delegates spoke In the
same strain.
THEIR W FAULT. .
Owen Farley said that the liquor deal
ers were to blame for not having secured
this legislation last winter. He said that
the bill had been presented too late in the
session, and also that the representatives
of the liquor dealers had not put on a
bold enough font. They should have
demanded what they wanted and it
would have been given them:
AssemblTman Coyle corroborated Mr..
Farley's statement as to the tardy
action. He also remarked that he would
not favor a reduction of license fees be-
cause it would be impossible to get it,
and that asking for it would jeopardize
the chance of getting smaller things.
MARBLE HAS A WHIP.
Mr.. McArdle Favored low license. He
thought an effort should be made to re-
duce the lees as much as possible.
"We should not be made to pay any
more" he said, for carrying on our busl-
ness. than a groceryman or butcher
should. We will have to pay for this
privilege, however, as long as we get
down on our. knees and beg for relief.
We should demand what we want, ana
instead of submitting to parties and men,
shou Id make them submit TO Us. This
Lea que Is strong enough to dictat g terms
to either party if the members will
stand together and let them know That
we have a whip ia store for them.
RUM ELECTED WANSER.
"We gave the pohtlcians au inkiing OF
what we can do when WI defeated the
Democratic caudid date for Mayor O [ Jer-
sey City last spring. That show y the
power we have when we stand toy Their,
and Allan McDermott would be Mayor OF
JERSEY City today had he agreed TO act in
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