The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1892-04-08
GLORIOUS GRHHNVILLH.
The Greatest Political Gath
ering Ever Seen There
Endorses Allan
MCDermOtt.

Had one Republican voter. who is
laboring under the maniacal idea that p.
Farm Wanser is going to carry the Sixth
district, crowded into Metropolitan
Hall, Greenville, last night he would
have left down hearted and convinced
that Allan L. McDermott is the peoples
candidate and that ne is going to be sup
ported tooth and nail by every honest,
good government-seeklng taxpayer and
citizen. Metropolitan Hall was packed
and jammed to the doors. Nearly three
thousand voters were crowded betw cen
it's walls. Shoulder to shoulder stood
Republican and Democrats, alike anxious
to catch every word uttered by the quar-
tetts of eloquent speakers who were
booked to furnish the evenings enter
tainment and Instruction.
The Democratic District leaders looked
out upon that sea of faces with pride.
One of them said to Governor Abbett,
"That is wonderful gathering. Large
numbers of these gentlemen are Re-
pubicans, but they are McDermott men.
it's tribute to Mr.. McDermottr in man
ner that will prove conclusively that he is
the peoples Candidate"
The meeting was most enthusiastic
one, ana Greenvllle's best citizens were
conspicuous in the front rows. The
of the Citizen's Improvement AS
sociation, and on the platform sat
Messrs Henry Lembeck, S. L. Har-
vey, Raimond Schroeder, w. II.
Harms. Thomas Cogan. w. Zimmerman,
w. H. Cole. Henry Gothardt, George F.
Witt, R. S. Hudspeth, w. Q. Collins, r.
J. Hammel, S. +. Harrison, Jr.. Joseph
H. Winfield, George Stratford, James f.
Woodmencey, Simon Flaherty, Hugo
Wilcke, Peter Mcdonald, Edward
Barr D. J. Cambreleng,1 Ernest
Oliver, j. B. Hay, Perry Vreeland. Henry
Welbrock. Richard Routh. Dennis Nc
Carron, Z. w. Haverman. John Yuhl,
Frank Roehren beck. Michael Pagan,
Louis BeIlman. l.. Cuniff. Valentine
Lauer. John Rowe, C.. Schmolze, H. N.
Patrick Dawson. James Braden, W.
Cook, r. T. Corcoran. James O. Clarke
and +. Kimmerly.
Mr. S. l.. Harvey was chosen chairman,
snd after the Democratic candidate had
been endorsed, Allan l.. McDermott was
introduced amid tumults of applause and
cheers. When quiet was restored, he
said:-
81 enter this campaign simply and
purely in the public interest. l nave not
pledged myself to anyone, and still say
that will not hesitate to remove from
the employ of the city man whose SER
vices / consider unnecessary or inefficient.
l have no pledges to keep II elected. The
interests of our city will be guarded by
me, and your best interests advanced.
GCneersl. We must find some way of
keeping pace with our sister cities. We
must make Improvements and invite
population. We must not increase our
debt, and l say that it will not be iu-
creased.
"At the time of the consolidation our
debt was but "a. zoo, 900. but under Repub-
lican government and mismanagement
that debt was increased TO S14, 700, 600
This WAS in six years or an increase of
more than 300 per cent. of all the debt of
the three municipalities. We have
large debt now on our hands which is the
result of corrupt careless government.
In weighing up the records of the two
parties | take the record of fifteen years
of Democratic governmenG and find an
increase of s3. 900, 600 of debt. and ON the
other side place the record of less than
when our Commissioners were
apd0 and find an increase se''"ei Of
about $10000,000. / do not excuse our
party for the creation of the So. .000, 900 in
debtedness. If proper courses had been
pursued in the management of our affairs
we could today have had grand avenues
and as flne public buildings as grace any
city III the Union; but when this debt was
being increased our people sat quietly by
and with little concern permitted the
placing on the market of $4,000 600 worth
of per cent. bonds. And now what
have we to show for all thisP
Nothingl Let me tell you, one and all,
that the increase of our city's indebted
ness strikes nearer home than we are in
clined to think it does. Let man who
has paid for his little home go into a
court as bondsman and the first ques-
lion he is asked is, Is your property free
and clear? The man replies. 'Yesp But
just so long as this Indebtedness of S1S,-
000 900 remains, which is over 20 per
cent. of the assessed valuation of the
property in the entire city. there Is in
reality Il mortgage of about 5000 on every
$1,000 of our property. All these burdens
do not fall upon the property owners but
upon the rent payers, l say that this
debt can be reduced aud 1t will be-" [Ap-
plause.
DEBT REDUCTION.
81 am attacked by my opponents for
saying this and am charged with being a
theorist but my past record | think will
show that l mean what / say" Mr.. Nc
Dermott then referred to his experience
in the Board of Finance when it was due
to his earnest efforts that the city was
saved from bankruptcy. Il may be con-
sidered n fiscal idiot now that / say the
debt can be reduced - he continued, "but
nevertheless l think the application of