The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-11-04

as they called themselves, being victorious
Ii their leader is a reformer, why don't ne
do something worthy the name w ny, his
reform has resulted simply in this. In 1854.
as President of the Board Of Finance and
Taxation, it fell upon me to fix the tax rate.
The city at that time was trembling on
the verge of bankruptcy. The assessed valu-
alton OF s600oo,000 Of property was 60 per
cent of its face value, with the tax rate
about the same as to-day, 3 per cent. In 1854
the city did not receive from the State one
penny Last year the city received from
railroad taxes $4,000, and from liquor IL
censes 530,000 and from additional taxes
nearly $4,000 making total of at least
100000; while from other sources the
amount raised was $500, 900, making grand
total of 81, 10000 which it cost the reform
Mayor to run the city, more than 1t did a
Democratic Mayor in 1884, when | liked the
tax levy. If that is reform in municipal
government, what would it be when ex,
tended to the State? Whenever the Repub-
llcan party has been in power in Jersey City
the treasury has been assailed until debt OF
$4,000, coo has been piled upon ill.,
THE WATER CONTRACT,
The speaker then reviewed the new water
contract and mentioned Griggs as being
counsel for Garret A. Hobart's water syndl-
cate and also counsel for the Delaware,
Lackawanna and Western Railroad Com
pany and other large monopolies and trusts.
He then reviewed Griggs' record upon labor.
He said the Republican candidate for Cover
nor was the sworn enemy of the laboriug
man and the strongest ally the rich and
powerful bad. He then returned to the ques-
ton of equal taxation, and again scored Mr..
Gliggs by telling how that gentleman pro-
tected the railroads from paying their
just share of the taxes. Mr.. Nc
Dermott then paid a glowing tribute to
the late Leon Albeit, in which he said amid
great applause that Mr. Albeit had more
love in his heart for the people of New Jer-
sey than thousand Griggs. Great ap-
plause).
In conclusion Mr. McDermott said that
New Jersey was the most economical State
IN the Union and was absolutely free OF
deDt, owing to the fact that for the past
thirty years there had been an uninterrupted
reign Of Democratic Governors
JUDGE REASLEY'S SPEECH.
Judge Chauncey Beasley, of Trenton, was
the next speaker. He confined his speech
to the record of Griggs, Sewell, Hobart
Dick Reading and other Republican leaders,
all OF whom he said were only in politics for
pap. and to crush the working man. he re-
viewed the work of the VOORHEES, lnvestIgat-
ing committee, and said that it cost the peo-
pie of New Jersey SIC. 500 to find out that
Barney Ford had gone abroad. He further
said that it was a jury of nine Republicans
and three democrats who acquitted MIR.
John Mullins Beasley next spoke of the
Senate muddle of 1894 Hesaid it had pre-
cedent in the year 1887, laid down by Griggs,
who moved every day for three weeks for an
adjournment, so as to give General Sewell
an opportunity to get the one vote necessary
to make him United States Senator.
but, as you remember he continued,
''Griggs' and Sewell's schemes failed" In
his closing remarks he paid glowing tribute
to Chancellor McGill, and told how the
Chancellor wiped out of existence the Read
ing Coal Combine. Poormaster Hewitt fol
lowed with few remarks, and the meeting
adjourned with cheers for the entire ticket.