The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-08-09
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HUDSON'S SENATOR
Handsome Tribute From
Newark to William D.
Daly-His Career
SketChed.
RECORD IN THE LEGISLATURE
A Friend of Labor and the Ener-
getic Enemy of Republican
Hypocrisy.
RECORD IN THE LEGISLATURE


is a vigorous review of the Senator 5
public. career, doubtless from the pen Oh
Mr.. T. E. Burke, the new editor ot
Flown Topics" and for many years
Trenton correspondent of the Newark
Evening News" Nobody in the state
knows more about legislative matters
than Mr.. Burke. He speaks by the cara
and this fact gives additional interest,"
and Importance to the following shepch.
Hudson, like her sister counties OF
Sussex. Morris and Warren, mas con
tributed many of the luminous oros VINO
ttend to make the politico Legal llrila a.
ment of New Jersey SeconG a sv the as
sertion that not one in that br1lIlanl OH
stellation stands out more prominently
than Senator William d. Day: z
citizen, q lawyer, a statesman and a POI.
itieian. in the higher ~acceplaneS ronL
latter term. ne stands in the front rann,
and unlike the majority of his colleagIie as
aBilr, Daily, as his friends, who(are ie-
sion. farniliariy call him, owes 10 ne
own indomitable will and energy 3 me
proud distinction he hoios III his
Born in 1851 in the big town on the
west bank of the Hudson, OF STURDY Pc
rents. with moderate means, the supJScl
of this sketch was forced to begin Ine
battle of life at an early age Wlih ny rs !
acy except a sound body ana m In na,h1ic
fair education. obtained IN inc pao Of
schools before he reached the, age oL
fourteen wears. He entered the cory
Iron Foundry as an apprentlce a and i n
newman moulder. During al TINS pT Nv %
the ambitious young artisan was ICY -
into the mysteries OF Bl aireed strike of
1sTo When he went out of the Erie foun5
drv with his fellow workInen ne reSolV no
to don his ust. asaIra was kent. His
ability. even at that early Gay, Mao
known to many. and az me 9Sa Sfice
Of e~S-Judge Bla L + ne . E eht ) law student
. 0na veaTs latter he was admitted TO me
bar as an attorney at law, anu III "'
he was made counsellor. Y on,,
With fl1e tact and energy pecular Oily
tn self-made men, Lawyer paiy rose Taps
idly in his profession, n ms an S+nte
His frst important case was the oeIsHss
~ an impecunious murderer, 10 WdI 81
he had been ASSIGNED by the coudt since
go has represented the defense N
more capital cases than any AWE III
the State. with perhaps one hei ne the de-
go +ba f~rjendIess negro Collins, VINO
shot ard killed a Princeton uasns s am
escaped with twenty years ae;dfion made
l Te,1nsay1or Daly entertain a most kindly
faelinr toward laboring men ana laooI
organizations, and ne was atmas 81 their
errayed as. an. ardent Oh thell
cause. - IN T.ApoR
T 7ST2 he PO00llEI6u LliC ~ -,
Erie Railroad strikers and secured their
s1aaIittai. and in like manner he dsfena-
id and saved the Cigar Makers Shaon'
when its leaders were charged Win con-
This of course won for Mr.. DAILY the
respect and gratitude OF the gT sd nffer
Having served as Assistant Unlte1 states
lDistrict Attorney. he was urged 70 r.
leept the nomin aath3n foF m IS needle es qf e
p ~ that he was elected by a rousing
majority. .u na~oora+
! bas nntform courtesy won him a host OF
friands even among the opposition, ahu
he scored a brilliant success during ms
first term as the the p Gf the Ho Deaeer Oh MS
At tbe close of the session of 1891 ne
was appointed District. Court Judge and
served in that ca2aelty ~ eia aIled as Sen,
afor from Hudson county. It was dur
ing his incumbency of the latter posi-
+ts = tbat many an older and Cf that
were noSsible) more astute poiftlclah
migft look upon with ~paTdona u envy tiwe
when his party had absolute control OF
every branch of the State government
senator Daly, by his S =made ah a
record which later enabled him to save
his own party from hat seemea me
impending e, s9 ann5hirati shape a the most i'm
na ar+ ! Hesitation of the session of 1885
and defeat the most pernicious parllsan
measures conceived py nue We 1ovver
House. r ond snecial
sessions Of the la5t a oe fba neonle' Ali
remember the food of new meaSures.
Reaching almost 500, and It IS quarry tha so+ Il
nf 55O laws enacted reached final pas,
sage without undergoing the most Tlgru
scru,iny Of the 6s senafoTi 1TGIm tya1 With
~ four followers, none of whom lay
claim to the gift of silver tongueo ora
torv senatGr Daly W va b 5oeqset to defeat
psslled to h Ineas1lres, io and he did it re-
sestediy. and often with success IN the
face of great r 21aa; ALERT.
IT was not only partisan measures ne
FOUGHT, and his range was not gy any
Tma ean Sfe own county only. His duty
was TO guard the interests Ct the people
of the entire state; ara end,d re do old re az per
nd Tver on the alert, never for a moment
losing his almost perfect. control, az
times almost. exasperafing,y court III
end delightfullv sarcastic. Senator Day
mad the Republican majority on me oes
fensive from the opening to the close OF
The Elective Judiciary Bill Senator
Daily opposed. not so much for its az
parent ~nartisan conception as TOT me
reason that he considered 1T an lnVas-
ION Of constitutional -rights-almost rev,
ol1ltionary in character. 1T was caileu
o,,t of the regular order. ard at q time
yvhan IT was expected the Naturalization
Pi1, would he taarer IN on final passage:
The Hrdson statesman w9s prepared
for the latter with an areunePt attn-
yether foreign to the one he pronosed tt
advance against the passage OF the Judi-
ciarv Pill. AS a matter of courtesy IS
asked that the original order be f,oloTed'
and he was to make his fight wholly I'M
prepared. -
So we'll did he succeed that Senator
Voorhees,. who championed the measure
frankly admitted that it was unwillingly
he espoused the bill. after the Hudson
Senator's portrayal of its objecttnnahle
features. The Naturalizatin BIZ ne
scored as unlAmerican, vicious ana I'M
constitutional, and although the measure
passed by a strict party vote. 1t Is not
unlikely that Senator Days argument
viii be INDICATED by he courts.
Next came the anti-labor measures,
designed to wine out the State board Oh
Arbitration and Bureau of Labor Stats.
tjrs. Liz the other partisan tainted
measures. they had caucus Endorsement
and were booked for pa~rage. But they
didn't pass. So clearly did Senator DAILY
depict the partisan grab concealed be
meath the harmless exterior of the meas,
ures that the more conservative element
fused to take away from labor the little
it hadlleft.
ENSFTfE INSURANCE BILL.
The Eisele Insurance Bill. one of the
most important measures of the session
furnished the round for a further dis
nIay of the Hudson Senator's solicitudt
for thesbeople and Independence of cor