The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1896-10-14


scriptions upon them were Correcting to
the American Car, . Sound Money and
Protection, politics is Business and
Business is Politics, welcome Thos.
b. Reed" and one bore the up-to-date
anti-silver sentiment, 1--WE have no use
for the White Gar, we have a Gar of
our own On tree at the right of the
speakers stand was suspended a portrait
of Congressman Pitney in wreath of
flowers.
The Meeting Opened.
The weather was most suspicious for
such gathering. The day was bright
and fair, the air cleared of mist and chill
and the heavens shown blue and fair as
if conscious of the stupendous occasion,
when Col. E. l.. Dobbins, president of
the local Mckinley, Hobart and Pitney
Club, called the meeting to order and in
troduced as its chairman, Hon. Franklin
Murphy, of the Republican State Com
mittee. Mr.. Murphy said;
My fellow citizens of the Fourth Con-
gressional District - | am glad to be
with you ON this bright October after
noon to join in giving a cordial New
Jersey welcome to our distinguished
friend from Maine. am altogether too
conscious of your restless desire to hear
him to venture to detain you more than
a moment and yet | feel that should
say behalf of the State Committee and
on behalf of the various County Commit
tees throughout the State of New Jersey
that from such information as we have
been able to obtain / am of the opinion
that the State of New Jersey will give
Mckinley and Hobart larger majority
this year than it gave Governor Griggs
last November. More than five million
documents have been distributed by the
State Committee and if the people will
only read them and study them they
will be saturated with information on
the subject of Sound Money and tariff
that is altogether authentic.
The State Committee has been particu-
larly anxious in regard to the Fourth
Congressional District. We know the
struggle that you have here. We
know that for many years it was i'm
possible to elect Congressman from this
district, but two years ago you were sue
cessful and we believe, as think you be-
lieve, that if the efforts of this campaign
shall be continued as they have been up
to this time, there will be no doubt about
the reelection of your young Congress
man, Mahlon Pitney.
But l am not here to make speech to
you, but to present and introduce to you
the speakers of the day that you have
come to listen to, but am asked to an
nounce that before the speaking the en-
tire audience is requested to join in the
singing of America" the words of
which / understand have been distributed
throughout the audience; the music will
be led by cornetist.
Then three cheers were proposed for
Mahlon Pitney, and given heartily with
many tiger, followed by the singing of
America, y in which the entire audience
joined. Mr.. Murphy, resuming, said:
1.-TWO years ago-(cries of louder'')
this is somewhat of novel experience
for me. For the first time in my life,
find myself talking in the open air.
Those who follow me, however, have
got the voice.
Two years ago this Fall every Repub-
lican in New Jersey and especially every
Republican in the Fourth Congressional
District and very many of our Demo-
cratic friends were made happy by the
election of Mahlon Pitney. At the earn
est request of some of his friends and
against his own personal inclination, he
accepted the Republican nomination in
a district where, if there was any hope
of election, it was a sort of forlorn one.
But the brilliant campaign which he
made at that time and the support of the
people of this district sent him to con-
gress for the first time, think, that Re-
publican had been sent there since the
district has been formed on the present
lines.
have said to you that the State Com
mittee have had some anxiety about this
district, and yet man may have some
anxiety about thing and still feel all
through him way down to his boots that
after all he is full of hope and he is
going to succeed. think that this is the
situation in the Fourth Congressional
district to-day You know that when a
man gives up wrong habit of life for a
course of right living it is very well to
surround him with good examples and
good influences and good companions
until the grissle of good resolution be-
comes the bone and sinew of good habit.
And it is the same way with con-
gressional district. And the result in
the district this fall, there is no doubt
about it, will leave it permanently and
always Republican. l have the pleasure
of presenting to you your congressman,
Mahlon Pitney. Cheers for Pitney)