The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-04-13
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COLES PLAIN Talk.
Mass Meeting in Bergen Hal
to Endorse the Demo-
cratic Ticket.

tAau tHe pu1nptlouS and expensive City
Clerk Edward w. Woolley been. present
on Saturday night at a. mass
meeting Of citizens gathered in
Bergen Hall he would have had
very bad quarter Of an hour Ex-
i ssern bIyInan Frank o. Cole and other
/ speakers fguratively fayed this profes-
/ slonaly good individual and held up to
ridicule and contempt his conduct in the
I City Clerks Office. Mr.. Cole didn't forget
70 pay his respects to the administration
OF the city government generally, and
wound up an exceedingly able speech by
urging Republicans, who seek to rebuke
the miSdeeds of those in office. to vote
for Messrs. Heintze and Boltwood and the
entire Democratic ticket
The meeting was of a non-partisan
character. and among the audience were
many we'll known Republicans from the
| Ninth ward. There were also members
Of the Bergen Democratic Association
and Frank H Kinlmerly Association, be-
| sides many from Lafayette and Green
| Vile organizations
| Dr. Mortimer Lampson of Lafayette
| was requested to preside. and beside him
on the platform were Messrs. F. O. Cole.
| Congressman George B. Fielder, Geo.
G. Tenant, John Knoeller and Frank
Scott, Democratic candidates for Alder
men, and others. In opening the meet
| ing DR.. Lampson briefly sketched the
| issues involved, and then introduced Mr..
4 Cole, Who was cheered again and again
on stepping to the front OF the platform.
He began by reminding his audience OF
| that important duty of citizenship, name
ly, the casting OF a ballot at an cleo
ton. It was all very we'll, he said, for
the people at Washington to pass reso-
| lutions about Cuba and Venezuela, raise
or lower the tariff, and build battleships.
but the government of Jersey City would
pc carried on irrespective of these things
| as long as its Inhabitants expect to re-
ceive comfort and happiness. The very
same feeling, he said, which prompted
him to urge the election of Mr.. Wanser
| Drought him to the meeting then to con-
| slider what the city government had done
| 70 redeem the pledges and promises made
II the ofnclals had not kept their prom
ises honestly they should be rebuked with
loud voice ait the election tomorrow.
Then illustrating the working of the
+ 4 city government which Mr. Cole aptIy
compared it to corpora tion or Wprkshop
The taxpayers or employees in 3iie city
workshop cannot subdue fires, be police
men, or erect places of learning, hence
these duties were delegated to others who
are not employed to maintain a political
machine, but to do their duty He de-
piered the fact that for thirty years in a
city for which nature had done every
tnlng, city, the entrepoI of railroads in
the State, city on the edge of a nagn.-
1cent waterway, the citizens have been
Obliged to watch their servants closely
To- get even decent sort of government
1t the debt of the city continues at the
present rate, there is only bankruptcy
ahead.
DO you know" he continued what
bankruptcy means to Jersey City? It
| means that we will be put back twenty
years like Elizabeth and Railway
Mr.. Cole complained that during Mayor
Wansers admin stration there have been
I'VE tax levles, and the system of levying
iads f11e taxes he carefully explained. In
1881 when Mayor Cleveland appropriations
summer, under Mayor Wanser's regime,
July next will be sl,254, ,s37.49
y IS 'a that good and pnre rovepa Is ha
ITS a5 q ,s scandal. shame mo. !"
crease was not due to any Disbursements its
for school purposes, but was entirely for
the police department.. 1t takes, he said.
$l6l, 600 to pay the cost of the police de-,
fully managed department He pointed out
that when three years ago there was "a
Police Superint endent, the Republican,
.lnougnts n that V, ooo for him was wicked
waste, and Mayor Wanser secured the
abolishment of the act and the superin-
tendent.
'.But what did they do, those Reformers?
Why, they raised Chief Murphys salary
appcinted another Captain,s few more
.sergeants and roundsmen. Where is the
economy s It's absurd that We pay $4,000
a. ysnr sdsd more t. repress crime ehan we DO
committing crime It's rnonstrous' G,ol1d
Mr.: Cole then branehed off to the water
ent Board Of Works for its Conduct due = on on
tfat head set the audience into fits
Ct Ct laughter AZ q by reading the printed report
TTppainmlls.lomers Tpia explaining I teir
ana az intergected sarcastic comments on the
beautiful thoughts it contained Com
Ing to these lines, All citizens are not
equal placed he said: -
No, indeed he said amid laughter
we are not all in the Board of Works. ;,
Then again where the report spoke of
from Mr. Cole: .'Does anyone : seriousIv siloisIv
peileVe the Board of Works possesses any
gray matter?o Roars of laughter.9
~ read you some more, he contin-
ued. Retrospective sagacity sometimes
mistakes n for wisdom. etc Isn't that
Just great and beautiful but what the
devil does It nlean?" (Renewed laugh
teri Now, gentlemen. the present Board
the Republican candidates, Hooker and
Patterson, YOU will never get anything for
Jersey City. The election of Messvs.
Heintze and Boltwood means that the
people are angry with the Board and
don propose to have any more disgrace
fui conduct in the future This is not
question Of RepublicanisIn or Democracy.
In this election don't see where it comes
in
Mr.. Cole then devoted few minutes
70 the Bumptious City Clerk Woolley.
whose brilliant economy consisted in
shutting off g few dollars from the press
see them, and putting $500 in his own
pocket fof doing two hours work on
election day
It IS important he said, .sthat the
candidates should pledge themselves to
refuse to maintain such an evil. It is
AZ evil that this man Woolley shall
charge $500 for two hours work and cali
1t Reform. Boshi"
Cries. Down with Woolley and his
gang
Closing his remarks, Mr. Cole urged. in
est citizens to vote for the Democratic
candidates. No better ticket, he said.
gould have been selected for the people.
When he resumed his seat he was cheer 1
ed again and again.
Mr. George @. Tennant followed IN a
very able speech, in which he told his
hearers some truths about the scandals
connect ted with Woolley's Office Mr..
Tennanf said that Woolley was running
and using the services OF a clerk, paid |
e do City work, to collect search fees
Make It 4 point Is see that your blood 4