New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-02
"THE LEGAL DUKE OF YORK"
HIS ASPIRATIONS FOR THE MAYoRALTY
AND PRESIDENCY.
JOHN POPE HopNETT HIRES A BAYoNNE IN. J)
CASINO TO START HIS BOOM WITH MAsS-
MEETING. WHICH is ATTENDED By

MEETING. WHICH Is ATTENDED BY
HIMSELF AND FOUR MEN.
There is still hope that the candidates OF the nc
publican Tammany ard other organizations VIII
have some show in the strugg.e Tor inc Orea'e'
New-York Mayoraty The great mass-meet"sS
hat to be held yesterday at Bayohhc' y. -
70 launch boom for John Pope Hodneu' which
would demonstrate the utter futility OF any oiAer
candidate aspiring 10 the office Of Mayor next 40
ycmher didn't take place. The fault ola not lie WIFE
Nr. Hodne t. All that was in human power rand energy
10 make those meetings success Mr.. Hodnett en-
p.oyed Bayonne for week has been decorated WIN
raring posters with the name Of John Pope Hod-
nett printed red letters foot deep announcing the
meetings and their purposes That MS opponents
should have no opportunity OF charging nih WIN
Unfair tactics he invited among others president
MCKINLEY. Senator Hanna Governor Grggs and
Mayor Strong Re issued handblls BY the tnou-
sand. urging people TO come ard hear niin point
;le way the millennium.
WHERE. OH. WHERE. WERE THEY?
And vet with all this the demonstrations that
were TO place Mr. Hodnett right al the steps OF the
CITY Hall failed Of realization The cause thereoi
was simple but effective enough. The nrst ree--
ing was advertised for o'clock in the AFTERNOON
The capacious Salters Casino. at the bouieVarn anu
Fifty-frst-st was engaged, but in the ahuciPd-
lion that it would not hold 1.-THE of the muiti'uoe
which you'd flock to Ir. Hodnetts standard ar
iansemerts for overflow meetings were made.
An hour before the stated time for the meeting
the doors we're thrown open, but there was 10
eager pushing busting crowd waiting TOT ADMIT
! lance. still Mr. Hodnett was not dismayed. There
was an hour OF grace before him. and in that time
ne throngs would surely congregate. But as the
hands Of the clock swung round and the ehd OF
the hour was nearly reached. ana the great
casino was still empty as ever SAVING
Mr. Hodnetts presence. he grew "olu!ly ann
ions The Thousands who were to journey
Proc iNn
Confines of Rayonne had either lost their way
r missed the ferryboats. Mr.. Hodnett secuted the
idea that the necessary expenditure OF nlchei io'
carfare WAS in any way responsible Tor tIe ca'aH'
phe Still the fact remained that at the tiihe ioi
the openng Of the meeting, in the preparation OF
which so much labor and money had been expehdeu
there were only four individuals In the big nall ana
"a II 10 sink the iron deeper into the soul OF MI
Hodnett one OF them was a gentleman whorn tne
bary breeses Of the Passaic had nvigorated 10 al
most a state OF incoherency. but who nevertheess
persisted in delivering in loud voice doctrines OF
ss,irc,lv eocialistIc character and denunciations
+ all candidates for Mayoralty offices In general
and OF Mr. Hodnett in particular.
HOPED FOR BETTER THINGS
Half an hour later Mr. Hodnett in tremuious
voice dismissed the little cotere or tour ana
hoped for better things at the meeting 10 De he'u
al night.
Al Q o'clock last night Mr.. Hodnett was stand
discOnsOldtely
grounds on one side of him there was the ptH-
uantly lighted hotel with the piazzas hlled with
people ENJOYING the hosptaties OF the mousse
while on the other side OF the grounds there was
the Casino itself which ought 10 have been neu
with an enthusiastic and cheering crowd WIN tiou-
nett as the central triumphant figure but Whieh
sadly enough was closed dark ana deserteu'
Again. at the night meeting the tumultuous thou
sands were absent and John Pope Hodnett the
friend OF honest labor and the founder ana eauer
OF the Labor party in America, instead OF oeils
escorted TO his Brooklyn home by procession oi
countless admirers. with torchlisht ana muslca
effects. was left desoate and lonely in the Casino
grounds save for the friendly company OIL TWO VI
three reporters, into whose sympathHlhg ears "'
noured a recital Of what might nave Deeh'
The failure OF the aboring men TO raiiy around
him yesterday he attributes TO the hhish's u
Labor whose enmity he has earned ne says pe
cause he has opposed strikes at inopportune times
Asked why he alighted upon Bayonne' ~ d.
wherein 10 open his campaign for the Greater
vo,,-york Mayoraty he explained that New-Jer-
COZ, was a favorite resort for workngmen on sun
DAYS and for that reason he had iooked ioi
larger concourse in Bayonne than he could attract
In New York or Brooklyn. go, NJ
However one rebuff is not likely to XIII MI
t1odnett's aspirations. With unparalleled modests
ha has intlmated the chief magistracy OF greater
/ Hew-York is his for the asking. ana Win uu's
charming frankness he has explained IN a c'cuia'
that his election as Mayor is merely the stepping ,
s,ore n = nomination and election as President OIL
the United States, and that when eiecteu "e WI
he A man like Jackson in the WHITE house. WIN
r,u do right by all the people; restore confidence
and bring back 70 the Amercf an ReGP ed S Sra all the
universal prSsPerdiy y 9 from poverty dieness
Chains and slavery. Hurrah Tor HodnetTL fa ~,
friend of honest labor ana me louiiuei "a ~ ~
Dor marty In America
HIS OTHER QUALIFICATIONS.
. alan Mr. Hodnett according to
bis own statements given to the reporters last nsh
has peculiar qualifications TO NJ MN TOT s'e 80 ~
Try ~ Greater New-York and afterward for the
Precedence Of the United States. In his veins runs
tb hluest NJ England's blood, ne says Lineaily ue
sce,dad from Edward ", as he asserts ne Is
ba il allied 70 the houses Of Plantagenet OF Ian
c,stor ~ York. ana can claim relationship there
by with most OF the reiSning soverelsh' ol HN
rope. II am the legal Duke Of York he Went on
and my right TO mat I'VE "ou'' &c
OF Then Ar some length Mr. Hodnett traced his de-
scent from me Ant OF Settlement, when William
and Mary were crowned WHICH disenirahchlsed M ~
son Of Queen Victoria In proof OF al thls
ne refers scoffers to Eytons Antiquities o. Shrop
Besides practising as a lawyer in BROOKLYN NJ
Hodnet has evolved many glorious scheihes or "
e1T'c6m@nt Of biz friends but somehow or othe:
they have to nothns one OF 5aesg pass
mental Railroad Highway This was the conS Tre6
ton o; railway from New,rqrk TO gan tsid
because the road would nave been laid as straight
a. Decline General Grant and the late " nj ri
, hi had been introduced in Congress. but before
the scheme had taken practical form General Grant
,nd Mr. Vanderbilt had died. and since then NJ
had not felt inclined to go ahead with the - great tSs
Inv LAST giving 5000 to Mr. Hodnett for his SER
vices in investigating lhuuS''"' 'o"'''0' -