The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-03-25
MlNKS AT DINNER.
Prominent Republicans
Present at the Ninth An
nual Banquet Last
Night:
FATHER TIGHE's ELOQUENT SPEECH
Mr.. Brautigam Says Jersey City
is All Right and Scores the
Kickers . Excellent
Speakers.
FATHER TlGHE's ELOQUENT SPEECH

A few in office n many who would
like to be"
met in the Belvedere Hotel, G~reenviile,
last night at the ninth yearly banquet of
the Minkakwa Club. For one night in the
year, at least, the Minks, as they are
familiarly termed, dropped devfsing
means to beat their old rivals, the
Leaguers. n settled themselves to eat
and make merry. They did both, and
had besides an intellectual repast served
to them, distinctly a novelty for the Club
dinners.
President Charles Merker, when nine
O'Clock sounded. took his seat at the
cross table in the big hall ana beside him
sat Rev. Father John ]. Tighe, Rev.
Chas. J. Allen, Rev. C. F. Hull, Finance
Commissioner Henry B~rautigam, Alder
man Reuben Simpson, Director B. L,
Stowe, H.. H. Holiness Alderman w. H.
Vermilye, Judge James S.. Erwin,
Michael Schultz. Jr., and Chief Murphy.
At the cross tables sat Messrs. Horace
H. Farrier, Clayland Tilden, James Lo-
gan, J. Davidson, JOIN HI. Weastell, A.
b. D~usenbery, Edward Schultz, NJ.
Schultz, Sr., John J. Yuhl. COMMISSIONS
George w. Harding. Alderman Decker,
John G. Kaiser, Freebooter F. Percy, e.
T. Mitchell, y. P. Landrine, w. Collins,
John J. Erwin, G. Mitzenius, w. Ritter.
Jas. K. Hutchinson, w. C. Dunn, W. H.
Kent, Silas M Leach. Ed. Fry, f.
Schultz. Theodore Smith. r Dafeldecker,
Ludwig Lehman, B. Goldenhorn. P. Pat
ton. G. Renker. j, Grosklaus, James
Greer. G. B RELAY, E. Clark. ]. Hill. and
many others. Then the Dime began. OF
the repast itself. the least said the soon
est mended. Shade of Gus zeugner, what
a meali
President Charles Merker, when the
mess was chased away, welcomed the
guests in a felicitous speech. He al
luded. of course, to the Importance of
the Minkakwa Club in the councils Of
the nation. and although a red hot. Lam
er-than-thou-we-are-on-on-top speech,
Mr.. Merker spoke well n to the point.
Then the President appointed Alderman
William H. Vermilye, that funny man,
my dear" as the ladies call him, to act
as POSTMASTER, an Office which the witty
Alderman filled with honor to himself
and pleasure to the audience. He intro
duced the speakers with a story always
apropos. which created no small amnse-
ment, particularly when James S. Erwin
in replying to the first toast, s.The Min
kakwa Club" neatly turned one Of the
Alderman's shafts on himself,
Judge Erwin claimed all sorts of nice
things for the Minkakwa Club. 1t was
the exemplar of Republican principles,
he said, and was really far too good for
TINS wicked world, where Democrats are
ever r6adN <fnE trxr a11 x@1,-I -
The club. he said. had always been a
power for good and was so far disposed
70 even that it would pose as
the nkakw lion lying down with the
League lamb. The learned Judge omitted
TO say whether the lamb would be in
side the lion or out.
In the place of Mayor p. Farmer Wan
ser, who was down for Our City, Mr..
Henry Brautigam, the sahle mead Of the
Finance Board, undertook, at the
eleventh hour, to tell what a nice place
Jersey City is. The Mayor, he said, was
laboring with equal taxation in Trenton,
and as a Mayor he was the best the city
ever had {Chesrs.)
II am proud to be a citizen of Jersey
City" resumed Mr.. Brautigam, flushed
with zeal, land the greatest curse of this
city today is that there are men who de-
cry it. They kick and snarl and are
never satisfied. Jersey City stands better
today han ever before" Then Mr.
Brautigam deftly worked in a compliment,
- ~ 1 q 441G0klT
ing look at Chief Murphy; the Board of
Education, with a sidelong glance at Di-.
rector Stowe, and delighted the latter
gentleman immensely by adding that tho
money could produce. Mi. Brautigamt
was warmly cheered for his manly and
very sensible speech.
In a graceful way, quoting Goldsmfth.s
words:-'A man he was to all the country.
dear" Acknowledging introduced Rev
Father John J. Tighe, the eloquent rector
of st. Paufs Church, G~reenville, whose
rising was the signal for a storm 81
cheers. Never before did that large audi
enc enjoy such a discourse on .asCus
Country as hat delivered by Father
Tighe. The lofty sentiments, clothed in
the most beautiful language thrilled the
guests and held them as If by a spell.
He at the outset said that politics and
religion were inseparable. Man could not
detach himself from the world by climb
ing up mountains or hiding in the: re-
hottest depths of the forest. The falling
rain, the dropping dew, the glowing day
and glorious night, the very stars and
luminous moon. all were silent witnesses
of his deeds. In all conditions of life the
truest principle was to work for the well
fare of others. Real solid happiness COM
sisted in the steady performance of duty
to one country and ones God. (Cheers.)
Tracing the evils of Bourbonism and des-
potism to the birth off Americas free
dom Father Tighe pointed out the duty
of every man, which he said was to study
liberty n cherish it. The ~peroration to
the magnificent speech evoked loud cheer
ing and the guests rose to their feet and
cheered Father Tighe.
Then came. Rev. C. F. Hull Of Linden
Avenue M. E. Church, who jumped into
the breach to supply the place of Isaac
ence an address on What we have not
at the Legislature which we faith.
fully promised to do" h letter Of the
toast may not be correct, but that was
Whaf 1T should have h9anEE1M Hull w nda