The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-01

/ In the Emma Nv oods case, Mr.. Crane
I AGAIN proved equal to the occasion. and
| though il was d woman on trial, the jury
| brought III a verdict OF marslaughtef.
| The demands on Mr.. Cranes ability ana
being little positive evidence to connect
| her with the death of her lover, Lew
| Brown In the Alden Fales case, the
| Prosecutor having been i'll for time,
| came into court only to direct the prose-
| cuton, which was conducted by MS aple
assistant, Mr.. Hood. Fales was con,
| victed of murder in the first degree, ana
he was sentenced to be hanged. Then his
| counsel began a long fight. raising novel
points at frequent intervals None oI
| them, however. was too knotty Tor ME-
Crane and, as the public well knows, he
defeated his opponents al each move Ihe
result was that after all the stays of
| execution. the fights in the State and
Federal Courts. the lad was re-sentenced
| to be hanged, but his sentence was subse-8
| quently commuted to life imprisonment
| Other cases are on record in which Mr.
| Crane distinguished himself, in securing
| convictions, and in all he proved himself
to be the right man in the right place,
Mr.. Crane has been making a rafting
| campaign. He has visited every part of
the State, and he has made friends and
won votes in every county by his manly
bearing and honest and public spirited
4 utterances. He was in Hoboken last Fri
| day evening, and he there made char-
| acteristic speech to an enthusiastic crowd
s'Mr. President and Fellow Citizens 7
am pleased to meet you tonight and |
| thank you for your cordial greeting 1
have not much time to spend with you
now. but in the time have wish 70 can
your attention to the fact that three
publican candidate for Governor. he told
the people that it was time to put the
Democrats out of office, because tney hau
been wasteful and extravagant in the ex-
penditure of public moneys.
New Jersey being Democratic stare,
and at that election selecting. Mr. Griggs
to be Governor of the State. became con-
vinced that the arguments which We're
| used against us at the time, induced
Democrats to vote the Republican ticket,
| thereby bringing about the victory Ior
s'Whether or not we had been extrava-
CANT prior to Mr. Griggs election,
whether the accusations OF the Repupn-
can party were true or not, makes very
little difference TO the people of the State
at this time. Because the republican
party gained control of the State for
government have increased at an aver
age rate of $300, 900 a year. ever since
the Republicans have been in power. CAP
plause.) When they accused us OF eae
simply pointing out the fact tnat we
were using in the neighborhood OF Sl,sOo,-
coo a year in running the government.
They said it was too much; that py uslng
such an enormous sum we We're squan-
dering the public moneys Yet IN thelr
first year of power when they had COM
$S72 600 more than we did. (Applausel
In the second year they spent SAIL 700
more than we did. (Applause} In the
third year they spent $292, O00 more tnan
we did In 1897, the last year for which
we have any official report, they spent
1921 900 more than we did, and in this last
fiscal year, ending the thirty-first of this
month. / have been informed by State
Senators that the appropriation Dill VIII
be $See 900 in excess of our appropriation
bill. (Applause.)
f7ftr
ago. and if the figures alleged were SUI
hcient to satisfy the voters of the slate
that we were using money extrava gantiss
how much more justly can we now ac-
cuse them of extravaganza
II believe they have nisapplied our
monies. believe i6e, for the reason 4, 14aa 1hd
Assembly or Senate, has always peeii3
referred to a committee before. being pre-
sented for final action before the LegisIa-
ture In the last Senate when the appro-
priation bills were presented Mt Noor-
hees, the Republican candidate for GOV,
ernor, was President Of the senate, @ ana
mittees When he came to appoint the
Committee on Appropriations which IS
charged with preparing. 70 be preseniea
to the Senate the appropriation OF monies
to cover State expenses, he made It up
entirely of Republicans. He broke the
custom that has existed IN our Stale' lor
consider the claim of the members OF the.
Democratic delegation, and refused to
give representation to them on the COM
I'm the session of 1898 the appropriation
bill was presented to the Senate; 1t was
already printed and laid on the Senators
desks. 1t was presented one evening late
in the session, a few days before the Leg
islature adjourned In eighteen hours at
ter it was presented, it was called up by
the Republican majority, after II mad
been considered in a Republican secret
caucus and was forced through the Sen
ate, notwithstanding the fact that the
Democrat tic Senators protested that they
knew nothing about the bill, not having
had an opportunity to examine 1t. The
scheme, however had been all arranged
by the Republican majority and the bill
was forced through the Senate though
the Democratic Senators knew no more of
it contents than any of you at the time
(Applause.) am glad to say that the
Democratic Senators in the Senate re-
fused to consent to the passage of the bill
They refused to vote either for or against
it, because they knew nothing about it,
In view of these facts / can see no
reason why the conservative voters
should vote to retain the Republican
party in power in Democratic State;
Put the Democratic party in power and
we will give you an economical admins
tration, such as you had four years age,
before the Republicans were elected
when the State Comptroller, Mr.. Heppen-
heimer, a worthy citizen of Hoboken,
showed in his report s424,0o0 in the Treas
Il have been going about the State for
the past ten days, and l nave visited
many large cities, small townships and
municipalities of all kinds Notwith-
standing the false reports published i'll
Republican newspapers, have been re-
ceived with enthusiasm everywhere
have been surprised on going to places III
which there were no sidewalks and the
streets were deep with mud 10 find
halls packed to their utmost capacity,
showing that the people had arisen
against Republican misrule (Applause.)
II want TO draw your attention to an
other question in this campaign The at
titude Of Mr.. Voorhees, toward the labor
ing classes of the State of New Jersey.
organized and unorganized has been ques-
toned. believe that the laboring people
are sufficiently interested in labor quess
tions. to know what they talk about. ]
don't for that reason propose to go into
detail but ! have no doubt when organ
enemy organized labor is right In 1887
voted for every one of them as my rec
ord will show AS / stood by the work
ing man in 1887 / will stand by him now
and If elected will approve every bill thai
is favorable to their Interests
1t is unnecessary to say that the above
address was received with great deal of
| enthusiasm.
SEVENTH WARDERS.
United Democratic Club Has Fun
With Mr.. Aaron.