The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-03-21

AFTER DALY'S SCALP
Veterans Rights Assocla-
ton Denounces His
Course on Bill 1853.
DR.. GORDON ALSO BERATED
Old Soldiers Resolve to Do All
They Can. to Defeat Both
Mems Aspirations.

and discussed the much mooted question
of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument,
which is to be erected in front of the
City Hall. They also passed numerous
resolutions bearing on the subject, one OF
which calls upon DIR. Leonard j. Gordon
to resign as a member of the Monument
Committee, while another was in the
nature of a petition to Governor Foster
nj. VOORHEES,, asking him to veto House
Bill No. 1863. which legalizes the action
of the Monument Committee in selecting
the Martigny design for the proposed
monument. There was a great deal said
about the Mayoralty boom of DR.. Gordon
and the Gubernatorial boom which
has been launched by Senator DAILY in
his own behalf, and the veterans de-
clared that they would stand together
and to a man work for the defeat of both
men if nominated.
President William B. Simmons opened
the meeting by reviewing the alleged
grievances which the veterans have
against the Monument Committee. He
was followed. by P. II. O'Neill, who told
of the efforts of a committee of which
he was a member to stop the passage OF
Bill No. 1853.
1--WE thought" he said, "that we had
it in committee and that it would re-
main there. but as soon as we left II
was rushed through the House and went
at once TO the Senate, where 1t passed
without a dissenting vote and was sent
to the Governor. All our protests ana
appeals which we sent to Trenton were
in vain. The shabby treatment we re-
ceived at the hands of those who pretend
ed to help US has shown US that we
will nave to fight this thing out alone.
Tt is the whole State against a few PAL
try veterans, and / suppose 1t Is pre-
sumption on the part of the veterans to
attempt to fight so august a committee
as is pitted against them. That COM
mittee does not even have to knock at
the door of the Legislature to gain recog-
nitien.n
Mr.. O'Nein then presented the follow
ing resolutions
Whereas. Committee after commit
tee have been appointed by the Vet
eran Rights Association to wait upon
your Legislators, and at one time they
made an appointment to grant us a
hearing but disappointed the COM
mittee sent by the Veteran Rights AS
sociation; and
Whereas. We have been sending let
tiers and invitations to DR.. L. j. Cor
don. chairman of the Hudson County
Monument Committee, requesting some
or any kind of information IN relation
10 II Old4C dA2NA INV
of Hudson county, and having pleaded
in vain with the aforesaid committee;
therefore be it
Association of Hudson county,. repre-
senting 1000 veterans of the late war
and 800. 900 people of said county, APP
peal to the Hon. Foster NJ. Voorhees,,
Governor of the State, to recognize
the veteran soldiers and sailors, also
home industries and the labor ele-
ment in the State and county by
granting us a hearing, which was de-
MED by both Houses of our Legis-
lature. therefore be it further
Resolved, That if a hearing is re-
fused we pray that the bill known as
House No. 1853 may be vetoed by His
Excealeacy Foster Voorhees,; and be 1t
Resolved, That a copy of these reso-
buttons be forwarded to our Governor,
also to the Committees on Militia in
both Senate and Assembly in. the
Legislature.
The resolutions were unanimously
adopted. Comrade O'Neil declared that
throughout the United States there was
not one monument erected in honor OF
the heroes of the late war which has not
upon it the figure of a soldier or sailor
or both.
There are, he said, national ceme-
teries, and not one of them contains a
monument in honor of our brave dead on
which is the figure Of an antique woman
If the monument which the ommitt
proposes to erect is placed in front of our
CITY Hall future generations will look at
it with ridicule, and will have to have
some DR.. Gordon there with a mytholog-
ical history of the statue to explain
what it is"
President Simmons then attacked Dr.
Gordon. He said
II honor a bold fghter-al honor to the
comrade who fights for what he thinks
right-but I despise a sneak Assembly
bill No. 1853, fathered by DR.. Leonard
Gordon. is an outrage upon every citizen
Of this county. and it would be vain for
me in words to try and bring it clearly
10 your attention by any description OF
the same. Let it suffice that the Monu-
ment Committee, finding that they had
exceeded their power about the monde
script creation of their fertile brains,
sneaked off to Ocean county and there i'm
posed upon one of our comrades the beau
Ties of Assembly bill No. 163, then by
political legerdemain they bamboozled
our own statesmen of Hudson county to
helD pass this act, which was to legalize
an Illegal action. Oh, great and mighty
Gordon. Oh, fellow idiots, how dare you
saw that you have any rights within the
sight Of this mighty candidate for the
mayorality OF Jersey City. Yes, idiots,
what if you do object to the design of
what is to perpetuate the valor OF the
American soldier and sailor OF hudson
county being handed down to posterlty
Dy a travesty in bronze upon the lines OF
j Minerva, or God knows what. 1t does
not matter, the great and mighty star
eonnoisseur says you are idiots, and he,
and only he, knows what shall be known
70 the people of Hudson county as the
Soldiers and Sailors Monument. Ihe
FUTURES who hover over the iloatIng
sorpse of our slain sailors of the snip
Maine in the harbof of Havana are more
symbolical and in keeping as a memorial
q their memory than the design OF the
Nartigny monument intended for the
eommemoration of our hero dead OF Hud-
son county"
aent that Governor Voorhees, would not
3ermit House bill No. 1853 to become a
Jaw, There's q man., he said, whom
Ne can all respect irrespective of politics
if at any time anyone pulls wool over
Foster Voorhees, eyes it will be when ne
can't get his specs on, and it won't be
DR. Gordon who'll do it. either"
Mr.. Christie then introduced the follow
ing resolution, which was unanimously
adopted
Resolved, That whereas DR.. T. J.
Gordon is Chairman OF the HUDSON
county committee for the erection ct a
Soldiers and Sailors Monument OF the
late war for the preservation OF our
Union. to commemorate their heroic
achievements with the sacrifice OF