The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1898-11-02
A c. O. P RALLY.
It Was Held In Lincoln Hall
Where Ex- Democrat
Record Prosed.

M
The Republican mass meeting last
| night, at Lincoln Hall was, according to
Republican ideas, a big thing, but in re-
/ gard to numbers and enthusiasm, COM
pared most unfavorably with many of the
mere club meetings of the Democrats.
The hall was not filled and there was no
| enthusiasm to speak of, the gathering
having rather the appearance of an I'M
emotional prayer meeting.
George r. Patterson, presided, and
without much introduction presented as
the first speaker George L. Record. as
| the latter said, to fill in until the arrival
of some of the speakers announced on the
! programme. Those particularly expected,
| failed to materialize, and SO Mr.. Record
| kept pegging away without the slightest
| idea of when he would be allowed to stop
Mr.. Record recently deserted from the
| Democratic party which failed to appre-
! ciate his services, if he ever rendered any,
to enlist as heavy man in the G.. o.. +.
I for which, according to what he SAID laSt
| night. he has always had a yearnlng. me
| nave whipped Dewey, which must have
| been when he was asleep, although only
| a boy at the time, though billed, did not
show up, and Hon. Frank Bergen was
aiSQg IGtOIQGd dIiOAt6 ~
| Record, for a while, had no fear OF inter-
| ruption.
He pitched into the Democratic theory
of treating organized lapor, ana salu
THE Democrats seem to think that all
that is necessary is to elect TO the Legls--
lature one who boasts that he is a friend
| of labor, and there their interest ENDS.
No attempt is-made to place a law LOT
| the benefit of labor on the statute book.
To benefit labor a law is wanted to equal
ize the burdens of the rich and poor,
and the organs and Bill DAYS may
| preach for a thousand years and not a
benefit in this direction will be secured.
When the people of the East learn TO foi-
low the example of the South. and SEND
| to the Legislature and Congress only men
| Of brains who will know how 70 draft
| laws and properly provide for their en-,
forcement, then the common people Will
find protection, and reap the penenl
| There is really no other question before
the American people, and it is disgusting
to see men who are the paid agents OF
moneyed corporations posing as the rep.
resentatives and champions OF lapof. y
you want the prosperity which has grown
up in the last two years to continue, vote
for the Republican ticket.
I'm regard to the State issues which
our Democratic friends pretend to be so
anxious to discuss, it is only necessary
10 point to the record OF that party OUT
ing the two or three years prior 70 me
election of Governor Griggs- They made
even no pretence of civil government. but
| so administered public affairs that a few
men, and not such a few either, We're en-
abled to get rich on the money beiong-
ing to the people. We do not find that
| any good people ever perish on account
| of thieving and other crimes. they are
able to keep them down and they DO ut
tie injury. but the crime by which our
| liberties are endangered is the selling OF
Legislatures to the highest bidder, ana
this has been the Democratic custom.
Not a corporation or Individual, but
| could get all they wanted from our
Democratic Legislators provided they had
the price, that is, if they knew where TO
| go. and there was no difficulty in hnding
| out as there were plenty ready to guide
| and signs were conspicuously displayed.
1t was this that caused the fail or the
Roman Empire, and If continued mere
will be the death of this country. AL
| ready there is no such thing as govern
ment by the people, and for the people in
| either the State or City of New York, and
it is threatened that Lincoln's forboding
will come to pass, that the government
by the people and for the people will per-
ish. The Democratic party puts w
today the very same men VINO We're I'M
that have cursed and smirched the record
of this State.
I'VE rave had three years Of a pure
and prosperous government under a Re
| publican administration of affairs, attend
| ed to with skill and ability, and not left
to the management and control OF sor..e
| able integrity and justice to all, the Re-
publicanS have conducted the State Gov
eminent, and it may be safely said that
no Republican Governor would ever %
| as the Governors did before the Republic
can rule. If the people desire a continu-
| ance of good government they hould
| vote for Foster M. Voorhees,, who for ten
| years has been in pubic life, and although
many who served with him in thes Leg
islature nave become rich, ha{s as poor
today as when he first entered. proving
that he has been strictly honest
John c.. Schenck first smeared Mr.
Record all over with praise for being an
| apostate, and then said IF this thing
keeps up we will have Allan 4.
| mott and Bob Davis in this hall trying
to make Republican speeches. Mr..
! Schenck said he would, IN soft words,
make hard arguments. He desired to
| make converts, not enemies, and all
| were Americans before they were either
| Republicans or Democrats. In regard to
the claim of the Democrats that Admiral.
Dewey is q Democrat. the speaker said
that he had the best authority for aying
that that is not SO, and that Dewey came
from one of the old Vermont Republican
| families, but everywhere it is now ap-
parent that the turn is to drop partisan
ship and become a nation of united peo-
pie. He said that candidates for public
office should be selected for their fitness,
should have from those who select them
a certificate of character. He next de-
\ serted the Democratic platform OF pre-
tended to tearing 1t to pieces in great
style. and claimed that the vital prin-
ciples' spoken of in that instrument are
ali dead and buried. "An Democratic
members of the Legislature" he said,
will have to vote for James Smith. of
Newark, for State Senator oneS of the
| greatest m~onopolists of the State.
Chancellor McGill, when he ran on the
| Democratic ticket, a pure and upright
Judge. was defeated by his own party,
because he did not keep the right kind
| of company, according to Democratic
| rule. The Republican candidate for Com
| gress believes in expansion. and the
| chicken that has come out of it's shell
shall not be put back into the shell
again"
The next and last speaker was Colonel
James Fairman. of the Fifty-ninth New
| election are determined by the circum-
! stances of the country, and delivered d
long address on the money question and
the tariff iii which he endeayored to
prove tina gold Is the only honest money,
1 and that the present tariff IS protective
of the best interests Of the American
/ people.