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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14
ADDRESS TO VOTERS.

The Republican State Committee today
issued its address to the voters of the
State is as follows:
TO THE VOTERS OF THE STATE
OF NEW JERSEY.
An election will be held on November
for a Governor, Legislature of the
State that will elect a United States
Senator and for eight members of Con-
gress to represent the people of the State
in the House of Representatives at Wash
ington. The issues of the present cam
paign, therefore. are both State and ma
tional, and the record of the Republican
party for ability, honesty and high pa
triotism so commends it to the favor of
the people that it appeals with entire
confidence to the voters of the State for
their support.
The government of the State for the
past four years has been SO able, so hon
est, so free from public criticism, SO
nearly what it should be, that its difficult
to realize that only four years have
passed since the condition of things
throughout the State was the exact OPP
posite of what it is now.
When in 1895 the Republican party
asked the people of New Jersey to en-
trust it with the government of the
State, it promised to uproot the abuses
that had been fastened upon the public
service, TO cleanse the State of certain
foul infamies, and to inaugurate re-
gime of decency and good government.
The people had faith in its profession,
and swept corrupt Democracy out of
power. Today there is no cleaner nor
better governed State in the Union.
The situation that confronted the Re-
publicans of New Jersey in the fall pre-
ceding the election of 1898 was dark
and discouraging. The State lay help
less in the grasp of uncomfortable politi-
cal despots.
The principal agencies upon which
those who masqueraded in the name and
dishonored the traditions of the Demo-
cratic party had relied to reduce New
Jersey to condition of seemingly hope
less political bondage, were four in num-
Der:
L 1IOO4 AMI Wv ALL
OTHERS IN WICKEDNESS, WERE
STUPENDOUS AND UNHEARD-OF
FRAUDS UPON THE SUFFRAGE.
It was proven in official Investigations
that the registry list had been padded
with hundreds of fictitious names. from
barns, vacant lots and graveyards; that
thousands of fraudulent ballots had been
voted at single election in Hudson
County, and that gangs of repeaters.
native and imported, went unchallenged
from poll to poll. These frauds had
been practised for years, not only in
Hudson County, but in most of the cities
of the State.
SECOND, PROTECTION OF THE
RACETRACK GAMBLING DENS AT
GUTENBERG AND GLOUCESTER
CITY, WHICH NATURALLY FUR
NISHED LARGE ANNUAL CONTRI-
BUTTONS TO THE CAMPAIGN
FUND OF THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY. The places of legalized gam
bling not only corrupted the public
morals, but poisoned the very fountain
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14

head of the government itself by their
enormous contributions to the Demo-
cratic corruption fund The widespread
evil of the bribing of voters, that had
become such a scandal in this State,
drew its chief sustenance from this foul
source.
THIRD, BY TURNING OUR STATE
PENAL REFORMATORY, EDUCA-
TIONAL, CHARITABLE AND OTHER
INSTITUTIONS INTO DEMOCRATIC
PARTISAN MACHINES.
Boards of direction and management,
composed of citizens eminent for their
character and public virtue, who had
given faithful and intelligent service,
were ruthlessly turned out and Demo
cratic politicians installed in their places.
The government of these institutions
was revolutionized,
The State prison, the State hospitals,
the State Normal and Model Schools,
the Reform School, the Deaf Mute
School, and every non-partisan board
and commission in the State were thus
transformed into Democratic machines,
introducing into our public affairs a
spirit of malign and ravenous partisan
ship that debauched every public institu-
ton and every branch of the State Gov
eminent.
FOURTH, BY A GERRYMANDER
OF THE LEGISLATIVE DISTRICTS,
THE MOST GROTESQUELY OUT
RAGEOUS EVER ATTEMPTED IN
THIS COUNTRY. Its character may
be inferred from the boast openly made
by its trainers that it was designed to
make forty-two Democratic districts out
of the sixty. Nothing else was thought
of in its construction but to secure parti-
san advantage by the grossest unfairness.
It well served its purpose. In the As
sembly of 1892 the Democrats had forty
two members and the Republicans
eighteen, although the Repu blicans polled
81, 1874 votes against 113, 084 polled by the
Democrats, emitting the former to TWEEN
| ty-eight members and the latter to thirty
two, under an equitable system of appor-
! tiorment. Under this gerrymander it
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14

amended by turning into the municipal
treasures about two hundred thousand
dollars year, derived from the taxation
of this species Of property, to the consid-
cradle relief of the local governments.
There have been paid by the Republi-
can party during the four years that it
has been in power. in addition to meet
ing all of the ordinary expenses of gov
ernments, in all of its branches and de-
partments, and leaving large surplus
in the treasury, extraordinary appropria-
tons aggregating over million and a
half dollars.
The extraordinary disburse-
ments thus made for the
fiscal year ending October
81. 1894, for the Jersey
City Armory, the public
debt, public roads, etc.,
amounted to. ...... $341, 103 40
For the fiscal year ending
October 3D. 1895, for the
Paterson Armory, Jersey
City Armory, public
roads, State Hospital,
State Prison, State Capt.
toll etc., they amounted
to-. ............. 527, 692 70
For the year 1896, for the
State Prison. State Re-
formatory. Morris Plains
Hospital, Camden Ar
mory, ETC., they amount
to. 1873, $40 AZ
For the fiscal year 1897, for
the Camden Armory,
State Reformatory, Nor
ris Plains, Constitutional
amendments, etc., they
amounted to. ......... $40. 949 81
A total of. 81 ,514, 1856 II
There was also paid $1S9,400 of the
''war debt" last year, every expense con-
nected with every department of the
State government has been met, with
out the imposition of dollar of State
tax, and leaving balance of well onto
million dollars in the treasury of the
State.
The racetrack gambling dens that dis
graced the State have been swept out of
existence and all danger of the future
location of these demoralizing institu-
lions among us has been forever removed
by the submission and adoption of an in
hibitory constitutional amendment.
AS Governor Griggs in his last annual
message to the Legislature said: at
should be cause of pride and gratifca-
ton to all the people of the State to be
assured. as they may be, that all
branches and departments of the State
government are being conducted by those
in charge with honesty and fidelity, and
in the sole interests of the people" But
national issues must also be considered,
1t is less than two years since the cleo
ton of William Mckinley. Revenues
were then deficient, business was de-
pressed, TIE balance of trade was against
us; manufactures were languishing,
credit was shaken and our national
honor was threatened with the repudia-
ton involved in free silver coinage. The
changes are momentous that have taken
place in these two years.
The mills are at work, confidence is
restored, we sell more than we buy, and
the balance of trade is in our favor. We
have pledged our honor to the pay
ment of our public and private debts.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14

THE political campaign is now ton' in
about twenty States. This will suffice to
keep the voters as class interested till
the elections, November 8. After that
there'II something else soon enough turn
up in these bubbling times to keep public
excitement simmering.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14

OUR new American citizenship, by
reason of acquisitions and conquests in
the late war, will be primarily Malayan
subdivided into Polynesians and Micro
nesians, as follows: Maoris, Tongas, Ia
hitans, Pomotouans, Marquesans, Sand
wichians, Ladronese, Carolines and Mus
graves, the whole being racially known
as the Southern branch of the Red Indi-
am race. Ten thousand new Indians, by
Jingol
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14

In the terrific charge recorded by five
squadrons of British cavalry near ON
durham their loss is stated at 10 per cent
Pretty heavy. But the loss of 43 per
cent on one side in pitched battle of our
civil war will probably never be rivaled.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14

GERMANY has now semi-oficially an
nounced that it has all along been her
cordial wish that the United States will
keep the Philippines(D Well, we don't
believe that, but we'll keep 'em all the
same.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14

AN Indian uprising of great proportions
at this time is not probable, unless pro-
voked by unnecessary or unauthorized
agencies. The long accepted theory that
the red man was ever readily lurking
for mean and treacherous advantages in
either peace or war has been ripped up
the back by his honorable docility during
the months of the recent war, when the
Indian posts were stripped of regular gar
risons for duty in Cuba and elsewhere.
Left practically alone and untrammeled,
the Indian demeaned himself more cred
itably than at any crisis in bis history.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14

THERE is one time and place when and
where any man in Morristown may come
face to face with his creditors land with
everybody else): At fire.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14

IT is settled that Germany desires an
island of the Philippine group for coal
ing station, and that she wants it bad"
Likely she'd prefer to obtain it, after all,
from Uncle Sam, on the ground that he
cound irresistibly protect her title.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14

THE question is no longer "What did
the Governor of South Carolina say to
the Governor of North Carolinaf' but it
is now rendered, 'sWhat did the Cover
nor of Minnesota say to Adjutant- Gene
raj Corbin?r
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14

CHIEF "Snakes-in-his-Gaiter Doc
ly's ''Chip- away" warrior in Minnesota,
does not concede that he was knocked out
in the Bear Island bout last week. The
Indians seriously claim that they have
improved the lands they occupy and will
resist being forced from them without
payment. That seems fair.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14
CHRONICLE cARAMELs.

DEWEY is a December bird and will
receive on his birthday the magnificent
sword awarded by Congress.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14

OCTOBER, which deservedly has come to
be reckoned as the most delightful month
of the year, was not dignifed even with a
title, but was given just stall NUMBER
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14

THE fire ladies let themselves out in
great shape on Wednesday. Morristown
has a fine department, and is proud of it.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14

"Only in the Republican Party is
there hope for an untarnished dollar
worth 100 cents the world over. "--
JOHN |. BLAIR Kelley.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1898-10-14

The Republican State Committee today
issued its address to the voters of the
State is as follows:
The herald., 1898-01-19
East Side News

Mr.. Bond, an aged gentleman from the
east, who had come to California FOR
the winter and was stopping with his
daughter. Mrs. c. R. Harris of South
DAILY street, after short illness. died
Monday morning and was buried yester-
day from the home of Mrs. Harris. In
terment was had at Evergreen ceme-
terry.
The Ladies' parliament of the Chris
tion church held it's meeting yesterday
afternoon at the residence of Mrs. Ar
mold on South Workman street. The
next session will be an open meeting.
which will be held at the residence of
Mrs. Randolph.
The little 3-year-old daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. Armstrong died yesterday
morning at their home on Primrose ave-
nue..
The Fremont Signal and Drill corps
gave an entertainment Monday evening
at the Congregational church. The pro-
gram consisted principally of a drill by
the boys, which was executed with much
credit to the corps and it's efficient CAP
tain, Fred e. Munsey.
Mrs. Reese Of Santa Barbara. who
has been visiting her niece, Mrs. Artal
of Hawkins street, died Sunday morning
of heart disease.
The herald., 1898-01-19
knocked DOWN bv a Bike

Mrs. Alfred Smalley, an elderly lady,
of SAT Banning street, was run down by
Dan Bryce, boy on a bicycle, on Main
street between Second and Third yes
terday evening, as she was crossing the
thoroughfare. The woman, who had been
rendered unconscious by the fall, was
carried into Zurburg's barber shop,
where she had an attack of epilepsy. The
patrol wagon was sent for and Mrs.
Smalley was conveyed to the receiving
hospital, where her hurts, which were not
serious, were attended to by DR.. Hagan.
She had a small cut over the left eye,
which necessitated one stitch, and a
scalp wound an inch long at the back
of the head. She was sent home. The
accident was not due to carelessness,
the boy having had to make a sudden
turn in order to avoid a Main street
electric car.
The herald., 1898-01-19

price to pass from the city to said COM
pany for the purchase of said plant"
The report was made and referred by
the council to the city attorney who i'm
a long opinion, in which Messrs. Lee
and Scott concurred, held that the legal
rights of the city would not be jeopar-
dized by a proposition to arbitrate.
The result was that the committee was
instructed to open negotiations for ar
bitration. On August 18th the commit
tee made the offer to the company to
settle the differences by arbitration, to
which the company, on August 10Th, re-
piled that, owing to the absence from the
finally answer the communication of the
committee.
RECENT HISTORY
In the interim investigation was made
as to the ability of the city to sell bonds
that might be voted for a new water
plant, and it was ascertained that there
would be ready market for such bonds.
On September 14th the council, against
the advice of the attorney demanded a
fiat opinion as to the legality of the
water contract, which opinion was de-
livered week later, thus exposing the
city's case in the courts in the
event that a legal controversy should
follow. After that the matter was
allowed to rest for some time, the
next step being the presentation to
the council of petition for a
special election to vote bonds for a
new plant. There were 1881 names on
this petition, which was referred to the
water supply committee. A public hear
ing was given the petitioners December
3d. and the result is well remembered
by all who have followed the course of
the water works controversy. Judge
Wright appeared for the petitioners and.
after an entire afternoon had been
spent in arguing the matter, he agreed
with the attorneys for the city that such
step as was contemplated in the petit
tion was not advisable.
The more recent events in the council
with reference to the matter are well
known. The city attorney was in
structed to prepare resolution for the
guidance of the council as to the best
method in which to proceed. He did So
and the authority to confer with tn
company was delegated to the commit
tee. Several letters have. passed be-
tween the committee and the company
the last Of them being presented to the
council only last Monday.
Instead of delaying matters the coun-
Gil seems to have done about all that
could be done to secure a water SER
vice owned by the city. The city at
torney has held that the company is not
required to submit the matter to ar
bitration, even before the expiration of
the contract, and that as the contract
does not expire until July, if it were so
disposed, the company could stop all
negotiations until that time.
The herald., 1898-01-19
Pioneer Meeting

The pioneers met last evening in the
chamber of commerce hall, with about
fifty members present. The object of
the meeting was to find out how manv
would join in the parade on the oath and
attend the banquet Monday evening.
Forty-five names were enrolled for the
parade and fifty tickets were sold for the
banquet. All pioneers who wish to ioin
in the parade will leave their names with
w. H. Workman, room 2, Bryson block.
on or before Saturday evening. BANQUET
tickets can be procured from Mr.. Work
man.
Free carriages will be furnished the
pioneers. The lady members of the So
ciety were invited to join in the parade.
Two hundred ribbon badges, with the
name of the society and the figures
'1S48-1898," were ordered for the use of
the members. The carriages will be In
waiting in front of the city hall at 80
p. m. Monday. All members who wish
to take part will assemble at the city
hall. Members owning carriages of
their own are requested to use them
and fall in line with the pioneers.
The herald., 1898-01-19
Foresters Entertain

Court Temple $40 Of the Independent
Order of Foresters gave a successful
public entertainment at Music hall last
evening In honor Of its eighth anniver-
sary. The committee presented a pro-
gram OF unusual excellence, embracing
good selections by Dimond,s orchestra.
the Euterpean quartette, Mime. de Sem
mario, soprano; Miss Mabel Tanner. re-
otter. and Len Shepardson, dialect i'm
personator. G. A. McElfresfi, high chief
ranger Of the Independent Foresters IN
California, made good address on
"The Principles of the Order" illustrat-
ing the same with numerous anecdotes
Each number on the program was. well
received by the large audience. which
occupied the main auditorium and cal
leries. Encores were generously re-
sponded to.
The herald., 1898-01-19
CITY NEWS IN BRIEF

Drink Glen Rock water, Tel. Main 26
Read the Trinidad Rubber company's
notice on this page.
DR.. Munk has removed to 355 South
Broadway; telephone, Green 425.
The monthly police inspection was
held yesterday morning on Broadway.
Call Tel Main 243 for ambulance.
Kregelo & Bresee. Sixth and Broadway
Robert Sharp & Co.. funeral directors
76l and 1853 S. Spring st. Tel. Main 1929
Watches cleaned, 70 cents: main
springs. so cents; crystals, 10 cents.
Patton. 214 South Broadway
The Current Topics club meets for re-
organization at 515 Fremont avenue, at
o'clock Wednesday afternoon.
Adams Bros, dentists. 2391a South
Spring street. Plates from 81. Pain
less extracting, so. cents. Filling a
speciality. Hours. to s: Sundays. 10
to IL.
Detective Bradish has been put in
charge Of the intelligence and detective
department of the police by Chief Glass,
vice Chas. Moffatt, who has gone to
Alaska on a ninety day leave of absence.
The regular meeting of the Los An
geles w. C. T. u. will be held today at
2:30 p. m. in the First Baptist church,
corner of Sixth and Broadway. Sab
bath Observance" will be the topic for
discussion.
Clearance sale of framed pictures left
over from the holidays at H. C. Lichten-
berger's art emporium. 202 South Spring
stree. Closing out a choice lot of beauti-
fully framed goods at 81 each, worth
from SO to IS.
Samuel Baker, who resides on Buena
Vista street and is employed as a ma
chinist by the Southern Pacific company,
is not the father of Louis Baker, the
youth arrested few days ago on a
charge of burglary.
The Los Angeles Hawaiian Annexa-
tion league held meeting at the city
hall last night, at which resolutions were
passed in favor of annexation and the
same ordered forwarded to Senators
Davis, White and Perkins.
DR.. Rebecca Lee Dorsey, Stimson
block, first floor, rooms 1873, 1874, 1876.
Special attention given to obssetrical
cases and all diseases of women and
children. Electricity scientifically used
Consultation hours. to s. Tel. 1927.
An effort is being made by several local
humanitarians, among whom is DR..
Henry Sherry of the Bradbury block, to
found in this city school for the oral
education Of the deaf and dumb. 1t is
therefore desired to enlist the co-opera-
tion Of philanthropists and the parents
of such children.
Ex-Mayor John Bryson is under the
care Of DR.. H. w. Westlake, at his home
on Bonnie Brae street, for an injured
foot. Mr.. Bryson fell off a Seventh
street electric car in the early part Of
December and has been confined to the
house ever since. He is reported now
as improving rapidly.
The herald., 1898-01-19
New Patents

List Of patents granted to California
inventors for the week ended January IL,
1898, reported by Day & Day, patent at
torneys. 23S, 234 and 235 Stimson build
ing. Los Angeles. CAL: August w.
Krause. Los Angeles, self-measuring
tank; Bruno Heinrich and Charles
Wood, San Francisco marine recording
compass; John F. Killian, Stockton, We
hicle jack; John R. Coryell. San Fran
cisco. anti-friction bearing: Levy NJ.
Halves. Sacramento, automatic gate:
Allen H. Blackburn, Petaluma, fruit
dryer; Ralph w. Elliott. Brentwood.
one half assigned to James d. Darby
and Dick H. Rice, apparatus for raising
liquids; George w. Durbrow. Salton, hy-
draulic well boring machine: Nellie r.
Stone, Brynmawr. pocket folding head
reet; Robert Graham Woodward. Ala
The herald., 1898-01-19
MONTHLY SOCIAL
Silver Republican Club Will Enter
tain Thursday Evening

The Silver Republican club will hold
it's regular monthly social tomorrow
evening at the club rooms, 533 South
Main street. The members and their
friends are urged to be present to assist
in making this social a success. The
following program has been prepared
for the evenings entertainment:
Piano solo, Miss Inez Moore; banjo and
guitar duet, Messrs. Sheades and
Spaulding; piano duet, Misses Moore
and Perry; song. William Carroll; piano
and mandolin duet, Messrs Sage and
Sheades; banjo-guitar solo, Prof E.
Sheades; song, "Once in Purple Twi-
light" Fred Metcalf; instrumental duet,
Messrs. Morrison and Bluett; song.
Kentucky Babe" Miss Naomi Riley;
harp and mandolin duet, Miss Inez
Moore and Prof. Sheades; song, "Oh,
Mr.. Johnson" Messrs. Morrison and
Bluett; mandolin and guitar duet,
Messrs. Sheades and Spaulding; song,
II Love Her Just the Same" Miss
Naomi Riley; song, "Swanee River"
Messrs. Morrison and Bluett; grand
finale, Burbank theater orchestra.
The herald., 1898-01-19
CITY NEWS
INDEX OF LOCAL EVENTS
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Forecast: Fair; northerly winds.
One Of Gleason's fiery untamed
knocks out q helper.
Further testimony In the Creede
case; the defense opens.
Patrolman Ritch keeps his job, but
y reprimanded for using profane Ian
guage.
The hitching ordinance still oper-
ative as regards hacks and express
wagons.
Southern Pacific management in
dulges in a costly economy by laying
of roadbed men.
The councils course as to the water
question reviewed in contrast with the
howls Of the malcontents.
Santa Fe tunnel fire extinguished; !;
Pullman party to arrive today; gen.
eral and local railway news.
The herald., 1898-01-19
Shotgun Exploded

Louis Lamb, man about % years old,
was hunting in the vicinity of the Palms,
where he resides, yesterday morning,
when one of the barrels of his shotgun
exploded, carrying off good part of the
palm of his left hand, as we'll as the in
dex, little finger and thumb. He hurried
to Santa Monica, where the manned
hand was temporarily dressed, and then
came on to the receiving hospital, where
DR.. Hagan attended to his case. Lamb
has now nothing but the third and
fourth fingers of the left hand remain
ing.