The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-10-30
HILL DEMOCRACY
Wards Unite In a Tremen-
dous Mass Meeting In
Old Bergen Hall.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
G. g. Black Presides; John 7.
Dunn and the Assembly
Candidates Speak On
the Issues.
WILD CHEERS FOR THE WHOLE TICKET
Alex. Young's Plea for Stack
Good Prospects of Carrying
the Eighth Ward.

Eighth and Ninth wards met IN bergen
Hau on Saturday night last to ratify the
county ticket, listen to speeches from the
candidates and generally to show thelr
enthusiasm for the Democratic party anu
its platform. The regular Democratic or
ganizations Of the three wards mentioned
met at their respective headquarters PRIOR
to the meeting and preceded by panas
marched to the hall The Eighth waro
sent the largest delegation. and as a sig
nifcant hint to Republicans many of them
carried brooms.
"The Eighth will come into the Demo-
cratic ranks this time" one enthusiast
cried. and then there followed cheers Tor
James C. Clarke. Some delay took place
in beginning the meeting by the late ar
rivals of the ward associations A pano
at the end of the hall announced them
with ear splitting strains.
81 have the honor" began Mr.. d. \.
Lewis. Charles C. Black, ex-Congressman
]. T. Dunn of Elizabeth, Samuel Nc
Burney. D. E. Cleary, James Luby, An
thony Hauck, W. F. Midlige, J. c. LoWy,
r. M. Night, ]. C. Baker, ex-Sheriff Nc
Naaly. d. nMcAdahan, DR.. ]. ]. Broderlck,
ex-Alderman w. Kelly, f. Gormley. a. =
Young, John Griffin. J. w. Queen, r.
Scott. ]. S. McAlaster and Assembly Can
didates George G. Tenant and Allan
Benny.
II have the honor, began Mr.. ?, ~
Lewis, ITO open this meeting. You Demo-
Gratis are a jury. You are to hear the
evidence from the candidates and the sum
ming up and render a verdict as to the
facts presented Now, I wish to move
that Mr.. Charles G. Black be our chair
man and James C. Baker secretary
This was carried, and Mr.. Black aroused
a mighty cheer when on rising he Said
ssWho says that the Democratic party
will not sweep the county al the coming
election by ten thousand votes2"
Secretary James C. Baker read the list
of Vice-Presidents of the meeting and
these were as follows:-
E. Hulshizer, Jr., William Midlige, ROD
ert Catlin Henry L. Kellers, Thomas
Morrin F. G.. Wolbert, Robert = JORDAN,
William Rickerich, Sr, John M y. -, SmTIn1' qniI1,
lam d. Edwards, Jos. D. Bedle, Frank J :
Irving, Joseph Hennessey, john r
Klumpp, Henry Puster, Fred ". Rep-
per, Robert A. Mcknight, Robert J; Dll-
Ion, John KERN, M. j. Gleason, James
Baker, Sr., Sidoine Jordan, Willard G
Fisk Alexander Scott, Bernard McNal-
Jas. S. Mccormack. John Ellington. ]. J
Voorhees,, James F. Woodmency, w e
Burke, Samuel McBurney. Winfield 8,
Myron ]. Furst, John Edelstein, James
F. Fielder, John Wheelihan, Daniel F.
Cleary, James H. Gallagher, Patrick Gar
laghe 50hg pierce PoPerf y Il Kroy EIh1S q Jas cos
Connolly, Chas. Birdsan, Chas. j.
Somers, David Barry, Michael g.. Len
non, John J. Ryan. Frank D. Berry,
Heller, Terrence O'Gorman, Henry Atkin-
son. Commissioner John A Erickson,
Michael Connolly, Mark Fallon, Commis-
sioner Anthony Hauck, Richard j.
Vreeland, Rudolph Schmalfeldt, P. l..
Rehill William ]. Kelley. James Price,
Bernard Keilt, Thomas F. Bedle, Dr.. John
]. Broderick Robert A. Elliott F. Will
lam A. Ross, Jacob G. Lowy, Otto Grouse.
James D. Manning, John Helbig, Thomas
Foley, Timothy Burke Samuel b. Ellis,
Richard Powell, John H Gable, John m
Lealhy, Louis J. Apgar, William G. Apgar.
Daniel Van Wrinkle, Norman L. Rowe,
William T. Vidal. James 3; Throckmor.
ton, v. C. Ay1nar, Henry Moser, Alfred
A. Hankin George B. Wilson, William
Wilson, Samuel Kane.
Chairman Black thanked the meeting
for the compliment paid to him. He was
glad to be there for two reasons. 1t gave
him an opportunity to say something
about the ticket and something for the
cause of Democracy which affects home
industries. An election affects, he con-
tinued, the firesides Of the people of this
city and County Democracy meant equal
rights and special benefits to none. There
was no question, added Mr.. Black, which
was Of greater Importance to citizens than
that of equal levying of taxes and making
corporations pay their fair proportion of
4axes IN ff7e government.
ssThe fight for equal taxation" said Mr..
Black, "was led by Leon Albeit, (Cheers)
and S230, 900 flowed into the State Golfers.
Praise is due to our Senator Allan Nc
Dermott (Renewed cheers) for his labor,
which resulted in s1o5.0oO coming to Jer-
sey City from the corporations. Again,
there is a class called natural monopolies
such as telephones, electric light and gas.
They are assessed on their corporate
property. They must pay for their priv
ileges. II you stand for the Democratic
ticket. your Assemblymen win demand a
law that the corporate franchises OF these
natural monoplies shall be taxed and put
on a par with the individual That's
Democratic doctrine. and I am here to
support It." cloud cheers)
James A. Ham.Il. young law student,
made his political debut with an able ad-
dress on the issues. He pleased the labor
representatives in the han by reading