The Jersey City news., 1899-10-24

believe in the miserable spy system, and
| this alone has caused the people to think
/ twice before voting for such a candidate. .
| The speaker touched on the RECORDS OF
| the majority of the candidate, adding
that every man deserved tne support "
| the people at large.
| Mr.. James Luby was the next speaker.
| He said people were beginning TO regard
the Ninth. with pleasure. as a sure Demo-
/ cratic ward. Its recent dolngs pointed
! that way, and the present manifesto tions
| of enthusiasm were a guarantee that the
results of recent elections in this ward
| would be duplicated In the coming vote.
This year the Hill section of the city has
| an unusually strong representation on the
| Democratic ticket, and the voters owe Il
| to the party and the candidates to show
their appreciation, by giving an unusual-
| " strong support to the ticket at the
polls.
The speaker alluded to Assemblynla,n
/ Murphy's arraignment of John ]. Erwin >
| career as Under Sheriff. and said that
| there was one peculiarly infamous feature
of his Sunday liquor crusade, which had
| not been brought before the people hal1
| forcibly enough in this campaign Ihis
was the action of Mr.. Erwin in going m
| to the Sunday schools and inTelgilng
young men into acting the part OF plnps
and spys, by sending them into saloons
1 on Sunday to purchase liquor in ORDER TO
stab their neighbors in the back. in or
| der to subject to disgrace and punishment
men-generally respectable-who were en-
Ideavoring to earn their Hvings under a
status quo, which from long existence
had acquired all the force of law. MI
Luby denounced this action as unpar-
sational crusades, and he asked his hear
ers If the man guilty of 1t was the sort
of person that they and other clean mind
ed citizens desired to make Sheriff OF the
county.
The speaker next contrasted the man
agement of the County Clerks office ur-
der Mr.. Fisher, giving rise as 1t does to
no CT a mn W.
| yers with the universally efficient service
given by Democratic officials in county
offices, an efficiency of which James Fl.
O'Neil. James T. Lillis as Surrogate. Geo
B. Fielder as Register and Dennis Nc
Laughlin as County Clerk were shining
examples. The experience of the county
with Republican officials was always dis
astrous. The Republican Board of Free
holders which a Republican Legislature
and an accident foisted upon the people,
was a case in point. It's two years in
power had eliminated in a scandal which
had disgraced the county-the misman-
agement Of the County Institutions and
the ill-usage of the public wards at Snake
Hill. The Democratic Board now in office
had remedied these abuses. And when it
had shown any tendency to wander from
the straight path itself, who have brought
it to its senses? Who had checked it on
the spot2 Why, Robert Davis. the Dem
ocratic loaded. who said 20 the members
you were elected as Democrats to do
what is right. and you must do it,
All the Journal had had to say for the
Assembly candidates on the Republican
ticket was that they were promising
young men. Republicans are always
promising. The trouble is they never get
to the point of performance They prom
ised the State an economical administra-
tion, and their performance was to in
crease the annual expenditures by
of surplus this year There is in fact
a surplus, but they are entitled to no
credit for it. 1t is due absolutely to the
boom in the organization of huge com
panies with many millions of capital and
their attraction to this State by the
liberal corporation laws which Leon Abb
bett proposed and Democrats enacted,
fifteen years ago. These laws have
brought rich harvest of fees to the State
treasury this year, and there is a surplus.
but the same thing cannot be expected
States income viii relapse to its normal
figure. Then where will we be with the
vastly increased scale of expenditure
which will be with the vastly increased
scale of expenditure which Republican
ism has imposed on US?
Mr.. Luby concluded by renewing the
injunctions of the other speakers to every
Democrat to see that his name was down
on the registry list. e..In neglecting this
said he, you throw away your birthrlght,
you will not be represented in the Legis-
lature or in any body elected by the peo-
pie, If you do not vote, and you cannot
vote if you are not registered"
The handsome majorities received by
the Democratic candidates of late, were
not to the liking of the. Republicans they
had walled ever since that there was
something wrong with them. Now there
was an occasion when they could make
no such plea, as they controlled the Prose-
cutor, the Sheriff and the Grand Jury.
Now was the time for the Democracy to
vindicate itself by rolling up this election
such a sweeping majority that it would
leave even those of the past in the shade
.If you could give the ticket 1900 with
Democrat in the Sheriff's Office" said the
Speaker in conclusion '1et us show that
we can give 1900 when the Sheriff is
a Republican"
The other speakers were James Ham
Counsellor Dewitt, John H. Masker and
John W. Queen.