The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-03-27
DEMOCRATS WORK
Enthusiastic Meetings Last
Held Night in Several
Wards.
NINTH CONFIDENT OF VICTORY
Henry Higgins Expects to
Lead the Ticket Other
Clubs and Their Doings.

An excellent session of the Ninth Ward
Democratic Club was held last night,
which demonstrated beyond any doubt
the important position that organization
holds in the heretofore Republican strong
hold. 1t showed that the party OF actlVe
and energetic workers have accomplished
the seemingly impossible task they sci
out to do; that by incessant hard WORK the
club has won for itself an enviable place IN
the records of political organizations IN
Hudson County.
Commissioner Daniel Y. Lewis, in his
report as chairman. of the Executive
Committee, delivered an address on the
campaign work to be done this spring.
and referred back TO the inaugural session
of the club. The Commissioner stated
that the Executive Committee was
pleased with the ward nominations and
with hard work hoped to land the ward s
candidates in the front ranks with salts
factory majorities.
'In all campaigns" said the Commits
sioner, organization in our canvassing
department. is essential to the desired re-
suits We are in ward where the enemy
once had hold that was hard to break.
We did it though, but only aftr ineessant
pushing. Our records speak well, and OF
course we wish to live up to our reputa-
tion. We have a club that contains work.
ers who have served through campaigns
in various capacities and to these men
we owe our past successes. For it is only
by the hardest kind of work that the foe
can be beaten. We are out for record
this time, and let US show our Democratic
neighbors how we do things in this ward.
''Our nominees are men who are well
known. Each has shown himself to be
an earnest worker in behalf of the public
he represents. These men are the ones
we must place in Office where they can
acquit themselves creditably. Our ticket
should win with apparently little effort,
but we must not be caught mapping. When
things look the brighter do more and
harder work to elect representative men
topositions where they can serve the peo-
pie conscientiously."
Mr.. Henry Higgins, the Aldermanic
nominee, who is counted upon to put the
Democratic banner at the head of the
procession on election day, spoke of his
plansgfor the campaign. He stated that
he had accepted the nomination with a
firm determination to go about the cam
paign in a business-like manner.
Il realize the amount of work one has
to accomplish in a campaign" said he,
a"and to be a successful candidate it is
necessary to canvass your ward in a
thorough manner He thanked the
members for their evidences of good faith.
This Campaign Committee was ap-
pointed d:-Daniel Y. Lewis, John w.
Queen, L. B. Foley, G. Judge, Richard
Powell, James Ellington and ]. Griffin.
The committee will begin its active work
Immediately.
"A resolution was passed unanimously
endorsing the nominees of the party. This
was greeted with cheers.
Chairman Lewis of the Improvement
Committee stated that the committee
had taken up the question of Garrison
avenue that was brought so forcibly to
their attention at the last meeting. He
said that he had visited the Street and
Water Commissioners and that the COM
mittee was promised that the street
would receive immediate attention.
Garrison avenue, it will he remember
ed, was stated to be impossible because of
the negligence of the contractor who is
building a sewer and blasting rock. This
rock, Freeholder Scott and others said,
was piled upon the walks and crossings,
so that passage was blocked for both
wagons and pedestrians A fire engine is
located at Sip and Garrison avenue, and
oftimes the driver is forced to take a
route several blocks out of the way in
responding to alarms. No wagon can go
through the street, and it has been
blocked for about year. Sip and Ro-
maine avenues are caved in and in bad
condition, too These matters were dis
cussed in heated manner at the clubs
meeting.
ary bill recently passed at Trenton, and
the bill creating a new Board of nine
Freeholders The members are in earnest
in their efforts to secure votes for both
these measures, which will probably be
voted on in conjunction with the munich
pal candidates. Resolutions endorsing the
bills were passed