The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-11-03
TENANTS REPLY.
Assembly Candidate An
swers the Journals
Attack.

"A fairly attended Democratic meeting
was held last evening at Imperial Music
Hall under the auspices of the First Ward
Democratic Association. It was not anti
cipated that the big hall would be crowd
ed. following as closely upon the parade
of the night before, so chairs were only
placed in the upper part of the hall. One
OF the stage ornaments was a framed oil
portrait of William J. Moran, candidate
for Freeholder.
Mr.. John Boyle was chairman of the
meeting, and Mr.. p A. Rector was secre-
tary
The vice presidents were Messrs Frank
Casey Michael Kilcaulty. George A.
Ryan, William Durnin, John Swanson,
Joseph Jennings, Mark Sullivan, James
Baker, Jr.. Thomas Griffin and Thomas
Dillo
Freeholder candidate Moran was the
first speaker. He doesn't claim to be an
orator, but he grew eloquent as he set
forth the issues of the local campaign.
and he carried his audience with him.
He appealed earnestly for the united sup
port of the First Ward voters for Allan
L. McDermott for Congress and ex-Judgei
Hudspeth for State Senator. After CALI
ing attention tothe superiority of the
Democratic Assembly ticket over that of
the Republican ticket, hit referred to the
F'reeholder ticket in general. As to him
self, he said he almost felt that he was
born in the hall in which he was speak
ing to neighbors, and added that likt
his father before him, he had spent his
life as a worker in business and politics.
He declared that there was no OCCASION
for Democrat to use single paster.
See to it, voters of the First ward.
he said, that when our votes are record-s
ed they will show a story of a strong;
united body. The Republican outlook in
this county reminds me of an undertaken
of a cemetery, in which the Republican,
/ Sleepers will wake up dead on the morn
| ing of November II
speaker, alluded to the fact that he was
born within a stones throw of the hall in
which he was speaking, He said he was
two terms, and if reelected he would do
for his constituents what he had done in
| the past. He appealed for the support for
| all the local candidates.
Assemblyman George Tenant, candi-
date for reelection, was next introduced.
! He paid a handsome tribute to the char
acter of Freeholder Candidate Moran. He
| Journal
He said
"Without any desire to bring myself in
to any undue publicity it is proper, I
| think, to answer some of the statements
in the Evening Journal editorial of
Thursday evening. 1 have no desire, nor
| will 1 attempt to answer the abuse and
| vituperation attempted on the part of the
! distinguished gentleman who wrote the
article. 1t is amusing to find the Even
| ing Journal standing as the spencer of
| those who fight against equal taxation
/ and the proper taxation of franchises.
/ The gentleman must have felt that some
meat was in my letter when it took two
/ columns of his paper to ridicule it. Some
times a man will use a journal to cloak
/ statements he would not dare to make
! openly and over his own signature. This
= is cowardly and bespeaks not only narrow
I mindedness, but the weakest kind of
i 1.-Two matters mentioned in my open
letter are given careless attention by this
| editorial. First it is suggested that my
was consented to by the parties who have
/ to pay the tax-has the sound of a charge
/ of bribery, l want to say this to the
defender Of the anti,;taxpayerL am am
was consented to before it was introduced
in. the Legislature. Governor Voorhees,
knew that the people demanded some tax
| tion or colluSion, but / do say that he was
weak when he did not take a high stand
! in the interests of the people and when he
did not refuse to be guided solely by the
| advises of the owners of these franchises.
I repeat that the tax these franchises will
! pay under last years laws is. little or
| nothing more than what they have paid
/ heretofore to the State. The color with
1 which the Journal" editorial paints the
/ figures is bright crimson, but when the
4 amount named is divided among the tax
4 ing districts throughout the State, the
bright crimson fades into dull and
j gloomy spectre. 1t is false journalism to
i delude the people of this county by giving
them the figures which represent the total
tax collected throughout the State. What
4 our people want is to know what is to be
/ paid here, and when they find that they
will receive not much mUfe, if as much,
than eighteen thousand dollars, they cry
out again-swe are entitled to receive and
will receive the same tax that Newark
i gets'-nearly ninety thousand dollars a
4 year.
'sThe other point is this: I charged that
the eighth section of the VOORHEES, bill
was trick on the part of the franchise
1 owners. I repeat the charge. The Jour
nal denies this and says that this section
was inserted for the purpose of making
the act unobjectionable from the charge
tax paid under this act shall be in lieu
of all other taxes heretofore paid. Now
it is claimed that if this had been omitted
these companies would have been taxed
before was a tax paid on their corporate
franchise; it was a tax practically on their
capital stock. What has this to do with
the tax on the special franchise or the
might just as well be said that because a
4 man is taxed on his lands and house
where he lives, he cannot be further taxed
for license as an auctioneer, because he
exercises that license on the same prem
ises. The capital stock and the fran
chise' are two separate properties. The
Democratic Assembly ticket promises to
renew the fight for honest taxation next
year, and say that whether elected OF
. not whether in the Legislature or as a
private citizen, I will continue to agitate
this question until Jersey City receives the
same consideration as the city of New