The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-08-23
BUDD'S SUCCESS.
He Is Gathering Democratic
Shekels In Essex
County.
FEELS ENCOURAGED.
Newark Gave Him $72o and
He Expects Much
More.
FEELS ENCOURAGED.
Especial to "The Jersey city News."1


connected with Democratic party affairs
in this city, Colonel H. J. Budd who is
collecting funds for the Democratic Ma
tional Committee, feels encouraged at the
results thus far attained and at the pros
poets. Colonel Budd, as has been told. is
lowa's representative on the National
Committee. He has been assigned to this
State to gather the sinews of war for the
campaign.
During his travels around the city, Col
onel 3udd has been accompanied by
former Assemblyman William j. Kearns
The latter introduced the National Com
mitteeman to number of local Demo-
Gratis yesterday with the result that some
thing of harvest of contributions was
reaped.
William Harrigan gave a check for $25
and contributions of like amount were
made by James NJ. Trimble, Herman II.
L. Boyer. Edward Kenny, John 3. Oel-
kers, Michael ]. Doyle and Matthew W.
Hogan. T. J. Callan gave sl0 The
largest single contribution of the day
came as a check for $50 from Senator
Lewis ]. Martin, of Sussex. Up to last
night the sum total of the contributions
received by Colonel Budd since his advent
in Newark was S720.
Besides the cash donations. Colonel
Budd has received promises of substantial
aid in the shape of money from num-
ber of Newark Democrats. Some of the
men approached have said that their con-
tributions to the local committee would
exhaust all their spare dollars.
Colonel Budd expected yesterday to
met former Senator James Smith. The
latter, however, contrary to the expecta-
tons OF those who had attempted to ar
range the meeting, did not come from
Saratoga. Colonel Budd will remain in
and around this locality until about the
middle of next month. He hopes by that
time to have met the wealthy Democrats
OF this city, and to have collected a con-
siderable sum from the Democrats of
Hudson. In his travels Colonel Budd is
guided somewhat by the wishes of State
Chairman William Gourley of Paterson.
The latter is now arranging for Colonel
Budd's visit to Hudson.
The work of collecting in the Fifth and
Eighth Congressional districts has been
left largely to former Congressman C. A.
Cadmus. Mr.. Cadmus reports that the
contributions in Passaic County thus far
amount to $1,000. Mr. Cadmus started in
to work in Elizabeth yesterday.
After Colonel Budd has completed his
work In this State, he will leave for Ohio.
where he has promised John r. Mclean
to make some speeches. He hopes to be
able to take an active part on the cam
paign in his own State before the ides of
November.
The difficulties which I have encoun-
tered" said Colonel Budd yesterday,
have been chiefly due to the fact that
some of the people hereabouts still shud-
der at the idea of 1S to /. It surprises me
that men who think they know something
are frightened by a mere whim that, in
it's highest altitude, is but a stupid coun-
terfeit of an iridescent dream; that men
calling themselves business men and hay-
ing much to say about commercial Gus
toms and political economics will allow
themselves to have nightmare at high
noon, and without having tasted mince
pie for thirty days.
Sixteen to one has been the legal ratio
since 1855; has not been repealed or
amended; it is the ratio upon which all
bonds have been issued and which sus-
tains large percentage of the money we
handle daily
1t anuses me, remembering how unct-
uously the Republicans appealed to the
people in '96 to shun the hydra -headed
monster of 16 to and to escape the Hades
of reputation. They are now coming
silver upon the anarchistic and repudia-
tionary basis of 16 to l. Having hypno-
tized the unthinking masses in 's6. they
reckon upon doing it again, although they
have announced by their own acts that
the sneer was a fraud and the spirituahs-
tic medium they employed is dead.
Money like the check of an Individual
is made good by the integrity and ability
of it's maker, and its value does not con-
sist in the mere stuff used in its creation
substance that has no value unless one
is impaired to 1t by law. A lawyer with
out a keener sense of analysis than these
people, who mistake political hysteria for
sense and thought, would never win a
case. 1t only shows to what extent a
people may be led who do not investigate
for themselves and who do submit to the
leadership of selfish and designing per-
soas.
This dollar in my hand is worth to me
here in Newark, where am liable to get
hungry and thirsty, 100 cents-the dollar
unit. If l was where could buy nothing,
neither to eat nor to drink, it would be
WITHOUT value. his Ldlk ABOUT INTRINSIC
value Is like the Imaginary wisdom of
some of our masculine school-marms, who
are always preaching from the text, All
things being equal, etc. They are not
equal, and until the millennium shall
have made all things heavenly, they will
not become equal. Even a preacher lies
more or less when he takes a falsehood
for his text,
They talk as though gold were the only
true basis of wealth. Labor is the only
basis wealth ever had or ever can have.
The coal-digger in Iowa brings wealth to
| light. The life insurance company alb
serbs millions but never produces far
thing. To say that any metal, when
fiagrant departure from the purpose for
which money was devised. am one of
those hair-brained persons who are un-
willing that our way should be paved to
monarchy by making the tape-line worth
more than the bolt of silk. So far as the
kind Of money is concerned, we don't
need to snap our fingers, but I protest
against making American integrity, abil-
ity, patriotism, commerce and religion to
take second place to the mere stuff used
in the creation Of the tape-line that is to
measure our hay and corn.
Really, the long haired people of the
wild and woolly West especially those
who by the fortune of d friendly fate live
west Of the MississippH River, care very
/ little as to what the future ratio between
silver and gold may be- Me feef that it is
right to encourage the mining industry or
our mountain States, as Nell as anthracite
@ssnt @ 81 4 He mining shtSfprisss' 'as u tha Rss