The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-09-18
FIFTH'S BIG NIGHT
Young Democrats Raise a
Bryan and Stevenson
Banner.
RINGING CAMPAIGN SPEECHES
All the Clubs Are Getting
Ready for Hard
Work.


ing of the Fifth Ward Democratic Club
last evening drew eighteen hundred people
to the clubs headquarters. 1t was gala
night for the Democrats of the ward and
they turned out to a man. The emblem
was fioated to the breeze at the corner of
Brunswick and Mercer streets amid cheers
and pyroteohnic display that illuminated
all that section of the city.
At eight o'clock the members of the
Fifth Ward Club formed in line in front
of their quarters and headed by their
president, Mr.. Joseph w. Sharkey, who
acted as marshal assisted by Thomas
Sigler and Patrick Tumilty, who were his
aides, started on parade through the ward.
As they passed through the different
streets of that locality they were Joined
by the following association, making over
fifteen hundred men in line:-Four Hun
dred Club. John OBrien's John Allen
Light Guards, Liberty Club, Mathew
Lawless Association, Italian Democratic
Club, William Sweeney Association, John
Maxwell Association, Joseph Mccormack
Association and the Wiley Association.
The entire ward was traversed and they
were given a grand send off all along the
wick street to Bright, to Monmouth, to
Mercer, down Mercer street past the
Robert Davis Association, where they
were given grand ovation and were re-
viewed by the standard bearer and a num-
Der of other prominent politicians, then
to Grove street, to Newark avenue, to
Monmouth street, to Eighth, to Bruins
wick, to Wayne, to Merseles, to Mercer
and then under the banner.
A spacious platform was erected along
the side of No. School and seated on
the platform were:-Counselor James
Hamill, Counselor P. James, w. j.
Brasiel, Thomas Burns, Alderman Max
well, Freeholder McGovern, John Dolan,
James Murray, Patrick Hayes, Phillip
Tumulty, Sr., Justice Frank P. Leblanc,
James McTiernan, Hugh Meehan, John
Walker, Dominick Mcmahon and Patrick
Hayes. Mr.. Joseph Sharkey acted as
President of the meeting and Mr.. George
.Sanderson as secretary. The vice presi-
dents were:-Henry Byrnes, Jos. NJ. Igoe,
James Tumulty, Michael O'Connor, John
f. McNulty, Joseph Delaney, John Nc
Grath. James Cosgrove, Thomas Cassidy.
Torrance -Cuslea,-sA3fred Tracy, Martin
Sweeney, John A. Tracy Patrick Sherry,
Christopher Corcoran, Jacob Martin, Jas.
Hennessy, ]. j. Burke, Michael Kane,
Martin Messner, James Donnelly, David
Harper, John Kilroy, Louis Gross, John
A. Tracy, Patrick O'Connor, Thomas
Dolan.
Mr.. Sharkey introduced the first speak
er, Mr.. Joseph Tumulty. He said in
part
.I congratulate the representatives of
the unconquerable Democracy of this
ward that you have assembled in this
stronghold of Democracy to reaffirm rnt
principles of the Declaration of Inde-
pendence and to demonstrate by your
presence her this evening your
acquiescence in the selection and nominal
tion of that peerless leader of the masses,
that glorious and beloved son of
Nebraska, William Jennings Bryan. You
are called upon to solve the problem
whether this government of ours is longer
to continue as Democracy or whether
its powers of administration are to be
centralized into the hands of a select
few. Upon the final determination OF
these questions the future welfare OF
this country will greatly depend. 1t is
therefore your bounded duty as liberty
loving, patriotic American citizens to look
these question thoroughly and intelli-
gently and determine for yourselves
apart from all party affiliations, which
party standard you will rally around
whether it shall be the banner of Demo-
cracy which stands for government OF
the people, for the people and by the
people, or the banner of Republicanism,
which stands for adespotic government OF
government of Mckinley, for Mckinley
and by Mckinley
The other speakers were:-Eugene w.
Leake, James Hammil, Patrick Hayes,
Eugene Dewitt and Thomas Burns.