The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-08-11
LANCERS READY.
Essex Will Send the Freling-
huysens to Asbury
Park.
Will MARCH THIS FALL
This Political Body Has an
Interesting History Cover
ing Many Years.
Will MARCH THIS FALL

Especial to "The Jersey City News."l
/ NEWARK, Aug. II, 1900-When the big
| parade and great Republican denonstra
tion to be held at Asbury Park takes place
in which President Mckinley Vice-Presi-
dental candidate Roosevelt, Senators For
| aker and Hanna and other distinguished
/ Republicans are to take part, the FIRE.
linghuysen Lancers will make their init
ial appearance and will act as the escort
of a large Essex delegation.
Just at this time a short resume of the
| history of this famous organization will
| be interesting; also the record of it's va
rious successes as the leading marching,
| political, uniformed body of the State.
The club. was organized in 1868 as the Fre-
| linghuysen Engineer Corps, and partici-
pated in all the political demonstrations
during Presidential campaigns up to 1876.
During that campaign few active mem
bers conceived the idea of forming two
corps, and the Frelinghuysen Engineer
Corps and Pioneer Corps was the result.
| In the campaign of 1880 the Engineer
| Corps so far exceeded the Pioneers that
it hardly seemed probable that the latter
| would reorganize, but after several meet
! ings the desired result was obtained and
the name Frelinghuysen Lancer was
| adopted. DR.. A. w. B. Crane was drill
master at that time, and brought the
| club to a high state of military prof.
! cheney.
! When James A. Garfield visited New
| York, the Lancers, as guests of the Ninth
| Ward Pioneer Corps, of that city, carried
i off the honors of the great parade on
/ Fifth avenue, the enthusiasm being un-
| bounded over their fine military bearing.
| During the Blaine campaign of 1884 they
made memorable visits to neighboring
cities, were the escorts of Mr.. Blaine when
| he visited Newark, and many of the finest
i political clubs of this part of the country
were entertained in Newark by them.
Ex-senator Frederick Fish was president
| of the association during that campaign,
and Major Edwin Wright was military
commandant. In the canvas of 1888 the
| Lancers paraded in New York, Brooklyn,
Paterson, Jersey City, the Oranges, Wash
| ington, N. J., Bridgeport, Conn, ETC., and
were also the escort to Speaker Reed
when he visited this city.
The club paraded at the Inaugural
ton of President Harrison at Washing
ton, d. c., passing in review before
/ the President in the great inaugural
procession The trip was made in a
special train of Pullman Palace cars.
| Ex-City Counsel Joseph Coult was presi-
/ dent during that year and Major Edwin
| Hoyt the military commandant. In 1892
| the organization took part in all the large
| political demonstrations, parading in sew
/ eral of the neighboring cities, winning
new laurels wherever it went. When Gov
1 ernor Mckinley, of Ohio, visited Newark
| the Lancers were chosen as his guard of
/ honor, and after his great tariff speech at
| Caledonian Park he was entertained by
| the club and delivered a special address
1 to them in the Auditorium, where they
| were banquetting their seven hundred
| guests, the Ninth Ward Pioneers, of New
| York; the Phelps Guard, of Paterson;
the Potts Guard, of Elizabeth, and the
| Wilkinson Engineer Corps, of this city.
Hon. Franklin Murphy was president
that year and Major Charles Joy the COM
manding military officer.
In January, 1886, the club members had
their first opportunity in thirty-three
years to take part in the Inauguration of
] a Republican Governor, participating in
their new uniforms in the inaugural
parade of Governor Griggs at Trenton,
holding the right of line and acting as
escort to the tremendous delegation of
Essex Republicans which f1ocked to the
capital on that occasion. They opened the
Presidential campaign of that year by
leading the parade at Asbury Park, in
! August, of the New Jersey League of
Republicans Clubs, and later visited many
cities, finally winding up that successful
campaign by their memorable visit to
Canton, O., where they were reviewed and
! entertained by President Mckinley at his
house, and later in the day by special in
| yitation of the Presidents mother, visited
/ the venerable lady's home and were photo
| graphed grouped around her on the lawn
] in front of the house. The pictures, tits
i needless to say, are highly priced. The
/ Cantonions and the entire press of the
country placed the Lancers ahead of all
| the many hundreds of organizations which
| visited there that year in the matter, of
drill equipment and perfect discipline.
President Mckinley, in welcoming the
club. said
Gentlemen of the F'relinghuysen Lam
GERS, bid you warm welcome to my State,
my city and my home. am glad to meet
you, members of this old and historic COM
pany. twenty-eight years old and bearing
the honored name of Frelinghuysen, one of
the most ilustrious. not only in the annals
of your State, but in the anna.s of the
Nation as well: a name that is synony-
nous with protection to our industries
and to our National honor name that
is Synonymous with honest finance, good
currency and public and private morality" !"
The following March when Mckinley
was inaugurated President of the United