The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-08-24
STILL COLLECTING.
Colonel Budd Continues to
Gather in Subscrip-
tions.
Especial to "The Jersey city News u


great deal of campaign fund collecting
yesterday on the part of Colonel III. j.
Budd, of the National Democratic Com
mittee, who has been in the city for a
week, gathering the shekels of those who
hope TO see Bryan elected Colonel Budd
and his local coadjutor, William J. Kearns.
found that owing to absences from town
and other causes. their list of likely can
didates for money was not Immediately
available.
So halt was called and some new
measures taken. Colonel Budd and Mr..
Kearns spent a good part of the day in
consulting with Colonel z. Livingston
Price and other leaders, about plans to
induce some of the wealthy men of the
party TO drop their offerings in the hat.
None of the wealthy men has been seen
yet, but Colonel Budd hopes to get from
them some substantial proofs of their
devotion to the Democratic cause.
Colonel Budd was asked yesterday if he
had read Senator Hanna's speech de-
livered at Asbury Park. The question
evoked some characteristic comments
from the Iowa man.
Certainly. / read Senator Hanna's
speech he said. 'I am always looking
for curios, and this one is Of that pictur-
esque variety that never reaches up to the
grotesque and is to be coveted. The Sen
ator's frenzy reminds me of the frenzy
of Napoleon at Marengo. A drummer boy
saved Napoleon by refusing to beat the
retreat, but there was no drummer boy
to save Hanna at sAsbury Park. By his
note of alarm and by his ecstatic fabri-
<,,r 9 scfr
ing spindles'-a figure of speech SO wide
of the truth that it will disgust candid
men-he has pleaded guilty to an attack
of irrevocable frenzy.
81 thought the Senator too wise man
to make such a statement here in New
Jersey have not been sufficiently long
in this city to be familiar with conditions
here. but can speak understandingly OF
affairs in Paterson. John Johnson, presi-
dent of the Paterson Board of Aldermen.
in a speech at the raising of the Bryan
and Stevenson banner, in the presence of
5000 people. made this statement:
" There are 5000 idle men and women
in this city who know that this talk about
prosperity is a deliberate falsehood.'
Only the other day one of the largest
silk factories in Paterson closed its doors,
assigned to its creditors and died of
prosperity. Paterson's ancient and time
honored grist mill. which had survived all
the paics of the last half century, has
stopped its burs and closed its doors.
1t died in the arms of Hanna's dream of
prosperity. and with Republican conf
dence glimmering upon its brow, it has
/ passed into the realm of prosperity ever
/; lasting.
During my stay in New Jersey have
been horored with the acquaintance and
! favor of many of her bright, enterprising
and cultured gentlemen. They are in the
front rank of the highest type of Ameri-
cans, and I certainly do not wish in any
way to abuse the proprieties of the situa-
tion. But my sense Of truth andjustice
inpels me to call halt to such misrep-
/ resentation of the facts
New Jersey business men have com
| planned to me that business is dull One
man said: This thing called prosperity
is due TO abnormal conditions and not
| to the policies of the Administration.
Designing men, improving their opportu-
| mites have organized trusts, which have
forced upward the prices upon the coun-
try. We merchants have had to buy
their goods, to maintain our stocks and
to hold our trade. The slump in prices,
which is already on, has cost us thou
sands of dollars will cost us thousands;
of dollars more, and will wreck the for
tunes of merchants from ocean to ocean
| before bedrock is reached again
| Senator Hanna will find that the Am
erican people are not to be gulled again,
and that Banquos ghost will not down .