The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-10-29
WARDS UNITE.
Sixth, Eight and Ninth
Held a Democratic
Mass Meeting.

! Several hundred loyal Democrats at
tended the mass meeting held Saturday
night in Phoenix Hall, Summit avenue
and Grand street, under the auspices of
the Sixth, Eighth and Ninth Ward Demo-
cratic Clubs The event proved the
strength of the party in those wards and
there was plenty of enthusiasm mani
tested.
Mr.. Patrick O'Mara was introduced as
the chairman by Commissioner Erickson.
On the platform were:-James Moran,
James Ellington, Anthony Hauck, James
Collins, w. C. Burke, James ]. Murphy,
Allan McDermott, ex-Congressman John
It. Dunn of Elizabeth, James Baker,
James A. Hamill, James C. Clark. John
w. Queen, George G. Tenant, c. F. Long,
Dominick Mahan and John Feury.
Mr.. OMara went into the discussion of
| issues. - AS is the first time since the
campaign of Seymour,A" said the chair
man, that the Republican party has re-
fused to discuss their administration. The
Democratic party has charged them with
departing from the Constitution, the De-
| claration of Independence, and the giving
away to England certain territory in
| Alaska. When Hayes was about to be
inaugurated the Republican, Governors
of the several States were willing to send
their troops to assist in the seating of
| Hayes, by force if necessary. Even then
| the imperialistic tendency of the Republi-
can party became manifest. In separat-
! ing the Constitution from the flag the
party has again shown its hand, and that
| is the hand of imperialism" The speaker
then took up the Philippine question and
riddled the arguments of the opposing
forces relative to the disposition of the
archipelago. He said that the recent war
was bungle and characterized the Ad-
ministration as a circus.
"The Republican party does not live up
to its traditions" he continued. To-day
there are no men who are capable of tax
| ing the places of the old leaders of the
party. Roosevelt was doubtless with
drawn from this State because the lead
ers learned that we had a law calling for
the imprisonment of common scold."
Freeholder candidate Michael 3. Holmes
was introduced and he promised good
government if elected.
Mr. McDermott was next introduced.
He said that he felt at home in that
| neighborhood because he had recently
changed his place of residence to that
ward
.'I don't believe in governing vote by
party association. The progress of the
world would never be carried on unless
some great men were guided by the die
| tates of their own minds. Those who
| follow this policy are the true types of
| the American citizen. OF course, party
| affiliations are to be respected too.''
| Mr. .McDermott here entered into mild
discussion of the value of silver today
and the old and present ratios. He said
| the Government never used a silver dollar
| previous to the War of the Rebellion. In
1860, he said, it was proved that silver was
worth more than gold. He said that in
| spite of its adherency to the gold standard
| the Republican government had carried
| SO 100000 silver dollars since it came into
power. Il don't know what the value of
a silver dollar would be under the free
and unlimited coinage of silver at the
! ratio of 16 to 1.
| It might be about SO cents. If it is fif-
| ty-three cent dollar it would not remain
long in circulation. Mr. Bryan has been
asked if he would pay the debts of the
government in silver and he replied that
he would uphold the law. Yet today the
present administration is paying the debts
of the government in silver.
| "Silver is not the issue, neither is the
| tariff. Both of these questions can wait.
There is something greater. something
| more vital to the institutions of the Re-
| public The speaker reviewed Englands s
wars and conquests and the present South
| African strife.
England has not conquered these peo-
pie yet," he said, "and 1 hope to God
| that she never will He then discussed
! the Philippine question, leaving the oppos-
| ing party without leg to stand on in his
| concise argument.
| Mr.. John Sleeper, who stated at Dem
ocratic meeting last week in Greenville
| that he had not voted in forty years, but
would cast his vote for BBryan, was al
| lowed to speak. He argued for colleges to
be run the same as public schools to give
the poor mans son chance to be edu-
Gated.
Because Of the downtrodden working
men he was going to vote for Bryan.
| Mr.. James A. Hamill closed the speech
making with. laudatory remarks about all
the candidates.