New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-12-01
STECELERITES CELEBRATE
LOWER EAST SIDE PRAISED AT DINNEl
IN HONOR OF FUSION VICTORY.

Down in Cirand-st.. in Seminole Hail. used for
dances and Jewish weddings, the Manhattan De-
nocracy better known the Steckerltes last hisHt
celebrated the fusion victory with a dinner and
listened 70 speeches from Alfred and Charles
stacger Herman Ridder. Otto Hubach and others
The district organizations below Fourteenth-s-
united IN the dinner. and there was 1olllca loii
that lasted until midnight Abraham y Levy pie-
sided Alfred Steckler. whose friends assert that
they will sometime elect him 70 the supreme Courl
bench made the principal speech OF the evening
He said in part:
We have clipped the claws and pulled the teeth Ell
q the TamaPy eT ,a ana 6 9a eh BEEN fstching and
CARRYING for him VIII be t!Imbled from the sl i
dens they have made for themselves III every -"
partment of the city government - tho civ
Il viii be house cleaning time then IN the ciss
In those tsneLt SO that the powers that prey
t5e noItticai autocrats OF th-st-night
reap harvest OF olactTlal II NJ NAV
mass 70 and from their homes without fear OF m
suit and without danger OF eontail adt viii get
ali that is MS Just due. and no less ,..- 1900
a1ce-fSEt Seth Low viii give US honest and ef-
Scient municipal government; that only nj ana com
Strict business PRINCIPLES will be applied IN the
administration OF the affairs OF me cI bst b,1s
ness with CITY department will be permitted 20
neIed 10 grease the palms of an agent represent
ing political machine You VII De aoIs ~ h i5ttu
Ing 10 pay for a guide in Fourteentn-st- ceres OF
If you people living below Fourteeuth-sti had
proved false TO your colors-if you had f9l!oWieo
M ahout ths white banner Of decency-what would
have been the result Why. We would nave Iau
iovar Fast Side turned the tide Of battle in favor
OF decency and decency Won oAPP 2 Rejoice in
49, aIeo Without you there would have been no
occasion for this celebration tonight VIII IN, me
with the East Side right, the town IS tight Never
forget s HaS have discovered you and what
ever they discover IS nave discovered that the
inuyer Fast Side won the fight and have given you
fun credit il I am glad OF that' because an
But there little ate F they e3gf 9T o4
tbare Is a note OF surprise that the lower EaSL
The lower East Side Is TghL f9E s[ the sde maV e go
IT'S cSa best of do sometime
but II staiuS On November is only of the many
dealt to the enemy IN the S'tl NJ far East
Side by the fusion ticket It had been theTe hs
And it will always be + Wfl win again ana again
IN Know that long ago the lower East Side wo1
its sobriquet of ring snaasher and It may @ VS.
also reason t9F penn +ba it knows right from
wrong. that IL is able 10 choose ottN III
wl'nTI re ei as in the past, choose the right simply
and solely because it is the right tLouo applause
Three cheers were given for Alfred SteckIer
CbarTes steckler in introducing Herman Ridder.
id +ba+ some day the people of the city would
elect him Mayor. and that the people would surely
have in him Mayor who would UNDERSTAND lnelr
needs Mr. Ridder in replying, SAID;
m - q candidate for office and never will
he Mr. Hubach of our staff runs the whole thing
g. ~ and whenever I am nominated lot any
~! Lnnv that il IS all the work OF Mr.
Hubach' -, .4o4,,oad &c tho ..a-raatast
- - r1erfcan Journalist He said that SeIh
low when Mayor OF BROOKLYN used TO preface ms
bI, sa Wing that came from the city where
Ms WinsIow's soothing syrup was made ana
that that undoubtedly gave him MS great piurahy
In BROOKLYN this year.