The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-10-18
BUSY NIGHT FOR JEROME.
JUSTICE TALKS At q MEETINGS
10 MEN or MANY CLASSES
Tells ef . woman Who shook Down the Pc
hce fsr % 100. before shed skip
SPEAKS To Pu-hcsrt Men of Bls oh mail
n to Jews of the sunday Law Abuses.

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and Co Jews Of the sunday Law Abuses.
Justice Jerome talked to Ave fun houses
Hast night, After a dinner with the Austro-
Hungarian Republican Club In the base
ment nj PSI last Houston street, he spoke
IN Liberty Hall upstairs.
i have found u somewhat difficult TO
speak. lie said. ia going from place TO
place since this campaign iegan. tecau-s
have been received with overwhelming
kindness. II ! had been received With
hostility ] could speak with ease. for "a
fight II stimulating
-One OF the features Of this campaign
TO me has been the fact that foreign-born
citizens have everywhere made Ine vol
come. ] -ee that this meeting il largely
made up OF the countrymen ~ that great
patriot, - kOS-uth. and ] believe | SEQ
In the interest you and others are taking
In this campaign al Indication Of victory
that fills my heart with JOY. | believe Il
II because the ~foreign-born people stand
la this community for the decent thing.
I've always stood for that.
i au no dreamer or visionary looking
fOr n Garden Of Eden. Every one knows
that IA a great city like thu there II vice
and Grim" and Il always will exist. don't
believe, however, that u i the duty of every
uiicet sworn to perform public duty TO
a from fallen women the results If their
shame and iniquity
During the fight have made against Just
this very thing many native-bon citizens
have come Ia me and said Don't YOU think
We are doing wrong, You'd better do this
thing OF that thing But when my great
trial came. when the people nominated
ne for this great orice maybe in a half
hearted wsy. a. some saw who were the
psople who raliei Ia my support and gave
me SO for every 81 hat my own people
gave me-? They were the Jews You
know tho conditions here better or a.
yell n 4 do IhaN ganV,s ia apftra1y am
pressed. but they can bs restricted. The
poor mans home must and will be pro-
tected
Jumping into a cab Mr.. jerome was
hurried over 10 l25 Kiyington street. IN"
CtiZ"ns' Union headquarters IN the Tenth
Assembly district. where be found a
crowded hall awaiting him, Herr he said
There are a great many men here who
are engaged In ~peddling from pu-hcarts
and stands, and they pay Oh" city a CERTAIN
sum for the privilege They ought 20 have
the right then To pursue their trade with
out being compelled by any on" 10 pay
more for the privilege than the law re-
quirrS.
y wardmsn; political loader or health
inspector should n permitted 10 compel
them to give an additional sun for some
| ones private pur~'. but YOU know That
this l. done. II l. the duty ~ the District
Attorney To- stop II II you elect ~" to
that high ofic" | will stop II. will $50.
NAhNs NftN lp ntif fNillN|AW NNNA w wa " NJ
for political outings and all that sort of
thing. Those practices will have 10 stop.
In nav official capacity ! have becumr
familiar with the Workings ~ the SUNDAY
Law a. II - enforced over here on the East
Side. | know that the Christian has six
DAYS In which io sell his goods. but the
Jew ha- only five The jew has no Law
10 protect him IN m" observance 81
his religion. This H. unjust. ] could do
a great deal ~ District Attorney and II
-IN An-aaH
viii influential friends AZ my back and
try INV best to have the law changed ~
that every man. jew or Christian, NAV
be- FREQ 10 sell his wares ak DAYS Il the
week alike. Take me up ou this whether
am elected or not. II YOU come 10 ma after
election with this matter you viii see that
| am n nan Of my word
To the meeting ~ III" Greater New York
Democracy of ia" Twentv-righth Assem-
bly, district Justice Jerome said that this
campaign was one of deCenCy against
indesency. between honesty and theft
III comes right down 20 the single propo-
@ition whether YOU will stand for Tam
many Hall and the principle For my own
packet all the time, or Ia have THIS city
run reasonably decent he said. i be-
iieve vour answer will 10: We are going
Ia turn the ra-cals out
A, the Harlem Casino. i2sth street and
Seventh avenue. Mr. Jerome touched up
the police "a hit and related an incident
which nnS nOt triorf iPtl ilatu' Iubh's
The questions In hts campaign are
wholly moral. he said. Il believe IN civic
pride and civic patriotism. Where a mans
home ia there should he exhibit his pa
t1otism.
Conditions have changed little since
four years ago. les the same old Tam
many and the same m.n working Tor their
pockets all the time. In my work Tor
the protection Of the poor mans home
In the past month | ISSUED no warrants
for disorderly house keepers unless thew
had locatei IN tenement houses or unless
women had been kept In slavery hv them
or for somc other particular reason
4 did issue n warrant for a woman whose
nlaca was Iva the Tenderlo'n, the district
where a man nams-t tiennon. a ringi"
patrolman. was virtually captain. After
The woman's arrest she iumped her hail
People In the ne~ighborhood 81 her HOUSE
heard her relate that the police CLOSED her
up on ono occasion. saving that the Parkhufss
people were after her. She had pad them
$50 To open only n short time before and
$50 a month 20 do business. After being
closed Tour days sh. opened again, hut had
20 paw $50 more and the tarth wa RAISED
20 ssD n month. Whom she was arrested
the police. We were told, wanted her To
skip for fear she might squeal, but she re-
fused to do 80 until she had shaken them
down for 81
That NAV h considered poetica jus
toe. But W. want something stronger
than that, and II you elect me District
Attorrv | will ssa tn II that this loath-
some crew ret what they deserve