The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-11-04
BUT THEY ASKED FOR MORE. :

campaigns that my utterances on the sub
ject of labor would cost me votes. IN
this campaign many unjust things nave
been said about me. I have learned more
about myself in this campaign than ever
learned in my life. (Laughter) 7 try to
be liberal and fair minded and just.
won't defend my party when it is wrong.
None know this better than the people
of the city of Newark. No man can say
that / ever cut wages. | may not e nave aye
and / propose to do right. am not OPP
posed to corporations. They are neces-
sary. We would not have our magnificent
were it not for the accumulation Of capi-
tai. They put up factories and give en-
ployment to the many. But capital and
labor must appreciate each other. Af-
fairs are better than they were twenty
five years ago.
Discussing briefly the state of affairs
existing in Newark when he was first
se Mayor nd e er sac he IN nag la1ed
members of the Board of Works had ever
done anything for labor. All work had
been done by contract and laborers were
up our minds to try and change things.
We did away with contract labor. We
got better work and paid more money for
it and the jobs did not cost the taxpay--
ers dollar more than under the contract
system. The profits came off the con-
tractor. Taxpayers will think. Who are
they? Not alone the men who own our
men who pay the rent. (Applause.) You
laborers are the men who pay it. Labor
does it all. It pays the expenses of gov
eminent.
u stand alone in Newark. If had a
Common Council at my back matters
would be@easy. All I have TO do is to
watth the other fellows. They have been
plause.) Our Republican friends are
making claims unjust and unfair. They
say that when the Republicans went out
in 1891 and the Democrats came in, they
had left 100000 in the treasury but they
forget to tell you that they hadn't paid
all the bills. when the Democrats came
the II Repubieans tIsu lie came IN ina afferwsrds they
found $780, 600 in the treasury and all the
bills paid. They boast that the have 81
thar they should run the business Of the
State without having to tax the people
Of the State as they are now doing. CAP
plause.3 But, as said before, didn't
come here to make speech. / have been
going around the State in order to give
you a chance to measure me up. (Volley
of cheers and applause.) would give
people of the State than for all the mon
ey Of my opponent backed as he is in
this campaign from State and national
sources.
Mr.. Seymour told of his political sue
cesses in Newark and closed his splendid
speech, made without effort or oratorical
display, amid the cheers and applause OIL
the great audience.
He was followed by the Hon. Eckert p
Budd of Burlington, the man who STAN
peded the State Democfatic conv entiop for
Seymour. He declared that the Demo-
cratic party Of the State, with all its long
line of famous Democratic Governors,
never had a nobler candidate Tor tIlas
high office than In this campaign. This
statement was greeted with a wild out
burst of cheers.
ssAfld," said Mr.. Budd while listening
to him on this stage my mind reverts 70
the convention that nominated him where
delegates of the party from Cape May to
Sussex were contending for favorite sons
the 191 delegates from the mighty county
Of Hudson stood for him as solid
phalanx, and IL it had not been so we
would not have had this noble man as
our candidate. tWild outburst Of cheer
ing) Never was a wiser ch0ise made. 1t
remains for you to see that every ballot
of the party is cast for that great COM
moner James M. Seymour fApplause)
Mr. Budd attacked the Republican State
platform and Senator John Kean for IN
sinuation in connection with the death of
the late lamented President Mckinley.
that Democrats We're Anarchists. He sald
it was an insult to every honest citizen of
the State ana absolutely gratuitols.
Democrats he declared. were as patriotic
as ever John Kean dared to be.
II dare say said he, that when Presi-
dent Mckinley was shot down by the
hand of q miserable assassin there were:
as many anxious, bleeding hearts in the
publican ranks. tremendous cheering
1T is cardinal principle with Democrats
that the majority shall rule, and they re-
Scognized when Mr. Mckinley was elected
BY a majority of votes that he was no-
merely the President of the Republican
party but that he was President OF the
United States Of America: When the Re.
publican party irs the State stoOps so low
as to make political capital out Of the
death of President 1t shows that It