The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-10-19

volume until the audience was driven to
its feet then with flags, hats and canes
waving rose to mighty diapason.
Mr.. Black was at his best and spoke
with ease His voice rang out to every
corner of the theatre and he had complete
mastery of his audience every minute Of
his speech.
The candidate quoted figures taken
from the State records showing how the
speople Of every subdivision of this coun-
ty are compelled to pay the burden Of
taxation for the maintenance of the local
government which the railroad and canal
companies should pay, and will have to
pay, he declared. if the Democratic par
ty is successful in the coming election.
He was listened to with the greatest
attention and his array of facts and
graphic Illustrations showing the taxa
tion inequalities in this city and county
made a decided impression.
Robert L. Stevens of Bernardsville,
the candidate for congress in the Fourth
district, was introduced by the mayor as
the next speaker.
Mr.. Stevens's. speech was. brief but
very much to the point His argument to
show where the full dinner pail Aad gone
under Republican rule, and his arraign-
ment of the policy Of the Republican ad-
ministration to spend s60o0ooooo in the
Philippines, while the Delaware chan
mel from Trenton to Philadelphia was
not touched, made decided' hit. Mr..
Stevens was cheered to the echo.
Mr.. Lindabury was the last speaker.
He was forceful and eloquent in his pres
entation of the issues, and scathing in
his denunciation of Republican policies.
His references to Parker, Black and the
other candidates caused great cheering
and his speech was continuously punotu-
ated with applause. He said:-
1.-The Republicans say that they have
a glorious record of fortytwo years, on
account of which, no matter what Dem
ocratic principles should be, they should
be retained in power, and they are going.
up and down the country claiming that
all the prosperity under heaven belongs
TO them, and claiming that of all the time
they have been in power there has been
nothing in all that time they need to be
ashamed of, nothing which they propose
to take back, and that they propose to
stand pat upon everything they have
done. Well, my friends. they have dis
creditable blotches enough in their ca
reer to which l will allude."
Next, he scored the carpetbag recon
stuction policy of the Republicans in the
South after the war, and showed up the
party in its efforts to impeach President
johnson for striving to continue Lin
coins peace policy.
Speaking further he said
"They failed in that. and failed by the
votes of the better men in their own
party. But it was a dreadful thing and
a blot upon their record where they say
there are no blots
''And it was only a little later than
that, 1876, when Samuel ]. Tilden was
elected. That he was elected by con-
siderable majority no honest man, no
student of history today denies for mo-
ment, and that that Presidency was
stolen from him by a carpetbagging
union which the Republican party had
forced upon Louisiana and Florida every
honest man knows.
well, gentlemen, we have examples
OF dolngs III every age, but OF very
much later time. We had treaty once
with the Government of Colombia. one
of the South American States. by which
we guaranteed to that Government the
integrity of her territory, and then our
people concluded that they would like
to build a canal across. the isthmus of
Panama.
"For the acquisition of sufficient terri
tory to build that canal, the President
opened up negotiations and-made anoffer
TO Columbia which Columbia declined,
and thereupon, over in Wall street, in a
back Office, in the city of New York, was
hatched the conspiracy called rebellion
by which few Panamanians-a jnnta,
as it was called-less than one hundred
in number out of population of three
million, over night, had what they called
an insurrection, declared themselves a
new goYernpent and free people, and the