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that it was absolutely absurd to expect
Mr.. Stokes, the Republican candidate Tor
Governor, noted railroad lobbyist, and
a director and stakeholder in one OF the
big roads of the State, to wor kin the
in the interest of equal taxation.
Counsellor Thomas f. A. Griffin fols
lowed in sln eloquent discourse on Ma
tional and State issues. and showed con-
clusively that it was to the interest OF
the workingman to support the principles
of Democracy as against those of Repub-
licans, who now threatened to abandon
those traditions that made this a great
Republic He spoke of the trust evils,
and said that such gigantic combinations
controlling the prices of the necessaries OF
life had been allowed to spring up under
the fostering care of theRepublican party
that we were no longer a free people.
The blind and selfish greed of the Pro-
tectionists, he said, was a clog on our
National wealth. Their boast that they
had raised the wages of the workingman,
| might pass, he said, but it should not be
forgotten that they more than doubled
the prices of everything the workingman
and his family consume. so that in real
ity they lowered the workingman's
wages.
Mr.. Griffin argued the cause of equal
taxation from a purely Democratic spirit
which demands Equal rights to all; spe-
cial privileges to nonen After putting
in word for the local candidates the
speaker closed with
LET US stand shoulder to shoulder and
drive from our council halls the party
that has been recreant to its trust.''
f. ziemkiewicz next addressed the au-
dience in the Polish language. He told of
the great men. He put Jefferson, Jackson,
Washington, Lafayette Pulaski and Par
ker in the same category Of men whose
sympathies were ever with a struggling
people. He said the, subject of equal
taxation was one that especially appeal
ed TO the hardworking Poles striving to
build up home in this city.
Mr.. Ziemkiewiez discussed the charac-
ter of all the local Democratic candidates
dwelling with especial emphasis on the
qualifications of Thomas f. Rooney for
Street and Water Commissioner, and H.
Otto Wittpenn for County Supervisor.
He admonished dis fellow countrymen
that they should vote the entire Demo-
cratic ticket.
Y Patrick Hayes in an eloquent speech
criticized Mayor Fagan for -receding
| from his original position on the subject
of equal taxation. He told of how the
railroads dominated the Republican par
ty. He alluded to the explosion of the
/ charge that Mr. Black owned stock in
the Pennsylvania Railroad, when he only
held in trust as a guardian several shares
left boy by his father. He said that
workingman paying rent for the bene-
fit of corporations ignoring the injustice
was as. foolish as the man who when
flour went up 50 more on the barrel,
said:-'I don't care. 1 use bakers
bread.''
Mr.. Hayes eloquently endorsed Alex.
Clements for Freeholder Street and
Water Board Candidate Thomas r,
4 Rooney, and the other local Democratic
candidates.
p ,Bialecki made strong speech in
the Polish language in which he ronndly
berated the beef trust. His speech was
along the same lines as that of Mr.. Dill
Ions delivered in English.
4 P.J. Sullivan made stirring address
on equal taxation. He didn't mince words.
He alluded to the sbrazen audacity7 of
i Stokes on an equal taxation platform. lie
told how the people of the State of Mas
sachusetts raised $4,000 revenues from
the railroads through equal taxation,
while those of New Jersey got but little
over 100000 and said that what the
people of Massachusetts could do the peo-
pie of New Jersey could also do by vot-
i ing on November s for Charles G. Black.
Mr.. Sullivan also eulogizedS the local cam
didates.
i John ] Driscoll aroused considerable
enthusiasm BY an attack on the Sugar
Trust. Many in the audience work in the
Sugar House. They understood what Mr.
Driseoil was talking about and frequently
applauded 3im and cries Of That's soF'
.sThat's what's the matter z mingled with
the applause. Then he drew attention tc
another sweet trust. in which he said