The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-10-15
M'EWANS' FLAG
Excellent Campaign Banner
With Black and McDer-
mott Portraits, Raised
Last Night at Big
Meeting

One of the largest, prettiest and most
artistic campaign transparencies to be
found in any ward in the city was raised
last night in front of the headquarters of
the McEwfln Association, Johnson's Hall
in York street. 1t bears excellent por-
traits of Congressman Allan McDermott
and Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate
CharlesiC. Black. Facing the Academy
of Music it is very conspicuous and at
traeted many favorable comments from
people as they came from the theatre af
ter last nights performance.
The hoisting Of the huge transparency
was accompanied by band music and
fireworks.
The hall was later thronged with an
audience that listened to speeches by DR..
Surbrug, of New York; Alderman james
7. Mcbride, Thomas Donovan, John
ONeill, John DriscoIl and Thomas Mail
ley The latter was the last speaker.
He hammered the Beef Trust. He's
got it in for the Trust especially. DR..
Surbrug's speech was more in the line of
lecture than a political stump speech,
the title of which was Think He was
talking to laboring men. He reviewed
the recentShistory of the Republican par
ty, its attitude towards the trusts and
plutocracy, and its opposition to the well
fare of the laboring man. He punctuat-
ed every story with the exclamation,
Think" and he set the audience think
ing seriously on the political issues that
affect the working classes. He was APP.
propriately followed by Thomas Dono-
van, a steam filter, who declared that
the working man should not only think,
but act, and that so far as he was able
to see, the interests of the workingman
lay in the success of the Democratic par
ty. If you want your rights" he s4id,
vote like man.
Alderman Mcbride gave the audience
lot of practical advice and put in a
strong plea for the support Of the Dem
ocratic candidates.
John ] Driscoll who presided. made
the speech of the evening. He des-
cribed Roosevelt as a man who preferred
to drive than to lead. He drew a fine
word portrait of Parker with his great
judicial knowledge and calmneSs elected
by the people of the great Empire State
to the head of the highest courts. He,
too, advised the Voters, not only to think
but to act. Mr.. Driscoll described Can
didate Stokes as a dandy railroad lobby
ist under General Sewel and said lie was
bound body, soul and breeches by the cor
.porations, which controlled him, and de-
clared that no one could possibly expect
equal taxation at his hands if elected
Governor. Candidate Black. he said, is
an honest man, one who wouldn't even
take clients case if he knew the man
was guilty. He compared the $5 state
and SO local tax on every thousand dol
lars worth of valuable railroad properties
l7with the S2T.50 per thousond valuation
on the property of private individuals.
Some one had said that the main two
things for man in this world to do was
to work and vote Two things are GER.
tain IN this life, declared the speaker,
and they are death and taxes.
Mr.. Driscoll eloquently described the
good qualities Of Candidate Thomas L.
Rooney. for Street and Water Commits
sioner and Alex j. Clement. candidate
| for reelection to the Board of Freehold
ers. He caused a big laugh after re-
marking that he had never heard anyone
I say word against Sandy Clement by
adding Il don't believe he'd allow any
body to say anything against him."