The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-10-21

ueciufeu tHlt the people VI A1uusoh
County would vet win victory in the
matter of Equal Taxation through Dem
ocracy that the majority's will must
finally prevail and that it cannot be ac-
complished except through Democracy.
Mr. Black paid glowing tributes to
Shrievalty Candidate Seymour and May
orally Candidate Henry He also made
splendid appeal for the support of the
Assembly candidates in the interests of
Equal Taxation. He riddled the pre-
tensions of Mr.. Record and Mr. Pagan
on the subject of Equal Taxation. In a
brilliant manner he described the efforts
of the State Democracy to bring about
Equal Taxation through Former Coy
ernor Leon Albeit, William McAdoo,
Former Senator Brinkerhoff. John Wahl
Q&een, James Fielder and James A.
Hamill As to the cry of overthrow of
bossism the speaker declared that Mr..
Henry, Mayoralty candidate, possessed
that quality of backbone that would
make him his own boss. 1t was the
same quality. he said. as that of Andrew
Jackson, when he went up against the
National bank monopoly He declared
that it was destined that Mr.. Henry
should lift Jersey City into higher place
than it has ever enjoyed before. The
speaker also produced facts and figures
to show that the Pagan administration
was claiming credit for an economic ad-
ministration which was really due to the
Democratic County Board of Freehold
ers.
1t was plainly apparent that Mr..
Black was held in the highest esteem
by one of the most representative audi
ences of business men that ever gathered
in Jersey City
Former State Senator Robert Hud-
speth made one Of the greatest oratori-
cal efforts in his career as a lawyer, citi-
zen and politician. He talked long--a
little too long-but not for moment
was the great audience away from the
fascination of his oratory, because ev
cry one in the audience knew he was
talking straight from the heart. shoulder
and brain. and that he knew what he
was talking about. Above all other
things he talked truth Not only that,
each one was interested in hearing a
man fer whan1 be twice vutesf TO repre-
sent him in the upper house of the New
Jersey Legislature. In unmistakable
language he charged the present city ad-
ministration with gross hypocrisy and
declared that Pagan and Record were
industriously engaged in throwing dust
in the eyes of all the inha bitants OF the
city.
Il am glad that / am in a position to
take this platform and refute their ar
guments." he said Il have been a con-
sistent Democratic voter ali my life
These gentlemen, forsaoth Fagan and
Record, who imagine they are greater
than the two great political parties of
this naticn Qocallyl have burned the
bridges behind them. They seem to for
get that Col Dickinson contributed to
their success four years ago and two
years ago. but we Democrats don't want
to be successful simply on account of
secession ON the other side What we
want is the election of our candidates on
| their own merits and the merits of the
| principles expounded in our Democratic
| platform Ga tremendous outburst of APP
lSplause).
Why should not our candidates, all
of whom are good. reputable citizens be
| elected in this Democratic community 2,
Mr. Hudspeth asked. when | hear of
Mr.. Fagan and Mr.. Colby's great brag
about their being the great exponents Of
equal taxation, my mind goes back to
the seventies when Leon Albert made
his great fight for equal taxation and
| when he WAS sde-tracked and sscotched'
by Republican legislature. / look back
to the efforts of Governor Ludlow,
whose efforts in the same direction met
with a ike fall at the hands of a Legis-
lature of the same complexion. recall
the fact that when equal taxation bills
were presented by Democrats they we.e
strangled by Republican committee
The former Senator clog tently por-
! trayed the futile efforts of Record and
1 Fagan in following up a Democratic
cause. pounding at the nayielding doors
| of a Republican legislature in an effort
to secure equal taxation at its last ses-
sion. and having TO appeal for the intro
duction Of bills to Democratic members
who could not refuse to introduce them
because they embodied all the principles
| of the Democratic platform.
The risibilities of the great audience
was tickled when the former State Sem
ator described how the Mayor Cor Mr..
Record in order to relieve the agony Of
suspense. staiked forth from his private
chamber with the majesty of an old Ro-
man Senator and having indicted let
ter to the people of this city and county,
addressing them as his children, adj
| vised them to vote for b. c.. Stokes,
one Of the foremost foes of equal taxa
tion. In this letter the speaker SAID ii
was declared that Mr.. Black was So
black that he could not be trusted.