The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-10-26
Fine Meeting Last Night at
38 Green Street Showed
the Popularity Of the Dem
ocratic Ticket.
MR.. HENRY GIVEN AN OVATION
JOHN VAIL QUEEN, THOMAS
GRIFFIN, PATRICK AND JOHN
SULLIVAN AND w. c. FARMER
EXPLAINED THE ISSUES OF
THE CAMPAIGN.


A big Democratic rally was held by
workingmen at No. 3S Green street last
night Charles S. Coughman presided.
The meeting was addressed by Mayor
ally Candidate A. NJ Henry, John Wahl
Queen. William C. Farmer, Counsellor
Thomas Griffin. Patrick Sullivan, John
Fl. Sullivan and others. Mr.. Henry was
warmly greeted and the meeting was en-
tbusiastic throughout. Mr.. Queen ex-
pounded the problem of equal taxation
in such a lucid manner that every man
in the denseiy packed hall could under
stand that be, as a working man, was
more vitality interested in the subject
than the wealthy property owner, and he
explained that. after all. it was the poor
man upon whom the burden of an un-
equal tax fell. Nearly all the other
speakers We're residents Of the old f'irss
Ward. which so lsng had been a Demo
cratic bulwark, they appealed urgently
for its old-time Democrats support.
Mr. Henry. the Democratic Mayoralty
candidate. made speech that thorough
ly impressed the audience with the sin
certify in his assertions that he would
give the city a real business-like admin
istrat;on that would give the poor an
equal chance with the rich.
William C. Farmer, well-liked resi-
dent of the Ward, a recognized friend
Of organized labor, made an impressive
speech in which he appealed especially
for the support of the workiugmen for
Nr. Seymour, the Democratic Shrieval-
IS cat.d date.
Consallor Thomas Griffin, a young
man who. as he said, first saw daylight
III the old First Ward. and had been
sehoolmate of many in the audience, and
he appealed to all his friends to encour-
age the Democracy of good old Gam
montown." He said that never before
in the history of the city had there been
such a persistent demand for the full
restoration of the Democratic party to
power
In his discussion of a fake tax rate
the counsellor was frequently interrupted
with cries of Good man. More power to
you,'' He also discussed the equal tax
Queen, that the only way Of securing
equal taxation and thus lowering rents
was through the channels of Democracy.
He declared that the man who rents
property was paying much higher rent
than ne did four years ago. He called
attention to the looting of the sinking
funds and explained why the best fnan-
ciers of the county would go but little
on Jersey City bonds. He was interrupt
ed by cry of You are all right, Mr..
Grimm
The speaker laid special stress upon
the arrest of Bartholomew Harley,
well.known boatman, for Illegal registra-
ton, and declared that Harley could never
be convicted.
Mr.. Griffin appealed to his friends to
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Patrick Sullivan spoke as fellow
workman. He predicted that the old
First Ward would give its old-time Dem
ocratic majority on November Z, next.
He said that the present political battle
was one of the most important fought
in years in the history Of the city. He
asked what Mayor Fagsn had done for
the First Ward, or even the city, but
.sth1ow the CON- and try TO build up one
Of the most menacing political machines
that the honest inha Litants of the city
ever had to deal with He said Mayor
Pagan, who was elevated from SIS a
week to 5000 year had already for
gotten that he was once as humble as
any at the meeting and went on trying
to fool the working men of the city. The
speaker called attention to the fact that
while the city was paying $4,000 in sal
aries for the maintenance Of the law de-
par5ment it was obliged to go outside to
secure extra legal talent in all import
ant cases. He laid especial stress, too,
on the fact that such lawyers as Nc
Dermott and vredenburgh don't work
for a; dollar and a half a day. The boast
Of Mr.. Record that Mr.. Pagan was hon.
est. said the spe8ler, didn't go. Every
Mayor was supposed to be honest. Neither
Lameness in the muscles and joints indi-