The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-10-13
The Shrievalty Candidates
Speech at the Pontiacs'
Big Meeting Last Night
Cheered to the Echo.
GOOD WORDS FOR THE TICKET
JOSEPH FARMER EFFICIENTLY
REPRESENTS A. NJ. HENRY.
WHOSE ENGAGEMENTS KEPT
HIM AwAY-PREsENT ADMIN
IsTRATIoN RIDDLED.

The Pontiac Club held big Demo-
cratic rally at its club house in Mont
gomery street last night The next time
it holds meeting under its auspices it
wants to go and hire a hail. It's got
pretty good sized assembly room. but
it would not hold one-fourth of the crowd
that tried to get in last night Ii was
crowded to suffoeation
The meeting was very enthusiastic
one and members of the club were great
" pleased with the big demonstration.
Egbert Seymour, the Democratic
Shrieyalty candidate. was there and
made the kind of speech that made those
who had already intended to vote for
him glad, and the doubling Thomases
yield not only to his persuasive eloQuence
but to conviction that he is absolutely
honest, and endowed with an intelligence
beyond that of the ordinary man. His
speech might be classed as a valuable
contribution to the arguments in favor of
the Brotherhood of Man.
As has been the case in every gather
ing in which he has appeared since he
started on his canvass for even the NOM
ination he impressed all with the solid
conviction that he is a winner. He mod
estly referred to the feet that he had
been elected four times, consecutively,
Mayor of Bayonne, carrying the strongest
1sek. e h. -
he could not believe that he could have
done this if the voters of Bayonne had
not absolute confidence in his honesty
and integrity.
Mr.. Seymour spoke upon the power Of
organization. He said God made men to
help one another. and that men could
only help one another by organization.
He expressed the opinion that the Dem
ocratic party was going to win in this
campaign and he certainly carried the au-
dience with him in this belief. He said
that he was comparatively poor man,
financially, but what he had secured he
got by hard work standing hard knocks
and an economical administration Of his
own affairs. and he attributed his elec
ton four times as chief executive of his
city to the lessons learned and the exam
pie displayed to his fellow-men.
Mr.. Seymour paid splendid tribute to
A. Al. Henry the Democratic Mayoralty
candidate, who found it impossible to be
present. owing to other political engage
ments made ahead. but who sent Coun-
sellor Joseph Farmer to represent him.
He also put in a good word for the whole
Assembly ticket and especially for Frank
Donnelly. the Democratic candidate for
Street and Water Commissioner from the
Fifth Ward. and did not forget even the
candidates for constable and Justice Of
the Peace. He went outside of the ward
and put in big word for Thomas j.
Corydon.
Mr.. Farmer. who represented Mr.
Henry, made a brilliant speech. in which
he extolled the virtues of A. NJ Henry
as business man and told how he was
eminently fitted to give the city an econ
omical and business-ike adaninistration.
The meeting was presided over by
Counsellor Joseph Tumulty, who also
made a brilliant address in which he ex-
posed the fallacy of Mayor Pagan and
Y.
for Equal Taxation, when it is
ter Of history known to all who have
t track of political events for even
than two decades that it was inau-
ted by Thomas Jefferson. handed
IN to the late Leon Albeit. and by
i'm to HamilI and Black.
He asked that if Mr. Pagan was sin
cere in his fight for equal taxation. why
did he not vote for Charles G. Black
when he (Alr Fagan) was turned down
in his fight for Republican legislature
that throughout the history OF, the Re
publican party stood by the railroad and
all other corporations.
Counsellor James Mannion made one
Of the principal speeches of the evening.
He spoke of the harmony existing in the
ranks of the Democratic party and the
bright prospects for it soon coming into
possession of what belongs to it-and
this in the interest Of the people He
described George L. Record as a sort Of
political chameleon. He didn't use that
expression, but alluded to his record as
Free Trade Republican. Reform Dem
ocrat and possibly a Socialist politi-
cal wuHderer. as it were.
ExsAlderman Joseph Sharkey made
one of the best speeches of the evening.
If speech it could be called. 1t was more
Of monologue and his witty shafts
aimed at the Pagan administration were
highly reIished by the crowd assembled.
He fred especially into the method Of
Mr.. Fagan's house to house canvass. and
said that if one candidate was allowed
to go about from house to house looking
for yotes all the other candidates of all
parties in the field had the same right,
and if all took notion to do so the
popnlace could make up its InindSto sit
Vi, all night and stay up all day receiving
political candidates.
John J. o. Brien closed the meeting in
an eloquent apreal to the voters present
to support all the Democratic candi-