The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-10-25

aWeRtl0n 10 the fact that Newark, wlfch
nas no more mileage of streets than Jer-
sey City appropriates twice the amount
of money for street cleaning and that the
principal reason that the Pagan Finance
Board doesn't want to give Democratic
elective Street and Water Board the
necessary amount of money to properly
clean the streets is to prevent their GET
ting the credit The crying need of the
city, he declared, was change of ad-
ministraton.
During Mr.. HamiirS speech A. N.
Henry. the Democratic Msyorslry caudi-
date, entered, He WAS given a rousing
ovation. The band played Hail TO the
Chief +" As Mr.. Henry appeared on the
stage he was given another great ovation.
When it subsided Mr.. HamiA resumed
his oration.
Talk about the overflow of bossism.'
he said. u think when you look at his
square jaws you will decide that if you
put him in the Mayors chair he will be
his own boss"
Mr. Hamill next ridiculed the interfer-
ference of Essex or Newark with Jersey
City affairs, referring to the fight of
Everett Colby for Mr.. Fagans election.
~Old time Democrats" he said, want no
out side interference. They don't forget
when the government of the city was
controlled by Republican cohort at
Trenton that stole it's water front, the
most valuable in the world
Assemblyman Archibald Alexander
followed Assemblyman HamiA, and he
told in most impressive manner how
the young Democrats of the State are
fighting teeth and toe-nail to bring about
equal taxation.
Former Senator Hndspeth was next
introduced. He was in his finest form
After paying a graceful compliment to
the women in the audience he launched
nto an attack on the pretensions and
hypocrisy of Messrs. Pagan and Record
and the Republican machine on the sub
ject of equal taxation.
.'Ye godsv' he asked, when did the
Republican party ever stand for equal
taxation| and later on in his address
he showed the futility of either Mr.. Fa-
gan or Mr.. Record bringing about equal
taxation after having deserted both po-
litieai parties in order to win munici-
pal campaign In referring to the fight
of the Democratic party for equal taxa
tion he briefly referred to the fact that
Leon Albeit was the first in this State
to raise the equal taxation banner, and
as a Democrat '.by education, experience
and conviction and that with God.s
help he would die in the faith, standing
for the equality of all the people, he
resented the intrusion of the Fagan-Rec-
ord and fight their false claims. Their
claims. he said. were all bosh, poppycock
and bunconlbe The former Senator
next attacked former Governor Griggs
for sidetracking and scotching the equal
taxation bill of 1884 and declared that
the Republicans on down had never made
a movement to secure equal taxation.
He declared that all Records ideas of
equal taxation were learned at the foo1
of Leon Albeit, and that his howl for
taxation at this point of his career, "the
voice is the voice of Jacob, but the hands
are those of Esau."
The speaker declared that Mr.. Record
in a recent speech in Elks' Hall, in de-
claring that Mr.. Pagan was the greatest
Mayor Jersey City ever had, made a
contemplate insinuation against former
Mayors Collins, Wanser and Hoos. He
said he saw no occasion to go into hys-
terics over Mayor Fagan's greatness.
that he was not inspired and was of the
earth earthly and all the bra ggadocio
about the great things he has done for
the city was fatty nauseous because it
was untrue.
Mr.. Hudspeth then took up various
reports of the expenditures of the city's
moneys and showed by the reports them
selves that with all the claims of the
present administration for credit for inn
provements during the incumbency of
the administration, every one of them
the bath house. the new High School,
the Baldwin avenue sewer. the Division
street sewer. the new schools and extern
sions, the laying of the big new water
mains every improvement of any inn
portance-was vet to be paid for by the
taxpayers children and grandchildren.
bonds having been issued for them, and
not a dollar for any of them had been
paid from the tax levy. The speaker
charged that all Mr.. Pagan and Mr.. Rec
ord whom Col. Dickinson raised from