The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-10-13
Essex Republican Senatorial
Candidate Tells the Peo-
pie of Hudson Just How
They Should Vote at the
Elks' Hall Meeting.
PREDICTS THE MILLENNIUM
IF HE AND FAGAN ARE ELECTED,
CORPORATIONS AND BOSSES
SHALL BE ENCLOSED IN CAGES
AND COMPLETELY sHoRN OF
POWER.

Elks Hall was crowded last night to
hear Everett P. Colby and the other
speakers at the opening of Mayor Fa-
gan's campaign The Mayor, Corpora
tion Counsel George L. Record and 9TH
ers also addressed the meeting. The gall
lery was filled with women and band
that played patriotic airs. The hall was
draped with the national colors and fur
ther adorned with portraits Of the vari-
GUS Republican candidates. 1t was a
very enthusiastic meeting. Counsellor
John w. Heck presided.
Mr.. Colby was given fattering recep-
ton. He was the first of the big speak
ers. He said in part
1T is eminently fitting that should
appear before Jersey City audience
TO advocate the selection of Mark NJ
Pagan to the responsible office of May
or, for the reason that in my own county
| am engaged in a contest for the es-
tablishment of the same principles for
which he has contended in Hudson.
''To him is to be accorded the honor
of having been first in the field in this
struggle for public rights and in COM
mon with the people of Essex County
l give most gratefully the measure of
praise that is due to M2yor Pagan for
his courageous initiation and his never
tagging persistency in the struggle he
instituted for the good of all the people
His movement, with the one that has
followed in Essex, has brought into
people in two great counties, comprising
more than forty per cent. of the popula-
tion of the State, and it does not require
a seer to predict that our success in the
coming election will create new era
in the political history of our State and
win for the Republican party new and
long-continued lease of authority. It
will be an era of release from the yoke
of political corruptionists and an era
of righteous dealing with corporate in
terests, according them every fair and
just facility for the conduct of their
business and securing to the people a
full return for such privileges and prop
erty as they contribute to corporations
engaged with the operation of public
utilities. More than all this, it means
d victory of the people, return TO the
people of that which belongs to them, but
which has been diverted by so-called
leaders of both parties, masquerading in
the guise of party loyalists. but serving
for personal gain the dictum OF corpora
tions, which as return for contributions
to party success have secured valuable
public privileges without compensation
and have been exempted from their just
share of the burdens of public taxation.
s.The cause Of the people has advanced
with wondrous celerity since Mayor Fa-
gan knocked at the door Of the Legisla-
ture and demanded that relief should be
afforded to the tax oppressed people of
his city by the fair and honest taxation
of the assets of public utility corpora
tions. He endured the modification of
being spurned in the house of his politi-
cal friends. but the righteousness of his
demand was The germ from which has
grown a public sentiment of such magni-
tude as to make it the dominant political
sentiment of the State. The seal Of pub
lie approval has been set upon it by
every political convention of both parties
held this year. 1t has appealed so elo-
quently to the popular desire for honesty
and square dealing, and there are none so
obtuse that they cannot see that Equal
Taxation is even now ais assurediy part
Of our public policy as if it were written
upon the statutes Of our State. In less
than two years the great problem of
equality of taxation has been brought
nearer TO solution than it would have
been in generation if Mayor Pagan had