The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-15
Premise if lie
Is Elected as Works
Commissioner.
ROSY REPORTS HEARD
Democratic County Committee
So Considers Them..Kraemer
Says Victory Is Sure-Lead.
ers Pleased With Neml.
nees' Activity.

| conclusion last night in JohnSon'S Hall
in Plane street by the statements of.
Thomas j. Holzinger, Democratic can
dictate for the Board of Works, who
made his first political declaration of
the campaign, and those of DR.. Charles
F. Kraemer, Democratic candidate for
county clerk. All during the evening
harmony seemed to prevail.
Mr. Holzinger was introduced by
Thomas J. Harrison, chairman in
place of Tyler Parmly, who is in the
West. When Holzinger took the floor
one of the committeeman shouted
play BALI" taking up a remark
dropped by Mr.. Harrison in present.
ing the Boar of Works nominee, to
the effect that they had been fellow
~ballplayers as young men.
The candidate Showed that he is still
a hitter said his friends, in the 300
class, by making a home run with the
bases full-a political home run, they
called it, for he announced that should
he be elected a member of the Board
of Street and Water Commissioners
he would %relinquish his present respon-
sible position as assistant superintend-
ent in a cutlery factory to devote all
his time to the affairs of the Board OF
Works. This struck his hearers with
pleasant surprise, especially since it
was the candidates first political ut
terance
I'm nominating me- began he can
didate, 1.-The Democratic party has not
selected an orator by any means, but
I can say this: If elected / will give up
the position tina 1 have held for the
last thirty-one years to devote my en-
tire time to the duties that would fall
upon me. If 1 am as successful in that
office as I have been in my present
place. he concluded, land serve you
as faithfully and honestly as 1 have
my present employers, l am sure you
will lave no fault to find"
DR.. Kraemer, who preceded Mr..
Holzinger, is in the spellbinder class,
and while he did not speak long he
aroused enthusiasm. ~
There is Democratic victory in the
air. he said, land there is harmony in
the ranks. l know that for 1 have
been from one part Of the county to the
other and have not found one spot
where there is dissatisfaction. Every
body seems to be ready to take off
his coat to put his shoulder to the
wheel. All the candidates are ready
on their part to meet any demand of
the workers. Let us get out to work
for every nominee. One of the ward
leaders told me tonight, when l spoke
to him about the low registration,
Don't worry, when the last registration
day comes around you will find that
every Democratic vote will be account
ed for on thai list That is the spirit,
and from tonight on 1 for one am going
to work tooth and nail for every vote
that Is obtainable. Every other nomi-
nee is going to do the same thing,
too"
After the adjournment the two can
didates INDUCED in a Handwriting bee.
DIR. Kraemer was congratulated for the
vigorous campaign he is making, and
Mr.. Holzinger came in for unstinted
approval because of his promise to re-
inouish his position in the event of
election.
The members were late getting together,
but when they did everything went with
a dash. The first business to be touched
was the confirmation Of the appointment
of Vice-President Tyler Parmly, to serve
until the end OF the year as chairman OF
the committee in place of Police Judge
Howell, who resigned at the opening OF
the campaign. City Counsel James F..
Nugeut also called attention to the selec-
ton of Richard J. Franz, Of the Eighth
Ward, by the executive committee to act
as treasurer in place of William F. Hon-
man, who resigned. The concurrence of
the committee in the choice of Franz was
forthcoming Immediately.
The decks were then clear for the re-
norris of the various wards as to how the
house-to-house canvass had been made and
the declarations of harmony within the
franks that seemed to exist everywhere.
Alderman Joseph A. Wright, of the First
Ward, started the reporting process.
stating that his ward was making a good
fight and that If Democratic effort counted
for anything, the vote there would be
found in the Democratic column election
night.
'"The last registration day in this city is
October %" said City Counsel Nugent. TT
is therefore necessary hat the work be
done as quickly as possible. For the out
lying districts the last registration day is
October 20, making necessary the COM
pletion of the work there more quickly.
The primary purpose is to AVE out a full
vote for election day, for those who do not
register that day cannot vote election day.
That would mean a great loss. The sec
ondary reason is to have the campaign
furnished with the names of all
the Democratic voters in the county so that
pastors and the like may be sent to them
through the mail prior to election day.
For the members of the committee from
outside of the city it is particularly i'm
p~ortant that this work be quickly attended
to because only a few days elapse between
registration day and election day"
There is another feature Of ante-election
work that should not be neglected, and
that is the swearing in of absentees," he
continued. 1.-THE law is very strict ON this
point, however, and care should he exer-
cIsed. so that nobody gets into trouble in
nocently."
The City Counsel then waxed prophetic.
He said: Democratic victory is in the air
this year. We have good platforms and
candidates, and the people are with us.
Let us do the work that is left to us care
fully and thoroughly, and success will
surely be ours
Alexander Melville, for the Ehird
Charles P. sGillen, for the Fourth; Alder
man M. ]. McGowan. for the Fifth; Owen
IL. Conlon, for the Eighth: j. Randolph
Woodruff and Market Clerk Thomas F..
Rowe. for the Eleventh; Alderman Patrick
Corish, for the Twelfth; Alderman Julius
A. Meyer, for the Thirteenth; Health Com
missioner J. W. Dobbins, for the Fifteenth.
and Alderman James A. Bray. for the