The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-08
DEMOCRATS
OPEN THEIR
CAMPAIGN
Big Meeting Last Night
in the IrOnbOund
District.
ASSEMBLYMAN'S STORY
Told by Mr. Lane :. TumuIty
Rips Record of Republicans.
/Kraemer Makes an Ardent
Plea fer Personal Liberty
Of Citizens.
ASSEMBLYMAN'S STORY

The opening of the Essex County
Democratic campaign in Harburger's
Hall last night had all the features
of an old-time political mass meeting.
A parade of 400 Democrats of the Fifth,
Tenth and Twelfth wards paraded
through the principal streets of the
Ironbound district amid a line of red
light and bonhres, and led by three
bands of music, marched to the hall,
where Democratic spellbinders attacked
the Republican party n pointed out
to their listeners why they should sup
port the Democratic party at the ap-
preaching election.
Assemblyman Joseph P. Tumulty. Of
Hudson, the fiery orator of the lower
House of the Legislature, went after
the Republican members of both New
Jersey legislative bodies over their fail
ure to pass laws that were demanded
by the people. DIR. Charles f. Kraemer.
candidate for county clerk, landed the
first hard blow in the fight for the
modification of the Bishops bill. He
was cheered to the echo, and worked
his audience up to a high pitch.
Assembly man OOiil w. Ldltt Oh EAST
Orange, took issue with John Frank
lin Fort, Republican candidate for Gov
ernor, because of his statements to the
effect hat the Republican party was
free from blemish in it's long period
of power. He likened him to a man
in a story he narrated.
THE man met a game warden and
Dragged to him that he had killed a
hfo dnar in xrto1ofion Of fha Ion url.--
the identity of the game warden had
been established the hunter said,
You are the game warden, then?' i
am Then l am the biggest d-n
liar in the State That is the position
of Judge Fort when he says that there
is not a blot on the record of the
Republican party
DR.. Kraemer did not speak unit after
Messrs. Tumulty, Hahn and Lane had
talked, but he struck the chord in the
referring directly to the liquor ques-
ton.
81 want you to understand that
am not a chronic office-seeker,'' hi
said. II have gone into the contes
this year to take up the fight wheri
l left off last year for personal libert,
utANCA IN Oidl0 ailQ 0titPE6. w = IdNt
heard tonight of corruption and mis-,
management in public affairs AND
charges of killing good legislation. The
real issue in this campaign, however
is the fight for personal liberty, first,
last and all the time"
He went on to say that the mar
who worked six days of the week
should not be deprived of the liberty
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day of the week.
II believe that the Bishops law is
the most vicious legislation ever en-
acted, because 1t has taken away the
freedom to which we were entitled
Lest he be misunderstood as favor
ing the absolute abolition of the good
features Of the bill, DR.. Kraemer went
IN to qualify bis statements.
do not misunderstood me- he said.
There are two or three provisions in
the Bishops law that are admirable.
I would not condemn one thing that
does ava with dives connected with
saloons or the like. but l do say that
the vicious part of the law which de-
prives the working man of his personal
liberty ought to be repealed. l hope
before long to lave our candidate for
Governor express himself as to his
views on this question"
DIR. Kraemer directed his remarks
then to a large number of foreign
speaking persons who were present,
telling them that they were entitled
to the exercise of personal liberty, free
speech and free thought which they
expected at their advent into this coun-
try.
Last year you elected Mayor Gauss
ling and raised the banner of personal
liberty on the City Hall, and when
November rolls around | know we are
going to raise that banner on the State
House in Trenton"
He urged his hearers to get out to
register today, saying that the election
of the Governor alone would not suffice
to obtain personal liberty, but that the
entire Democratic Assembly ticket
should be sent to Trenton from Essex.
IF you do that, we will make a
clean sweep, and the State will be re-
claimed to the renewed Democracy"
In the absence of Thomas Holzinger,
candidate for the Board of Works, DR..
Kraemer made an urgent plea for his
support. :.
MT. LANE ItleITtu ~ Tic GANlSt QueS-
ton, too in his speech. He said that the
Republican party had made a bold
statement when it asserted II had OBJ
tanned excise reform
That it proposes to stand by those
SPECIALIZED reforms is amazing" said
Mr.. Lane. 1T is far beyond me to vote
for anything that is no in accord with
what decent Americans desire"
AS early as 1880 o'clock last night
Democrats from the various wards in
the I%ronbound district assembled at
their respective meeting places. The
Twelfth Ward organization, under the
guidance of Alderman Patrick H..
Corish. met at Bits Hall, in Bowery
street, marching thence to the Penn
s~ylvania Railroad at Ferry and Market
streets, where they met the Fifth Ward
aggregation.
The two ward delegations Joined
forces, preceded by brass bands. and
marched down Ferry street, the line of
the parade being blazed by the glare of
bonfires and red light to Jefferson.
where the Tenth Ward Democrats
added their forces to the parade.
Former Alderman John It. Monahan,
Of the Fifth Ward, was marshal of that
section of the parade, and James Hy-
land was leader for the Tenth Ward
Democrats.
They reached the hall shortly before
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