The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-19

been in power? Why didn't they pass
Colby's bills when he introduced them?
What kind of a bill is it the want. any
how? Judge Fort says a bill providing for
review Of what the commission does by the
courts. Colby says a bill that gives a COM
mission power to fix rates.
Fort says that the courts of the State
are fearless and able. He is going through
the State talking this from the platform.
anyone attacked the courts?
when Fort was presiding judge Of
Middlesex. while on the Supreme bench,
800 American citizens were d~isfranchised
in New Brunswick That was a great
crime. Judge Fort so charges the Grand
Jury. He told the members that If the
proof were forthcoming, to find indictments
against the men responsible for the dis
reimbursement The jury found the indiet-
monts.
Instead of trying this New Brunswick
case, this fearless Judge Of New jerseys
fearless courts, went away and sent a
Hudson County judge to preside at the
trial. Why? Did he have the Guberna-
torial bee in his bonnie them"
Mr.. Erl.st, the next speaker, sailed into
Mayor Mcrk M. Pagan, of Jersey City. He
said that over there he and his Democratic
colleagues were for the fourth time fight
ing a great battle against a hypocritical
administration. He declared that this year
H. Otto Wittpen wonldrbe elected Mayor,
snd that Pagan. Colby and their gang
will be swept out of existence
Mr.. Ernst advised his hearers to go
down n have a look at the minutes of
the House and Senate. 1t would show,
he said. that the Republicans had opposed
bills that were aimed to give the people
their rights and that they had at all times
defended the corporations. He reviewed
the work of the Hahn investigating COM
mittee briefly and then went on to pre-
dict complete Democratic victories, con-
Guiding with an appeal for the election
of Mr.. Day to the Common Council
In introducing Assemblymah Biohm.
Mayor Haussling said:
Il am going to introduce a mar who did
his best to wipe out that obnoxious bill
believe they call 1t the Bishops bill. He
introduced a bill at Trenton that was not
like the measures some are talking about
to have things thrown wide open. Some
people want you to think that we want to
tear things apart. What we really want is
the law so that a man can stay In his
nome city and enjoy what he may desire
TO eat and drink, provided that he Is decent
ABOUT 1t, on Sunday as well as on any other
day"
Mr.. Blohm said that since the introduce
ton Of his bill, providing that saloons
might be opened for certain hours on Sun
day. subject to the regulations of munich
pal excise authority, he had been called
upon to speak many times. Prior to last
night his addresses had been to gatherings
that were not in sympathy with the meas
ure, which, by the way, failed of passage.
He was glad, he said, to appear before a
body of men that from the applause they
had oixyon xra.a x.tIaIlv H. --ttl
him..
II received several letters after I intro
duced this bill" the Hudson man went on,
telling me that I would be defeated for
Assemblyman IL l dared to run again this
year. / am a candidate for reelection and
1 am going to win"
"When the bill had been read once in the
Assembly, | received a lot more letters.
They told me 1 was going to hell when l
died. L guess I'll find that they are not
going where / do. l believe that people
nave no right to talk that way to a man
who is working in the interest of a ma
jority and not for the minority of the
people.
Every bill intended for the benefit Of
the working man was defeated by the
Republicans in the last Legislature. Among
these was the eight-hour day measure.
You find now, in the Republican platform,
the reform bills that were passed by the
Democrats and beaten by the Republican
Senate this year." Mr.. Blohm concluded
with a rap for the present State admins
tration and a plea for the election of Kat
zenbach.
Mr.. Boggs gave his reasons for favor
ing the election of the city ticket and the
county and State candidates. He told his
hearers hat every man was interested in
taxes. whether he owned property or not.
High taxes meant high rents. A mil
lion-dollar Congress meant increases in
the price of meat and household provisions.
Mayor Haussling, he said, had given a
satisfactory administration, and the de-
crease had been shown in this years tax
bill. 1t was necessary for the Mayors
policies. he everred, to give him a Demo-
cratic Common Council in 1908.
"On our school system the Board OF
Education has been getting most liberal
appropriations, NM. Boggs said, for the
erection of new buildings. Yet year after
year the accommodations are insufficient.
Where does the money go? l don't know.
1t. is time we had a change"
The city lawyer assailed the County
Clerks office. saying that 1t was improp-
erly run and that the records were poorly
kept. Without d%isrespect to Judge Fort, he
explained, he must designate MIN as L1e
candidate OF the same old crowd" He
asked how Mr.. Fort could put Secretary Of
State Dickinson, COMMISSIONS Watkins,
of the department of banking and insur-
aEce. and State Treasurer voorhees,, with
his two salaries. out of office.
ASK any banker-not a trolley nike
n he will tell you that the department
of banking and insurance is an unmitigated
fraud. 1t was put there to protect the
people and investors. but it is run in the
interests Of the corporations"
DR.. KraemerN was introduced as "the
Mayors old side-partner'' and a candidate
who ought to win if anybody was to be
successful. The nominee for county clerk
eulogized the city administrative of Mayor
Haussling, declaring that it was an open
book. He promised a still bigger drop in
the local tax rate If the Democrats were
continued in Office in the city. In the
State, he pointed out, population had in
creased "a per cent. and expenses of
running the State 175 per cent. during
Republican rule.
Aldermanic Nominee Day, in his speech,
promised that he wouldn't dodge any is
sues when he was elected to the Common
Council, and said he would be there to
look out for the people on all occasions.
"a Republican asked me the other day
II l had the negro vote right. Mr.. Day
said, land l told him that if 2 ever had
the negro vote right for the Democratic
party n was ever going to have it, it
was this year"
This Republican told me that the party
did not want them. anyhow. He said that