The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-21
REGISTRATION
THOUSANDS
SHORT
Leaders Will Have to Hustle
to Bring Number Up
TO Last Years.

Nearly 10000 voters in this city mus
register tomorrow. the last registration
day of the year for Newarkers, to bring
this years total registration to thu
same proportions as that recorded as
year. Up to date 37.867 have placed
however. 1854 men had signified theil
intention of voting at the approaching
election. To make up this deficiency
means a lot of work for the leaders ano
the worker who have been ~canvassine
the city for the last week or SO.
They realize that no stone must be
left unturned today and tomorrow to
get out the voters, for OF October {
the greatest number that could be got
ten TO the registration places was 1000
Since that time, however, the men who
have not registered have been APP
preached, and the leaders of both par
ties today promise that every voter
would have been accounted for at the
closing hour tomorrow. October 20 the
outlying municipalities of Essex County
will have their last registration today.
When the lists for both the local and
suburban voters awe been submitted
to the respective county committees
pastors and the ballots will be sent to
them,
To explain the duty of registration
will be the task that the leaders n
the workers will take upon themselves
today and tomorrow. No meetings OF
any size, except in the suburbs, will
be held tomorrow, so that the i1npor-
tance Of registration on the last day
will not be subverted. At the meet
ings that have been arranged by both
parties for today and tonight the bur
den of orators speeches, as has been
the case since last registration day,
will be Get out the vote" The neces-
sity of his is that the registration thus
far completed, as compared with that
of last year for the first two days, is
!. 900 short. In but very few districts
in the city a there been much OF an
increase over the total of last year.
The last registration day over, the
campaigning will be cut loose once
more. The Republicans, who have been
more or less quiet this campaign, ex-
meet to open with a crash. A half dozen
meetings a night have been arranged
in the city and county for the remain
ms two weeks of the political fight.
With the Democrats this week Is a very
one, for their ~gubernatorlal can
iidate. French S. Katzenbach, jrp VIII
spend two days here. At noon Thursday
The candidate will appear at the Interim
lional Pump Works to talk with the of1-
GERS of the company and the employees.
His visit there completed, an automobile
will whisk him to the Clark Thread WORKS
in East Newark and Kearny for a similar
- xtfgsk Affnp a 1fuht lnnrh the
Democrats of Kearny, Arlington and East
Newark have arranged an open-air mass
meeting for the candidate at the Arlington
station of the Greenwood Lake branch of
the Erie Railroad. where the business men
of those municipalities win assemble.
At 8 o'clock Mr.. Katzenbach will adj
dress Harrisonians at the Harrison Town
Hall. Going from that extreme western
section of Hudson County the candidate
| will go across the Fourth street bridge into
the Irohbound district, where he will make
n tour of the principal large factories in
that section.
A big meeting in that section may be ar
ranged. After that the candidate will go
to Montclair, where he will be the guest
of honor at the Montclair Hotel, with the
Democratic leaders Of that municipality
as hosts.
According to schedule Mr.. Katzenbach
will arrive at the Kruger Auditorium in
Belmont avenue at 9 o'clock for the biggest
mass meeting of his campaign in Essex.
Preceding the meeting all the ward Or
ganizations will march from their respec-
tive headquarters to Krueger's Audi
toriunt.
At that meeting Farmer Orator James
e. MARITIME. of Union, Congressman James
a. Hamill, of Jersey City; Martin Conboy,
of East Orange; Jonn II. Backes. counsel
for the Hahn investigating committee, and
Samuel Kalisch, of this city, will hold the
crowd for the candidate.
Friday will be given to the factories in
the outlying districts. The hat shops in
Orange Valley will first be visited. AT
noon the Sprague Electric Company's plant
in Watsessing will be visited, as well as
the Croker Wheeler plant at Ampere. As
many of the smaller factories as can be
visited will also be cared for In the tour.
At night his first talk will be in. Pa
roch,al Hall. Belleville. At Q o'clock The
candidate will be in Orange at the Orange
Music Hall. AS soon as he has concluded
his visit to Orange he will hasten to New
ark, where he will talk to the voters as
sembled in the triangle park at Warren
street and Central avenue. The executive
committees of the Sixth. Seventh and
Eleventh Wards have arranged for a band
conce. preparatory to The arrival of the
candidate.
The Republican speakers committee has
arranged that the ward meetings will go
on this week without intermission, and
next week, the closing week Of the cam
paign, it is planned to have a big mass
meeting at some central point, at whicn
will be gathered as man speakers of ma
tional prominence as will come to Essex.
1t was proposed to have State Senator
Alfred N. Page, of New York, speak here
October %, but, as the New Auditorium
could not be engaged, 1t was decided tc
have the meeting the next night.
The names of several other national
speakers are under consideration. 1t is said
The local lenders expect that United States
Senator Dolliver, of Iowa, will be on hand
although he has not as yet answered the
letter of invitation.
The week will be closed with a visit
from Candidate John Franklin Fort No
vember /. Mr.. Fort will also be in ESSEX
election eve.
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