The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-25
Eatzenbach and Ills Party
Visit Valley HatterS,
but No Addresses.
AT EDIsON'S Big PLANT
Democratic Candidate Reserving
His Strength for Tonight's
Meetings in Orange, Belle
vile and This
City.

Handshaking instead of a series Of
speeches was h order of the day with
Frank S. Katzenbach. jr, the Demo-
cratic gubernatorial candidate, in his
first visits to the hat shops in h val
ley section of Orange this~f forenoon. He
did not deliver a speech, contenting
himself with personally meeting the
men in the various hatshops he Wis
tied.
The first stop was made at the No
Name shop. In the party with Mr..
Katzenbach were County Tax Commits
sioner Laurence T. Fell, of Orange;
City Counsel James r. Nugent, of this
city; County Counsel Elvin W. Crane,
of this city; Farmer Orator" James e.
MARITIME. of Plainfield; Speaker of the
House of Assembly Edgar f. Leth-
bridge, of Orange: Mayor Isaac Shoen-
thai, of Orange; Assemblyman Edward
II. Wright, jr,, of this city; DR.. Charles
F. Kraemer, candidate for county clerk,
of his city; Police Judge Charles E.
Herr. Of this city; Martin p. Devlin
and John p. Dullard. both of Trenton.
The nominee and his party went
through the No Name shop, and as Mr..
Katzenbach passed through the differ
ent rooms he was greeted warmly by
the employees individually, and when
he had met every man in the respective
rooms the entire force in each room
stopped work for a few minutes to give
the candidate a rousing cheer.
Mr.. Katzenbach seemed to make a
very good impression with the hat
ters.
After spending half an hour at the
No Name factory, the party went to
the factory of Il. v. Connect & Co..
the members of which firm last night
refused to allow the party to go
through the shops. They held a hand
shake meeting outside. Considerable
surprise was expressed by the Connect
hatters last night when it became
known that the head of the firm had
refused to allow the Democratic party
access TO the shop during working
hours. The shop closes on Fridays at
noon, and the managers of Mr.. Katzen-
bach's Orange tolr had arranged for
the first stop at the Connect factory,
so as to allow a free swing during the
rest of he day for the other places.
Mr.. Connect was asked by the news
paper men last night if the report of
the refusal was true, and he answered:
OuT ldClOIy Is our OWL private pIOp-
erty. We have work to be done and
don't care to have any one pass
through it,"
The men this morning when they
reached their benches, were armed with
photographs of K~atzenbach, and he
windows In the top floor were flooded
with the photographs of the Democra-
tic nominee. Many. of the men, how
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when Mr.. K~atzenhach's party arrived
at the shop for an open air meeting
there was a goodly number to well
come him..
Out Of every window in the factory
were thrust the heads of the men
and women who did go to work today.
They cheered the candidate and many
humorous remarks apropos of the sit
uation were made, for the benefit of
the candidate, who entered into the
spirit OF the occasion. The burden of
those window calls was You are all
right I'VE like you, but the bosses
won't let you come in
That meeting over, the three auto
mobiles carrying the party went flying
to the Edison works In West Orange,
where, at 1910 o'clock, an open-air
meeting was held. There was a crowd
of men there to welcome the candidate
and the other campaigners.
The ~bandshaking was of greater pro-
portions at this factory and the well
come there pleased the candidate
greatly.
Mayor w. e. Condit, of West Or
ange, met the party at the factory as
head of a reception committee, which
was composed of Frank A. O'Connor,
Joseph MeDonough, John Wigel and
Simeon Robinson.
The automobile of A~ssemblyman
Wright, which had the new photograph
of the nominee and a display of other
campaign literature on h machine,
attracted considerable attention. The
party, headed by the reception commit
tee and Mayor Condit, later went
through the factory, where Mr.. Katz-
enbach was greeted by those whose
duties forbade their presence in the
street.
When the party had beer at the fac
tory for some minute Farmer Orator
MARITIME got up in his automobile out
side for the first speech of the day.
He attacked the Republican party for
its alleged afiliation with the trusts
and corporations, and told the people
thai the riches possessed by these
monopolies came only from the poor
people. A Democratic victory, he said,
was the only remedy for the present
situation.
The nominee made his first speech
of the day at the Edison plant. OPP
posite the factory, on an improvised
stand draped with the American nag,