The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-31

make an explanation. Does he not owe It
tq himself to explain II Is a serious
charge to tamper with a grand Juror. #
evasion. II false, the falsity OF these
charges would be easy to prove. No mar
can remain silent Under them and remain
worthy.
At this Railway meeting the like re-
markable interest as in the meeting
noted earlier at Elizabeth was shown.
Owing to a delayed schedule at Eliza
beth, Mr.. Katzenbach was nearly an
hour behind time. He arrived at 1918,
but at that time the house, packed to
the doors, remained waiting for him,
though long before he came 1t was
apparent It had little interest in what
other speakers were saying. Two hun
bred were without seats all this time.
There must have been nearly a
thousand in attendance, and. as Mayor
Cook said, that is going some for
Railway on a Democratic rally.
Mr.. Katzenbach said to the Railway
audience:
The Republican party has been claiming
that it has given the State a great many
reforms. and / want to just call attention
to the fact that most Of them have been
OF Democratic parentage. The party final
~. as you know, passed an equal taxation
~ NAA0 wv HaAt ~ lhAGEN
the issue, but It also passed two other
measures to counteract the good this act
would have done. 1t passed 9 law specify
ing that assessments should not be higher
than a specified figure, and 1t provided for
the so-called boards for the equalization Of
taxation.
Under the first measure rates were fixed
so low. that the railroad Interests would
be satisfied, and, under the second, the
deficit thus caused was made by an extra
assessment on private property as dis
tinguished from corporate property. You
never heard OF one OF these boards in
creasing the assessment OF a railroad, did
you? But about all private property has
been raised In assessment 100 per cent.
The kind Of legislation the Republican
party has given Is the comfort SORT.
There Is a little rubber about IT. and 10
the undiscerning it gives contentment. but
no matter how persistently 1t Is worked
II doesn't yield any milk.
More than 1000 persons were In the
Democratic street parade at Elizabeth,
and all the time they were marching
the theatre was filed with as big a
crowd. When the parade at length
reached the building there were 1900
and more who, finding 1t impossible to
gain admittance, still remained In the
street. James MARITIME, of Plainfeld,
finally came out and addressed them In
the open air, and his fiery eloquence
was much to their liking.
The parade was planned to form at
7:45 p. IN. at Bond and Second streets.
but it was nearly an hour later when
the forces were all m~arshaled. Coun-
Gilman George Schlotterer was grand
marshal. He rode ahead, and was
followed by an open carriage in which
sat the Gubernatoriai candidate' with
General Dennis Collins, Mayor Patrick
Ryan and Peter Egenolf, of Elizabeth.
Mayor Ryan later became chairman
of the meeting, and when he introduced
Mr.. Katzenbach the audience went
nearly out of their heads about him.
They gave the noisiest reception the
candidate has had since the campaign
opened. The din kept up for six or
seven minutes, until those who pro-
duced it were forced from sheer phys
ical exhaustion to desist.
Mr.. Katzenbach talked about the tax
alton issue and that based on allega-
tions of misappfopriation Of funds at
the State Capitol. AS soon as he had
finished speaking most everybody tried
to get out of the theatre at once. and
there was a great jam. Assemblyman
Joseph p. Tumulty, of Jersey City,
spoke, but had a hard time of 1t, and
Leroy Gibby, candidate for Surrogate,
had the same difficulty in getting atten-
ton. The people wanted to see the
Gubernatorial candidate, and they
didn't care a whistle for anything or
anybody else. That was the spirit of
the meeting.