The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-24
MANY WOMEN OF THE ORANGES WORKING
TO MAKE HOSPITAL FAIR A SUCCESS.
NEGROES ASK RIGHTS
FOR G. O. P. SUPPORT.
orange colored Men Hold Rousing Re-
publican Meeting-Lord Deies Mayor
on Fire Trench Matter.

Besides the refutation of the attacks
made by Mayor Isaac Shoenthal of Or
ange, a Democrat, on the Republican ma
jority of the Orange Common Council, at
the Republican mass meeting held by the
negro voters of the First Ward, Orange,
at Abyssinia Hall. that city, last night
the meeting was enlivened by the negro
speakers ~demaading that the race be
treated right after election as well as be-
fore.
City Counsel William A. Lord, of Or
ange, made the principal address, repeat
ing in effect regarding the Shoenthai
charges, what he had said at the meeting
Tuesday night at the German-Engiish
Hall, Orange. After stating that in the
past five years of Republican control the
affairs OF the city had been carried on in
an economical, straightforward and bust
ness like tanner, he spoke of the water
department. saying that the improvements
in the system were practically completed.
He then went on to speak of the Mayors
attaches, saying that Shoenthal's criti-
cism Of the fire department for hiring a
steamer was uncalled for, inasmuch as
this had been done after a message from
the Mayor advocating its use.
These criticisms of the ire commit
tee he said, come from the Mayor, with
"a very bad grace, as he approved all
= NSt1 ~ was CAAA ~
crooked, so that he could put his finger
on it. and was unable to find anything.
The Mayor says he can procure a IRE
truck, built according to the specifications
for $500 less thar the Council decided TO
pay. l say he can't do 1t; that is, he can
not get as good a truck for that price. L
defy the Mayor to show us where we can
get it, for it cannot be done"
Mr.. Lord then went on to discuss coun-
ty and State affairs.
Henry Ballatt. who presided at the
meeting, In introducing Assembly Can
didate Austen Colgate made a plea for
greater recognition OF the colored race by
the Republican party.
I'VE are much in the limelight before
election he said, but afterward we are
nowhere We want to be considered after
manho rights, Justice and respect, and
expect something from the men who have
been elected by our suffrages.'
Mr.. Colgate replied that he thought the
race was entitled to recognition, and spoke
of the wonderful progress that had been
made by the negro in the past few years.
you ave had a hard tim OF it, he
said, land 1t is up to you now to show
the stuff you are made of. You don't
want to lie down, but when you have to
take your medicine stand up like men and
take it. if the head of the nation thinks
you deserve it, as he thought the men
of Brownsville deserved 1t, and as he
thinks the men of Wall street deserve it
now. When he thinks anything Is wrong
he goes at it, and though he hits me, as
to some extent he has done by Gripping
business by his talk, still | think he is
right In the main."
James C~hurchman, negro, said that the
Republican party had not done right by
the negro.
1.-THE party has been recreant to its
trust he said, land the sooner The can
didates realize the fact that the negro OF
the twentieth Gentry Is far different from
the negro of thirty years ago the better
1t will be for the party. They pirate of
equal taxation, limited franchise and
regulation of finance, and ignore the fact
that under a Republican administration
in six States the negro has been disfran-
chised, and one-tenth of the population
is in a State of semi-slavery."
Short addresses were made by John B.
Woolston, candidate for County Clerk,
and Assembly Candidate Rudolph A.
Braun.
City Counse, Lord also spoke at a Re-
publican meeting of Italian-Americans, IN
Mt. Carmel Hall, in the Third Ward, last
night. He answered the statement or
Mayor Shoenthal that the Republicans
have left out of the tax budget OF the
city the water bonds, $500 in amount, Tor
this year, by declaring that the Democratic
sue was authorized had failed to include
a sinking fund for the redemption OF the
Indebtedness and had provided instead for
the payment of $4,000 and $4,000 each year
after the expiration of a ten years, pc
riod. The taxpayers interests had been
conserved, Mr.. Lord declared, by the Re-
publicans, who mad provided for a sink
ing fund for the retirement of the bonds
in a manner that would not be a burden
on the taxpayers.
meeting, and speakers included Antonio
De Rogatis. Austen Colgate, John b.
Woolston, Rudolph A. Braun and Joseph
A. Birkholz, the last named candidate for
C0r1noilpaa y in tho Third ward.