The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-12
of the Leaders Said
to Favor Declaration From
Mr.. Katzenbach.
ESSEX EAGERLY WAITING
Rumor in Jersey City That Can
diSate May Be Asked to Ex.
plain His Position, Since
Fort Has Told Where
lie Stands.
fFrom a STAFF Correspondent

JERSEY CITY, Oct. 12.-Frank S.
Katzenbach arrived here today at noon
and went into conference with Robert
S. udspeth, chairman of the State COM
mittee, at headquarters in the Fuller
building. Following the meeting last
night in Hackensack, the candidate
spent the night with him cousin in
Tenafly.
Some of the leaders want him to
make a declaration on excise mat
ters, as Essex County is now de-
manding that the candidate say some
thing on the subject, particularly or
account of Mr.. Forts recent statement
as to how he stood oil the question.
From talk about headquarters today
it is thought that he may soon explain
his position on the matter.
The candidate will go to Cumberland
County on Monday and address a con-
vention at Bridgeton. He will tour the
county also during the day, and at
night will speak at a mass meeting in
Vineland.
Senator George Silver. of New Bruins
wick; M. T. Devlin, of Trenton, and As
semblyman James p. Tumulty, of Jer-
sey City, will also make addresses at
this meeting.
Mr.. Katzenbach will go to Woodbury.
on Tuesday. He made no statement on
he excise question while at Hacken-
sack. With a party of twenty Bergen
County Democrats he Travelled about
the county and ended the trip at Hack
ensack, where a meeting was held in
the armory.
This town Is something of a Democratic
stronghold, and 1t gave the candidate the
most spectacular reception since he began
his travels about the State. More than a
thousand people were in attendance, and
preceding the meeting there was a lively
street demonstration. A parade formed
with election signs and colored lights and
the band playing patriotic airs headed
the aggregation.
After making a complete tour of Ber-
gen County In four automobiles the party
got into town at Z o'clock. just on sched-
ule time, and were given q dinner at tho
country club.
been discussed by Mr.. Katzenbach all the
week were dealt with in his speeches yes
terday, some, however, with running COM
ments, throwing new light upon the can
didate's attitude toward them.
If supported in the House and Senate, he
declared he would sweep out the State
House as it had never been swept in a
dozen years and compel the resignation OF
derelict Republican office-holders or force
them to attend to State business.
Denunciation of officials plainly provided
the most popular campaign utterance yet
made. They were repeated from town to
and were invariably punctuated with
cheers from the crowds. Evidently beiiev-
ing in keeping the voting machine issue
prominently before the people Mr.. Katz-
enbach continued to advocate the abolition
of thees devices wherever he went. He
warmed up considerably In charging that
they were n concoction of the Republican
party for the express purpose of prostitute
ing the Democratic vote; that they had
been used with that end only in view. he
said:
"Why. Secretary Dickinson has just
taken one of these machines from Ocean
County, where the feeling against them
was so strong that Republicans dared not
let them remain, fearing members of their
own party would use them to vote the
straight Democratic ticket as a rebuke,
and placed it in my own ward at Trenton.
That is a Republican ward, but one which
has given me the majority of its votes on
split tickets.
1.-The move is intended to encourage the
voting of straight Republican tickets, that
my ward may go against me. This is but
a sample of the manner in which the ma
chimes have been manipulated for party
purposes. When L was running for Mayor
voting machines were placed in a ward
where there had ben no Prohibition votes.
At night the machine showed sixty-seven
votes for thai party, while the Democratic
TALES ran sixty-seven short of the normal
party vote.
''These sixty-seven made a mistake in
pulling the lever, and, of course, 1 had to
suffer for it."