The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-03-06
400 DEMOCRATS
AT 18TH KRUGER
BIRTHDAY FEAST
Mayor HaussIing aud Judge
Howell Among the Many
Notable Speakers.
NEW YORK CAPITALISTS
INFLUENCE DENOUNCED
MIR. Katzenbach Deprecates
Their Sway Over Jersey
City Financial Matters.

The Gottfried Kruger Association
celebrated its sixteenth anniversary at
= banquet in the clubhouse on Belmont
avenue last night. Three hundred DEM
ocrats, most of them prominent in poll
tics, were present to hear the party
leaders Of this and other counties
speak.
Among the guests were former
United States Senator James Smith, jr.,
former Candidate for Governor Frank
S. Katzenbach, Mayor Jacob Haussling,
Gottfried Kruger. John r. Sinnott,
Democratic floor leader of the Common
Council; Police Judge David T. Howell,
Wilson ]. Vance, secretary to the
mayor. and Alderman Adoiph Holzner,
Z chairman of the committee on orange
ments.
Mr.. Katzenbach was the first speaker
introduced by Toastmaster William F.
Hoffman. He paid a tribute to
New Jersey and Newark, and depre-
Gated the control that New York capt.
talists now exercise over Jersey City.
He urged the necessity Of coming to the
aid of business and finance al the
present time and said:
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interests cannot be attacked without
destroying public confidence"
City Council NuEent on Hearst.
It was explained that Robert Hud-
speth, chairman of the State Demo-
cratic Committee, who was down for a
speech. was filling a similar engage
ment in Jersey City. so City Counsel
James Nugent was introduced as his
substitute. He spoke upon the neces-
sity of resisting the advances of the
Hearst party and of sticking to Demo-
cratic principles. He concluded by say
ing:
"If you do that, the Democratic party
will go back into power, and we viii
again plant the emblem of democracy
on the top of the White House"
Mayor Haussling, whose subject was
'The City of Newark" followed with a
speech full of praise for the present adj
ministration of the city departments
and an enthusiastic delineation of the
advances which he expects the city to
undergo now that the Hudson River
tunnels are open.
Senator Smith concluded the speech
making. In response to the toast, 1.-THE
United States" he spoke of the early
STRUGGLES Of the republic and upon the
Split of the constitution. He asserted
at this document was never INTENDED
g be submitted for Interpretation to an
aUtocrat like Roosevelt, and that the
fa& that he has destroyed public con-
fdef.ce is bound to put the Democratic
party back into power. Continuing, he
said:
Criticism of Roosevelt.
t"The constitution meant personal lib
erty within the law and no legislative
body ever before attempted TO deny
tire people of this liberty. and when
our friend, President Roosevelt, under
takes to do what he is doing, it only
means that the time is coming when
the American people by their votes
viii put bach into power thai party
? " hich represents the great people of
the country.
Never before did a President dare to
tale hold of the Legislative bodies of the
country and dictate laws. He was the
first to dare to do it, and the people
will not stand ii.
"And then we have our present Gov