The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1909-03-05
OSBORNE SCORES
FORT AT ANNUAL
KRUGER DINNER
Senator Says Governor Has
Taken big Stick" from
RO0Sevelt's Hands.

Prominent Democrats from the State.
county and city gathered last night at
the krueger clubhouse in Belmont ave-
nue. to participate in the seventeenth
lannual banquet of the Gottfried Kruger
Association. Police Judge Charles F.
Herr presided as POSTMASTER, and
among the speakers were Frank s.
~katzenbach. jr., Democratic candidate
for governor IN 1907; Beda voigt. presi-
dent OF the association; City Counsel
James r. Nugent, Samuel Kalisch,
former Judge Gottfried Kruger. stand
ard-bearer of the association: State
Senator Harry V. Osborne, Mayor Jacob
Haussling. Assemblyman James Baker,
of Jersey City: former State Senator
Michael T. Barrett and Sterling Joyner.
x-Senat Smith Absent.
Former United States Senator James
Smith. jr-, to whom had been assigned
the toast The United States a no,
yet returned from Chicago, where he Is
at the bedside of his son, J. Henry
Smith, who is ~convalescing from an OPP
GRAFTON for appendicitis, and the toast
was assigned to former State Senator
Barrett.
The speech of welcome was made by
beda Voigt. president of the associa-
ton. who. In a few well-chosen words
introduced the POSTMASTER of the eve
nlng, Judge Herr, who in turn deliv-
cred a short address and then presented
the first speaker of the evening, Mr.
K~atzenbach.
n toast assigned to him, ''The
State OF New Jersey" was a large one
he said, and he would take as his topic
The Germans of New Jersey" He
was impelled to do this, he said, by q
remark he had recently overheard al
the State House In Trenton, when, in
the heat of argument at a committee
meeting, someone said, IF the Ger.
mans don't like our laws, let them &c
back to where they came from" Con.
tinuing, he said:
Praises
THE question then entered my minc
what Jersey would be If there were nj
Germans here. They are a great factor
In this State. as M can find out in al
Industrial branches. What would New,
ark be but for the energy Of the Ger,
mans? They are people of a high sense
Of honor, as they have shoWn During
the times of the revolutions, and they
are also people of deep religious feel
ing. They gave to this land that ont
priceless thing. the dignity Of free la
Dor against slave labor. When they
settled in German Valley, Morris 'scun-
ty, the first thing they did was 20 gel
able ministers and teachers.
City Counsel James r. Nugent spoke
on the state Committee He re-
viewed the work of the Democratic
state Committee and insisted that the
Democratic party was not a radica.
party, but rather a conservative party
Mr. Nugent made the assertion tina
1t was his belief that the three Demo.
cratic members Of the Assembly wht
signed the majority finance report mad.
q grave mistake, especially In approx.
Ing of that portion of the report which
recommended the diversion of nearly
halfla million of school funds. He pre-
dicted that Frank s. Katzenbach. jr.
would be the next Governor Of the
State.
Mayor ON .Our City"
In responding to the toast, "Oul
City" Mayor Jacob Haussling said tina
the greatest thing that ever happened
in his life was when he was elected
Mayor of the city of Newark. He spok,
Of the benefits the city, would deriv'
from the new Hudson tunnels and from
the proposed dock improvements ant
predicted that in the course of tim
Newark would extend from the Orang'
Mountains to Jersey City and iron
Paterson to Elizabeth,
Former Senator Michael +. Barrel
began his address by touching upon tn
early history of the country, and led u
to the present time, saying that Their
were now go 900, 900 people. representing
every nation on earth.
Twice last year, he said, Il had oc
casion when coming from England t
see Queenstown, and that made m
think Of my father and mother. VIII
came from there to this country, wher
they had nc friends. 1t II such peopl
as these. with no friends and probabl
no money, that have made this countr
what 1t is today"
Samuel Kalisch spoke on the toas
: "Our Standard Bearer" and pointed OF
that no better man could have bee
; selected for standard bearer of ar as
; ! ISOLATION of the kind than former Juds
! Kruger. ssthe unselish Democrat"