Perth Amboy evening news., 1910-10-24
POLITICS AT
ROOSEVELT
Speakers at Democratic and
Republican Meetings There
Friday Night.
HEAR BOTH
Special to the EVENTNc VIEWS

Special to the EVENING NEWS.
Roosevelt, Oct. 24:-The republic
can party held a meeting in CAREERS
hall Friday evening. James j. Quill.
clerk of the supreme court of Hudson
county, opened the meeting by a
speech which he confined to. a discus
sion of the relative merits of Vivian
M. Lewis and Woodrow Wilson for
the high office of governor. He re-
viewed Mr.. Lewis's record first as a
newspaper man, then as a lawyer.
then as a representative of the peo-
pie in the senate and then as the
commissioner Of banking and insur-
ance, n of the most important
offices next to governor in the state.
He said Mr., Lewis knows what the
people of New Jersey want, while Mr..
Wilson was a learned nan but q
theorist suddenly snatched out of the
wilderness.
James w. Mccarthy, assistant
prosecutor of Hudson county, also
confined himself to the issue of gov
ernor and decried ~JFilson-as the cam
didate of Jim" Nugent and 'Jlm"
Smith and Bob" Davis, whom he
alleged nominated Wilson without
the people having anything to say.
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democratic party in Accommodate
them in the eye and tell them what.
he wanted done In" the legislatures.
but the speaker wanted to know
what Nugent, Smith and Davis would
be doing-winking at one another2
Mr.. Mccarthy was followed by
Hon. A. L. Blair, who made an elo-
quent speech on the tariff and urged
his hearers not to send to the legis-
lature men who would cripple the
legislature by sending a democrat
there to hamper the return to CON
gress of Benjamin F. Howell.
The only speaker locally was DIR.
Reason, who is seeking the office of
mayor. He criticised the democratic
administration, alluded to.the lack
of a public dock, stated hat the
mayors promises had been broken
repeatedly and referring to the sub
letting of contracts claimed hat for
the lack of a dock the expense to the
borough had been much greater than
Is necessary. The meeting was also
addressed In Slavish and Polish by
Anton Rozisky and by r. P. Won Min
den, candidate for assembly.
Democratic Meeting.
The democratic rally at Kish's hall
Friday evening was attended by prob
ably every democrat in town and the
meeting was most enthusiastic
throughout. William D. lasey, who
presided, called first un<h William J.
Lawlor, who is a candidate for coun--
Gilman. Mr.. Lawior said in part that
IL elected there would be no cause
for dissatisfaction so far as he is con-
cerned. He criticised the excessive
high prices due, he said, to the fact
that the trusts are robbing tae peo-
pie. He instanced the selling by the
trusts in Europe Of goods at a lower
rate than obtains here, particularly
mentioning the lead trust controlled
by the Guggenheim's, who sell lead
at half the price in Europe that they
obtain here after paving freight and
other incidental charges.
Mr.. Lawlor was followed by
Thomas +. Chesters, also seeking the
office of councilman, who said that
he would, II elected, work for the
While pledging himself tosksep down 4
taxes he said he would not be in
favor Of going into debt. He thought
the improvements in the borough
were due to the good management OF
the present mayor, who is seeking
the office again, Joseph A. Hermann.
Mayor Hermann followed. He said
he had reluctantly accepted the nomi-
nation. Reviewing the local inn
provements Mr.. Hermann said that
the citizens of the borougnrwere the
best judges of whether or not they
we're improvements. He claimed for
himself that he had given to4the citi-
Zens the best possible government
considering the limited appropria-
tions. He criticised DIR. Reason, his
opponent, compromising cement side
walks or any other improvement OF
that character and explained that
such improvements were not given TO
the people because DR.. Reason sid
SO, but because of a petition signea-
by a majority of the property-owners
and after an ordinance had been duly
passed by council. Mayor Hermann,
referring to the efforts he had made
to further better transit facilities,
said he had personally pledged him
self to the Elizabeth people further
ing the project to do all in his power
to obtain the desired result.
State Senator George S. Silzer, in
a humorous speech, criticised The re~
publican candidates and lauded
Woodrow Wilson and the other can
didates on the democratie.tickets He
talked of the railroad and other
great corporations, The former, he
said, are evading the payment OF
taxes. while the latter were response
BILE for the high cost of living. Pass
ing on to the discussion of the repub-
lican party, he said that many mem
bers of the party were even too lazy
to go to Trenton to draw the pay
they hadn't earned. Mr.. Wilson was
opposed in some quarters on the
ground that if elected he might be
elected later to the presidency, but
Senator Silzer thought that that was
no objection to have MIR. Wilson to
work for the state for awhile. Mr..
Lewis, he said, only. showed any signs
of progress when he tried to stick to
the coat tails of Mr.. Wilson.
Other speakers were Mr.. Mahon or
Railway, August c. Streitwolf, eandi-
date for assembly, and one or two
others.