Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-03-04
DINERS GREET
wkATzENBACH AS
NEXT COVE
Gottfried Kruger Association
Celebrates Eighteenth Birth
day with Banquet.

Frank S. Katzenbach, of Trenton.
was greeted as the next Governor las.
night at the banquet of the Gottfried
Kruger Association. The celebration
OF the eighteenth birthday OF the or
ganization took place at the clubhouse.
in Belmont avenue. Mayor Jacob
Haussling In a brief address declared
tina there was Qo graft at the City
Hall in any of the departments, and
James r. Nugent, chairman of the
Democratic State committee. said that
all indications point to Democratic sue
cess throughout the nation at the next
election. The other speakers were Sena-
tor Harry V. Osborne, former Senator
Michael 7. Barrett. Gottfried Kruger
and Police Judge Simon Hahn.
Mr.. Nugent said:
Il know that there cant be success
in politics, or in anything else. unless
Ia party carries out its pledges to the
people. If we do not stick to the prin.
sciples we nave enunciated we ann
succeed. Personality must be sunk in
politics.
Since the disastrous election of 1896
I'VE have tried to bring New Jersey
MACK into the Democratic column. We
p@lnost won three years 90, and l
sthink We will be successful this year.
&rhe State committee, with the valuable
sid of the auxiliary committee. has
worked throughout the State during
the year. The work outlined has al
Fseady borne fruit in most encouraging
reports from all parts of New Jersey.
*Permanent clubs have been estab-.
,1ished and the legislative committee has
worked hard preparing measures de-
-manded by the citizens and laws that
must be placed on the statute books,
If the Republican party carries out its
pledges. But only last week the pres
e Governor told the Republicans that
they have not redeemed their pledges
and are In danger of reputation at
the polls at the next election.
And it's going to be a Democratic
year in Washington. Scandals have
been uncovered that almost smirch men
who sit in high places, n in New
York the Republican party. alive with
special interests, has been shown to
misrepresent the people. We have al
lowed the Republicans to remain in
power too long. and We can all help
10 make New Jersey again the proud
OeilOGFdIC oldlG OF lle RpTlH.
The first speaker introduced by the
POSTMASTER. Charles F. Herr. was Mr..
Katzenbach. Democratic candidate at
the last -gubernatorial election. He
was given an ovation and responded to
the toast state of New Jersey"
Mr.. Katzenbach told Of the wonder
full progress of the State during the
last century. particularly in regard to
49, arY1arfa4ior facilities Ia eppEa nF
the completion of the Hudson tunnels.
which he termed a marked step in
progress, the magnitude of which few
realize. Beginning with the first pro-
pulsion of boats by steam in 1911, he
traced the development down to the
present day. remarking at the OBJ
stables overcome by the pioneers in
giving the State the facilities which
have made it great. =
Transportation, he said. has made
She coalition of the States not the rope
of sane many of that generation feared
it would prove but, bound by bands of
steel. the country has grown and eX-
banded to make us the proud nation we
now are"
The speaker told of railroad regula-
ton in 1916, when the first Jersey char
Ter was granted, monopOlies that
grapsed the state even in the early
days. the development through the
decades. and declared that when VIC
complain. of poor service in this gen
Grafton, although justified, we may fine
comfort in looking back upon wretche6
conditions of other days.
samuel Kalisch was to have re.
ponde to the toast, Our STANDARD
Bearer but was unable to attend. Thu
next speaker was Michael T. Barrett
who cited interesting statistics show
ing the important position occupied bS
Essex County.
He showed that although occupying
only 2 per cent. OF the area of tbs
State it has a population of $50, 900, Oh
nearly 70 per cent. of that of the State
He told Of the various excellent county
Institutions.
THE asylum at Overbrook. he said
ais q magnificent institution. with &C
-commodations for 1900 patients. The
p~enitentiary can house 800 persons, bu
we don't use half Of the accommoda
ton, because that class of peopl
doesn't live in Essex-they're all a
Trenton. In the Coprt-House is one o
the finest law libraries in the country
The late william Phelps said in m,
hearing that could stand on Eagl
Rock and see more people than from
any, other spot in the world, and h
knew what he was talking about gen
orally. And who made all this possible
Our ancestors-ali of them foreigners.
Mayor Hausslfng spoke or a plea 70
more schools. public Fairgrounds am