Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-19
SHARES HONORS At
MEET WITH MAYOR
CoIdstein Tells Audience Aron-
son Paid Him 81 a Week
for Hard Work.

Mayor Jacob Haussling and other
Democratic candidates invaded the
Third ward for the third time this
week last night, and the mayor WAS
greeted by a crowd that numbered
close to a thousand. He was cheered
to the echo by the men and women
as well, and shared the honors of the
night at the banner-raising in front
Of the headquarters of he Third
Ward Democratic Association with
Samuel Goldstein. The latter for the
first time publicly stated hat he re-
ceived but thirteen cents an hour at
the factory operated by Louis ".
Aronson, and hat his average wage
per week was from IS to 81. The
speaker dwelt on the act that his
wife was i'll and children not old
enough to earn. Mr.. Goldstein denied
that he was a charity hand, as Mr..
Aronson said in a statement yester-
day. He said that one had to work
hard for what he earned or he would
be discharged. Mr.. Goldstein spoke In
Hebrew in a clear and loud ,une and
was applauded when he urged every
w%orkingman to vote for Mayor
Haussling.
Samuel Birn and Others interested
in the election of the Republican a II
didate were in the audience. The
banner-raising was somewhat infor-
NAL and the usual music and redfre
were missing, as the association Is
saving its ammunition for "Hauss-
ling week." The meeting was held
outdoors and the speakers spoke from
a packing-case under the Stars and
Stripes and the banner which bore
the names of every candidate from
Governor Wilson down to the
ward constable. David Straus pre-
sided. and besides the mayor and
Goldstein the following spoke:
Judge simon Hahn, Board of
Works Commissioner Charles T.
Kraemer, Board of Works Candidates
Charles p. Gillen and Albert II. Bier
tuempfel, Assembly Candidates Louis
Lewis, Joseph f. Papscoe n Simon
L. Fisch, Alderman Herman Schein-
niger and others. The candidates also
spoke at First and Dickerson streets.
The mayor said at the former place
that he was more convinced of his
own success than he had ever been In
any campaign and that he wanted to
ask the voters to give him a Demo-
cratic Board of Works in sympathy
with him.
when you have a Democratic
Mayor and a Democratic Common
Council, with a Republican Board of
Works, the sin of the Board of Works
will be visited on the head of the
Democratic administration" he said.
1.-THE Board of Works has a vast
amount of money at its command to
be spent as hat body sees fit. If the
tax rate goes up. who gets the blame?
Very likely the Democratic admins
tration. But who should get the
blame? The Board of Works. You
have heard much from Commissioner
Kraemer and others in this campaign
of the extravagant regime they have
given us,
az am convinced that n Democratic
board can inaugurate reforms that
will save the people a lot of money.
Somehow. when the tax rate is dis
cussed the operations of the Board
of Works are lost sight of, because
in the public mind the Mayor is re-
garded as being the chief figure In
the administration. But the Mayor is
powerless to stay he hand of a
Board of Works not In sympathy with
him. Its members can snap their fin
gers at the Mayor and go on raising
salaries of those who don't need more
while neglecting the little fellows ii
they like. There is a vast army of
men in the employ of the Board of
Works, about 1000. 1t is the biggest
city department. The gentlemen who
are talking about a small increase in
the tax rate would do well to turn
their attention to this department"
Judge simon Hahn pointed out that
the tax rate of Newark showed a
smaller Increase than did the rates of
many of the other municipalities in
Essex county.
Charles 2. Gillen. candidate for
Board of Works, said that the job
berry that foisted the greater part of
the expense of ~elevating the railroad
lines in the city of Newark on the
people was an example of what might
be expected from a Republican Board
of Works. He pointed out that the
Board of Works expended for street
work in 1911 $347, 600. almost twice as
much as was expended in 1905.