Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-17
.HAUSSL|NG GIVES
ARONSON ANSWER
Says Departments G. o. P. Cam
didate Criticises Have Re-
ceived Much Praise.
PREDICTS VICTORY FOR
THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET
Says 1t Is Duty of Every Mem
Der of the Party to
Vote.

Replying to the attack of Louis V.
Aronson, the Republican nominee fol
mayor, on the police and fire depart
ments, Mayor Jacob Haussling. al
three separate meetings last night,
declared that men of national promi-
hence who were competent to judge
have time and again declared the de.
partments in question to have no
equals for their size in the entire
country. 1t is a sad state of affairs.
he said, when nothing but praise is
received from the outside. and
knocks from home.
The mayor was accompanied on his
tour by most of the city candidates,
including Alderman Albert II. Bier
tuempfel and Charles P. Gillen. can
didates for the Board of Works, and
a number of the Assembly candidates.
At the Sixth ward meeting, at 512
Twelfth avenue. Congressman Walter
l. Mccoy was one of the speakers.
while Congressman Eugene Kinkead
spoke at Woodside Hall in the Eighth
ward.
The city candidates also spoke A
a meeting of the First Voters League
at SO Montgomery street, and as a
windup the mayor attended a recep-
ton of the Lincoln Post, G. A. r., in
the New Auditorium.
Owen f. Conlon, who had opposed
the denomination of the mayor at the
primaries, presided at the Eighth
ward meeting and pleaded for the
support Of the entire ticket. 1t is the
1..t.. 30 xrapx naAannpo ho Caid IN
send Governor Wilson to the presi-
Dental chair, and to see to it that
Mayor Haussling is returned to the
City Hall as chief executive of the
city.
Democratic Year. say Mayor.
This is a Democratic year, if ever
there was one the Mayor said. 81
feel very safe in predicting a sweep
ing success for all the candidates,
but it is our duty to make 1t a big
Democratic year and to roll up
splendid majorities from the head of
the ticket down. to the candidate for
constable.
''You should elect Democratic AL
dermen and especially a Democratic
Board of Works. The Board of Works
as now constituted has demonstrated
that 1t is time for us to have a
change. Give US a board this time
that is thoroughly in sympathy with
the work of the Mayor.
II have been telling the people of
the achievements of the Democratic
administration of the city. ] don't
believe that l have mentioned in any
of my previous talks our building
code. which Is regarded as II of the
best in the United States. My oppo-
nent said something last night about
the police and fire departments. One
of the best compliments our city was
ever paid cagle from Police Commits
sioner Waldo. of New York. at the
police convention at Toronto last
summer. lie said that our police and
fire departments had no equals for
their size in tho United States and
remarked that when visitors came to
him for pointers he often sent them
over to Newark. So you e that we
receive praise from outside OF the
city when we are knocked at home.
"Things Have Changed since Then"
II notice that liberalism has come
TO be the issue in this campaign. /
notice that the Republican candidate
agrees with me on this question.
Even the News seems to be getting
liberal in its ideas. But do you re-
call that six years ago it was a hor-
rible thing to suggest that we should
be q, little liberal. We were pictured
as real devils with horns for even
thinking about it. Things seemed to
have changed.
But don't let dust be thrown into
your eyes. They have raised another
bugbear for the purposes of-the cam-
paign. ! think | can leave ii to you
whether this city is better or worse
than 1t was ter years ago. (Shouts
of 'Better,'). OF course 1t is. | never
stood for the sort of indecency they
talk of, and. thank God, / never
shall"
John A. Matthews asked for votes
for the Assembly ticket so that a
Democratic United States Senator
would be chosen next winter, and re-
futed a campaign canard to the eff
feet that the legislative ticket vas
not receiving as much support as the
rest Of the candidates.
Charles p. Glllen said that the
spoils system had been abolished by
the Democrats, but in it's stead hao
grown in the Republican Board oil