Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1912-10-24
HAUSSL|NG GIVES
REPLY TO LENTz
Tells Deposed G. 0. P. Leader
Democratic Primary Is An
swer Enough.

Mayor Jacob Haussling and Board
of. Works Commissioner Charles f.
Kraemer addressed four meetings
last night. The speakers were joined
by Joseph McDonough. candidate for
county clerk, the congressional ana
Assembly candidates, at the Tam
many Club of the Seventh ward. All
were given an enthusiastic greeting.
The other speeches were made at
Turnbull Hall. Central avenue and
Golden street, and at Dassing street
in the Fourteenth ward.
Major Carl Lentz was the target
for the speakers, and the deposed
county leader of the G. o. p. was
taken to task for his remarks at a
meeting in the Ironbound district the
night before
The majors contention was that the
Mayor was not any more entitled to
fourth term that the President was
to third Mayor Haussling in reply
said the Democrats of the city de-
cided that he was their choice at the
primaries.
The remarks of DIR. Kraemer on the
majors activity in the Aronson cam
! paign were of a more strenuous kind.
He said that Lentz was the mouth
piece of the greatest financial insti-
tuition in the city, III its service under
a retainer to do what he could in
the courts to keep the taxpayers of
Newark from benefiting by the taxa
| ton of the Prudential Insurance
Company's $23, 900, 900 reserve fund.
wants to Try 1t on Election Day"
1.-The case is pending in the courts, .
! said DIR. Kraemer, but the major
wants to try it on election day. Are
you impressed by the spectacle of a
discredited boss in the employ of a
corporation that is fighting the city's
interests. making an attack upon
| Mayor Haussling?'
! Major Lentz's activity in the cam
| paign is generally regarded as an
| attempt to pave the way to regain
control of the Republican County
Committee, of which he was former
ly chairman. Friends of the major
do not hesitate to say that he will
"come back" if Mr.. Aronson should
be elected Mayor.
'I notice that Major Lentz tells us
that the tax rate has gone up in
Newark" said Mayor Haussling. "Ii
hasn't increased as much in Newarl,
as 1t has in other municipalities OF
I the county When he was talking
about the Increased expenditures last
night somebody asked how much OF
that the Board of Works was respon-
sible for and he didn't reply. Now
/ the tax rate is not the only thing
that has gone up. You men know
that your rents have gone up; thai
the prices of your food have gone up
and that the price of everything you
use is higher. The city has to, pay
more for everything it buys, just the
same as you have. You have had il
pretty well drilled into you in this
campaign that the Democratic party
is not responsible for the high cost OF
living. A Republican administration
, is held responsible for that.
"Do you know that the city OF
Newark has no control over the man,
appropriations it makes? Republican
Legislatures at Trenton have passed
laws providing that we must give
, fixed amounts of money, whether WI
, approve of these sums or not Their,
is a law on the books now which
{ entirely takes out of the hands O.
the Common Council any control o
the amount of money that shall b,
, appropriated for the use of the Boart
of Works. Just think of it--that Law
| says that we must give the Board o
i Works all the money it asks for
think that is a fair sample of wha
may be expected from Major Lentz'
friends
You will not reduce the expenses
of the city by electing Republican
, Mayor. ! am sure you will reduc,
them by electing a Democratic Boar,
: of Works Just try it and see