Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-25
NEWARK'S NAME
WELL DEFENDED
Much Has Been Accomplished
in Civic and Commercial
Betterment.

Mayor Jacob Haussling c~ampaigned
for eighteen hours yesterday. and
much of the time was spent in pro-
tectin9 the fair name of Newark and
directing criticism at his opponent
and others who are making political
timber at the expense of the city. 1t
was a strenuous day. The mayor be-
gan his political activity at 8 o'clock
yesterday morning, when he left on
an outing, and finished at l O'Clock
this morning. He addressed several
meetings. enjoyed an outing and
spoke at several large meetings. Judge
Simon Hahn accompanied the mayor
and Joined with him in defending the
reputation of the city.
Mayor Haussling said: i want TO
leave it to the people of Newark as
to whether OF not their city Is better
today than ten years ago. L cnai-
lenge n man to come forward and
claim it is worse and / also challenge
anyone to state hat in every instance
where any violations were brought to
nv attention I did not make a
thorough investigation and remedy
the matter. The Mayor of a city
the size of Newark cannot crawl
through every knothole and see
whether or not a rat is m~isbehaving.
Should his attention be called to any
infractions of the law it Is then MS
duty to see the offenders are punished
and a repetition made impossible.
City Has Excellent Reputation.
when people know that state
ments they make r untrue they
should not make them. / was born
in this city and went to school here.
I have my business here and l think
as much of Newark as any Aronson
or Sommer ever dared think. My
family is here; my wife, my children
and my grandchildren, and l think
it dirty business for any man to
make untrue statements for the pub
lict press which you would be
ashamed to allow any of h women
folks in your family to read. While
in Toronto recently 1 was intro
duced to Commissioner Waldo, Of
New York, at his request, and he
assured me he had sought the intro
duction for the sole purpose of con-
graduating me on the fine conduct of
the police and fire departments in
Newark and the running of the city
government in general.
From all parts of the United States
have come compliments of the mu-
nicipal government of Newark, but
from n of u citizens comes UNI
true and unfair criticism"
In making a thorough explanation
of his position in reference to the In
fund, Mayor Haussling said:
Through a slip of my W tongue
and the slip of the pencil Of a re-
porter / was made to say something
that I did not intend to say about
the insurance fund Of the city a night
or two ago. / see that former Mayor
Doremus is quoted in the papers as
having taken issue with me on my re-
ported statement about the fund. 1t
1t quite natural, perhaps, that he
should claim that the credit Of start
ing the insurance fund belongs to his
administration.
'Tt Is quite true that the insurance
fund was started during Mayor Do
remus's time n I have no intention
of attempting to rob him of the credit
of starting 1t any more than 1 would
attempt to rob him of the RESPONSE
bility of having assisted in rushing
through the somewhat well-known
+ per cent. ordinance, which a Re-
publican Mayor and Republican
Board of Works foisted upon the city
and which it took a contest Of several
years in the courts to set aside.
THE facts about the insurance
fund are these: When I came into
office the fund had in 1t little more
than the capital of $780, 900, which
had been made up from lime to time
by direct appropriations, and was
only earning 4 per cent. interest on
that and, therefore, was increasing
very slowly. AS a result of cor
m%endations made by me a law was
adopted which materially strength
ened the Insurance Fund Commission
and broadened the scope of its work
so that today every dollar Of insur-
ance on the city property is placed
by the commission, either in its own
fund or with insurance companies.
Newark Work by Newark Men.
"a fair premium is charged on all
insurance that the fund carries and
great savings have been effected in
the placing Of insurance in outside
companies. The result is that the
city, through this improved admins
tration of the fund, has actually made
many thousands of dollars.
"At the last session Of the Legisla-
ture we secured a law permitting the
Board of Education to insure its
buildings in the insurance fund and
the result is that the fund, which was
growing rapidly before. is now
mounting up by leaps and bounds
and will in a very short time be a
most important factor in financing
the mpora needs Of the city. If
the matter had been left as Mayor