Perth Amboy evening news., 1914-10-29
GARRETS0N IS GIVEN
R0US|NG RECEPTION;
QUINN DEFENDS RECORD
Republicans Hear GaTVen Rap
Administration in Bitter At
tack on Wilson, Fielder and
ScuI|y on Their Policies.

Mayor Ferd Garretson was tender
ed a rousing reception at the big
Republican mass meeting held in the
Ditmas theatre last night. He was
applauded for several minutes when
he arose to assume his position as
presiding officer. Pierre 2. Garven,
former prosecutor of Hudson county
and former mayor, who was the
principal speaker of the evening, de-
plored existing conditions. He held
the Democrats to be wholly to blame.
His talk was we'll rendered; serious
at times he impressed the audience
with convincing terms, and humor-
Gus, on the other hand, he caused
much laughter at times. With the
idea of making the meeting short
and snappy, in preference to the long
and boring kind, the city candidates
did not speak, Recorder H. e. Pick
ersgill talking in behalf of all of
them. Two of the assembly candi-
dates, w. Burtis Havens and John
H. Conger were the other speakers,
The latter took occasion to defend
his record against attacks made upon
it by his Democratic opponent.
Prior to the meeting the audience
was entertained with motion pic
lures from shortly after o'clock
until o'clock Mr.. Garven was the
last speaker of the event and the
impression he left with his audience
seemed to carry weight. He de-
nounced Democratic government in
all of its forms. The old tribe" Of
Democrats who were in power at
. 3 nH mo io1 nj In
he denounced as the biggest gang
grafters, robbers and thieves that
had ever held office. He had more
respect for those now in charge OF
municipal affairs, declaring that they
were probably honest, but he de-
clared with emphasis that they were
incompetent. With this remark he
proceeded to illustrate how President
Wilson and his colleagues were in
competent and how Governor Field
er and the state STAFF were not com
petent to do the work that was re-
quired for the best interests of the
state and nation.
In opening, Mr.. Garven caused
laughter when he told of the meth
DDS of campaigning here as compared
with those in Hudson county. Up
where he came from, he said, poll
ticians and candidates called each
other thieves, robbers and cut-throats
365 days year, while down here one
candidate would call his opponent a
gentleman, as he had heard Mr..
Havens say in referring to Congress
man Scully. The former Hudson
prosecutor made the startling pre-
diction that if Democrats were elect
ed to Office again this fall the coun-
try would encounter the most terri
BILE times during the next two years
that 1t had ever had during its his
tory; on the other hand, he predicted
that If Republicans were put in pow
er, there would come a change for
the best imm ediately after election.
Mr.. Garven held Democratic legis-
lation to be wholly responsible for
hard times now existing throughout
the country He cited several cases
In which the largest and most -four
ishing mills and factories of the
country had been closed up COM
pletely because Of the tariff change
under the Democratic administra-
ton. He ridiculed the appeal of
many Democrats that they be elected
to support Woodrow Wilson. ''Why. "
he asked, "why should these men,
these incompetent men, be elected 20
continue their nefarious work." He
maintained that the reason why
Woodrow Wilson and his associates
had enacted the laws that he claimed
had upset the country, was because
they were southerners.
Mayor Garretson read telegram
from Robert Carson, offering regret
at being in Atlantic City and being
unable to be on hand for the meet
ing. The executive also reported
that John F. Ten Brock, the Re
publican candidate for sheriff, was
unavoidably detained.
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