Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-10-29
VOSSELER MAKES
QUICK RETORT TO
BARRY'S ATTACK
Charges Captain Is Seeking
Post of West Orange Town
Counsel.

Lively talks and straight from the
shoulder answers to the fusion at
tacks upon the West Orange admin
istration were given last night at a
meeting of First ward Democrats in
the, Foresters' building. Tompkins
street. that town. William r. Yosse-
Ter, candidate FOR mayor. delivered
one. of his best speeches and replying
TO Captain Herbert Barry's remark
on Monday night that it made him
laugh every time Mr.. Rosseler
speaks, challenged the fusion leader
TO come out in the open. as he (Vosse-
ler) is doing and tell the voters he
fs interested in the campaign because
he seeks the position of town coun-
sci.
He charged the fusion folks with
making. strenuous efforts to have him
decline To stand as the Democratic
nominee for mayor. He also criticised
the entry of a member of the Board
of Education into the political quar-
rel and called the criticism of the
little back room as Jasmine
II would sooner take as my choice
ffe men WHO 10 llllD tic iO''i+ " - =
Won can see them go in and come
out said the candidate, than have
town affairs gone over in a building
near the Town Hall where | cannot
see who goes I'm and who comes out. :
Mr.. Vosseler said the opposition
could not fasten upon the admins
tration anything wrong and SAID
their attacks were all matter of
hints. They could not show where
any councilman profited financially,
he declared, in the towns business,
and he said the town might nave
been able to make some gain by ask
ing bids for deposits of the town
funds, rather than by dumping the
cash in the vaults of a bank.
County Clerk Joseph McDonough,
who Is a resident of the First ward,
presided and raked the fusion group
for selecting such petty topics as a
81 a day job and town council dis
cmssions in the little back room"
Mr.. McDonough was for sixteen
wears town clerk of West Orange
and he related some interesting
features of the last Republican
regime of two short years duration
and said that while all council men,
bers now participate in the IRE
meeting conferences, the Republicans
in their day of power excluded the
Democratic councilmen from the pri-
Vate talks.
who was in that little back room
in 1909, when the Republicans au-
thorized the purchase of that Lake.
side avenue property for $3.50. and
which was assessed for but $500? /
wonder who was in the room when
J. as clerk. was ordered to make out
the check Immediately, and the next
day the man who received 1t went to
Europe. During the sixteen years /
was clerk the only time bad flavor
attached to town business concerned
the street department. I wonder who
We're in the little back room them"
Mr.. McDonough lauded Councilman
Patrick ]. Corr, who seeks re- cleo
ton, and he said he was assailed be-
cause he was only a hatter.' He
said the Republican orators gladly
discussed Lincoln as a rail splitter
and Garfield as a driver, and he
asked II all the brains were given
to the lawyers
He marveled what the working
men could expect after the fusion sts'
agony over the 81 wages for the traffic
lamp man, and told of good bond
sales at low interest rates, under
Democratic rule when the town sew
ers were built, although other munic-
ipalitles in the county had difficulty
~ negotiating the bonds, and had to
Day higher interest charges. Taking
interest charges off the big fellows
lax bill on the mountainside was IA
vored by the Republicans" he stated,
while the poor man with his little
property had no such allowances"
He said the leaders back of the pres
ent fusion movement included many
qf the men who supported the old
Republican administration.
GOD Help the Taxpayers
Former County Supervisor John q.
0tterbein quoted the extensive title
OF the fusionists and said a good
sport used one hook in fishing, but
the newcomers In the field had a
feiawhook" And he remarked, God
help the fish-the taxpayers-they
catch.' The fusionists were so dis
honest, he averred, they were afraid
TO trust anyone else in the little back
ROOM
He said the reformers were follow
the one man in the town who is try
ing to build up stuff in newspaper
for their gang to fight the adminis-
tration. He deplored the writer's use
of his pen, dipped in mud" TO be-
smirch the town III which he lives.
Councilman Patrick J. Corr, deny
ing charges of favoritism in placing
the First wards share of sidewalks,
mentioned the new walks to the
hazen Avenue and Gregory Avenue
schools. The official said the ridicu-
lcusness of the statements of his OPP
ponents was shown in one instance
where the property-owners benefited
were Republicans Talks were also
given by Tax Collector Frank A.
O'Connor who ridiculed the lengthy
title of the fusion group, and by
Councilman John J. Gillick, who
made an appeal for Mr.. Cof1's re-
election.
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