Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1915-12-21
SING PRAISE OF
''DAL" AS THE
BEST ONE EVER
Republican Hosts Acknowledge
His Leadership--WouId Make
Him State Chairman.
SANTA CLAUS REMEMBERS
HIM, TOO, At BIG AFFAIR
Murphy for Senator and Col
gate for Governor Sure-Re-
pubIicans for Everything.

Republicans of Essex county acted
as hosts and Santa Claus TO County
Counsel Alfred N. Dalrymple last
night at the Kruger Auditorium.
They gave the county leader a testi-
monial dinner and presented him with
a gold watch. chain and penknife,
and they formally launched his boom
for chairman of the Republican State
Committee. Some of the things were
a surprise for him, but the chairman
ship boom was not. as that was
originally told of in the Evening Star
some few weeks ago
During the speech making which
followed the dinner. the speakers in
terspersed the nice things they said
about Mr.. Dalrymple with boosts for
former Governor Franklin Murphy
for United States senator and State
Senator Austen Colgate for COVER
nor. There was nothing particularly
new about these things either, but
like Mr.. Dalrymple. Mr.. Murphy and
Mr.. Colgate smiled and accepted the
compliments.
OF course the gathered clans were
there TO cheer at the slightest provo
cation and the boom of Senator Col
gate was cheered just as Justify as
WAS the boom of former Governor
Murphy. Everyone was so happy
that Mayor Thomas L. Raymond,
whose harmony speeches have been
lying dormant since the campaign in
November, revived one of them for
the occasion and was cheered just as
long and loud as any of the organiza-
tiOn men who spoke
All of the speakers took fling at
President Woodrow Wilson and at
the Democratic party, and told just
how badly the Democrats were go-
ing to be defeated next year. Con-
gresham Edward ". Gray, who act
ed as toastmaster, took himself very
seriously, and he was especially Bit
ter in his denunciation of the Demo-
cratic policies and told how the coun-
try needed speedy return to Repub-
lican rule, and he did it all without
the semblance of a smile. There
were some grins from others, though.
DAP as a Moses.
Mr.. Da1rymple was lauded as the
Moses who had led the Republicans
of Essex county out OF the political
Egypt into the land Of promise, and
he was acclaimed again and again as
the "big man" in the Republican
party in the State of New Jersey 1t
was stated, however, that there WIS
no significance in the fact that the
Arion Singing Society, which volun-
teered to render several selections.
sang "Dieser Ist Tag Des Herren, !"
which translated into English reads
This Is the Day of the Lord
The dinner was probably the largest
gathering of the kind ever held in
Essex county. Plates had been. laid
for 1;200 people. but an hour before
the start of the festivities it was
plainly demonstrated that more room
would have to be secured Tables
were then set in all of the ante-rooms,
and the overflow even extended to the
grill-room, on the ground floor. Even
with this extra room, the facilities
were entirely inadequate. and hun
dreds of ticket-holders who came late
were unable to secure places. and left
the hall. The galleries were crowded
with spectators who came to the hall
to listen to the flow of oratory which
everyone knew was going to be LEI
loose In praising and eulogizing Mr.
Dalrymple.
The hall was tastefully decorated
with the national colors, and each OF
the diners wore an American flag in
his buttonhole. There was also a eel
luloid memorandum book at the plate
of each diner, as souvenir of the
occasion.
Tho Eighth ward delegation, which
sat in front of the speakers table,
had two large placards reading, 1.-THE
Eighth Ward, $500 Republican Ma
jority." The Sixteenth Ward Club
had a miniature elephant. which the
members placed on the speakers
table bearing the inscription, "G. O
p, Sixteenth Ward"
Glad Hand for ''Dar' Upon Arrival.
When the guest of the evening ar
rived shortly before o'clock, he was
given an ovation, the entire assem-
blage rising to its feet, cheering and
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