Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-10-25
REPUBLICAN
! MASS MEETING
National, State and Borough
Issues Discussed by
Speakers.

TOTTENVILLE, Oct. 25.-Nation-
al, state and borough issues were
discussed at the first mass meeting
OF the campaign on this end of the
island held last night by Republican
county committee at the TottenvilIe
school. There were about a hun
dred in the audience to listen to the
speakers who came here to talk not
only for their W candidates. but
for others running on the Repuoli-
can tickets at the election to be held
next month.
4 Former Assemblyman Ernest v.
SFrerichs, acting as chairman of the
meeting in opening, spoke briefly of
the campaign being carried on
throughout the borough for the cleo
lion of the various candidates run
ming and then introduced the var
ious ones in their turn.
Mrs. Olga StillweIi, of Manhattan,
was the first speaker. Mrs. Stillwell
talked on the national issues of the
day with regard to what President
Harding has done in the past twenty
months, as head of the government,
n what the senate and congress
had done since that time. She said
that she had a special interest on
Staten Island because her great
great grandfather built the first
house on Staten Island which stands
yet today near Richmond.
Former City Magistrate Joseph B.
Handy, candidate for congress-, was
the next speaker. He spoke along
the lines of why Staten Island needs
a representative in congress which
it has lever had. said the speaker,
in the past sixteen years that his
opponent. Daniel ]. Riordan, has
been the congressman from this dis
trict which includes the lower part
of Manhattan in which the latter
resides.
He spoke of the record of Mr.. Ri
ordan at Washington and told of the
1854 roll calls during the past six
teen years which Mr.. Riordan had
been absent 769 times from the rec
ords secured. OF the 108 special
roll calls Mr.. Riordan had answered
but 43 times. MI. Handy made men,
ton of what the late Congressman
Thomas j. Scully. of New Jersey did
for the deepening of the Staten Is
land Sound which Mr.. Riordan had
never secured for the benefit of the
\ Staten Island shores. He said that
the first bill he would see that vas
passed by congress would be the
ship subsidy bill, which would help
the shipping interest on the island.
John e. Bowe, former commits
sioner of public works in the Van
Name administration candidate for
borough president told of his record
in the three years in the borough
government. He mentioned about the
extension of the Southfield boule-
ward to the Billop House. the track
1Aa. &.1lIAxy -yEs11 G~~k korar
up by the Van Name administration
and it was on his motion sitting in
the Board of Estimate that the
$177.00 was voted by that body for
the line to Tottenville which his OPP
ponent is claiming the credit in the
few months he has been in office.
Senator G. Ernest Smith, who is
running again for reelection told of
his record in the two years at AL
bany and of the bills which he had
passed effecting Staten Island that
included the tunnel bill making It
mandatory for the city of New York
to build a tube under the narrows
within two years of the time of the
passage of the bill, the new index
system in the county clerks office
and the building of the Southfield
boulevard extension. Max Levy. the
candidate for assembly was the next
speaker and he was followed by
former Congressman Robert w.
Bonwnge, of New York. "he latter
proved to be the orator of the eve
ming. He spoke along national lines
and spoke of the good qualifications
of Governor Miller and why he
should be again returned as chief
executive of the state. Former SEN
ator George Cromwell, who was bor-
ough president of Richmond for six
teen years, took occasion at this
time to say a word in regard to the
election of Frank S. Cannon, Jr., and
William R. Bayes to the supreme
court bench.