Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-27
PRAISE GIVEN
BY DEMOCRATS
TooIan Lauds Work of Board
of AIdermen-Noted Speak
ers at City Club Meeting

Declaring the present Board of
Aldermen to be one of the best the
city of Perth Amboy has ever had.
Assistant Prosecutor John e. Toolan,
speaking before the City Democratic
Club last night, challenged any one
in public debate on this subject. In
his address Mr.. Toolan accused the
present Board of Aldermen of being
tight to an extent that they should
almost be condemned for it and SO
virtuous that it has almost become a
vice. He accused the Evening News
of unfairness and declared the COM
ing fight to be one of the hardest in
the history of the city. Other speak
ers were Assemblyman Fred DeVoe
of Middle.ex, Assemblyman William
George of Hudson and Joseph Kish
of the Sixth Ward Hungarian Demo-
cratic Club. City Attorney David Il.
Wilentz and John Kelly, president of
the club, presided.
Next fall, Mr.. Toolan declared,
would be an important one and pre-
dicted stiff fight.
When the Republicans left the city
hall after the last campaign, Mr..
| lOOldu Sdiu, lhey lSlL tue City dlulOSL
! bankrupt, and declared that the
Democrats receive the blame for this
condition. He declared that some
try to condemn the Democratic ad-
ministration for all that has happen
ed and told the club members that
they should not get their views from
the newspaper, but by attending the
club meetings where a true, account
of the Democratic administration
will be given.
Mr.. Toolan stated that if the peo-
pie read the newspaper they received
the opinion that there are a lot of
drunken sailors at the city hall
spending the money and although
it seemed to be all right for the city
to spend million dollars under an
other board, when the present board
spends SIS for the work of COM
petent engineers, it is extravaganza.
He declared that the man who con-
demns the Board of Aldermen walks
about the streets posing as friend
of the poor man, out to give every
body a living wage, but at the same
time denounces the Board of Alder
men for paying competent engineers
and assistants $18. Mr.. Toolan held
that If people watched this board,
the more they watched them the
more they would thing of them.
The balance of Mr.. Toolan's ad-
dress consisted of a heart to heart
talk to the members of the club,
concerning the coming campaign.
Assemblyman DeVoe explained
that his principal reason for appear
ing before the members of the club
was to thank them for the support
given him last November. Although
he has been mentioned as candi-
date for freeholder, he did not know
whether or not he would run.
Assemblyman George, the princi-
pal speaker of the evening, praised
the work of Mr.. DeVoe while at
Trenton, and told of the battles that
confronted the Democrats, who were
in the minority. Mr.. Georges talk
for the most part consisted of tell
ing of unimportant bills that are
introduced.
He declared that if the practice of
introducing unimportant bills con-
tinued, not only in the state legisla-
ture but in congress, the United
States will not be the greatest coun-
try in the world as there is tend
ency to stranguate the freedom of
speech and other freedoms which the
American people enjoy under the
constitution. He challenged any one
to say that the eighteenth amend
ment was in the minds of the great
men who drew the document. In
closing he told of the need of organ
ization and urged Perth Amboy to
organize.
Mr.. Kish, representing the Sixth
Ward Hungarian Club, told of the
work of the club and the plans it has
mapped out for the future.