The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1901-11-13
FACAN And HO0S
Popular Rumor Busy Con-
Meeting the Ex and
Elect Mayors.
POLICE, POLICE, polio E
Republican Leaders Said to
Be Having q Large Sizsd
Guessing Match on
Their Hands.
POLICE, POLICE, POLIO E


Is Mayor Hoos to be Police COM
missioner under Mayor Fagan?
That is the question that is being asked
in all quarters today. On all sides one
hears 1t cho and answers sYes.' and then
.sdayber' and then It's not nkely!v
But there was no one who would say that
he thought Mayor Hoos was not to be a
Police Commissioned, except Mayor Hoos
himself, and he denied it emphatieally
and said he would not accept the APP
pointment If it were rendered to him.
There are ru1nors Of all kinds circulat-
ing They cross and recross each other
and conflict so that the situation is Ie-
coming complicated. But from the tumble
there came forth today the announcer
meHt:-
'Msyor Hoos is to be Police Commits
sioner under Mayor Pagan. He will Sue
ceed Commissioner Adolph Walter and he
is to form combination with at leass
one other member of the Board SO that
he may use every effort to retaliate on
The Democratic party leaders for what
he has been pleased to term his condem-
nation and desertion by the party man
ayers
The tale spread like wlfdfire, and it was
received with many different emotions
Many considered that such a step would
be just in keeping with Mayor Hoos 3
methods IN public life. Then it was
shown conclusively that there was ~
means of injuring even the feelings OF
the Democratic party leaders from the
position of Police Commissioners, and that
rut the quietus on the motive given for
the Mayors entrance into the Board. But
nowhere was the idea accepted as impos-
sible
A News reporter called on Mayor
Hoos this afternoon and asked him about
the rurnor
II, Police Commissioner? That's
news to me. No, do not know any
thing about such a rumor You may
say that / am not to be a Commissioner;
that I would not accept such an appoint
ment If it was offered to me- There are
enough men who need the place without
me and they need not fear that | am
going to cause them any trouble.
There is lot of brand new talk ABOUT
Mayor Faganss administration and how
he will be guided during his term Since
his nomination for the Mayoralty and at
present there is on all sides a lack OF
confidence in the mans ability, and as
he himself announced before election that
he would be guided by the leaders OF his
party. it was, of course, understood that
while Mr. Pagan would attach his sigma
ture, no doubt, to papers that came from
the Mayors Office, the affairs of the city
would be conducted really by Sam
Dickinson, Ed Woolley, p Farmer
Wanser, Judge John Blair and Elbert
Rappleye And there the public stood ac-
cepting the situation, but today every
thing of that nature is overthrown
Though those gentlemen who occupied
IN the public mind the novel positions as
real Mayors while the public thought they
were electing one Mayor nave done their
utmost to conceal the fact it is now pub
lie property that they are not so sure OF
their prey as they believed before cleo
tion. After Mr.. Fagan was comfortably
sure he was elected he secluded himself
from the public generally and from the
so-calIed guides particularly. It is said,
on the best authority, that Mr.. Pagan
has denied himself to those guides en-
tirely while he remained IN the
city and that he suddenly lett
to rusticate somewhere about Lakewood,
but where even those guides DO not KNOW
and they are accordingly worried Tney
are feeling more and more every day that
they are losing their grip, but they are
still hoping This situation is the natural
outcome Of the Republican party's plan
Of taking up candidates on mere chance
and there is danger to them that the
chance will go against them, and in that,
the public thinks, there is hope.
Alderman Edward Fry is receiving con-
gratulations from his numerous friends
in Greenvifle upon the assurance that he
VIII be appointed Tax Commissions to
succeed Register James G. Clark. The
selection Of Mr.. Fry is in accordance
with one Of the numerous promises made
by Mayor-eiect Mark NJ. Pagan prior to
election. 0r. Fry is exceedingly popular
in the Greenyille section, where he has
lived many years Besides being chair
man Of the Republican County Commit
tee he is president of the Minkakwa Club.
1t is generally conceded that the Repub-
lican victory in the recent election was
largely due to his able management.