The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-08-25
PARTY in THE
POLICE
DR.. McGill Reiterates That
ths Department Is Under
the Control Of the
G. 0. P. Machine.
NON-pARTISAN DEMOCRACY
Contrast Between the Methods
of the Present and Last
Regime -Shake-Up
Ahead.
NON-PARTISAN DEMOCRACY

DR.. John D. McGill, the Democratic
Police Commissioner, who last week
charged his Republican colleagues with
being influenced by spirit of PARTISAN
ship in the matter of giving out the work
of furnishing supplies for the police de-
partment, said this morning.
My Republican colleagues appear to
think that charged them with some
crime when l accused them of being par
tisan. 1t doesn't interfere with their
being good Republicans to be partisan.
There is nothing in itself reprehensible
in giving the work of furnishing supplies
and the like to men of their own political
Commissioners are thorough going Re-
publicans, that's all.
"They say that certain men who sup
piled the department during the Demo-
cratic regime are still continuing to fur
nish supplies today. That is very true,I
and it only goes to show how utterly nom;
partisan the Democratic Board was, be-
cause men are Republicans. They con5
tinue to hold on because they are supply7
ing goods at such low figure without
making any effort to increase prices.
"The optional supplies, however, are
being given strictly to the Republicans!
The minutes will show this.
UPRIGHT But PARTISAN.
"Messrs. Tilden and Mitchell are un-
right, honorable men, but / still say that
the present Police Board is not as free
from the control of a political organiza-
tion as ,Yas the last Board. haven't amy
doubt that they are looking out for the
interests of the city, and will continue to
do what they can within certain lines.
1T would require absolute independ-
ence of political control ON their part to
take an independent stand in the matter
of the proposed transfer by the Police
Board of the City Hospital management
to the new Board of City Hospital Trus-
tees If they take the stand that they
should follow Corporation Counsel Re
cord s advice to vote for the transfer on
the strength of his opinion that a bad
law is good law until upset by the courts,
such action can not be anything but par
tisan.
THE NEW HOSPITAL.
Gas for that new hospital bill it has
been smashed. The act is dead. The
city could not float bonds under it. The
whole effort of the administration now is
to grab the hospital. Why they should
be so determined to take its manage
ment away from Republican Police
Board and turn it over to the Republi-
can City Hospital Trustees, I'm sure |
don't know. Such action is unnecessary,
as the present direction of the hospital
is as competent as the direction that
seeks to control it. Nothing can be
gained from Republican standpoint by
making the change in the face of the
fact that they intend to secure remedial
legislation before they issue bonds and
build the proposed hospital. They want
to force the transfer simply to endorse
Mayor Pagan"
The Police Board will meet tomorrow
evening when Commissioners Tilden and
Mitchell will probably vote to make the
transfer. Or. McGill viii undoubtedly OPP
pose any such action. After the resolu-
ton shall have been passed. as foreshad-
owed in ''The Jersey City News several
weeks ago. ali application will be made
for a writ of certiorari to remove tie
resolution to the Supreme Court for re-
view. This will tie up the transfer Tor
several months and in the meantime the
next Legislature will probably straighten
ont the tangle cauSed by Mr. Records
bungled bill by passing new act.