The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1902-10-24


wicked Democratic city and had it not
been for his tremendous financiering the
city would have gone to the demnition
bowwows.
Mayor Fagan," said ike" glaring at
the table where the. newspaper men sat,
has been attacked by The Jersey City
News. But what has he done. He
has restored the credit Of the city ruined
by The Jersey City News, wild
cheers from the Mayor and Jack Gra-
ham).
Frank ]. Higgins, when the orator re-
covered consciousness was made sec
retary and the business of the City
Convention was hustled through by Will
liam G Nelson, offering this piece of
hyperbole:
The Republicans of Jersey City well
come this opportunity to express openly
IN convention their unqualified approval
of the administration Of Mayor Pagan.
The business of our city is in -four
ishing condition and the evidences of
abundant prosperity awakens us to a
flown from the dominance of Republi-
can doctrines in both nation and State.
Our city is clean, healthful and well
governed. Our citizens can see, and see
ing can believe that the public moneys
are being spent for the public veal Our
free dispensaries are boon and bless
ing to the sick. Our music in the parks
has been source of pleasure to our citi-
zens. Our educational facilities have
been greatly enlarged and soon our long
dream of an adequate High School will
be realized The morality of the city
has been elevated to a higher plane, for
the dive keeper can no longer procure a
license to eontaminate the morals of our
people and faunt his vice in the faces
OF our citizens, and the efficiency of our
Police and Fire Departments is source
of great qualification to our people.
We favor the abolition of the present
Board of Street and Water Commission
ers, and the substitution therefor of a
single Commissioner, in order that
greater efficiency and economy may be
secured in the administration of that de-
partment and that responsibility for ex-
travagance and corruption may be easily
and definitely located. In view of this
fact we recommend that no candidates
be named for the office of Street and
Water Commissioner under the present
act.
We further recommend that, in view
of the efficiency and fairness of the
present bipartisan Board of Excise Com
missioners appointed by Mayor Pagan,
and of the manifest illegality of the act
under which the Board Of Aldermen of
Jersey City has assumed to pass an or
dinance for the creation of a new Board
of Excise Commissioners, which act is
now being contested in the Supreme
Court of our State, no candidate be
named for the office of Excise Commits
sioner.
While this was being read the Mayor
nodded his head approvingly and heartily
applauded the resolution, especially the
fourth line. Then that convention ad-
journed.
COUNTY CONVENTION.
What with the "heat, the reek and the
sweat" the room was almost unbearable,
when Chairman Fry called the County
Convention to order. Goodness knows
where they all came from, but there
wasn't room to seat the delegates. As
Secretary Higgins began to read the roll
AZ
room came scream.
sBayonne wants seats"
Me, too," from Hoboken man.
'sWill some one move, 1 take the
chair" a waggish delegate from North
Bergen, as the Bechtold- Bogart-H Hosford
crowd from Bayonne forced themselves
to the front, almost overturning Mayor
Pagan, who had risen to nominate FL
nance Commissioner E. B. Bacon as tenn
porary chairman.
After commenting on the independence
of Republican convention and denounc-
ing the cut-and-dried affair of Demo
cratic one, Chairman Bacon, with re-
freshing candor, said that there was no
question as to the nominee for Repubh-
can Sheriff.
All! THERE, Mr.. RECORD.
Democrats didn't make their nomina-
tons, he said, as the G. O. p. did. Oh!
no! The Democratic way was all wrong
and un-American. Corporation Counsel
George T.. Record will please note that)
Then Chairman Bacon proceeded to pat
himself and the other Republicans on the
back for all the blessings they had show
cred on this land. The G. o. p. discov-
cred the Country, fought the war of in
dependence, conquered Spain and the
Filipinos, cut through the Panama Canal,
invented trusts. sat on labor organiza-
tions and settled the coal strike.
MORE TAFFY FOR THE MAYOR.
Mr. Bacon had to praise NJ. Etagan
for didn't the Mayor appoint him first as
the Excise Board, and later to the FL
nance Board? Oh what a nice man the
Mayor was.
Without fear of contradiction, thun-
dered Mr.. Bacon, looking squarely in the
Mayors eye, "every step that Mayor
Pagan takes is for the welfare of the
city Cheers from the Mayor and
lack, Graham) The Democrats there
some Of the renegades forgot themselves
and began to cheer, but checked them
selves, in time) have tried to build stone
wall around him, but the administration