The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-10-23
A HOT PEPPERMINT CAMPAIGN
THE INSIDTOUS DEVICE OF THE
FAGANITES IN JERSEY CITY.
"vote for Fagan" Lozenkes 70 Re Met by
Boss Davis With Wide Distribution Of
ParegOric and Tecthing Rings-StirrinE
Appeals to BE Made From Carttails.

The stomach ache has been made para
mount issue in the municipal campaign
10 Jersey City. 1t has been forced by
Bob Dsvis. the Democratic boss of Hudson
county. who says he is going to float his
candidate for Mayor, James Murphy, into
the city hall on a wave Of paregoric, buoyed
up by 5000 rubber teething rings.
Free distribution Of paregoric and teething
rings, which began yesterday at Murphy 8
headquarters on Mercer street Is a counter
move to Offset the giving away Of thousan' &
OF Pagan lozenges to school children. The
candy dist ribution began on Monday.
A local candy manufacturer who wants
Mayor Pagan reelected printed In red let
tiers on thousands of peppermint lozenges:
vote for Mark M. Pagan for Mayor.
The campaign motto candy was distributed
among the children Of all the schools and
placed on sale in every Jersey City candy
shop.
And there's lots more to come when the
first supply ia exhausted.
The candy gets sticky when subjected
to the temperature of schoolDoy's pocket
and the red letters will do to print with.
School children discovered that fact and
pressed the lozengts against their fore
heads, cheeks and nuses till they became
living campaign notices Walking around
the streets.
Mayor Fagan is now in everybody's
mouth" said an enthusiastic Republican.
Boss Davis has notion, which every
body doesn't seem to share with him, that
all the school teachers are for Murphy
because when he was in the Jersey Legis-
latllre some years ago he favored an in
crease of teachers salaries.
Az first step Davis let it be known among
the teachers that the success of the Demo-
cratic ticket depended on the strict enforce
ment OF the rule against bringing things
TO eat into the school room. He also said
that the physiology teachers ought to show
up the evils Of candy, especially OF candy
with red letters on it. But such mild efforts
didn't make any Roadway against the
growing influence of 10000 peppermint
lozenges. The children were all eating
Pagan and shouting Pagan and Davis was
afraid it might be catching in the houses
OF the voters.
"We must make a COUP" said Boss Bob
to his candidate. and then he outlined a
little oratory for Murphys approval.
I'VE must have something like this I
hear that the teeth and stonlachs of the
children of our city are being ruined by this
administration to advance its own political
fortunes. The nights rest Of the wage
earners Is being broken by the cries OF their
little ones from stomach ache.
"'The plain people, crushed by the great
corporations, are now forced to take from
their scanty savings the money to buy
paregoric, the money that should buy shoes
and give little recreation to the hard
working mothers.'
Murphy listened with delight to this
framework Of a stump speech on the new
issue.
Now, jim resumed Bob. I'VE must get
the carttail spellbinders to put something
like that into the nightly guf and we'll
have the Pagan peppermint boom beaten
q mile. Every lozange will be a roorback
| In the stomachs of the people. For the
German vote it won't do any harm to throw
! in some suggestions that the poor man
is deprived Of his beer because he has to
| buy paregoric.
But Davis didn't leave everything to
| oratory. The Democratic campaign COM
| mittee got a rush delivery of two ounce
| bottles OF Taregoric, with Murphy's picture
on the label. and 5000 rubber teething
| rings with Vote for James j. Murphy
| stamped on them. Bottles and rings are
| now being distributed
Every bite on those rings will mean n
vote" said Bob Davis -and every night
cry choked of by a swig OF our paregorio
will mean another