The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1903-10-26
FACAN'S RECORD
Unlucky Remark Of the
Corporation Counsel
Causes a Bitter Ex-
posure Of the
Administra-
ton.
JUDGE COLLINS VS.. FAaAN
New York aHerald" Shows
the Sins of Omission and
Commission OF the
Last Two Years.

The New York Herald" yesterday, in
reviewing the Mayoralty situation in this
city, took occasion to criticize Corporation
Counsel George L. Record for saying in
a campaign speech that Mayor Pagan
had given the city the best administra-
tion it had seen in a generation. To
show that this was not so the Herald"
compared the administration of former
Mayor Gilbert Collins with the present
one After declaring that Mayor Col
lins's administration was far superior
to Mayor Fagan's, the Herald" discuss
ing Mayor Collins's administration, de-
clares: 81
His administration was not stained
with stories of "hold ups" of saloon men
by license inspectors. He did not go on
picnics to keep accused members of his
household in countenance, nor set up
Jobs for their acquittal whether guilty
or not guilty. While he kept sharp
eye on department work he did not set
spies over department cniets to hunt for
molehills of irregularities to make noun
tains of. His Board of Education did
not plan secretly with its architect to
give him $1,000 bonus for work that
might be regarded as part of that for
whieh he drew his salary. He did not
scheme and plan to put the saloon ele
ment at his mercy for the aid it might
render him in future political battles.
His Ere Commissioners were never sus-
pected of being interested in oil supply
contracts. He did not put his uncle on
the Police Board, nor plan to capture the
control of the Street and Water Board
just and only that he might put a chum
in $1,000 berth. He did not build $780,
600 oath houses 70 be opened at the be-
ginning of the ice season. He 1.u not
juggle with tax valuations so as to make
a false basis of assessment that must
needs leave a deficiency in current ex-
pense moneys to go into the city's' bond
ed debt He did not take the assets of
the city's bondholders for the everyday
use of the city, nor settle abroad claims
for less than the whole amoAnt due. His
administration was as far above criti-
cism as the former Juage is himself in
his social and business relations ,"
The Herald also calls attention to the
fact that the tax issue raised by Mayor
Pagan is not genuine and on this sub
ject says
Mayor Pagan has set up railroad
tax figure of straw for the delusion Of
those who think that some public issue
ought to mark the struggle, but every
one knows that it is very literal swill O.
the wisp"-a wisp of straw. 1t rests
wholly upon a threatened suit against
the big trolley combine, which the At
torney General has refused to permit the
Mayor to institute and upon the settle
ment of Erie Railroad tax arrearages
at an apparent sacrifice Of 100000 of
the city's moneys. 1t does violence to
the traditions of the party which Mayor
Pagan stands for, because it is known
Of all men that the chief PURPOSE of the
existence of the republican party in New
Jersey is to give things to the railroad
corporations. So the railroad tax issue
Is campaign veil that every taxpayer
is shooting peas through"
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