The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1905-09-22
Corporation Counsel Asks
the People to Re- elect the
Executive in Spite Of Bro
ken Promises.
G. 0. P. CRY CONVENTION
ALTERATIONS IN THE SLATE RE-
SUIT IN JAMES MCCARTHY FOR
ALDERMAN AT LARGE AND
GEORGE BERRY AND A. j. KNOX
FOR THE S. & w. BOARD.

GEORGE BERRY AND A. j. KNOX
FOR THE S. & W. BOARD.
At the Republican City Convention at
Lincoln Hall last night, Counsellor Jas.
Mccarthy, a brother of President Nc
Carthy, of the Hudson County branch of
the s. P. c. A., who loomed up as for
midable candidate for the Mayor in OPP
position to Mayor Fagan, was nominat-
ed as Alderman at Large Counsellor
Mccarthy was with Pagan even when
his brother opposed him. Mayor Fagan
was, of course, renominated for a third
term without opposition, and George Ber-
ry and Andrew J. Knox were nominated
as Street and Water Commissioners.
In renominating Mayor Pagan. Cor
poration Counsel George L. Record said
in part:-
1T is my privilege, which I highly
appreciate, to place before this conyen-
tion as its sole candidate for the office
of Mayor of Jersey City. the man who
is already the choice of the whole peo-
pie of this community, the modest, sim
cere and courageous gentleman, Mark
NJ. Pagan.
THE personal qualities which have
so endeared him TO you and to the
public are too we'll known to need
comment in this presence. He is
entitled to denomination before this polit-
ical body. primarily because he has made
Republicanism synonymous with honest
and efficient public service and because
he has thereby turned a Democratic
stronghold inte- Republican city He
is entitled to reelection at the hands of
this community for reasons so numet tous
that time does not permit me to enume-
rate them
The record of his four years admin
istration has never been equaled for eff
fciency. for economy. and forr vigorous
and aggressive acrlcn in the projection
of the city's interests and Of its rights.
In every department of the city govern
ment the influence of his devotion to the
public welfare has been reelected in
achievements unparalleled in municipal
liStory.
tinuailv developing new problems which
must be faced and must be solved if
progress is to continue. Every gen-ra-
ton is confronted with its own Difficult
ties to be surnlounted and its own abuses
to be reformed. We live in time when
the last effects aud influences of the
terrible problem of human slavery, which
absorbed the energies of the last genera
tion, have practically faded away.
The enormous development of wealth
in this country during the last twenty
years. the marvellous increase in human
production due to inventive genius. the
tremendous efficiency of the device of the
corporation by which the savings of the
many are pooled and administered in any
productive enterprise, all these things
have brought TO our people mingled bene.
fits and dangers.
1t is becoming plain that the enor-
nous wealth piled up by a few indi-
viduaIs, is far beyond fair compen-
sation for the services, however inn
nortant which they have rendered as
| captains of industry or as rhe heads Of
great corporations. 1t is becoming grad
! ually apparent that this tremendous de-
| vice of the corporations is being so adj
ministered as to unjustly and illegally
add to the gains of a few enormous sums
of money which equitably belong to the
many
How to cure these evils, how to re.
form thse abuses, how to effectualy
| guard and limit the tremendous power
| of these aggregations of capital with
out at the same time lessening theil
undoubted efficiency as an agent fol
1
the production and distribution Of
wealth. is problem of tremendous mag
nitude.
If this problem is to be solved it mus
be after the American fashion The com
mon sense and self restraint of our peo
pie will never tolerate methods of vio
lence or any system of reprisals outsid,
the pale Of the law We can never re
sort.t to the methods Of the French Revo