The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1906-01-06

all meant. 1t simply didn't look right
to Mark, so he did not sell out the
people of his ward, who trusted him
to serve them. And the worst of it
was, he couldn't serve them. If he
wouldn't stand in," the combine
wouldn't let him have anything for his
ward, not even the needed, rightful
improvements. All he got were three
political jobs, and they were gift
to him. The combine having dis
tributed all the offices, had three left
over. Since these We're not enough to
go around again, they wrangled till
somebody, to save the combine, sug-
gested giving them all to Mark. They
kind O. liked" Mark, SO this bit Of
patronage went to him with whoop.
Mark was not reelected freeholder.
He says that his inability to do things
for the ward did not hurt him with
his people; more of them voted for
him than before. But the state and
city rings had had a gerrymander
about that time, and they so arranged
the lines of Marks ward that he was
beaten. He served his neighbors pri-
vately till the next year the Repub-
licans nominated him for the state
senate. Hopeless, anyway, the candi-
dacy fell upon a presidential year,
Bryan's first, and the Democratic
county of Hudson was wild with party
enthusiasm. But the moment Mark
was nominated he left the convention,
and, fifty feet from the door, began
his campaign; he met two men; he
told them he had just been nominated,
that if he was elected he would serve
them Honestly and faithfully" and
they promised to vote for him. In this
fashion, man to man, he canvassed his
county and, though it went against
him, he ran way ahead of his ticket.
And he carried the city.
A Republican who can carry a
Democratic city is the logical candi-
date of his party for Mayor, and in
1901 Mark Pagan was nominated.
big bosses that they couldn't handle
him, but the big bosses pooh-poohed
the fears of the little bosses. In the
first place he wouldn't be elected The
railroads, the public service companies
and some of the greatest corporations
in the world have offices and proper
ties in Jersey City and their agents
there had used money so extensively
that they ruled absolutely people
Bribery at the polls, election frauds,
ballot-boX stuffing-all sorts Of gross
political crimes had made this home
of common people, and corporations
notorious. Bob" Davis was the boss
politically spealling; but T.. r. c.
Young, banker, leading citizen, public
utility magnate, was the business boss
who, backing Davis, was the rea
power. Colonel Sam Dickinson, the
Republican boss, was a corporation
man, and one might expect that his
party, which was in power in the state
would help him. But no. Genera
| Sewall, United States Senator, Penn.
sylvania Railroad official and Repub.
lican state boss, dispensed Republican
patronage in Hudson county, through
the Democratic boss, Mr.. e. +. c
Young. Sewall was dead now, but thu
custom survived him, and in 1901 tht
Democrats nominated against Fagan
George r. Smith, Young's son-in-law
an employe of the Pennsylvania. 81
Pagan had against him the money, thu
''best citizens the "solid conservativ,
business interests" of the state an
city, and-both rings. Hence, the GER
tainty that Pagan would be defeated
But even if he should win the biz
bosses believed they could "handl'
him." They had sized up the man
And if you could size up Mark Fagal
feel his humility and see the plead
ing, almost dependent look of his hon
est, trustful eyes-you would under
stand how ridiculous to the big bosse
the worry of the little bosses mus
have seemed.
An astonished city elected Mark
His campaign from house to house
his earnest, simple promise to "serv
you honestly and faithfully" ha'
beaten bribery. His kind Of peopl
believed Mark Fagan, and so, thougl
the Republican ticket as a whole wa
beaten, Mark was Mayor. Being Mayor
Mark assumed that he was the hea
of the city government. He didn'
understand that his election mean
simply that his boss had come int
his own. He saw Governor Murph
appoint Colonel Dickinson Secretary Q
State, and he heard that the colone
was to have some Of the local patron
age Of the Republican state govern
ment. Mark might have assumed tina
he had made Dickinson" But he wa
told that it was the other way around
They walked in upon Mark-the colone
}, who made" him; the editor Of tn
! paper that elected him." and Genera
Wanser, who was ready to help "un
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