The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1906-09-20
Mayor Pagan, George 1.
Record and Others Ex-
pounded New Idea" Doc
trines From fail End of a
Cart
RECORD DENOUNCED BossisM
WAS PARTICULARLY yINDICT-
I'VE AGAINST THE REPUBLI-
CAN COUNTY "BosS''-RECITED
HISTORY OF MAYOR FAGAN's
ACHIEVEMENTS IN BEHALF OF
TAX PAYERS.

Mayor Pagan, Corporation Counsel
George L. Record and Assembiyman
Theodore L. Bierck, who is the Record
Pagan candidate candidate for Surro-
gate made speeches at a New Idea
meeting held last night near the front OF
the City Hall. The meeting was one of
the many arranged in connection with
the present New Idea" cart tail cam
paign that is being waged to arouse in
terest among the voters Pas to the i'm
portance of the coming primaries, to be
held September %. The sounds of a
dozen bombs exploding in the air and
the music of a band drew several hun
dred men, women and children to the
scene.
Mr. Record was the principal speaker.
Ell denounced political bossism" in the
.'this county" tsating that he would con-
fine himself principally to that subject
He paid his respects to them, but seemed
more bitter agains. the Republican" boss"
than the Democratic 'boss" but declared
both were in partnership. He claimed
ton in favor of great corporations as
against the people for which services
they are handsomely paid and find
'.bosism" a profitable profession. After
a lengthy recital of Mayor Fagan's
achievements in the line of efforts to make
corporations pay their full share of the
taxes, during which he recited the history
of the parting of the ways between
Mayor Pagan and BOSS" Dickinson, all
of which is past history. Mr.. Record
said
In fighting to nominate Mayor Fa-
gan for the Assembly you are fighting
to destroy a system which is eorrupting
the youth of our land and which is de-
bauching our policies, thus changing our
government representing the people to
a government representing the special
interests of the state. What is true of
the state is true in a larger degree of the
nation. The freight charges of this coun-
try are based upon a capitalization of
excess of the fair value of those compan-
les The courts have held that a freight
charge must be no higher than is suffi-
cient to afford a fair return upon the
value of the road By means of the men
whom the bosses in the different states
at the command of the corporations send
to Congress in the Senate and the House
of Representatives, all attempts to find
OUT what is the value of the railroad
property and to compel the adjustment
of freight rates upon that yaule are fru-
strated. This means that hundreds of
millions of dollars are annually taken
from the pockets of the people in increas-
ed prices which the consumer finally pays,
and today in modern life the house in
whcich man lives and practically ev-)
erything for which he spends his money
has come over the railroads a longer or
shorter distance and the prices increased
to the extent of the excessive freight
rate exacted The boss business there
fore comes home to the people in inereas-
ed cost of living in either direction. 1t
is a system. which extends from municip-
al building to the capital at Washihton.
To break it up the people must go the
the primaries. On election day they
are powerless. Both bosses name the
pa rty tickets and each ticket is compos-
ed of men subservient TO the railroads
The people are, therefore, ON election
da yhelpless The remedy is to strike
at the power of the boss where it be-
gins, which is the power of nominating
candidates for public office. Every citi-
zen, therefore, should attend the primar
les on next Tuesday, between the hours
of one and nine p. m, and yot for th'
nomination of delegates pledged to nom
mate Mark Gagan as a candidate fo
assembly If this is done the Republican
convention will be controlled by Mayo
Pagan and his friends and the boss will
be permanently broken of his trustee
stand for the people and for the law
which will compel the corporations to pa.
their just share of the public burden
WHEN you CO.
When you finally settle on the dat
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