The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-06

semblvmen To Trenton. One Of the Demo-
cratic candidates, Charles E. Hendrickson,
was cut by voters in his own party on ac-
count of his attitude against the liquor
ira ffic.
Hendriokson. anxious on the score of
their opposition, appealed to many ciersy-
men to assist him, and as a result circulars
appeared. indorsed by a number of the
clergy, asking support for the candidate.
Mayor Pagan is serving his third term as
Movor of Jersey City. While he has been
in office there have been many sensational
incidents in city and county. His foes ac-
cused Pagan and George L. Record OF
being politically spiteful in a number Oh
Instances. but Mayor Pagan has delehuen
all his acts and has had an influential Ioi-
lowing. His friends believe he would nave
won a fourth term had it not been for the
consolidation of the Dickinson men ana
the Davis men this year.
Sheriff John c. Kaiser, a strong Dlckh-
son man. and Mayor Pagan have long oeeli
enemies. and when a number OF Pagan city
officials were recently indicted. charged
/ with interfering at the primary, things
came to a climax.
IT was charged by the Pagan side that
the Grand Jury that indicted their of1ciais
was nothing more or less thar a political
| Grand Jury, and the indictments were
IOuRH III Al
Kaiser was put through a gruelling exami-
nation. -.
Pagan men say that they have clearly
established their contention that the ind
ings against Fagan's official hackers were
unwarranted and due only to a spirit OF
Another sensational episode in the pres
emit Pagan term was the retirement OF
Benjamin Murphy as chief OF police. Mur-
ply was not a Pagan supporter and for q
time his friends raised a loud cry when 1t
became apparent that the Pagan faction
was determined to get him out of Office.
Chief Monahan. who succeeded Murphy
when things cleared up, after the police de-
partment shakeup, in which other anti
Pagan men besides Murphy lost their jobs,
was and is a loyal Faganites g
While those a~ntagonistic to Pagan de-
clared that the action regarding charges
In the police department was a highland
ed proceeding. the Mayor said that his
conscience was clear and that he had
acted in the best interests of the city.
A riot broke out in the third district of
the First Ward over the arrest Of Anthony
Fay, on a charge of Illegal voting, and
fifty men were fighting and wrestling in
the street when the reserves appeared with
drawn clubs and scattered them.
The fret man to get hurt was hit with
a blackjack at Grand and Bruins
wick streets. He was Sidney Welsh,
a private detective, brought to
Jersey City to stop fraudulent voting.
A man tried to vote and Welsh challenged
him. Welsh was hit yer the head and
knocked senseless. -Four stitches were put
In his head. The man who tried to vote
escaped without voting. and the man who
used the blackjack got away.
A Pagan worker went to police head
quarters badly battered, with his jaw dis
located. He said he had been beaten by
Democrats at the polling place at "a York
street, and that Warden Thomas P. Con-
nelly had been a witness. Charles Good
place. at Warren and Montgomery streets.
the sixth precinct of the First Ward, was
beaten. After being rescued by the police
he kept at work with his right eye closed.
Most of the men arrested for Illegal vot-
ing and illegal registration explained to the
satisfaction of the courts that they did not
intend to violate the election law, and were
discharged by Police Judges Frank j..
Higgins and James w. Mccarthy. before
whom they were arraigned Mn the First
and Second Criminal court Many others,
however. were held for the Grand Jury.