The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-28
Pagan Cannot Lose.
[From the Hudson Observer

Hudson City chat part comprising the
Eleventh and Twelfth Wards) is under
going a decided change of sentiment IN
favor of Mayor Mark M. Pagan Tor re-
election. Not a few of the windows where
pictures of the Democratic candidate,
Henry o. Wittpenn, were seen Two weeks
ago are now graced with the likeness OF
Mayor Pagan. The talk has also under
gone a decided change, and the shouting
in favor of Wittpenn, which marked the
campaign before Mayor Pagan was nomf-
mated, is dying down. The attendance at
the Democratic meetings, which was never
very great, considering the feeling that
seemed to be in the air, is growing less
as the campaign progresses, and the
Mayors chances of reelection are brighter
day by day.
The Democratic leaders are puzzled over
the change and are trying every possible
scheme to create some of the old-time en-
thtisiasm, but without avail. The same
shouters, who have been present at most
of the meetings to lead the applause, are
still present, but their plaudits and their
cheers are the only evidence of enthusiasm
noticeable. The man who goes to hear
and see seems to be following the motto,
Hear, think and say nothing
one reason for the change is the num-
her of campaign lies that have been nailed
since the Fagan orators have taken the
| stump, and the people themselves are find
ing proofs of the untruthfulness OF most OF
the statements made by the speakers OF
the Democratic party, and It's ofhcial or
gan. The hue and cry raised some time
ago about the raise in the taxes is rapidly
dwindling. and only those Democratic
speakers who fail to keep abreast with the
times are referring to it at all. Property
holders who were induced to believe that
their taxes were raised beyond all reason,
have nothing to fear, and it is many OF
these who nave removed the Wittpenn
~pictures and replaced them with pictures
of Mayor Pagan.
Some few tenants who were threatened
nv their landlords with an Increase In
rent, because they displayed Pagan pic
lures in their windows, have removed
them. but many others have placed q
double row there instead of one. Some OF
them have been frightened and say they
viii vote for Wittpenn, but the look on
,Aeir faces when they say it betrays them.
From the present outlook, Mayor Fagan's
chances in Hudson City were never better.
and If his workers will keep up the work
they have started to do, he will be re-
elected by n larger majority than he ever
received. Everything points to his success
the meetings are better attended, the SEN
timent is turning In his favor, and those
who talk politics on the street corners. and
argue in his favor have their opponents
beaten two to one when 1t comes to pro-
duc.ng facts. The quiet vest pocket voter,
who never says anything but makes his
vote count. simply smiles when the sub
iect Is mentioned; but the admiring glances
he casts toward the pictures Of the Mayor
are enough to convince the observant ones
that the Mayor will not be forgotten by
this class.
If the speakers and the papers and the
, Democratic leaders will just continue their
present tactics, the victory of Mayor Pagan
is assured. for il there is anything that an
Lonest citizen despises, 1t is the man who
les.