The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-09
ROUGH SHOD
MEASURES TO
BEAT PAGAN
CONTINUED from First Page,


mary depends the decision as tt
whether Mayor Pagan viii run at thu
coming election as the candidate OF
his party.
The fight between the followers o.
the discredited political leader and
the Mayor is a bitter one. Trouble oi
a serious nature is predicted at the
polls, but persons who view the stu
alton without prejudice or rancor con-
slider that most of the talk of violence
is unwarranted. There may be a few
clashes of a physical nature, but nc
general mixups, such as some have
predicted.
In the First Ward, where John j
Powers leads the Pagan forces and Jail
Warden Thomas Connolly is the leader
of the Dickinson forces, 1t would not be
surprising IL in some of the river front
precincts police would be needed There
is a large floating population In the
lower end of the First Ward-lodging
house habitues and tunnel workers
from the South and upper New YORK
State. They may prove a factor in the
fight there. The Eleventh Ward Is also
flooded with tunnel workers on the
Lackawanna bore, who have not yet
acquired a voting residence IN Jersey
City.
Just how the Dickinsonites hope to
carry the primaries does not appear:
Most of the talk has been thai success
will come to them through the ma
chinery Of the election board, the Re-
publican members of which they con-
troll, as they will bar a majority of the
LTo - c,,NnoNtaro fr0po yOfinV IN the
Republican primary box. No such move
as the Acknowledgement of Republican
voters can be successful except through
collision with Democratic election CHI
GERS. The confident boast of the Dick
~insonites that Pagan men will be barred
from voting in all parts of the city
would appear to indicate a perfect
understanding between the Dickinson
leaders and the men In Mercer street,
who control the Democratic machine
This understanding Is further con-
frmed by the fact that Democratic
ward workers were yesterday freely
making bets that certain Pagan men
would not be permitted to cast their
ballots tomorrow. This al especially
true in the Fifth Ward. the home ward
of Mayor Pagan. where George Muir
ray, assistant poormaster n 4 Demo-
cratic leader. bet william Mona7an, an
ardent Pagan supporter, that he would
not be permitted to vote.
1t requires the vote of three mem
bers of any election board to compel a
citizen to go upon his oath and swear
in his ballot, and there are but two
election officers controlled by the Dick
~insonites in each precinct. Thus 1t will
take the vote of a Democrat to start
trouble in any polling precinct. Even If
a mans vote Is challenged the election
board cannot reject it if the voter is
willing to take his oath that he is a
Republican and entitled to vote in the
Republican box. In that case h vote
must be received.
The Dickinson rank and file are
claiming everything in sight. They say
they will carry every ward In the city
Marcus Higginbotham and his ilk say
1t verbally wherever they can get an
audience, and George w. Mccarthy
writes it in different form every day
and sends 1t to the newspapers, mot
as an evidence of good faith, but for
publication"
The Pagan men are not making many
predictions. They are working, n all
that they will say Is h a the people
have never gone back on Mayor Pagan
since he has been their servant, and
they do not believe hat there has &C.
CURED anything to date to change their
attitude. They are confident of win
ming.
A careful anvass of the situation,
looking at 1t from all sides leads to the
conviction that the following table is a
fair estimate of what the result will be.