The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-11-04
HUDSON BY
10000, SAY
DEMOCRATS
Enthusiastic Ones Add 5000
TO County Committees
Estimate.
EXCISE A Big FACTOR
Forts Attitude on Bishops Law
Costing Him Republican Votes
in Some Parts and Winning
Democratic Support in
@Others.

WOfherS.
JERSEY CITY, Nov. 4-Hudson
County will go Democratic by at least
1000, declared the Hudson County
Democratic Committee at its, meeting
here yesterday. Some declared it would
each 10000. Last year County Super
VISOR Wittpenn, who is opposing Mark
M. Pagan for the mayoralty, carried
the county by $4,000, and it was this
plurality that aused the Democrats to
select him this year to oppose Pagan.
The campaign has been the most siren
uous in years, and the excise question
has cut a big figure.
The more conservative Democrats do
not expect, however. as large a majority
as the State COMMITTEES predicts. Condi-
tons are different this year. A year
ago the Dickinson machine made the
county nominations, and many Re-
publicans refrained from voting, while
the followers of Mayor Pagan, as a
reouke to Dickinson, helped TO swell the
Democratic plurality. This year, although
divided by local candidates, the Republi-
cans of both factions are supporting Mr..
Fort. Still there are many Republicans
who. because of the financial disturbance
and the alleged mismanagement of State
AFFAIRS, are inclined to cut away from their
party. In Hoboken, Jersey CITY Heights
ana the northern section Of the county
the Germans predominant, and they have
expressed themselves as displeased with
Mr.. Forts attitude on the excise question.
That Mr.. Katzenbach will poll an I'M
usually large vote is generally conceded.
Some Democrats place his plurality at
1000. Indications are that 1t will hardly
exceed 12,0O. as there are quite a num-
Der of Democrats in Jersey City, Bayonne
and West Hudson who are opposed to any
tsmpering with the Bishops law, and they
are counted upon to vote for the Republi-
can nominee. whom they believe is more
favorably inclined TO support that law than
his Democratic opponent.
OF the election of James F. Fielder, the
Democratic candidate for State Senator,
and the twelve Assembly candidates there
is no question. The Dickinson machine,
which placed the Republican county ticket
in the field, practically made no contest.
There have been few meetings and the
campaign has been allowed to drift along
in a ~listless manner.
That Candidate Forts interests have
been neglected by both factions of the
party there is no denying. There have
been upward Of 100 meetings, outdoor and
otherwise, under the auspices of the Pagan
committee In Jersey City and in none of
them were State issues discussed or Mr..
" . NdhnludtJ dANVNAtOu. SRC0nClog
even Record and Mayor Pagan himself,
confined themselves to local conditions.
Only when the candidate was In the coun-
ty and he made his visit, speaking at
both Pagan and Dickinson meetings, were
the Republicans aware that a Guber-
Material contest was pending.
The Mayoralty contest in Jersey City
clearly overshadows the Gubernatorial
fight. Mayor Pagan, who is seeking a
fourth term, is having the hardest time
of his political career. In H. Otto Witt
penn, the Democratic nominee, he has a
foeman worthy of his steel. Mr.. Wittpenn
is a clean-cut young man with a good
record as county supervisor and a united
party at his back. The Dickinson machine
is open in its opposition to Pagan and he
has lost the support of some of the church
folk because the Bishops law has not been
aggressively enforced, while, on the other
hand, the saloon interests are against him
because he tried to raise the license fee
feoii $50 to $500. Despite his great handi-
rar. -Tayor Pagan has rut up a great fight
aua his friends are insisting that he will
pull through. The Democrats, however,
are claiming that Wittpenn' will sweep the
city. The Indications are that the contest
will be a close one, with the chances in
favor of Wittpenn.
In Bayonne, Mayor Pierre Garvin, who
is a candidate for reelection on the Re-
pulilCdu IlChelt ndS lOi III PPoACh IL
A. Z. Forman, who was the choice of the
r-eorganized Democratic party. The contest
has been stubbornly waged by both sides.
DR.. Forman has won the support OF former
Mayor Thomas Brady. who was with Mayor
Garvin two years ago. Other independent
Democrats are supporting his candidacy,
and as Bayonne is normally Democratic, be
is reasonably certain of election.
Hoboken is having a three-cornered May
crafty contest. The Democrats are d.
vided. At the nominating convention there
was a row, two factions of the party, one
led by Maurice ]. Stack and the other by
Patrick Griffen, making nominations.
With twenty-eight Of the sixty-hve dele
gates. Stack got control Of the convention
by installing his followers as officers, ana
had himself nominated for Mayor. The
Griffenites, with thirty-seven delegates
left the convention hall and placed Mayor
George Stoll in the field for reelection.
Two sets Of petitions were filed and the
contest was taken into court, Justice Pit
ney deciding in favor of Stack, and his
name was placed on the Democratic ticket.
The Griffenites formed themselves into a
Citizens Association, with Steil as their
candidate.
ust Bonita is the candidate of the
Republicans. 1t looked up to a-day or two
ago as though Bonita had a chance to win
out, but DR.. Stack, who is not a relative
of the Democratic candidate and who was
the Republican candidate for Mayor two
years ago, came out for his namesake.
This gave the Democratic candidate quite
a boost. and now his followers are conf
dent he will win. Up 20 a few months ago
Candidate Stack was the Democratic leader
in Hoboken, He was deposed by Robert
Davis. who put Griffen in his place. Stack,
as the Mavoralty candidate, Is making his
FIGHT on the itsle of home rule and against