The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-10-11
REPUD|ATES
HUDSON BOSSES IN
RACE FOR MAYOR
Scores the Observation-Disclosures
Machine and Refuses Sup
port of Combine.

JERSEY CITY, Oct. 11.-Acting upon
the advice of George l.. Record, Mark
M Pagan, Republican candidate for
Mayor. has cut loose from the Rother-
ham and Dickinson Republicans and
will conduct his campaign without the
aid OF these factions, although they are
j.. in control of the party machinery. IN
a statement to the public. Pagan re-
pudiates the so-called Republican or
ganization n in effect tells Rother-
ham and Dickinson that he would not
accept their support. He the
combination entered into by Dickinson
and Rotterdam, by which they obtain
ed control of the county committee, and
charges that these two Republican
leaders are in league with the Demo-
cratic leaders for the purpose of de-
feating the candidates nominated on
the Republican ticket at the recent
primaries.
1t is Fagan's intention to make his
fight on an "anti-bossisn1" issue. He
thinks he will stand a better hance OF
election by making 1t appear that he
is the victim of treachery in his own
party. OF Dickinson II Rotterdam,
Pagan avs
Upwards of three years ago the then
Republican boss was ANONYMOUSLY
kicked out of his position of power by
a rebellion led by his most trusted
lieutenant, who had lived upon the
bounty of the boss for twenty years.
The boss was driven out of the club
house occupied by the association bear
ing his name and forced into retirement
amid the jeers of his former vassals.
The new boss, after two years of power,
as a result of the relentless warfare
of the New Idea forces and the adoption
of the new county committee law, finds
himself thu day after the primaries
with his machine wrecked and in pos
session OF only a minority of the county
committeeman.
1.-THE old boss finds himself in pos
session of a still smaller number. The
Bayonne machine, now and always a
band Of political Hessians, ready to
fight under any banner for hire and
which two years ago Joined In de-
throning the old boss and setting up
the new one. held the balance of pow
er. The antagonists between the old
boss and these former henchmen who
had so treacherously destroyed him
were fierce and apparently ~irreconcil-
able.
1.-THE result of the primaries left these
two warning factions face to face
with the necessity of union among
themselves, or the organization of the
party committee by the New Idea
forces, which, of course, would mean
the final destruction of the boss sys-
tern and the elimination of bosses, old
and new. Ii the face of this dire ca
lamity their mutual hatreds are. tenn
porarlly at least, allayed."
George L. Record will manage Fa-
gan's campaign and the headquarters
will be In Records office In the Com
mercial Trust Company building. An
offer made by Chairman Frank, of the
county committee to appoint a cam
paign committee composed exclusively
of New Ideaites, was refused by Rec
ord and Pagan.
The situation is practically the same
as 1t was two years ago, with the same
candidates opposing each other for the
Mayoralty. TIVE years 81 the Regular
Republicans were against Pagan. as
they are now. The Democrats were
united for Wittpenn, and there is moth
ing to indicate that he will not receive
a full party vote this year. Dickinson
and Rotterdam Republicans question
the sincerity of Pagan in his stand
against the organization. They charge
him with playing to the galleries in the
hope of capturing the Independent vote.