After 28 years, without interruption, during which Frank ("I Am the Law") Hague has dominated Jersey City, its voters last week went to the polls with another opportunity to oust him as mayor. The issue was whether they would elect Republicans who made charges of confiscatory taxes, fraudulent elections and municipal corruption, or whether they would again have Hague, who now promises to defend his constituents from the totalitarian menace. To no one's surprise they chose beaming Boss Hague—his tellers counted it as a 100,703-to-13,425 victory.
Said he complacently: "Naturally I feel...
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