L. Record in Jersey. He is the man who came
to Mark Fagan when the kindly Mayor of Jersey
City was at the first crisis of his administration,
and Record helped Mark Fagan. From suspecting him, Mayor Mark came to lean upon him
for his economic policy, and they and their Jersey
City cabinet have influenced Jersey politics and
the Jersey legislature more and more healthfully
than any other one force in the state. Yet, while
none denies the perfect honesty of Mark Fagan,
many men distrust George L. Record. And you
may recall that Colby, two years before, when
he took to Fagan, “disliked” Record. But when
“Record came,” he told Colby just what to do
and how to do it. Colby is very handsome in his
acknowledgment of the service Record rendered
them in Essex, and his friends confess, though
more grudgingly, that Record is a man of resources.
But nobody can see what Record gets out of it for
Record. They think he wants to go to the United
States Senate. I hope he does; this long, lean,
thinking Yankee from Jersey City might accomplish something even in the United States Senate.
But Record is another story, and it doesn’t matter now “what Record is after.”
When he came to Colby, he came suggesting that since Colby had made one good fight at Trenton, he should make another; and since he
