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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 very proud of the result when it is considered that this is the eighth time the voters of Jersey City have registered their desire for a continuance of the type of government which my administration has given to them since my entry into the City Commission in 1913." The only major embarrassment that the 65-year-old mayor may face in his next four years of rule is that Jersey City may go bankrupt.

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