The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1889-11-01

best interest of prohibition, let 1t como II
whatever way.
Leon Albeit is undoubtedly for LeoI
Albeit, and that, too, by a large majority,
On this point there will be no particular
| dissent on the part of those best acquaint-
ed with him. He don't believe in the di.
vim right of kings, he is too much of a
democrat for that, but he does believe in
the divine right of Leonidas Albeit to rule
and reign. In short he is always on hand
for a reign, and in this respect fairly rivals
the Ikttentot prince who styled himself
lord OF seven umbrellas. Further than
that he proposes to get there. 1t is not in
Leonidas to SIT quietly in his tent and
await the call Of the people, Come forth,
L~eonidas." Not much. That would be
manhood politics, but not Albeit politics.
His plan is to go OUT and compel them
out in the highways and byways, out to
the hedges and hastings, out to the coun-
ty fairs and state fairs. This is the kind
Of politics Albeit believes in. 1t is the
hustler's way, aud Albeit is hustler
Politics with him is a study, and he
passed the elementary or a b C part of it
when but a plain bootblack. We have
his word for it and readily believe it. He
knows all about the machinery of office
and of Office getting. Accepting office at
one time may be to him but the means to
the end. He don't say to his henchmen
this thing or nothing bat this thing
that | may get something better" He
wants now to be United States Senator.
but is told the succession must come
through the Governor. eThen l will be
Governor" is his answer.
So far as able he handles men as a wise
general does an army. and he rarely mis-
takes his man. Look through the county
and see who are the lOudest shouters for
Albeit. They are demagogues, almost
every one of them. Now look for your
self and see il this is not so. They are
men, too, who expect to be lifted by ABB
bett. The lieutenant is to be made cap
tain, the captain major, the major colonel,
and SO Of through the large army of de-
| pendent Office seekers. Leon hears the
tramp of the coming host, of power that
is yet to be, and he pricks up his ears and
listens. It's the Prohibition legion from
the plains of South Jersey, From Cum
berland and Cape May, from Salem and
Gloucester. and Burlington and Camden
they come. lie sees their coming and
knows the number is growing, and listens
on. Then he lifts up his eyes to the hills
of Mercer and the mountain range of 5us-
sex and the counties north of the Kill Won
Kull where the population is as two to one
at the south and the Democracy to the Re-
publicans as three to one. with but few
Prohibitionists, and says at once ''my
voice is for rum" This is, of course, the
role of the marplot and demagogue, but
the one that most succeeds where men
think and reason and read the least.
Leon Albeit, however, is not for himself
alone, but for his friends also, (Which We
suppose is but another way Of being fol
himself and takes no roundabout way
Of serving them when the opportunity
presents. If Albeit is elected it will b.
the Albeit gang and no other, and here
are some of the places to be filled
That of Chief Justice B~easley, Associate
Justices Scudder and Van SICKLE, Score
tary of State, Henry G. Kelsey. Attor
ney General, J.. p. Stockton. Supreme
Court Clerk, Benjamin F. Lee. Clerk ii
Chancery, Allen l.. McDermott. State
Prison Keeper, John II. Patterson. Stat,
Prison Supervisor, Henry l.. Butler. Stat
School Superintendent, f. O. Chapman
Three Judges Of the State Court of Err
rors. Three members Of the State Board
of Assessors. Three District Court Judges
in Cities. Six Deputy Factory Inspectors
Eight Prosecutors Of the Pleas. Min,
Law and eighteen Lay Judges of the
County Courts of Common Pleas. Si1
managers Of the Morris Plains Insane
Asylum. Four Trustees of the Reform
School. Ten Visitors to the Agriculture
College. Six Trustees of the Deaf Nut
Institutions. Five members Of the Coun
Gil of State Charities. Four Managers o
the Home for Feeble Minded Women
Three members Of the State Board o
Health. Three members of the Stat
Board of Pharmacy.