The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1894-02-27

adopted an ordinance requiring all
bicycle riders to take out license per-
hitting them to use the sidewalks, and
providing fine in case of violation of
the ordinance. DR.. Rldgway II. Lamb
did the latter, WAS arrested and had the
penalty imposed. He now proposes to
bring suit for damages. The main ques-
ton to be decided will be, has township
committee power to enact an ordinance
! which discriminates in favor of few
Decisions have been rendered in this state
which plainly show that the proper place
for bicycle is in the road where other
vehicles are required to go. Any body
having control of sidewalks may make
ordinances forbidding bicycles to use the
pavements but it is extremely doubtful if
it can give license to do otherwise.
Bicycles have been decided to be on the
same level with other vehicles, yet nobody
wonld for a moment pretend that town
ship committee would be authorized to
license horses, mules or cattle to use the
to think that while one man who owns a
bicycle Inay be permitted to use the side
walk on the payment of small sum,
another person is barred off be-
cause he declines to hand over the fee.
The sidewalks are common property for
the use of all who conduct themselves de-
Gently and legally. If bicycles have a
right on the pavements they certainly are
entitled to the privilege without being
required to pay fee. The general opin-
ion in this neigh borhood is that the prop
err place for bicycles is the roadway, and
that it is stretch of authority to adopt any
measures giving them privileges elsewhere.
GROVER CLEvELAND's plurality for Presi-
dent on the popular vote in all the forty
four States of the Union fifteen months
ago was 366,2l1 The plurality on Tues
day last against Mr.. Cleveland and the
policies of his Administration, was half as
large as that, in the single State of Penn
sylvania, one State out of the forty-four
Such is the verdict from Pennsylvania.
The verdict from New York a fortnight
ago was the same. 1t will be the same
wherever the people get chance to vote.
Political disaster and new humiliations
are closing in upon the Democracy from
every quarter The popular condemna-
ton of the dishonest, anti-Democratic
Wilson bill, the insane income-tax pro-
ject. and the infamous monarchical plot
which the present Administration has
made its distinctive features, takes an
impressive form whenever and wherever
the ballot boxes are opened.
This is the time to tell the plain truth !;
and here is the truth in its nakedness.
Defeat does not necessarily bring dis
honor. Defeat in defence of a principle,
or in an honest attempt to redeem a
sacred pledge, or for the right, or for
the flag, can never be dishonorable.
That is not the sort of defeat to which
Grover Cleveland has led the Demo
cracy in the eleven months since
he entered into office with commission
plainly written, and straight and clear
way before him.
Promises repudiated and insolently ig-
nored. Democracy trampled under foot,
responsibility shirked. lying and coward
ly evasions substituted for the unquali-
fed declarations of few months ago,
American sentiment outraged and defed,
personal whims or personal spite made
the party's law: here we have in forty
words the history of the first year of a
Democratic Administration that began
with golden prospect
Defeat with dishonor, that is the bitter
ness of it and the dishonor is worse than
the defeat. What will the Senate do p
NezO York Sum- Dem.