Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1896-10-07
"A LETTER FROM The
CITY BY THE SEA.
Business Improving. large
Real Estate Dealing.
The PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES ALL RIGHT.
THE COUNTY SEAT REMOvAL-THE REPUB-
LICAN COUNTY CoNvENTfoN-THE BENE-
DICT ARNOLDS OF POLITIC BARRETT
BETRAYED IN THE HOUSE o. Els FRIENDS.


involving a considerable amount OF mon
| ey including one by A. H. Phillips L
. Co. for fiity-three thousand dollars in
uptown property. I am told, also, that
| that had an offer OF handsome advance
| in the price named before the deed was
| made. This shows that business men
have confidence in the future and that
the people correctly "size-up' the wails
OF the calamity organs that predict the
total destruction OF the Universe unless
| their particular candidate for President
happens to be elected Thank goodness
we have but one more month before
| the great army OF liars will 60 into fore
ed retirement. The campaign has been
| called campaign OF education, but
a shorter word would more aptly de-
scribe it. Both OF the presidential candi-
dates have made many very able and
| instructive speeches from their respect
i've standpoints, but they have beer
shamefully distorted for partisan pur-
poses on both sides, and if the future
historian should depend upon them to
make up his estimate Of the Candidates
| he would be likely to do them gross
| injustice. Fortunately for the verdict
OF history, however, there are accurate
stenographic reports Of what each can
ddate actually said and from these truth
| iul reports Messrs Mckinley ard Bryan
will be measured by future biographers
| long after we are dead and gone. AS
an American am proud OF them. Both
are gentlemen of the loftiest character
and incorruptible integrity, and both
are right in the prime OF their splendid
abilities. Whichever wins, every Amer
ican citizen can be proud Of his presi-
dent for he will be president of all the
people and not merely the head OF a
| party.
The removal OF the County Buildings
has been spiritidly discussed here as
well as elsewhere during the past week,
and some people who thought there
| was nothing but talk in the NOV ement
have about reached the conclusion that
| it is business talk this time. The Ques-
| ton OF cost is no longer factor in the
matter. The taxpayers understand that
new buildings are sure to be built some
where, and that very soon, to stop the
| constant heavy expense OF making ad-
| ditions and repairs to old ones. l am
| informed by the editor OF the Plea SAINT
vile Press that more than twenty-four
thousand dollars has been expended
on the present County Buildings at May s
Landing, and that does not include the
nearly eight thousand dollars for the
new steel cells under the contracts a.
warded last month.
This brings the whole matter to the
question OF the most suitable location
for the new buildings. Pleasantville
has, in my judgement, the call in this
direction, but the question should be
fully considered, and the people given
hearing before deciding SO important
a matter. But to think for a moment
that the people OF Atlantic County will
consent to their remaining at q place
so inconyenient and isolated as May s
Landing is to assume that they areat
least fifty years behind the times. The
facts DO not warrant any sucn assump-
ton. The taxpayers OF Atlantic County
are sometimes slow about making chang
es, but they are generally alert to their
own interests, and quick to see what
| is to their advantage. Mays Mandlng
was all right for the days OF stage coach
es, and when there was but comparative
ly little business at Court; and, allin
all, a very proper selection for the Coun-
ty seat But now the centre OF conven-
ience has changed, the business to be
transacted enormously increased, and
the reasons that once existed infavor
OF Mays Landing now no longer exist.
The change is bound to come, and it
may as well be made the coming year
as at any other time.
Well, | went up TO Egg Earbor City
on Saturday, TO attend the Republican
County Cony ention and | was well re-
paid for my trouble. / had chance
to see "the boys" and learn something
OF the wires that were pulled. Notwith-
standing the city where reside captur-
ed the big plum of the Sheriff s nomina-
ton, am aware that it was done by
means OF a most disreputable deal"
the inmost details OF which l am famil-
lar with, and which, later on, l hope
to give to the public through the col
umns of the Press. regret to note that
your townsman, Lewis II. Barrett, was
the victim OF the "deap and was stab
bed in the house OF his friends. The eread
ers OF my letters will agree, think, that
/ have given, from week to week, a fair
ly accurate statement OF the political
situation, and tolerably truthfulfore
cast OF the final result did not, how
ever, take into account the possibility
that there were members of my party
ready to play the role of Benedict Ar
mold, and descend to depths OF political
treachery that Arnold wouldhave spurn-
ed. Barrett and his friends s-of whom
he has many OF whom he may well be
proud went down before the treach-
erous onslaught like chaff before the
wind. No candidate for any office, any
where, can win if those upon whom
he relies for help betray him at the
critical moment. That is something,
that he cannot guard against, for ne
cannot forestall treacherous combine
of which he does not even know the
existance Never mind Levi You
are young man yet and you willqive
to see a lot OF the fellows who betrayed
you laid in their political graves, and
mo flowers" laid upon them. The peo-
pie have good memories, and the aver
age voter likes justice. In the long run
they will take it out OF the hide" of
those who failto do areasonably square
thing in politics. Watch and see if they
don It. AT the convention was amazed
X many men who went back
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