Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1897-02-03
A Letter FROM THE
CITY BY THE SEA.
"Hr9us" Replies to "Econ-
omy's" Statements.
CONCERNING TIE COUNTY SEAT REMOVAL.
INHUMAN ATTEMPT TO "FREEzE OUT" A
POOR FAMILY BECAUSE THEY COULD NOT
PAY THEIR RENT-CITY, COUNTY, AND
COUNCILMANIC POLITICS.

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The presentation of the bill, in the Leg
islature, to remove the County Seat ou
of the wilderness to a more convenient
and accessible location, has thrown tht
!, Rread and Butter brigade of Mays
Landing into cOnvulsioDs, and they are
hitting wildly in every direction without
regard to facts and in defiance of public
sentiment. They first poured out theiI
grief in the staid old Public Ledger, oi
Philadelphia in an article 80 palpably in
correct that it is diffiuclt to understand
how such reliable paper could beso i'm
posed upon. l am confident that Joel
Cook must be away on his vacation and
the printers sdevil' in charge, or else
the Ledger never would have allowed a
correspondent to so misrepresent the
people of Atlantic County.
A writer from Mays Landing also
writes the Review in the same vein, and
incidentally pitches into the Pleasantville
PRESS and your humble correspondent.
| shall waste no ink in defending the
PRESS, for have an idea that the editor
is able to take care of himself without
any help from me; but in connection
with my own correspondence with the
PRESS, desire to say that never know
ingly send false news or make false state
ments. Furthermore, | want to assure
the writer of SO many different commu-
nications in different newspapers, (for
they all have the same earmarks,) that
he need give himself no uneasiDess about
the character of the information / send
to the PRESS. 1t is only the trutb-per-
haps too bluntly stated at times to suit
the ideas of some people-but still the
truth. If Economy" know anything
of the subject of which he assumes to
know SO much, he knows that he is, in
his communications, deliberately mis-
representing the facts. He conveys the
idea that the leading taxpayers of this
City and County are opposed to the
changing the location of the County
Seat, Not to do him injustice l quote
his exact language as printed in the Re
view:
"Then again, Mr.. Editor, this same
Argus claims that the universal opinion
is favorable to change of the location
Now does Mr.. Argus know what he is
talking about? l guess not. He has
his opinion like the editor of the PRESS
moved. Let these gentlemen consult
ers of Atlantic City, and County, learn
from them their views, and | firmly be-
lieve when thus done they will change
theirs"
For pure, unadulterated, frozen ''cheek"
commend me to the foregoing paragraph.
Why there is at this very moment-and
no one knows it better than the writer
who signs his name "Economy"-peti-
tions before the Legislature signed by a
thousand taxpayers of Atlantic County,
and they include, SO l am told, the names
of men who pay three ffths of the taxes
of this city. There are also resolutions
unanimously passed by the City Council,
and the resolution of the Pen and Pencil
club, and members of the bar, and the
names Ofhundreds Ofothers Ofour leading
citizens and heaviest taxpayers. These
documents were originally presented to
the members of the Board of Freeholders,
but little or no attention was paid by
those eminent gentlemen. Somers' Point,
Pleasantville and Linwood Borcughs
each passed resolutions to the same ef-
feet, and these were supplemented by
Yet Yen in the fsSSF, o0ds 1t as these, ps and
which are undeniable, Economy" has
the effrontery to declare that public SEN
timent is opposed to the contemplated
change, and write as if no one could be
found outside of Pleasantville who is in
favor of it. have heard that every real
estate firm in Atlantic City is in favor of
the change, and can site, of my own
knowledge such firms as l. G. Adams &
Co., A. H. Phillips & Co.. John G. Risley,
Devine 4 WOottOn, and Ashmead x
Hackney. Economy" presumbably,
knows all these facts as well as do, and
yet he persists in denying them, goaded
on, probably, by the Bread and Butter
brigade, of Mays Landing, who seem to
think that the County Seat belongs to
them by right of personal possession,
and they hold up their hands in holy
horror to think that any one should
question that right, and exclaim as one
man, "Accursed be him who would drive
s,from the troughF'
thas been hinted that the bill will
be attended" to in the Legislature by
methods not altogether lovely. L am
unwilling to believe this, andpermit me to
say that don't think Senator Hoffman,
or Assemblyman Jackson can afford to
/ allow any "monkeying" with this very
| proper measure especially if they enter
tain any idea of ever running for office
again before the people of Atlantic
County. Why in Hammonton, the lead
ing business men favor the movement,
and also the Hammonton newspapers
right in Mr.. JacksOn's own town have
joined the procession of progress. L it
myself, or is it Economy" who is 'soff''
in the fact concerning public sentiment
or is some one simply-lying?
During the last week the weather was
against business in general and surf
bathing in particular, and everybody
kept in doors that could do SO. The no
ticeable exceptions were, some people
who own houses here and rent them to
the poor. Their tenants couldn't pay
the rent, SO one walking specimen of the
God-fOrsaken cattle that the Almighty
for some inscrutabIe reason-permits to
exist, took out the windows and doors
and tried to "fretze out" one poor fam
lily. Fortunately there was Magistrate
in town who, to his everlasting credit,
who would not tolerate such inhuman-
ity, and the reptile had to forego the op-
pOrtunity to enforce his avaricious NAL
ignity. The creature, l wont dignity
him with the name of mar-who would,
in such weather as we had last week,
turn family out, because they couldn't
raise few dollars to pay their rent,
goes far to prove the existence, or at
Ieaet the necessity CT q Hell, and one OF
the red hottest kind.
The fight for Councilmen is waxing hot
in the Fourfh Ward where Samuel II
Kelley. the "real estate king is ''after''
our genial friend ED Farley, as the
boys call him, with q big stick full oi