The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-10-18
NOTES AND OPINIONS.

As United States Senator James Smith
is the Democratic party in New jersey
it's owner, boss, director and nominator of
candidates-it is natural that the news
papers should give him prominence in
their columns. Here, for instance, is the
Bridgeton Pioneer remarking that there
are whole lot of Bridgeton Democrats
who are kicking hard against the oppres-
sion of Jim Smith. They will attempt to
force him out
From the other end of the State comes
the Paterson Call with these few words:
Zone thing that makes it very improb-
able that there is the slightest chance for
the election of any Democratic Assembly
men in this county is the fact that there is
widespread feeling of opposition among
the rank and file of the party against
United States Senator James Smith. 1t
can be positively stated that many Demo
Gratis will refrain from voting for the As
sembly candidates of their party because
they are opposed to Senator Smith and do
not want to see him reelected. We hear
of this on all sides, and among some Dem
ocrats who are quite prominent in the
councils of their party. If some other
man besides Mr.. Smith was the candidate
for United States Senator, the Democratic
Assemblymen would be more strongly
supported. We can even go so far as to
say that the prospects of the Democratic
Assembly candidates are badly handi-
capped by the fact that Senator Smith is
an aspirant for reelection.
The great anti-corporation campaign of
New Jerseys alleged Democratic party
goes bravely on.
The object of this campaign is to make
the man who controls that great monopoly,
the Newark Gas Company, United States
Senator, and to elect State Legislature
absolutely devoted to his interests. His
Company, but he has interests in great
many other corporations that, like it, en-
Joy monopolies in public service through
public franchises
New Jerseys alleged Democratic party
goes bravely on.
1t is under the leadership of Edward F
G. Young, as chairman of the executive
Young is the president of the New Jersey
Traction Company, and was for years the
president of the Consolidated Traction
Company, now merged into the larger cor
two years ago because he was opposed to
the Chicago free silver platform He is
back again now, and at the post of leader
ship in the great anti-corporation cam
paign.
One of the things that the Democratic
party has promised to do is to amend the
law governing suits for damages for per
sonal interests. Its candidate for Gov
ernor is the man who, while holding the
office of Prosecutor of the Pleas, was re-
tanned as counsel by the insurance com
pany which defended suits brought against
Edward f. G. Young's traction company
That was at time, too, when that in
surance company was hiring the court
house constables and physicians, who took
official ante mortem statements for the
county from injured victims of traction
line accidents. When the Neaos called at
tention to the scandalous abuse that was
thus being brought into play by the hir-
ing of men to defend acts which their pub
lie positions called upon them to investi-
gate and possibly to punish, some changes
were made in that insurance company S
staff
What shining incorporation Triple
Alliance is the Democratic triumvirate OF
Smith. Young & Crane l-Nescark Nel5s.