The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1898-11-15
After Thoughts.

Is it any wonder that John Harris did
not want to run for County Clerk?
Poor Bowdoin College. How sad it must
feel John F. Hall was not elected to
Congress
County Clerk Warrick certainly has
reason to be proud of his vote in Chester
township, where he resides 1t gave him
! 451 plurality.
The hardest work the Democratic jour
nails of Mount Holly had last week was to
write "stone-road editionals' that would
suit the occasion.
The Republican pluralities in New Jer-
sey were as follows: Governor, 5,515;
total of the Congressman, 10, $685. total of
the Assemblymen, 9,317.
''To let. because the owners have no
further use for them, job lot of booms
for the positions of Judge and Prosecutor
Apply to Democratic lawyers in Chancery
Row
County Clerk Worrell had new task
last week. Under the election law, as
amended last winter, the County Clerk is
required to audit all bills for election ex-
penses.
Have you heard anything of Peter VIII
son since election Incidentally it might
be well to remark that the same persons
who engineered the cairo American"
movement are the same who had charge
of the joint debates in the Presidential
campaign.
The newspapers which insisted, during
the campaign, in referring to the Prosecu-
tor as "ex-Prosecutor Budd" were not so
far wrong-only little previous.
When the order was given for the extra
Peoples" tickets, one of the candidates
suggested to Gov Schrayshuen that he
would want at least 400 tickets for the
third ward. Il guess one will be enough,
replied Fred. The returns show that one
was cast.
The telephone service on election night
was frst-class. Local returns were re-
ceived over the wires of the Burlington
County Telephone Company, while the
long distance phone, at E. B. Jones drug
store, gave figures from other states. Res
idents of Vincentown, Medford and Penn
berton are highly pleased at the way in
which they got the returns
The Congressional candidate, Hail. was
the only man on the Democratic ticket
who openly made free silver an issue
He was showed under in Burlington
county by 1896 plurality for Gardner
and got 1858 votes less than Crane did
Yet two prominent Silverites were heard
to rejoice on Wednesday because they had
won wherever free silver was an issue.
Note especially the result in Connect
cut and New Jersey, two states in which
the Organized Democracy adopted most
industriously and adroitly the policy rec
commended by the Hon David B. Hill,
namely, that of letting 1900 take care of
itself"
In both states the failure of the attempt
ed suppression and evasion is conspicuous.
Connecticut goes Republican by one of
the largest majorities on record, and elects
a solid Republican delegation to Congress.
In New Jersey, under cover of the sup
preston and evasion of the Chicago plat
form, there has been conducted an I'M
exampled campaign for the control of the
Legislature at any cost, in order to reflect
the Democratic United States Senator
Yet New Jersey goes Republican by
substantial majority on the State ticket,
and elects Legislature Republican in
both branches and of course Republican
on joint ballot, sending to the Fifty sixth
Congress another Republican Senator. 1t
likewise elects at least six Republicans out
of the eight Congressman representing the
State in the House.
Such is the result in two Of the States
where the political conditions are most
sneak and keep mum. On the subject of
the Chicago platform time lock was put
ON the mouth of Democracy in both New
Jersey and Connecticut What has the eX-
pedient amounted to, except to bring de-
feat and humiliation upon the promoters
of the dishonest plan? The Democrats of
New Jersey and Connecticut have not even
comfort in defeat of a consciousness that
they deserved victory by the courage and
straightforwardness of their behavior dur
ing the battle.
Nineteen hundred obstinately refuses to
take care of itself 1t continues to de
mand practical assistance from eighteen
ninety eight and eighteen ninety nine,
and it is getting such assistance all around.
-Neao York Sun,