Pleasantville weekly press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1890-1911, 1898-10-19
Another Red Hot Letter.
ATLANTIC Cry, N. j. Oct. 8, Is

AuOUuGI IGcu HUI AOUOCA.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. j. Oct. 8, 1898.
To the Editor of The PIeasantville Press:
| desire to express my qualification
that some of the voters of Atlantic
County have at last decided to protest
against the ring of chronic office holders
AS correspondent so truthfully drubs
the ring in your ISSUE of last week. L,
like tn at correspondent, also desire to
state that will add my mite and vote
against their Assembly candidate, Mr..
Leonard I'll. Ashley, think that he has
had enough, for be has been in office q
long time, and now wants to hold two
Offices at the same time-ls he did last
year. Perhaps the ''ring" will say that
am a traitor, but in reply l would tell
them, as citizen not holding office, that
| can do whatever Ithink best for the
citizens of the County and as a republi-
can | can do whatever l consider
best tor the republican party. | would
remind the gang of office holders that
those who live in glass houses should
not throw stones )" and that they,
themselves, are not beyond treachery to
their party, 1t was this same gang OF
office holders and seekers that elected
Beckwith, Democratic Assemblyman,
over J. w. johnson, one of our most
respected citizens and a Republican Can
didate by making trade to save Mr..
Lewis Evans as County Clerk, and a
few wears later they betrayed Chas.
Bake and Elected Fred Schuhardt to
the Assembly. Then again, but last
spring, the same crowd conspired, organ
IL ID, and were successful in defeating Mr..
Franklin P. Stoy, the Republican can
didate for Mayor of Atlantic City, and
elected Judge Joseph Thompson, and
the ringieaders in the affair were
prominent in the late Republican
County Convention at Egg Harbor City.
What a nice lot of Republicans they
were at that Republican Convention
with the blood Of Treason not yet
washed from off his hands J What right
has Congressman Gardner and his gang
to complain that the Republican voters
do not obey their commands and vote
for their special tool? Congressman
Gardner must remember that if all the
Democrats holding office in Atlantic
County Post Offices and Revenue Offices
are good enough to fill those offices,
democrat should be good enough to
fill the small office of Aesemblyman
which pays bnt five hundred dollars
Der wear and is elected for but one year.
While some of the offices held by Demo-
Gratis pay as much as twenty five lund-
red dollars as is the case in the Atlantic
City office. Others pay eighteen hundred,
running all the way down to five hund-
red. The party workers are told that
the Democrats will be "bouncf d. after
the coming election, but what excuse
has MIR. Gardner had for keeping In office
all these men since Mckinley entered
Office No excuse except that he has
been using the positions to bent fit b s
own selfish ends and to give the gang
of office holders club to hold over tn,
workers and voters of the party.
As Republican who does not approve
of such unrepublican and unmanly
methods propose to express myself on
the coming election day by voting
against the chronic office holders
special candidate for the Assembly, Leo
nard Fl. Ashley, and by voting in such q
way as to count two for if l but cut
Assemblyman Ashley that counts only
one but if substitute the name OF the
Democratic candidate, Somers Doughty,
that counts for two, and the writer
advises every Republican OF Atlantic
County who desires to express bis
objections to the political methods of
the gang Of office holders to vote like
wise. Respectfully, TWO VOTES.