Gloucester County Democrat., 1899-10-05

1t has been many years since the De-
mocracy of this county gave evidence OF
so much earnestness and oneness of pur-
pose, enthusiasm and harmony of convic- |
tion, as in the assembling of their repre-
sentatives last Saturday to nominate a
candidate for Senator, Assembly, Sheriff |
and Coroner.
The Convention was pre-eminently rep |
resentative of the best Gloucester county |
citizenship, and the work it was assembled
to perform was done in a dignifed business
like and patriotic manner.
The resolutions are patriotic and deal
with real issues of the day-a strict con-
struction of the Constitution and the
extension of its blessings to all peoples
under its denomination the opposition of
the Democracy to monopoly of the field |
of honest endeavor by unlawful combina-
tions known as Trusts the right of labor
to payment in lawful money at regular
intervals; extension of privileges to troll
ley roads as an encouragement to extend
their lines into agricultural districts a
reduction of interest rate from six to five
per cent.
Every plank deals with live issue, and
as an earnest to the people that the |
Democracy will be true to its platform,
have placed upon it as the Senatorial nom
inee, that tried and true servant of the
people the pure citizen and upright
legislator, Hon. THOMAS M. FERRELL.
Mr. Ferrell needs no introduction or
eulogy at our hands to a people he has
served in Assembly. Senate and Congress,
and among whom has moved in daily in
tercourse all his life. On the statute books
of our state are the evidences of bis
long public career and in his private life |
calls for explanation or causes public |
regret. His capacity as a wise legislator |
has been tried and thousands in South |
Jersey yet have cause to be thankful
therefor He is not an oficer-seeker, 80 |
far is he from it that it was with greatest |
reluctance that he has consented to accept |
the nomination and again become a candi- |
date for public trust. The Senatorial con-
test in this county this Fall is not THOMAS |
NJ FERRELLs S contest SO much as it is the !
peoples, not so much the Democrscy's
fight as it is the contest OF the masses of
the people.
In this nomination the Democratic party
points the way to needed reforms and
produced the leader. We believe the peo-
pie will do the rest.
HARRY CRIsT is a citizen of Monroe
township where he was born thirty three
years ago, and this is practically his first
appearance as a candidate for the suffrsges
of the people. At an early age he was
apprenticed to the trade of glass blowing.
and to-day not man OF woman in Monroe
township but who recognizes in him an
upright citizen, worthy of public conf
dence and public trust. He is a member
of the township school board, and has
given to the duties of the Office close and
intelligent attention. He will make an
attentive, intelligent and earnest represen-
tative, devoted to the public welfare, and
especially of that large class of our citizens
who in the early past have received 80
scant measure of public recognition.
Everybody in the county knows plain
Gus" PREHL. They know him as
successful business man and faithful, |
economical member of the Board of Chosen
FreehOlders from 1890 to 1895, representing
the Second Ward, of Woodbury., a con-
stituency overwhelmingly opposed to him
politically, yet preferring him over the
most prominent men of their own party
And we believe we utter an absolute
truth when we say that no well-wisher of
the county ever regetted that Gus" PrehI
was elected a member of that important
body. The Board of Freeholders is
good place in which to get an insight into
county affairs, and an apprenticeship of
five years there prepares one for higher
public duties. 1t is the opinion of people
who know Mr.. Prehl best and the DEMO
CRAT cOneurs in it, that he would make
thoroughly competent, conservative. Sheriff,
and if we read the signs of the times
Alright, the people calculate to elect him
this Fall.
DAVID W. CONWAY the candidate for
Coroner resides in the First Ward of this
city, and is an undertaken by profession.
He is bright, capable, wide-awake young
man.