The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1901-10-30
FROM THE FIRST WARD

FROM THE FIRST WARD.
All voters should look and see that
they are properly registered and if
your name does not appear upon the
register, you cannot vote unless Won
have it attended to before election.
Next Tuesday is election. Rive You
decided yet how you are going to
vote? Remember, this is one of the
privileges that each voter should take
advantage of, and not be bulldozed
into voting as some one else wants him
to vote He should step into the
booth, prepare his ballot and vote ac-
cording to the dictates of his own
conscience and not in accordance
with some one else's dictation. Re-
member this-men who are elected
rule the city and should be of fanltless
material and of character above re-
proach. We have been fairly repre-
sented in council the past year or two
but still there is room for improve
ment, and each voter should look and
weigh his man before casting his bal
let and vote for the best man, regard
lcss of politics, and he should be as
particular concerning the excise
board IA with other officers. And re-
member, the excise board has the
granting of license to the so-called
saloons, as well rs to the hotels. Ho-
tells IN our estimation, are necessity,
but ms TO saloons there may be n ques-
ton arise whether, perhaps, the town
wold not be IA we'll of or better if
some of these SO called saloons were
closed. But whether closed or not.
they should be run in conformity
with the license which they take out.
OF course, we don't wish to go into de-
tails, but we viii expect the next ex-
cise board to look well into this saloon
business before granting license to
some such places which are now doing
business under the guise of the law.
And now, getting down to the bust
ness end of our city politics, and to |
tell the honest truth, never saw II |
crowd before that | was so thoroughly |
Of in all my born days, and |
If some of these candidates are elected |
they shonld he ashamed 10 turn |
around and look the buneoed public |
in tho face May be they feel like |
David did when he said, "al men are |
liars" David wns in politics most of |
his life, and he spoke from experience.
He didn't even exempt his family
physician and minister In politics,
all men are born free and equal.
Wealth does not rob n man of the
great and overshadowing faculty of
echoing a political lie; neither does
poverty In the manufacture of
political lies, Democrats stand united,
aud lie united. aud call on their
brother politicians to use their united
Efforts 10 ont-lie any other living
on earth, and still attend the
Wednesday evening prayer meeting
during the campaign,
james Moonan, the foreman in the
and grinding department of
the Lambertville Rubber Compnny's |
works, was out upon the Delaware last |
after ducks, and brought |
home n fine specimen Of these birds, |
but his intention of having fine Sun
day dinner was nipped in the bud by
some practical Joker, who wlfnlly pill
fered the prize and appropriated it TO
his own special feast.
The political situation in the First |
Ward is still IN II conglomoration and |
may well be compared to little his |
tory, which begins III this manner |
" Aud there went ont champion out |
Of the camp of the Philistines named |
Go,iath, | Samuel, XVII. No use TO |
quote what Goliath did, for every |
reader of TIE RECORD has read the |
story IN Sunday school. What I want |
to talk about is the very odd manner
OF ending these political wars. Each |
faction has his Goliath and little |
David, who buckle on their armor and
go forth to battle the whole affair
between themselves, while the rest
sit back and look on and chew tobacco
and bet on the chances of their favor
ties. And to these champions Of dirty
politics, the dear people deliver the
town, the little Dayids even refusing
to cast a stone at the Golaths, but
uniting with them in dividing the
political plumber after the election.
Do the people still lack the necessary
confidence in Themselves to run their
own city, without depending upon
these Goliaths and little Davids? Will
it ever be thus? But as long Ms the
people run after these Goliaths and
little Davids and fight amongst them
selves to see which one Of the bonn
ba8tic champions shall gain possession
Of our town and rule the people Mt
Their own sweet will, just as long as
the voters will go to the polls aud
elect these Goliaths aud little Dayids,
we must not expect any reform in our
city government. OF course we have
our legal Goliaths and our pious
Goliaths, and our financial Goliaths,
but there are very few Of them sacri-
fcing themselves for the everlasting
good Of the common people. Every
dod castle Goliath is for himself and
for the revenue there is in it.