Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1905-11-02
The Philadelphia Records Trenton cor

! The Philadelphia Records Trenton cor
respondent in bis Monday letter said
With the eud Of The campaign in sight
4 it is becoming more and more apparent that
1 a great change is imminent in the political
affairs Of New Jersey IL is becoming
more and more apparent that the people Of
\ the State are breaking away from the old
parties and airaying themselves upon the
side Of right without regard to who they
may hit Or who they may remove from
4 power aud prestage
The GLOUCESTER COUNTY DEMOCRAT
is more familiar with political affairs in
Gloucester county than in any other county
of our State, and if the Records cores
pondent has portrayed political affairs
OF other counties as accurately as he has
those of this county, he is indeed wise
observer Of political movements
But we imagine the co respondent is also
good Judge OF human nature and his
Judgment Of ''politica affairs in tLis
State is based largely on his knowledge Of
the fact that the people will not forever
sustain uufaithful public servants.
The correspondent adds;
From many of the counties of the State
come reports that the difficulty OF holding
the voters to the old party lines is growing,
aud that the great wave of reform is very
apt to cut wide swath 1T the polls next
week y
Further the correspondent says:
Zone OF the results OF this popular feel
ing is the suspicion. welI-gronnded, that
the reelection OF the United States Senator
John F. Dryden is already a practical
inpossibility
The Record correspondent makes no
effort to deal with the causes that have
produced the revolution that he sees will
sweep the State next Tuesday
No reference is made TO facts that are
apparent to even the causual observer of
political affairs He says not word of
the grip that the corporations have fastened
on the Republican Organization, and how,
not satisfied with having their agents in all
State Offices, in Senate and House, they are
now reaching down into city and township
and seeking to control Councils and Free
holders and Township Committees.
Heretofore no corporation has attempted
to control the local governments OF small
cities and rural communities until the>Puh-
lie Service Corporation began spreading its
net over the entire State
The Election Merger law is believed to be
but part of the scheme to gain CONTROL Of
the local governments at the same time that
State representatives. are chosen. Ii proof
Of this were needed our readers have but to
recall the primary election IN our own city
six months ago ItIequred the expendi-
ture of a very large sum Of money to elect
Avis delegates in the Second and Third
Wards OF Woodbury., but that expenditure
also defeated Councilman Chenoweth and
Glover! who were candidates for e-nomina-
ton Standing alone those rueTepresen-
tatives Of the people would have been re-
nominated without serious opposition.
The Primary Election law is another inn
portant wheel in the corporation machine.
Corporations have in their employ men
whose duty it is TO watch political move
ments and keep abreast Of them.
From the fact that the people have not
been in the habit Of nominating local can
didates two months before election, they
were caught mapping IN many Of our cities,
in none more thoroughly than il Wood
bury. To this fact, and the peculiar pro
visions Of the Primary Election law, the
Corporation nominee for Council in the
Second Ward is unopposed,
The voting machine is another adjunct to
corporation rule, because the average citi-
zen is not sufficiently familiar with its
peculiar operation TO cut his ticket if he is
inclined to, and only at rare intervals does
popular protest reach the point where men
feel disposed to cut their party ticket en-
tire But we believe with the Record
correspondent that political revolution is
imminent in New jersey, as it is in Penn
syyania aud Ohio, and tnat the very safe
guards that the corporations have erected to
psrpetuate their power are this year to
prove their undoing aud an outraged pub
lie is to use the appliances Of the Bosses 10
sweep them from power in State, in county,
in city and in township
The GLOUCESTER COUNTY DEMOCRAT
viii be disappointed if next TUESDAY
election does not bear witness TO the fact
that the people rule yet, in spite of money,
il spite Of Boss methods and in spite OF
voting machines and all the schemes of a
desperate and INSCRIPTIONS Organization.
Said an old -fashioned Republican to the