The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1905-10-18
REPUBLICAN, CONVENTION.

County, in convention assembled, do
heartily commend the policies Of our
national government as now being ad-
mlnistered by the Republican Party.
No nation has ever known such wide
spread prosperity as the United States
has enjoyed since the restoration Of
the Republican party to power by
Mckinley's election and the continu-
alton and carrying forward of these
policies by our present wise, energetic
and patriotic President Theodore
Roosevelt.
We commend the patriotic, efficient
and businesslke administration of our
Governor, Edward G. Stokes.
We heartily congratulate the people
of the Fourth Congressional District
upon having such an energetic and ef-
hclent Congressman, Ira w. Wood,
who most ably represents this district
In the lower branch of our national
legislature and who is ,ireless in his eff.
forts for the best interests of his con-
stltuents and the unfolding of the pol
ieics of the national government.
While our national and state gov
ernments are progressing SO success
fully, the attention of the voters of
Hunterdon County, is particularly di.
rected to our local county affairs which
have been so rife with corruption as to
make honest men hang their heads
IN shame. Here it is not question
OF partisanshp but a simple proposition
of honesty and fair dealing The Of
flcials placed in office by the Demo
cratic machine have been so uniformly
corrupt that all citizens who have any
regard for decency in the conduct of
public affairs should unite in a com
mon effort to free the county from a
system OF corruption that has grown so
outrageous as to become source OF
danger to our institutions.
The office of Sheriff, one ofthe high.
est IN the gift of the people of the coun-
~, has been So corruptly conducted as
to pass belief, The past three incum-
benis have all refunded, or offered to
refund, large sums Of money for illegal
fees which they had Improperly taken
from the county, aggregating thousands
of dollars.
We charge our present Sheriff with
having drawn a Grand Jury which re-
fused to ndlct single county official
or member OF the old BolId of Free
holders for any of the crimes which
were proven by the investigation to
have been committed, the facts in re-
lation to the same having been called
to their attention.
We insist that the necessity of having
sheriff, (the most important office in
the county, who is not part of the
Democratic Machine responsible for
these crimes in manifest, in order that
Grand Jurles may be honestly drawn
which will indict criminals, so that the
guilty may be punished and the system
broken up and we call upon all honest
citizens to cooperate in the election of
the candidate for sheriff which we pre-
sent today,
The County Clerks office has also
been conducted with little regard for
the interest OF the tax payers o
legal restrictions as to fees. The pres
ent incumbent has already refunded,
on two items, over $500 and is to be
made defendant,by order of the Court,
IN SUIT for money approximating
$4,000 which is claimed to be due
the county in addition to the amount
already paid by him. The Court has
also given an order Tor suits against the
two preceding County Clerks for large
amounts
The indexing of records in the coun-
~ offices is but another part of the per-
nlcious system Of graft which has been
loaded upon the county of Hunterdon
by the Democratic Machine for the
past twenty years, which has cost the
taxpayers thousands and thousands of
dollars.
We commend the Republican party
for its stand in the abolition of the old
Board of Freeholders, that bulwark OF
Democratic graft and corruption, which
was accomplished by the Republi-
can party with the cooperation of hon.
est Democrats opposed to the Dem
ocratie Machine and the methods for
which il stands.
We charge the present Democratic