The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1905-08-08

allow the open sdlc VI H4uoio'
always has been secret sale and up 10
date nobody seems to have suffered. with
all the evasion or breaking the law, there
has been no complaint about disorder at
that resort, and a drunken man is one OF
the greatest curiosities ever seen there
THERE is nothing surprising in the way
in which Charles II. Folwell, editor of the
Mirror gave vent to his feelings over the
announcement that Charles r. Fenton is a
candidate for the Office of Sheriff of
Burlington county. The items he
devotes to the subject are full OF
the animus that always actuates him-the
payment of personal debts and the vent
ing of personal spleen. His entire objec-
ton to Charles R. Fenton Is based upon
the fact that the latter, in common with
many others, did not think it advisable to
support Folwell in his effort to become
Secretary of the Senate of this state last
winter That was enough Touch Fol-
well in any way to affect his pocket book
mediately have him enlisted as your
personal enemy. Herefers to the comment
upon Fenton's wishing to get into the of
fee again and says: ''The general opinion
is that the ex Sheriff has been pretty well
taken care of and should not attempt to
elbow out of the way other candidates
/. who have more claim to party preference.
What difference it makes whose OK is
gored. Let US look little into the polit-
ical life of this fellow who is now setting
himself up as an opposer on the ground of
having been well taken care Of" In
1896, at the age of 25, he was made First
Assistant Engrossing Clerk of the Assem-
bly, at salary of 5000; 1897, continued;
1898, advanced to Engrossing Clerk, salary
81. 300; 1899, continued. In that year the
Legislature passed bill abolishing the Of
fee of Engrossing Clerk and creating the
Office of Supervisor of Bills Notwith-
standing he had been well taken care OF, .
Folwell tried to land this position and be
ing unable to do so he went on another
tack and at the, request of Assemblyman
Wright the Attorney General looked into
the matter and declared the law uncon-
stituticnal, and Folwell was retained.
Salary, $1,000. The next year. not yet
having his capacious appetite appeased,
he again applied for the position and once
more he twas well taken care of. Salary,
81, 200 Total from the state ia six years,
$4,000. But even this was not enough.
Last winter this young man took it into
his head that he would like to be Secretary
OF the Senate-salary $1,500-for three
years, as that is the term generally con.
coded. He went to work with that vim
which characterizes him when his owr
interests are at stake, but he met with
chilling frost Even those who had beer
his closest acquaintance, members of tn,
County Executive Committee, to which
he secured appointment with the view OF
advancing his own interests, refused t.
sanction his desires and he was turned
down. From that time he has had no us,
for any who did not do his bidding and
as occasion offered, has used the columns
of bis newspaper to vent his persona
spite. During the entire SESSION last win
ter he continually slurred Senator Horner
while Assemblyman Robbins, who did no
enthuse on the Secretary proposition, re
ceived scant praise. Ex-Sheriff Fentol
was one of the opponents and he is nov
getting his pay. But this is not the onl,
instance of cutting those who attempt t,
thwart this selfish, grasping fellows eff
forts, and the fact that the move is in tn
interest of law and economy does no
matter. In May of last year he induced
the Board of Freeholders to make hi
paper an additional one for the publication
of the report of the County Collector
The law distinctly says that one paper
shall be designated. However, he got tn,
work and after allowing about six months
pay the County Auditor discovered
the law and refused to pay any more
The irate editor took counsel anC
was Informed that he could MOI
maintain a suit against the county
Every fair man would have given up, bur
he is of different mold. Did he grace
fully acquiesce and return to the county
treasury the money he had unlawfully re.
ceived? Not much. On the contrary he
publicly berated the County Auditor, who
had merely done his duty and protected
the treasury from robbery and graft And
when the Auditor wrote reply in which
he showed that the article was incorrect
in many particulars, the editor was not
man enough to correct and apologize but
in one of the lamest articles ever made
public attempted to still further besmirch
the official action of the Auditor. But we
tire. Knowing this fellow from the
time he first came to Mount Holly, mere
babe, following him through youth and
his entrance into-we were about to say
manhood, but that term is too good. so
We will say majority-we are acquainted
with him in every particular and we can
truthfully say ''the boy is father to the
man." He has perfect right to oppose
or support any one he chooses to, but
W4cu CIitlCiSluS ouOuiU DG careful TO
see that his own skirts are clear of the
spots he would place on others. 1t will
not do for him to accuse any one of sell
fishness, grasping desire to rise at the
cost of others, or anything on that liue.
There is too much of it in his own com
position. There may be stones to throw
at Charles R Feuton, but they should not
be hurled by one who has made thousands
out of one state office and then tried to
make thousands more, nor from one who
was well taken care of by the very man
he now denounces, for when the latter
was in office he very literally doled out
the patronage of the office to Charles II.
Folwell, paying him for advertising sales
alone in the neighborhood of 1890 to say
nothing of the other printing given or
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