The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1906-06-12
TUESDAY, JUNE II, 1906.

POLITICIANS were given something to
talk about last week when United States
Senator Dryden's son-in- law made pub
lie statement that the Senator will be
candidate for reelection This was not
unexpected, but Col. Kuser went further
and announced that there would be little
objection to the proposition, and named
many prominent men, among them Gov
ernor Stokes, as having pledged support
to Senator Dryden's return to the seat he
now occupies. The Governor, however,
put chill on this part of the programme
by stating that he had not authorized any
body to speak for him in this connection
and that he did not think it wisdom
for him to take active part in the matter
while he was In the executive chair.
This was the general idea even in the face
of the statement of Col. Kuser. The
people of New Jersey are going to have
voice In the election of a United States
Senator this year, and South Jersey will
do considerable thinking for itself on the
subject.
FARMING Interests in New Jersey have
always complained that their demands
received scant courtesy from the Legisla-
ture. Their representations in law-mak-
ing. small as it was before the Supreme
Court knocked out the Assembly district
system, was reduced to cipher under the
county unit system of electing Assembly
men. The Assembly district act of last
winter was therefore distinctly In favor of
rural district representation, to give to
farming interests more influence in legisi
lation.
The Legislature this year also passed an
act that win be of great benefit to the far
mers and villagers. For years the de-
mand for trolley freight carrying in the
country has been made 10 the Legislature,
but never received any attention. The
steam railroads were opposed, and their
influence at Trenton was too strong to be
overcome. This year bill was intro
duced and passed In the teeth of that op-
position, and the farmers at last have the
valuable convenience they so long sought
In vain.
The success of the New Jersey farmer
has stirred UP the Pennsylvania farmer.
Speaking of the agitation started in that
State the Philadelphia Press says: "For
years the question has been under discus
sion. but 1t has never made any impress
sion on the Legislature, every proposition
having been turned aside, presumably at
the dictation of steam railroad influences.
The farmers have been constant and per-
sistent in their purpose, however, until
they have brought their agitation to the
point of success. No party State conven-
tion this year ignores the demand that the
trolleys shall have the right of eminent
domain and be permitted to carry freight.
> 1t is realized all through the State
that the time has come when this question
can no longer be side-tracked
The trolley companies in New Jersey
should need no prompting to give to the
rural districts the desired convenience as
soon as possible, for the privilege con-
ferred by the new law is one of great val
ne to them. 1t will make lines that now
pay no dividends profitable in their CD
Grafton, and it assures for all lines pros
porous future. The trolley freight bust
ness is bound to have large develop
ment in New Jersey, and be as important
to the companies as is the freight business
to the steam railroad companies. Nesoayk
AdUerfiser.