The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-11-05
Judge Forts
Fine Campaign.
Chanoery Clerk Vivian M. Lewis
Says He Is a Wonder and
Predicts Victory.

Of citing the campaign tour made by
John W. Griggs as an epoch In the
art OF political campaigning in New
Jersey, and since the days Of the
famous whirlwind tour of the Passaic
statesman that record has stood un-
disturbed. But the achievements Of
the present candidate of the Republic
ans Of New Jersey, former Judge John
Franklin Fort, has established a new
dating period for the political gossips
Of the state. OF course Mr.. Fort has
had the advantage Of the modern i'm
provements In transit, and an automo-
bile has enabled him to leave the
record of Governor Griggs far in the
background
'But 1t Is not alone In the distance
covered and the number of stops made
that the new record overshadows the
old The meetings In every town and
hamlet in the state have been marked
by enthusiasm, and everywhere that
the candidate and his attendant train
Of spellbinders have halted the people
have turned out en- masse to hear the
views of the candidate. And his ut
tsrances have evidently taken deep
root In the minds of his hearers. Men
who from sectional pride had been
inclined to look with more or less favor
on the ambitions of the rival candi-
date have left the Fort meetings
avowed supporters Of the eloquent
Newark man, won over by the magic
Of his words and by the clear and I'M
mistakable language in which his
opinions were presented.
Men who have made the tour with
one or another of the Republican can
didates during the last half score Of
years agree that all former records in
that line have gone by the board and
that II numbers and enthusiasm point
to anything in a political campaign it
is safe to say that when the votes are
counted on the night Of Nov. 5 the
figures will show that the people have
once more registered in favor Of a
continuance of the administration Of
state affairs by the Republican party.
SLOWLY, but none the less surely, II
b being borne In on the people of New
Jersey that the desperate fight now be-
ing waged by the Democratic leaders
is simply a renewal of the effort of the
old line, discredited bosses to again
seize the control of affairs In the state.
The overlooking treasury of the state,
which had been depleted under Demo
cratic rule In the early nineties, offers
an attractive inducement for effort.
The lean kline Of Democratic times.
turned over the management of state
affairs to the Republican party, are be-
ing groomed for the contemplated
feast, and the same old gang that
was elected in disgrace from state af-
fairs a dozen years ago is gazing with
longing eyes on the bullying sides of
the New Jersey strong box.
THE good old times, when bargains
IN furniture for the state were made
with an enthusiastic disregard of any
thing but the 100 per cent profit in
each bargain, are being lived over in
memory by the one time leaders Of the
same old gang, and every effort is be-
| ing bent to bring about a return Of
the Democratic prosperity
"And 1t is with that purpose in
mind that the men who for a decade
have lurked in the uncanny shadows
Of the statehouse frauds have come
forward once more and with specious
argument and plausible promises, hid
ing behind the personality of the man
whom they have selected because of
his responsibility as their standard
bearer, ask for another opportunity to
reduce the treasury surplus. 1t has
been said that the people have long
memories, and it is not at all likely
that they have forgotten the bargain
sales of 1S90-99, when the statehouse
was refurnished and refurnished again
at prices that surely meant prosperity
for those directly interested. The tax
payers of New Jersey have had enough
Of that kind of prosperity and the
siren song of the old line bosses has
lost its enchantment when viewed In
the cold light of facts and figures pre-
sented in the clean cut eloquence of
the Republican candidate
Judge Fort is fully acquainted with
all the record of the Democratic bar
gain counter days and minces no words
In discussing that record To many of
tho vnt1nOar man uvho offond tho Dc
publican gatherings throughout the
state much of the history of the early
nineties In New Jersey is new story,
but to the men of maturer years ii
| stands forth as a warning against the
| same old gang that conducted the bar
gain counters in the times when half
dozen chairs that could be purchased
| by any private citizen for S64 were bill
ed to the state for just $128 Easy
chairs on the bill and the amount paid
by the people easy money for the gang.
I'm almost startling contrast to the
Sargain counter days Is the record of
the Republican party during the ad-
ministrations of John w. Griggs, Eos
ter NJ. Voorhees,, Franklin Murphy and
Edward G. Stokes. Intrusted with the
conduct Of state affairs at time when.
thanks to the assiduity with which the
old Democratic gang had furnished
the statehouse,' the sides of the states
money box were lean and ooncave, the
Republican governors successfully
worked to cure the almost bankrupt
condition of the treasury, outstanding
the resources Of the state, cutting
down expenses which had accrued
through the extravaganza of their pred
ecessors, until today New Jersey an
nually turns back to her people mil
lions of dollars, devoted to the reduc-
ton of the school tax, and that with
out really missing the great amount
from her treasure box.
IA strong man, able to carry on the
great work of the four Republican
governors, one who has the heart and
the courage, the will and the definite
purpose to continue in the good work
for the best interests of the people of
the state and one who will never
swerve from that purpose while the
breath remains in his body is the
opinion expressed Of John Franklin
Fort by a man who for years had
been In most intimate relation with
him, sentiment Endorsed by thou
sands and thousands of the voters of
the state every time the candidate ex-