The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1907-11-05
Democrats Have
Lots OF Money.
Standard Oil, Hartman and Pub
lie Utilities Corporations
Are Putting Up.

Trenton, Oct. 29.-"OurS Is cam
paign of bluff" laughingly remarked
well known Democratic politician
at the Trenton House last week, "and
bluff hand often wins" he added.
''There are lots Of voters ready to get
on the side of the fence where the
biggest amount of confidence seems to
lie."
This explains the general Democratic
concert Of claims for the election of
Katzenbach In the very face Of reports
by party canvassers in the various
counties of the state showing by COM
parison that unless there is an ex-
traordinary reversal of the situation
before election day Mr.. Katzenbach
will be defeated in the state by not
less than $4,000 plurality for Fort
The Democratic candidate himself is
known to be depressed in spirits. His
tour Of the state has been disappoint-
encounter thousands he met hundreds,
and he could see the evidences of hard
drumming to get men to attend his
meetings. The trip through south Jer-
sey was a frost, while in north Jer-
sey the attendance was inspired chief
ly by curiosity to hear what the can
didate had to say on the saloon ques-
ton. In Newark all the Democratic
clubs were turned out to swell the
mass meeting at which Katzenbach
had been widely advertised to appear.
The wonder is where the Democrat
ic managers In this state obtained all
the money they are putting out. There
is more in sight already than the party
had to spend In any state campaign
since 1893. 1t is asserted that some
of this money was the consideration
paid by public utility managers for
| the great service done them by the
defeat In the Democratic assembly of
the public utilities bill, passed by the
Republican senate. But there is anoth-
er and larger source of contribution.
1t is well known that the Standard
OIL company and the Hartman inter-
ests desire Republican defeat in a
number Of states this year as rebuke
to Roosevelt, and their money bags are
In free use for that purpose. New Jer-
sey is Just across the Hudson from the
financial headquarters of these big In
terests, and it is easy enough to pour
money into the state through certain
Democratic leaders who are close to
these interests. A fund Of $250OO0
might accomplish a Republican defeat
In New Jersey.
| A big corruption fund subscribed by
anti-Roosevelt corporations and selfish
| local interests in this state cannot fail
to have its effect, and hence the Re
! publican leaders here eagerly embrace
the idea of a conference with a view
to an agreement to use money only for
the legitimate expenses Of the cam
/ paign. But what are agreements to
men who have money to burn and who
are infatuated with the desire to gain
control of the state government and
secure all the valuable official patron
age in sight?
Mr., Katzenbach must have knowl-
edge of the finances of his party or
ganization. He is no chicken in poll
tics. 1t takes about 100000 to pay the
necessary expenses of a state cam
paign, and at the present rate of Dem
ocratic expenditure the expense will
foot up 100000 by election night.
Does Mr.. Katzenbach ask where all
this money comes from? It isn't coin
ed out Of the incorporeal air, and
there wasn't a dollar in the Demo
cratic party treasury when the cam
paign began. Who's putting 1t upl
What big interests are financing the
Democratic campaign? Need the ques.
ton be asked?
Meantime former Governor Franklin
Murphy is paying out of his own
pocket the cost of a daily advertise
ment in Newark paper asking indi-
vidual subscriptions to the Republican
state campaign fund to help pay the
ordinary expenses incident to the cleo.
ton. How do the voters of the state
relish the contrast?