The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1909-10-19
Political Notes


An attempt will be made to defeat Joel
Horner for Freebooter in Palmyra town
ship, but 1t will not work. Joel's work In
the township and in the Board is too we'll
appreciated by the taxpayers to allow him
to be retired.
There is going to be an effort to defeat
Charles P. Kirkbride, Republican candi-
date for Freeholder In Medford township.
His opponent is farmer and will make
struggle to be elected, but there is no
reason whatever why Mr.. Kirkbride should
be made to stand aside. He has been a
good official and a business man who uses
his methods In the administration of his
office. Medford will lose a valuable officer
if Mr.. Kirkbride is retired.
With the feeling that Harry L. Knight
is to be the next county clerk there is a
lively scramble for the position of post
master which will be made vacant by his
promotion to the county Office. There is
nothing like making hay while the sun
shines, and while In many cases the con-
test for the post Office would seem to be
premature, in thisTinstance it appears to
be all right, for Mr. Knight will certainly
be In position on the third night of Nov
ember to get ready to hand the office over
to some other fellow.
Samuel NJ. Roberts, who did not get the
Democratic nomination for Senator, Is out
in a lengthy epistle in which he pays his
respect to some of the Democrat "bosses''
in no uncertain or constrained language.
Mr.. Roberts does not appear to be so much
cast down over his failure to secure the
nomination as he is indignant at the mani
pulation of the affairs by some whom he
thinks had just reason to treat him better.
Samuel certainly has cause for his resent
ment and he can readily and truthfully
state that he was killed in the house of
his friends.
A lengthy article in an up-Jersey paper
has the campaign all mapped out for
Ocean county and shows how ex-senator
Shinn is to again enter the arena and be-
come the ringmaster at whose crack of the
whip everybody will step lively. Not
content with arranging matters for the
present the correspondent of the paper
referred to has the slate arranged for the
next.fve years and has all of the appoint
ments fixed so that there will be nothing to
do but to sit down and accept them as they
are handed out. Whether this programme
will be carried out remains to be seen, but
it does seem as If ex-senator Shinn is in
the harness after he had shown dispo
sition to keep out and let others take the
reins.
The contest over the Office of Freebooter
in Evesham township grows more interest
ing every day. Alfred Lohand is deter
mined to defeat Clayton H. Brick, if pos
sible, but Mr. Brick is on the alert and the
people of his township do not seem ready
to make him step aside simply because
somebody has small argument in favor
of that result. Mr.. Brick is a conscien-
tious officer and while he is the member
from Evesham, he is county official in
every sense of the word. He looks care
fully after the interests of his own com
munity, but he is never forgetful that
Burlington County is entitled to consider
alton. Evesham will do herself and coun-
ty an injustice if Mr.. Brick is not returned
to the Board of Freeholders.
j Unforeseen complications arose in Ocean
county when the Republican committee
attempted to organize. Joseph M. Thomp-
son was a candidate for chairman, but just
as he thought he had the prize within his
grasp there came an opinion from the
Attorney General that no one, unless a
member of county committee, may be
, chairman of the body. The Attorney
General admits that the statute is silent
on the subject, but he has his opinion,
nevertheless. How he can decide is not
clear The primary law, in providing for
, the election of members of the county
committee, provides that the rules of the
/ committee shall govern, at least so far
as the number of members is concerned.
If we are correctly informed the rules of
! the Ocean county committee provide
t that a chairman may be elected whether
e he is or is not a member of the body. II
= that is so 1t is hard to see where the Attor-
q ney- General comes In.