The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1910-09-27
pol,+;ca1 Notes


Stacy Atkinson has accepted the .nomi
nation for Freebooter on the Democrat,
ticket in this township. William B. Ire
land is the Republican candidate anC
should have the support of the people.
George L Gillingham, of Chester town
ship, has accepted the Democratic nomina
tion for Freebooter. He was defeated II
the Republican primary by Joseph L.
Hilton but received sufficient ballots In
the other box to make him the nominee Of
that party. He will make an active can
vass but the result will probably be the
election of Mr.. Hilton.
Charles E. Joyce is meeting with con-
siderable opposition in his canvass for
Freeholder In Southampton township.
His Democratic opponent is being sup
ported by some Republicans who either
think they have grievance or have an
axe to grind. Mr.. Joyce has made good
official and he should not be retired sim
ply because of personal reasons.
Last week we made but slight reference
to the remarks of our brother editor
Sleeper, of the Palmyra Nesos. and that
did not seem to suit him as he came out in
his last issue with sort of challenge to
again enter into controversy. We had
at first decided to do so, but the following
item In the Riverton Nes0 Era is much
better and more to the point than any
thing we can say:
''In last week issue of the Weekly NeaCs
Editor Sleeper adds the New ERA to his
list of ''undesirables papers which did
not publish the local option stuff he sent
out before the primary election-the MIR
r0r, Neaos and Herald, all of Mount Holly,
being the other papers to fall under the
ban. In return we will join with the
Mirror and Neaos In inviting friend Sleeper
to join the Ananias Club.
''In his statement last week the Palmyra
editor says:
The Riverton NetO Era is one of the county
papers that refused to publish anything about
Local Option, giving as the reason that IL did
not tOdnt to make enemies and hurt business
from the liquor side
This statement is absolutely false No
such reason was given, nor was anything
said that could possibly be construed to
mean that. 1t is fabrication pure and
simple.
st is indeed sorry spectacle when the
editor of paper of the high standing of
the Palmyra Weekly Nesos stoops to bare
faced falsehood merely for the satisfaction
of saying something disagreeaDle about a
who has given him many
reasons for better treatment.
"As we had always believed that Friend
Sleeper did the best he could with his
paper, according to his light and capacity
this absolute disregard for the truth on
his part both surprises and pains us, and
must be a great shock to the upright and
men who voted to place him
Such methods in a reformer are to be
most deeply deplored, for they will do
more to discredit the cause he espouses
than anything the opposition can say"
There is no halfway business about the
above. 1t plainly calls the editor of the
Palmyra Nesos liar and does not make
any apology for SO doing. Brother jan
ney. of The NeW Era, also throws a hot
shot into the ranks of the Palmyra man
when he says. Friend Sleeper did the
best he could with his paper according to
his light and capacity" That is hard
one ON the ability of the would-be re-
former. We have never accused the edi-
tor of the Palmyra Nea0s with deliberate
lying; In fact, we never thought he did
such thing. unless he was the author of
some of the items that have, from time to
time, appeared In his paper over assumed
signatures. Many of them were abso-
Iutely false, but the editor, of course, did
not let his hand be seen in them, and the
writer was careful to conceal his identity.
THE MOUNT HOLLY NEWS feels that 1t
owes DR.. Janney an apology for even COM
on the item of the reformer, but
we did not think for moment that Sleep
er would get down to the depth that The
Neso Era man openly and boldly accuses
him of reaching. DR.. Janney's language
is capable of but one construction. and it
will take much explanation on the part of
the editor of the Palmyra Neaos to make
people believe that he told the truth when
he made such grave accusation against
his Riverton neighbor.