Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1911-08-24
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prices, conditions, crops, shipments
and profits
by such cooperative effort far
mers of these counties could ship the
|crops contained in their own store
houses to the places where the best
prices and greatest demands prevail
lit would be commercial activity
guided entirely by calm intelligence
Suppose such an idea should be
would accomplish? There would be
better markets and more business.
But there would be be something be-
yond all that; something intensely
more interesting and of vital concern
to the whole state. You would then
be in the position of knowing what is
going on all over the country; how,
why and in what it affects the far
mer. You would know what other
people are doing and what your gov
eminent is accomplishing or failing
to accomplish for you.
Camden Votes Mean Nothing.
81 want the people of this state and
of the country to vote for the Demo-
cratic party when they believe that
party will represent and conserve
their interests, and / don't want peo-
pie to vote for the Democratic party
If they don't believe that. 1t is opin-
ion not votes, that I take off my hat
to. For there are places in this state
and not many miles from here, either,
where the yotes-I mean the votes as
they are counted-mean nothing.
Hitherto, the vote in Camden has ne
yer meant anything to me, and I
doubt if it has to any other man.
y IF the farmers of this country get
busy and the preachers do their share
the business will be started. Religion
is not merely means of getting
into heaven, but it should be the true
teaching of the proper spirit of man
to fellow men and the preservation of
our institutions from dishOnOr. |
wouldn't be religious man, which I
pray God that l am, if did not be-
lieve that religion lived and prevailed
throughout the twenty-four hours of
every day, and on weekdays more
particularly even than on Sundays.
NOW as to the redemption of party
pledges. The New Jersey primary
bill abolished all close-corportio
business in politics. 1t was meant to
be the instrument by which all eau
cuses and conventions should be dis
pensed with, and the whole people
should be the ones concerned in the
selecting as we'll as electing of their
representatives. Heretofore, the peo-
pies only duty, as put before them
by the bosses, has been to elect their
representatives. The bosses them
selves did the selecting. In other
words the only function of the voter
was to cast his ballot for what SEEM
ed to him the least Objectionable
group of those candidates put forward
by the various party machines.
eve now have primary bill that
gives the remedy 1t is for the people
themselves to carry out the provis-
ions of that law You've got to form
corrupt practices leagues in every
though, if you are to
really preserve your rights.
Our corrupt practices act has been
criticised because it legislates that it
shall be misdemeanor even for a
conveyance to bring a voter to the
polls, and that all such expenses as
that shall be borne by the county. 1t
has been said such cost should not be
put upon the counties. For my part,
though, | think that liberty and the
purity of the ballot is worth while, no
matter what the price.
"a campaign is close at hand, and
you will be appealed to by various
candidates seeking your suffrage.
Many of them will promise you to
support me. But some of them do not
mean what they say. Not few would
be glad enough to forget such pledg-
es after they had served to win their
election / have pretty fair idea
who they are, and if any of you have
doubts when you hear man say that
he will support my administration, I
shall welcome the opportunity to adj
wise you whether l believe he would
or would not. atsa ff4e Gar
THE whole of the United States is
now wide awake. A new day has
dawned in our politics, and the sun
will not go down upon that day until
human liberties are abundantly vindi-
Gated If men die in the cause, their
blood will be the seed of multitudes
yet to come. We now know what it is
we desire. We are seeking to purge
our hearts and clarity our under
standing. And if God pleases and let's
us live, we shall look upon the day
when America was regenerated.
Governor Wilson paid a splendid
tribute to the fidelity of Assembly,
man James Lafferty, of this county,
and characterized his service in the
legislature as conscientious and in
telligent.
9 The judges awarded premiums on
farm products ON Friday as follows:
.a Best basket cantaloupes - John