The Penn's Grove record., 1911-02-17
Gov. Wilson's Official Yard Stick.
Principals By Which Candidates Fol
Appointments Are Measured.

to fill and their salaries will amount to
hundreds of thousands of dollars. AS
the Democrats have been out of office
for Is years there is much eagerness
for these fat plums.
Gov. Wilson made his first appoint
ment last week, when Mark Sullivan,
the Democratic leader of the Assembly
last year, was nominated to be a judge
Of the Court Of Errors and Appeals to
fill the vacancy caused by the death Of
of James B. Dill, who was widely
known as the s'father of trust laws"
A dinner was given to judy Sulli-
van in Jersey City, on the I'd, at which
Gov. Wilson spoke. The following ex-
tract from his speech will give candi
dates seeking appointments some idea
of the standard which Gov. Wilson
seeks in them. 1t will be a aood idea
for all to consider the following and
help Gov. Wilson make and keep his
high standard of public efficiency. just
consider in your MUD whether your
choice measu es up to Gov. Wilson'S
ideas of what a public official shoult be.
He said in part, as follows:
II sometimes marvel that men
should even miss the point of such a
career as that of Mark Sullivan, and
yet many men do, singularly, miss it.
Why should a man like Nh. Sullivan
come so quickly and singularly 10 the
recognition of public opinion Though
out a great State as a man truly de-
voted to the public interest? Simply
because he has proved that his service
is disinterested, that it is fearless and
that it is honest. Judge Sullivan has
great abilities, but other men of great
abilities have missed the honor which
lie has received in the minds of his fell
low countrymen. Judge Sullivan has
devoted himself with a singular indus
try to the profession of which he
adorns, bnt other men have used the
same industry and have not been hon.
ored as he is h mored even 10y his fellow
practitioners at the bar. Do men not
see that selfish service never brings
honor? Do men not see that When
they make a mistake, in serving them
selves, instead of serving their country,
they have put a stain on themselves
which nothing afterwards can remove
or redeem.
"Have we not in our lives again and
again seen eXemplifcation of the fact
when once a man betrays a public trust
he never can regain the confidence of
his fellow citizens? Nothing will ever
re.establish him in the confidence of
the men with whom he deals.
"How easy is honor if you will but
be honorable? / am not over-instance,
of a ~self-sacrificing and noble mother,
who deyotes all her days with absolute
unselfshess to the interests and educa-
ton of a numerous family, and knows
tina. every pulse of her heart beats for
an unselfh purpose, it is no mean
school in which he is prepared for life.
When a man knows that he comes
of a stock which has not been stained
by any kind of dishonor, when a man
is schooled by teachers who hold up to
him the example of Christ and the
history of the self-sacrifces OF the
church, these are no mean preparations
for public life.
81 remember when l was an unier-
graduate at college, l was kept from
doing some of the things 1 was tempted
to do not so much by any native virtue
in myself, as by the knowledge that
there were dear people at home who
believed me incapable of those things,
to whom l should never wish to go
back, and to whose eyes l should never
wish to look again, if 1 betray the con-
fdence they had in me. There is a
steadiness with purpose bred by love
and confidence that is not easily bred in
any other way. And when you expand
that idea to communities; when you
know that whole bodies of men have
trusted you, then will you 60 back
and look them in the eyes and pretend
that you did not betray them, if you
were unworthy Ct the trust? Are we
not all a great family? Are we not
all a great family? Are we not all be.
holden to one another by the principles
of trust and of trustworthiness? And
then there is the idea whichI suppose
lies at the heart of the toast which has
been assigned me Oh the menu-the
College.
II marvel, that there should be so
much moral cowardice. l marvel,
above all, that men should suppose that
they are not going to be found out. 1
marvel to see men act on both sides of
questions. 1t amazes me that they
should suppose that they are taking
anybody in; and 1 will tell you frankly
that it dismays me, as a student of
human nature, to find out the number
: 81 my fr;"rds has increased since the
senatorial election. 10 t0ass lei gene
tlemen suppose yhat they q rectiigi1e
U.sE recotdY they ara confirming il,
taey are confirming it 0y mere tergi
veTsati0n--
"N0w, Legs is 10 question Of .lis
s.,t tjst has ever attached b. the hon.