The Penn's Grove record., 1912-06-07
AtIantic's Latest Scandal.

Atlantic's Latest Scandal.
Four members of Atlantic City's
Common Council have confessed to
receiving bride money for voting to
pass an ordinance providing for the
building of a concrete walk along the
ocean front, and a fifth member wig
was implicated has denied his guilt,
but has been arrested. The improve
men was to cost about a million dol
lars, and the evidence gathered by the
Burns detectives shows that the five
men were paid $500 each, and were to
get $4,000 nor each when the deal
was consummated. The astonishing
feature of the affair is that any Coun-
Gilman, no matter how great his de-
sire to graft, should have the temerity
to indulge that desire after the whole
sale prosecutions for cr~ookedness of
all sorts that have occupied the atten-
ton of the courts for nearly a year.
Another is that two of the Councilmen
involved had offered themselves as
special election to be held. There was
a belief that Atlantic City had been
pretty thoroughly cleaned, but this
latest sensation shows that there is
yet plenty of work to be done by the
voters and the courts. Credit for the
discovery of the graft game belongs to
Editor Harvey Thomas and his news
paper, the Atlantic City Review. For
three years Mr.. Thomas has been en-
gagged in a warfare against the disre-
putable gangs that have been defying
the laws of the State and the courts,
and plundering the people. He has
successfully led the fight for reform,
honest elections, law observance and
clean government, despite indictments,
threats of personal violence, and con-
%spiracies to discredit his work. The
results show what an honest and indie
pendent newspaper car do.
Urges Men to Politics.
On Governors day in the Boost
thousands of people were out to greet
Governor Wilson. The Governor was
the guest of the Board of Trade at
luncheon and afterward was taken to
Monument Square with Mayor Morri-
son and the Queen of Progress, where
he reviewed the civic parade and de-
livered an address. Governor Wilson
said, in part: What is politics? |
don't mean what has politics been in
New Jersey, for that is a painful sub
ject. 1t is not merely a contest about
who shall be in office. That is not
what l believe in. You could probably
have picked by lot men to occupy
your Offices as we'll as those who have
occupied them. What have you been
concerned with? Haven't you been
afraid of what the Legislature might
do and afraid that somebody was con-
trolling what might affect your bust
ness? If | picked out a jury of twelve
men from this audience and asked
what effect the tariff had on the indus
tries of New Brunswick l doubt if
they could tell me. Yet if you didn't
know the effect of the tariff you are
not fit to vote. Underlying politics is
that which underlies character-per-
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your city if it always picked the wrong
man for office? Some men say that
politics is a dirty business. It's your
business, and if it is dirty you have no
n to blame but yourselves. When a
nan says to me that politics is dirty,
| ask him if he voted at the last pri-
mary, and if he says he didn't l invite
him to shut up"
Children Won Prizes.
Trenton prize winners among the
boys and girls of the public schools
who competed in the Bide-a-Wee Home
contest are as follows: Hazel Swain,
first prize, a girls watch; Frieda Writ
schafter, second prize, a ring; Rather
inc Howard, third prize, a bracelet;
and among the boys: John Ryan,
first prize, a watch; Barnett Citing,
second prize, a ring, and Harrison
School, third prize, a baseball bat. The
prizes were awarded to those who
brought in the largest amount of mon
ey from the sale of tape measures con-
Quoted by the children of the different
schools.