The Penn's Grove record., 1912-02-02
EDGE SUCCEEDS ;,
LEADER KUEHNLE
Senator Slated for Political
Boss of Atlantic City. :
THE COURT CREATES HAVOC
Disaster Overtakes the Once lmpreg-
nabie Machine of Which Louis
kuehnIe was the Head--He
Will Retire from Banks.

Especial Trenton Correspondence
State House officials thoroughly in
formed as to political conditions in
Atlantic County, where drastic judicial
procedure, struck juries and State
prison sentences have worked havoc
with the once i~mpregnable Republican
machine, are already hailing Senator
Walter E. Edge, majority leader of
the Senate, as the successor of Louis
Kuehnle, the big leader whom disaster
has oyertaken.
Atlantic City visitors of the State
House expressed the belief that
Kuehnle will retire of his own volition.
plight with a remarkable display of
fortitude, fully realizes his position.
Fellow members of boards of bank di-
rectors and other business associates
have fastened to assure Kuehnle of
their continued confidence, and there
is no sign of any break from him on
the part of the City Council. The
Daily Review, which fought Kuhnle
and his organization with exceeding
bitterness throughout the. fall cam
paign, when Kuhnle forced the nomi-
nassn of Harry Bacharach for Mayor
and brought about his election, declar-
ed that Kuehnle should retire at once
from banking circles. Kuehnle want
ed to resign after his conviction, but
was reelected at the annual bank
meetings. 1t is now said to be proba-
BILE that he will insist upon his resigna-
ton being accepted.
The belief here that Senator Edge
will become the head of his party in
Atlantic County, if he does not already
occupy that position, is based upon
the fact t 1T no other is in a position
to take Kuehnle's place. Bacharach,
the new Mayor, who has instituted
numerous reforms since he assumed
Office, must face trial some time upon
charges Of election law violations,
which resulted in the conviction of
two of his ~lieutenants in the Mayors
home ward. Bacharach, furthermore,
has antagonized the machine by his
refusal to reappoint Kuehnle to the
= Water Board and his open war upon
Louis Donnelly, Kuehnle's choice to
succeed Bacharach as Postmaster.
Bacharach has also antagonized Con-
gresham Gardner by carrying his
fight for the appointment of Acting
Postmaster Frank Moore to Washing
ton, D. c., over Gardeners head.
1t is known here that Senator Edge
saved the Atlantic County machine
from rout last fall by smashing the
slate Kuehnle had chosen for the
Boy Rescues Comrade.
Live-saving work he had learned as
a Boy Scout enabled CHESTER Buckley,
Is years old, to save the life of
former Judge Robert H. Ingersoll for
Sheriff. He and Kuehnle are personal
friends.
Samuel Probasco, a scholmate, who
skated into an air hole while partici-
pating in an afternoon ice hockey
game on Assiscunk Creek, Burlington.
Probasco had gone down twice and
was carried under the ice by the swift
current before Buckley, at the head of
a human chain, reached the opening.
Buckley could see the drowning boy
under the ice, but could not reach him
with his hands. Taking the hockey
stick, upon which Probasco had delied
to support him on the thin ice at the
edge of the hole, Buckley thrust it I'M
der the ice, hoked the crotch of the
stick around Probasco, and after sew
eral attempts, got him back to the
opening in the ice.
Grabbing the boys collar, he gave a
sign to the other boys on the line, and
Probasco was quickly hauled out on
firm ice. Buckley then restored the
nearly drowned boy by artificial re-
~spiration, and he was hurried to the
home of his father, S. R. Probasco, a
prominent civil engineer.
Buckley is a son of Charles Buckley,
san insurance superintendent and is a
member of the Fox Patrol, First Bur-
lington Troop of Scouts. Boys, who,
under his direction, formed the human
chain, were Norman Fenimore, Will
liam %Tillinghast, Edgar Gallagher and
John Martin.