The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1912-01-16
Political Notes.

Some of these days the Board of Free
holders will be called together to settle
the bills that were due and payable last
month. Warren @. Pine, the new county
collector, has his bond ready for approval.
In the distribution of patronage at
Trenton. on Tuesday, Senator Lewis Sc
cured the following: Charles R. Fenton,
clerk to committee on printed bills; Frank
Buchanan, Bordentown, assistant journal
clerk; DR.. Ellsworth Mount, Burlington,
doorkeeper; George w. Rogers, Palmyra,
gallery keeper; Howard Hoover, Bur-
lington, page.
Editors make some friends and lots of
enemies. The publication of some item
incenses person so that he would like to
pass the editor by without recognition,
but he does not go that far. Sometimes
his family takes up the matter and cut the
editor when they meet him. If they only
knew the satisfaction the latter gets by
this action which shows plainly that his
shafts have struck the target possibly
they would adopt other tactics.
A very high compliment was paid to
Howard Hoover, of Burlington, whom
Senator Lewis had appointed as page in
the Senate. Howard served in the same
capacity last year, and when the time ar.
rived for giving out the offices this year
the senator was told he could have page
If he would promise to appoint Hoover
who was one of the best in the business
and who made host of friends among
the senators by his cheerful disposition
and his strict attention to his duties.
The list of appropriations made up by
the Board of Freehoders does not con-
tain an item for the payment of bounty
on foxes. Just how the Board expects to
get out of paying this bounty is not clear.
Chapter 800 of the session of 1905 pro-
vides for the payment of certain fees for
killing foxes. The act does not make it
optional to pay this bounty, 1t provides
that It ''shall' be paid. The only way in
which the county can escape this act is
by needing a provise which reads thus
Provided, however,, that this act shall
not apply to any county of this state
where the Board of Chosen Freeholders
of said county, by two-thirds vote of all
its members, shall pass a resolution that
this act is not for the best interests of the
people of the county they represent. If
such resolution has been adopted we have
not seen record Of it. The attention of
the Board has been called to this subject
at least once before this, but we under
stand the solicitor has given an opinion
that it is all right as 1t now stands The
query might arise where the money would |
come from to pay the bounty if claim
were made, but in our opinion there is no
doubt that the man who kills foxes and |
produces the legal evidence can sue the |
county and get his reward If the Board |
does not want to make this expenditure |
why does it not take action as the statute |
requires and adopt the necessary resolu- |
ton, not by two-thirds vote of those |
present, but by two-thirds vote of all !
the members
Interest in the coming Congressional
contest has been aroused by the announce
ment by Senator Nichols, of Cumberland
county, that he will be candidate for
that Office. He has sent notices to all the |
newspapers in the Second Congressional |
district, telling that he is In the contest |
and that after the Legislature adjourns be
will make thorough canvass of the dis
trict, visiting every section "from Roeb
ling, on the Mercer line, to Cape May
Point; from Absecon inlet In Atlantic |
county to Stow creek on the Salem border.
OF course there are other candidates. |
Burlington county will have Senator Lewis |
In the field and he will be worth taking |
notice Of Atlantic county is reported to |
have two candidates in sight, one being |
Isaac Bacharach, the other the present in |
cumbent, Congressman Gardner. The lat |
ter is shrewd politician with many re-
sources at hand, but from present appear |
ances he has about run his race in the |
Congressional line. There will not be any
convention to settle this matter, and no
delegates to be manipulated, but the peo-
pie will vote at the primaries and thus
determine their choice. 1t was with
difficulty that Mr.. Gardner was held up In |
this county in the last campaign that he
was soliciting votes, and there were many
who cast ballot for him because of the
desire to keep this district represented by
Republican. The understanding among
uar hot he
time they would be requested to vote for
Gardner, and that idea will prevail to
large extent this year.