The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-10-21

Colonel Thomas Fl. Birch, of BurIing-
ton, new American Ambassador to
Portugal, has announced that he will
sail for Europe to take up his duties
about the middle of November. Colonel
Birch will be given bon voyage din
ner' at the Bellevue-Stratford by polit-
zeal friends next Saturday evening.
A newspaper report of the visit of
Fielder to Ocean county says that it was
a coincidence that the grand jury was con
sidering the case of a member of the
County Republican Committee while
Fielder was speaking in the town where
the jury was sitting. The paper said
that Fielder did not make any allusion
to the affair. That was probably be-
cause he did not know of it, for he has
slung mud whenever he had chance to
get handful.
After reading James Smith and James
Nugent out of the party, Jim Fielder is
quietly kneeling at their feet and accept
ing all they apparently have to offer in
furtherance of his ambition to become
Governor. The same is true in the case
OF chairman Grosscup. After doing his
best to keep the state treasurer from
being chairman of the state Democratic
committee, position to which he was
almost unanimously elected by the aid
of James Nugent, Fielder comes in like
whipped pup and ticks the hand he
smote and tried to smite. And yet he
says thai Mr.. Stokes is n ''wobbler," a
trimmer" man who is not honest
in political principles" Condemnation
from such source is indeed praise.
Still at it. In a speech in former
Governor Stokes own county, Jim"
Fielder referred to Governor Stokes as
trimmer, wobbler and a man who is
not honest in his political principles. >"
Then he threw bouquet at Colby and
said: He knew him to be a man who,
if the unexpected happened and he
should be elected Governor of the State,
would give his time and service honestly
and earnestly for the best interests of the
people and to provide proper Govern
ment." Fielder also paid tribute to
Senator Nichols. while Republican,
always supported Democratic measures
when they were right, and no matter
what the demands of his own party,
stood for all measures that were clean,
fair and decent"
1t is rather nauseating to hear Jim
Fielder refer to man of the character
of former Governor Stokes as ''wob-
bier, when some of Jim's acts are
thrown into the light. We may refer to
one that may have personal tinge. 1t
will be remembered that Fielder sent the
name of the editor of this paper to the
Senate for nomination as a member of
the County Board of Taxation. The
next day he recalled the nomination and
in a letter addressed to a prominent
Democrat of this county he said the
action was not anything to the discredit
of the nominee personally or officially,
but the act was one of political Signii-
canoe and was the result of requests from
Tom Birch and Dick Hughes. And after
performing this act on the demand of two
politicians of the calibre of Birch and
Hugh es, Jim Fielder has the effrontery
to accuse former Governor Stokes of be-
ing ''wobbler."
The country and in fact the world have
had a recent example of Democratic rule
In the great empire state of New York
Governor William Sulzer has been i'm
peached, convicted and removed from
Office. Regarding the guilt or innocence
of the Governor there may still be some
question, because a majority of the Court
of Appeals Judges, who by law, sat in
the impeachment court, voted moi
guilty" while the political Judges voted
guilty" yet it is well known fact
that the impeachment proceedings were
inspired, started and carried through be-
cause Governor Sulzer refused to obey
the dictates of the Democratic machine
1t has always been contended and never
successfully denied that there is at leas
a sympathetic feeling between Tammany
Hall, of New York, and the Democratic
machine of Hudson and Essex counties
New Jersey. While there is no sugges
ton that candidate Fielder has done
any of the things charged against Gov
ernor Sulzer, yet Mr.. Fielder is Demo
crat and affiliated with the Democratic
machine, and if, by any possible mis-
hap, he should be elected Governor o
this State he would be expected to obey
his masters voice" and for failure
would likely be punished or disciplined
in some way or manner. With the New
York example before them the people o
New Jersey should take no chance.
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