The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-09-16

ONE OF the meanest, most contempti-
bic campaign documents ever issued
made its appearance last week, in the
shape of pamphlet which rehashed the
proceedings of Senate committee in
1911, whereby the charge was made that
Howard Stokes, brother of the former
Governor, made large sum of money
by the irregular sale of school bonds The
intent of the pamphlet was to show that
Governor Stokes knew of the transaction
and benefited thereby. The paper was
sent from wall Street station, " New
York. 1t was not signed as the laws of
New Jersey require such documents to
be identified, but as the mailing was
done in New York it is a question
whether New Jerseys statutes could be
held to cover the case. The sender evil
IDENTIFY studied this part of the programme
and made it a part of his cowardlv
act. for he did not dare to affix his name
to the paper. In the present campaign
Colby and Osborne, Fielder and Katzen
bach are having their differences but
they are coming out into the open, like
men, and letting their acts and their
words show from what source they ema-
nate. 1t is not easy to rest under an attack
like that mentioned and it was only
natural that Governor Stokes should re-
ply, but it is question whether he did
not lend dignity to the dirty fling. He
denounced as unqualifiedly false that
his brother was favored in the sale of
bonds referred to or that such bonds were
purchased at an exorbitant price. He
also pointed out what was disclosed before
the committee that the sale of bonds
could not be made except upon the act
State Treasurer, the State Comptroller,
Secretary of State, and the Attorney
General, and that the vote to purchase
all of the bonds in question was unani-
nous. His REPUTATION of the charges in
the. letter are lengthy and as said before.
were hardly necessary. The pamphlet
asks the question: Can any honest man
who has read this report vote for Edward
C. Stokes even if by some accident he
should get the nomination. The per-
son who makes this inquiry will proba-
bly, discover that honest men have more
respect for Governor Stokes than for the
coward who stabs in the back and hides |
his identity. The Camden Post Tele-
gram hits the nail on the head in the
following leader:
THE anonymous attack on Former
Governor Edward c. Stokes, to which we |,
referred editorially yesterday, is but rep
etition of the attempt to discredit him
when he was a candidate for United |
States Senator, the charges being the
same and made in the same cowardlv
manner, suggesting the same author
ship. The former attack made no i'm
preston upon the public, nor will this.
except to rally to Stokes support men
who discountenance the methods of the
hidden assassin of character.
1.-THE charges with regard to favoritism
in the purchase of bonds by the State
School Fund Trustees during Stokes
term as Governor were unanswered, it
being demonstrated that only by collus-
ion of all the Trustees could such fayorit-
ism have been shown, the board voting
in every instance, while
the Senate committee found that such
sales were affected because their offerings
we're the best at the time of their accept
ance'
Instead of ever having been a party
% attempted betrayal of the School :
Fund, Edward C. Stokes has always
,een its defender and champion, AS a
state Senator he helped to rescue it from /
he Democrats who had looted it, the I
irSt action of the Republican Legislature S
fter the defeat of the Race Track gang +