The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-04-15
Political lettings.

the first passenger train.
Political lettings.
The Progressive party will put an entir'
county ticket in the field this fall. Chair
man Doughty is responsible for this state
ment.
Harry Hawkins, Sr., has decided to b.
candidate for township committeeman
at the primaries, on the Democratic ticket
Hawkins was defeated last fall, but hi
thinks things might be different thi,
year. There will not be any fight fol
collector, and all efforts will not be cen
tered on that one Office as they were las
fall.
When Governor Wilson assumed the
Presidential chair he took with him as his
secretary Joseph Patrick Tumulty, but
he left Richard Patrick Hughes to LOOK
after the political affairs of Burlington
county and to watch over the acting Gov.
ernor The Democrats Of this county
will please take off their hats and ''kow.
tow" to st. Patrick Hughes.
Deputy Clerk Mooney, of the old Board
of Freeholders, yesterday served notice
on Harry Hawkins, Jr.. Clerk of the new
Board. 1t was signed by Harry E. Du.
bell, who, by virtue of his Office as
Director of the Board of Freeholders. y
ordered Hawkins to be at the court house
tomorrow with all the books, seals, ETC.,
ETC., pertaining to the Board Hawkins
says he is from Missouri and he must
be shown more forcibly than he has yet
been.
The members of the Bull Moose party
will hold reunion in the Auditorium,
Burlington, Saturday evening, when a
shad dinner will be served and plans for
future campaigns discussed. United States
Senator Clapp, Of Minnesota, and Edmund
B. Osborne, of Essex county, chairman of
the New Jersey Progressive party, are ex-
pected to be the speakers. Incidentally
Mr.. Osborne In a possible candidate for
Governor. Former President Roosevelt
has been invited, but nobody really looks
for him to be on hand
Under the heading, Jersey Legislators
not Feeling Happy" Charles Bacon, in
the Philadelphia Record, discusses the
situation in New Jersey. He thinks the
special session which is in sight is pros
pect ''of a jolly old time. the limit of
which cannot be guessed now" Bacon
thinks it perfectly reasonable to assume
that if the bothersome problems that were
unsolved at the regular session come up
at the special gathering there will be
little or no prospect of solving them, and
call the speeches the President of the
United States can make will not alter the
situation to any great extent"
The argument has been used that there
is necessity for the success of the Pro-
gressive party in order to eliminate the
old bosses of the Republican party. In
an interview with A. s. L. Doughty,
chairman of the Progressives in this
county, he asserted what is here stated.
When asked what the difference would be
If the Progressives were successful he
said that those who would control matters
would not be "clique," but everything
would be done by general consultation. .
But he also admitted that there would
have been a county ticket last fall If sit
had not been for me-" He said he kept
up discussion on the matter until 1t was
too late to get in the proper petition.
This does not look like general consul
tation."
Looking over the report of the Auditor
one has reason to notice some of the
figures The personal bills of the mem.
bers of the old Board ran up to 81, $50 SO,
and by adding the salary of the Director
and the members of the committee on
court house and grounds, the old Board
expended In personal bills within $44 OF
what the salaries of the new Board would
amount to. In the personal bills there
were several items of 5000 and $500, but
the heaviest were as follows: Harry E.
Dubell, $500. ID; Joseph P. Lennon, $45S
rs; William A. Wilkins, $4O6. Wilkins
spent $2.611.23 on bridges and Lennon
expended $4.516 10, Bass River. Washing
ton and Springfield townships each had
over $4,000 spent on bridges, the three
townships getting $8,361.44.
The auditors report shows that the
offices of the Sheriff and County Gle TX
haYe not been very profitable to the county
By the report the Office of the Sheriff ran
50, $685. SO behind, while the Clerks office
was $S15.42 in arrears. These figures
were for IS months. An attache of the
Clerks Office claims that the books were
not kept correctly and that as fact the
Office returned profit. This came, he
says, from the matter of election ex.
penses, which were not charged and given
credit for. This may be so but there IL
an item in the report which shows thai
$33, 900 was appropriated for election
expenses and that $32, 1858 SO was expended
1t looks as if that were a separate item
If the bookkeeping did not give tn,
Clerks Office the proper record it should
be changed. The Surrogate's offic'
showed profit of 1,sO7.54