The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1913-04-29
Political Pointers.

Martin FL. Girven has been appointed
assessor for Northampton township to fill
the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Walter T. Stewart.
Captain George 8. Maxwell, Joseph
Maxwell and Mark c. Sooy, of Washing
ton township. were guests att the Bull
Moose dinner Saturday evening.
Some Of the old Democratic war horses
are said to be fretting little over the fact
that they must 60 to Dick Hughes and
Tom Birch for permission to engage in
political deals.
1t IL rumored that there Is to be an in
vestigation Of what disposition was made
Of the checks that came into the county
last fall for the use of the Democratic
party. One story says the amount was
$4,000. while another is that $1,000 came
over the line, and there is some curiosity
es to how 1t was distributed
The shad dinner arranged by the com
mittee of the Bull Moose" party came
on at the Burlington Auditorium satur-
day evening. About 800 persons were
present, but whether they were all con-
verts and members of the party or
whether some were invited to give tone
and size to the gathering is not known.
james Beck Tyler was toastmaster. United
States Senator Clapp. of Minnesota, and
Edmund B. Osborne, of New Jersey,
were the speakers, and they gave a rosy
account of the condition iof the party at
the present time.
A report is In circulation that two of
Burlington county's Democrats who are
after Office have come to an amicable con-
clusion on the subject of postmaster and
collector Of internal revenue. But there
ia another candidate in the field from this
county for the latter Office. William E.
Hires, Of Palmyra, has a petition In cir
culation with numerous names on 1t. The
signatures will not count for much, posi-
bly,, as Dick Hughes must be taken into
consideration, with Tommy Birch trailing
along after Dick tells him what is what,
for there Is no use trying to rub 1t out
Dick Is ct" But private advices say
that the office Of collector of revenue will
not come to Mount Holly. former collector
Thomas Terrell having been slated for the
job.
In his weekly letter to the Philadelphia
Record Charles r. Bacon hits the Progress
ives q slight rap. After speaking Of their
activity In holding dinners and telling the
people how big and great the party is, he
says the men who are SO active are those
who are seeking preferment. One of his
remarks Is: 1.-The quiet men who get out
and do the voting are not those who are
going up and down the state ranting.
Those men do not want harmony. They
want to keep the new machine going as
long and hard as they can make 1t run,
and 1t is for themselves that the effort is
being SO strenuously put forth. They are
the same men who struggled SO hard<with-
In the regular party lines to win prefer
ment, but finding themselves defeated
turned to the breaking-up process, taking
advantage of the trend of public opinion
for their own advancement. They will
get no farther with this game than they
got with the other. The people of the
State are still able to scratch beneath the
surface and find the faker."
Following the opinion of Gardner Col
by, secretary of the State Civil Service
Commission, that Progressives cannot be
examined for election officers because the
law is that only members of the two par
ties polling the highest vote on Assembly
shall be named to the boards of registry,
there is q movement on foot throughout
the counties to GUST those members on
the election boards who turned Bull
Moose in the late election. and to have
declared ineligible those Progressives who
are on the eligible list for the next six
years. 1t was noted by the county chair
men that on this point Mr.. Colby was si- |