The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-09-29
Political Notes.

Official returns give Stuart Macfar-
land the Republican nomination for
Auditor by nine votes over Frank S.
Herr.
In looking over the primary returns it
is interesting to see the number of times
the ''skiddoo" figures % occur. And
they are not always in the columns of
the defeated candidates.
The Democrats claim to have ticket
good from top to bottom" and not to
be ashamed of. If there is not cause to be
ashamed of candidate who is on the
books of the county as one who has been
convicted and punished for law-breaking
we will have to let the first statement
stand.
Joe Lamson's prediction race track
predictions did not materialize. The
frantic efforts to keep Absalom from
being distanced, seem to have awaited.
Jockey Hughes applied the whip to
some effect, and the members of the
Democratic party appear to have come
under the lash. Lamson did not allow
Absalom single vote in Bass River,
while Joe got eight in Absalom's home
town.
The Palmyra NeaUs wants to know
why the Republican organs did not
notice that the Progressive vote in that
township was 60 this year, when it was
only 55 last year. In another column
the NeaOs says there was little interest
taken in the election and then gives the
votes cast in Palmyra for each Pro-
gressive candidate, and the highest figure
we can find is so for Bright, candidate
for Congress.
The Progressive vote in this county,
on Tuesday, reached a total of $50.
These ballots were distributed as fol-
lows: For Congress, William III. Bright,
100; Assembly, George l.. Gillingham,
122; Sheriff, Charles p. Farmer, $50;
County Clerk, George n. Winner, 1873;
Auditor, B. Frank Clay berger, Jr., $50.
In Northampton the Progressive vote
was: LIST district, 3, I'd district, 2; Sd dis
trict, o; 4th district, 1; 5th district, 3.
The election board from the second
precinct of the first ward of Bordentown
made poor showing on Thursday when
| they appeared before the court and asked
permission to have their ballot box
opened in order that they might send
the proper returns to the county clerk.
Three of these men said they had taken
the civil service examination which en-
titled them to serve as election officers,
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common sense when they locked the
tally sheet in the box and did not make
a return, and did not even keep a
memorandum of the result of the
election.
| William r. Hearst, in the NeaO York
| american. saws: 1.-THE most peaceful
nation in the world is to be asked to
pay war tax of a hundred million dol
lars. The United States is not at war,
and is not in reality a sufferer from the
/ European war. The necessity for this
tax is not created wholly by the war in
Europe, or even mainly by the war. The
deficit in the income of the United
States Government is due partly to the
reduction in the amount of the
imports into this country, but also
largely to reduction of the tax upon
imports into this country. The re-
duction in the amount of the imports
the party in power at Washington is re-
| sponsible for. Before war in Europe was
declared or even contemplated, the bal
ance of trade was showing immensely
against this country. Our export bal
ance had decreased over a quarter of a
billion dollars in seven MONTHS
The Democratic party nominated for
Sheriff man who has been in the pub
lie eye many times during the last few
years-Sometimes in an unenviable
light. He will be paraded before the
public as man of generosity, kind
hearted and all that sort of thing, but
| it is doubtful if any mention will be
made of his quick temper and his ac-
tons which, in the minds of some peo-
pie would be considered brutal Alfred
w. LOfland is not the right kind of a
man to have in an office where there is
need of a cool head and an absence of
outbreaks which may result seriously
and not to the credit of the officer or the
county. THE News feels perfectly justi-
tied in referring to the acts of this candi-
date who has more than once been be-
fore the courts on criminal charges We
do not believe the voters of Burlington
county are ready to install into Office
such man.
The importance of carefully marking
ballots and of studying the subject in
ADVANCE is clearly shown by the returns.
In this county 215 Republican ballots
and 107 on the Democratic side were
thrown out because of imperfections in
marking. In many cases the crosses
were put at the end of the candidates
name instead of before it. This not only
llnpdIeu CndJ particular candidate S
chance, but it caused the entire ballot to
be thrown out. When we consider that
Lofiand beat Davis, in the Democratic
race for Sheriff, by 80 votes, the posi-
bility of those Improperly marked bal
lots cutting considerable of figure NAV
easily be seen, as 107 ballots might
have made quite difference for or
against the candidates. On the Repub-
lican side there was even a greater
chance for a change. Stecher received
49 over Haines, counting the reported
returns from Bordentown If they are
not allowed to be handed in he has but
p majority. 1t is fair to presume that
of the 2l5 rejected ballots each of the
three candidates on the Republican
ticket would have received share and
there is no telling what might have
happened. OF course it is too late to
remedy this, but it is time to tell voters
to pay more attention to the way in
which ballot must be marked.
The vote in Northampton was as fol-
lows:
1 , 3 4 5 Tot.