The Mount Holly news., 1914-10-06
Political Notes.


J The Progressives organized their coun
ty committee on Tuesday night anC
elected the following officers: Chairman
A. S. L. Doughty, of Mount Holly, re
elected; secretary, G. Gauntt Holmes, O
Burlington; treasurer, Edward H. Flagg
Jr., Bf Riverton.
When it came time to elect treasurer
of the County Democratic Committee
Mr.. Benyuard, of Chester, who had held
the position for some time, declined tC
again serve. At the primary he was on
the regular ticket for member of the
county committee from his township.
Secretly, however, another member OF
the party tried to get his name on and
thus defeat Mr.. Benyuard. The latter
did not like this action and he refused
to act as the financial agent of the COM
mittee.
At the close of the polls at the primar-
les in several districts in the county
there was some excitement and feeling
In one of the districts of Florence the
friends of Alfred |. Davis felt rather sore
over the fact that the "big chief and
his candidate for county clerk had been
reported to have worked openly for Lof-
land, when they should have at least
remained neutral. There were hard
words applied to the chief and but for
the Intervention of stalwart-in prin-
ciple and Republican, it is possible
the Jockey" might have fallen over the
last hurdle with broken nose. 1t is
said ''the worst is yet to come"
The Republican County Committee
met in its rooms in the Masonic Temple,
Tuesday afternoon and effected organi-
zation by electing the following officers:
Chairman, Joseph l.. Thomas, of CHINA
minsOn; vice chairman, Joseph G.
Kingdom, Northampton; secretary,
Harry l.. Knight, Medford; treasurer,
Carleton Haines, Tabernacle; executive
committee, DR.. George Tracey, Beverly
City; George j. LeConey, Beverly town
ship; Charles Scholey, Burlington;
George Strick, Florence; Albert Haines,
Mt. Laurel; Ogden H. Maths, Riverton;
William HI. Maxwell, Washington; Clay
ton Hancock, Springfield; Benjamin w.
Cooper, Chester; r. c. Hutchinson, Bor-
dentown; Joseph p. Lennon, Pember-
ton township.
An order was granted to Joseph Malone,
city clerk of Bordentown, to open the
ballot box of the second district of the
first ward of that city. This was the
box in which the election officers de-
posted all the papers and did not make
any returns to the county clerk. Mr..
Malone had the box opened yesterday
and made the following returns from the
tally sheet: Republican = Congress,
Bacharach, 80; Lewis, %; Richards, 6;
White, 81. Sheriff, Atkins, s; Haines, 26;
Stecher, So. Assembly, Peacock, 5S
County Clerk, Carter, 10; Hawkins, 5;
Knight, q; Reeves, %; Scholey, 3; Tay-
lor, 4; Tilton, 8. CoDoner, Seeds, 55.
Auditor, Herr, 9; LeJambre, 54; Macfar-
land, Is. Democrat-Congress, Baker,
%. Sheriff, Davis, Is; Lofiand, 49,
County Clerk, Absalom, "a; Bright, 1;
Glasgow, 2; Lamson, A. Assembly,
Cowperthwait, %. Coroner, Sisom, q.
Auditor, Hammell, 26. With the excep-
ton of Auditor the above figures were
sent in on the night of the primary by
some one who stood at the polls and
took them. The returns as published
above nominate Stuart Mcfarland for
Auditor by Is plurality.
There were several interesting subjects
discussed at the organization of the
County Democratic committee. Just
prior to the primary election there were
circulated in MOOrestown postal cards re-
minding the recipients that the next
day was primary election day and say
ing ''the following candidates are recon-
mend for your consideration" Then the
names of some of the candidates,
notably Lofland for Sheriff and Absalom
for County Clerk no mention being |
made of Davis or LamSOn. At the bot |
tom was the statement ''Ordered and |
paid for by the Democratic Executive |
Committee of Chester township" The |
who were ignored, not liking |
the partiality shown by the committee, |
called upon the latter for an explanation |
and replyl was received from two of
them that they did not know anything |
about the matter and did not authorize |
or countenance the post cards. That |
was good SO far as it went and one of the |
candidates tried to get some expression |
at the meeting of the county committee,
only to be met with the reply THAT the
man complaining ought to be broad |
enough to forget it." Up to date it has
not been discovered who was the author |
of the trick.
A glance at the official returns of the |
primaries of the last three years will |
give some idea of how William L. Stech- |
er has run in the localities where he has |
always lived and where he is we'll known. |
In 1908 he was pitted against William |
w. Worrell and the figures show as fol- |
lows: Riverside total vote, 447; Stecher, |
400; Riverton, total, 233; Stecher, 1877;
Beverly township, total, 221; Stecher,
134; Delran, total s.; Stecher, 40. In
that campaign there were four candi- |
dates and out of a total vote of 967 in
the immediate vicinity of Stecher's
home he got 720 votes. In 1911 he was
again candidate, but he did not have
any opposition. His vote, however, was
up to that of the rest of the ticket. This
year he had against him two popular
men and the contest was one of the
hardest fought in this county for some
time. Again Stecher received admirable
support from the townships where he
was well known and where if there had
been anything to his detriment it would
have been brought out beyond doubt.
But the result in 1914 was as follows:
Riverside, total, 542; Stecher, 359; Bever-
ly township, total. 33S; Stecher, 176;
Riverton, total, 141, Stecher, 70; Delran,
total, so; Stecher, 33. These figures GER
tainly give an indication of what is
thought of William L. Stecher in his
own neighborhood, and those votes were
only from his own party. When it comes
to the election he will be found to have
many supporters in the other ranks.
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