The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-04-14
Drukker's plurality


The total vote at the special election
was substantially the same as at the
general election, SO that there is no pos
sible way of figuring by which the DEM
ocrats can get any comfort out of the
situation. Senator Lewis, of Illinois,
made some clarion speeches on the
stump and announced that if O'Byrne
was defeated the administration would
be disgraced in New Jersey. Well, it's
disgraced all right. Phild. Inquirer.
How the Progressives did melt away
in the Boston and the Passaic-Paterson
elections. In the latter the skedaddle
to the Republican candidate was partic-
ularlv noticeable. Their vote fell from
some 400 in 1912 to some 600. They
were disguised with the tariff. They
voted for their bread and butter. There
was needed no other bridge than neces-
sity to take them back to Republicanism.
They are almost to man protectionists.
The old cry and the old danger brought
them back No artificial means, no
wisdom of national committees, no SOL
emn assemblages were required. They
came back because they had to, in self
defence. For the moment, seeing this
rush OF the Progressives, you are re-
minded of Hans Breitmann's party:
''Hans Breitmann gave a barty,
Where ish dot barty now ~
There remains the multitudinous and
seeming exhaustless popular strength of
Colonel Roosevelt. He is the party.
When he is in the fray Progressives start
up everywhere, full of life and fight.
They hibernate, they loaf, they snore
while he subdues the jungle and tames
the jaguar.
Teddy and the tariff Protection and
Progressive-R epublicanism! Who knows
what grand transformation scene may
be coming?-Nea0 York Sun.
Because misdirected and masterless
Legislature has ignored popular demands
is no reason why another shall not re-
spect them. Public sentiment is not
dead in New Jersey, even if it is dor
mant in spots, and constant appeals to
popular intelligence for the things worth
while always win in the end. 1t is the
manifest duty of every right-thinking
man to inform his neighbor just how
both of them were betrayed by the sub
servient automatons of political
machines, and for the two to enlighten
four, and so on until the tail of truth is
fully known and appreciated. That is
how public sentiment is created and
crystallized, and then it centres upon
and sticks to men who will go in
direct course to undo the wrongs, reform
alton follows in direct sequence to the
influence of an aroused and vital senti-
ment at home-Pu6lic Ledger.
Senator Read, of Camden county, in
the closing hours of the legislature, very
properly tried to get an appropriation of
two thousand dollars to the attorney
generals department, to be used for the
purpose OF forcing the "Seven Sisters
laws.
His effort was unsuccessful, the Demo-
cratic senators seeing no need of putting
the laws into effect, notwithstanding
the fact that Governor Wilson, when in
Office, declared that they were absolute
ly necessary to the proper regulation of
corporations in this state.
1t was only few weeks ago that At
torney General Wescott told the legisla-
tuIe that the laws had not been enforced
because there is no fund upon which he
is authorized to draw for that purpose.
Senator Read proposed that his hands
be united.
Senator Colgate expressed the opinion
that the laws had been put on the statute
books for effect, and that it was not in
tended that they should be enforced
That, apparently, is the right view to
take of them. They are really sleeping
beauties. State Gazette.