The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-08-18
Political Notes.

burlington county ITOSreSSlNeS CON
!. pleted their county ticket by the seleC
ton of Henry b. Coles, of Moorestown
as their candidate for assemblyman.
There does not seem to be any specia
desire on the part of Democrats to ente
the race for Member of Assembly, but i
is reported that the bee is buzzin,
around the ears of c. Craig Tallman, o
Springfield.
Former Senator Isaac H. Nichols, Of
Cumberland county, has withdrawn
from the Republican congressional race
in the Second District, because his chief
rivals, Assemblyman Emerson ID. Rich
ards, ex-AssembIyman Isaac Bacharach,
of Atlantic, and ex-senator Griffith
Lewis, of Burlington, are comparatively
rich men,
William i. Stecher paid THE News
office visit Wednesday. While he
was perfectly willing to talk politics
William saw our photograph gallery of
base ball players and that set him to re-
calling the games that used to be played
in this county, especially that with the
celebrated Cuban Giants, when Stecher
pitched Mount Holly to victory. Bill"
says il he can do as we'll in the primaries
he will come out all right.
Not being able to find any one willing
TO go to certain defeat in the contest for
member of Congress from the second
district, the present Democratic member,
Hon. J. Thompson Baker, has decided
that he will be ''the goat. In his letter
announcing his willingness to be
sacrifice he says he is not moved by any
personal ambition, but solely by the con-
viction that he owes it to the people who
have so highly honored him. The
policies advanced and defended by the
President and Congress are to be his
platform.
AS has been intimated several times
there does not seem to be perfect har-
mony in Atlantic City over the nomina-
ton of a Republican candidate for
Congress in the second district. In one
OF the wards there seems to have been a
split. In the ranks of the Chelsea Union
League, portion of the body is ia
vorable to former Senator Lewis, of this
county, the Others supporting Assem-
blyman Richards. The latter is said to
be in the minority. That there is
sharp fight on between the followers of
Bacharach and Richards is certain and
it will be beneficial to candidates from
the other counties. Whether the seIec-
ton falls upon Senator White or former
Senator Lewis there is no denying the
fact that the feeling prevails that Bur
lington county should name the can
didate.
William III. Absalom, who seeks the
Democratic nomination for County
the Burlington Gazette, whose editor also
wants the honor Absalom is a young
man, according to the announcements
made in the paper-29 years of age. But
he has been busy man in that time
He is clerk in a Burlington bank, secre-
tary of the Burlington County Democra-
tic Club and Burlington County Demo-
cratic League, secretary of the Burling-
ton County Board of Taxation, treasurer
of the Florence Building Association,
treasurer of the Florence Firemen's Re
lief Association, commodore of the
Mohican Boat Club, vice president of
the Delaware River Base Ball League,
with other minor organizations too
numerous to mention, not to say any
thing about his being prime favorite
with Richard p. Hughes, the leader of
the Democratic party in Burlington
county, which fact is expected to do
more to give him the nomination he
seeks than any other alliance