The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1914-10-27

v committee of Northampton. They ha,
e proved themselves men qualified for IL
J. position, and have devoted much tin
l. to the welfare Of the township.
Absalom has made several promises
t what he will do if he is elected. Is thel
e any truth in the report that he said b
n would clean house in every depar
: ment?" Also what is the situation wit
n reference to Dick Hughes? Is the latte
: to be deputy clerk or is he not? Abss
:, lom can easily settle this point.
There are said to be Is aspirants fc
! the position of postmaster of Border
Il town, but the man who is leading in tn
: race and who has the support of the bi
, boss of the county is reported to b
:. James ID. Magee, editor of the Borden
: town Register. This recognition is sal
= to be offered in the shape of salve fo
the beating Bobby" Peacock gave Me-
gee last year in the Assembly race.
+ So anxious are the Democrats to cleo
t their sheriff that they are willing to con
i eede anything in order to gain that end
) The colored voters are being eagerl,
4 sought without regard to cost. The fac
\ that AL. Lofiand was fined for as
e saulting colored man, who, in the Ian
/ guage of his organ he considered a
i his inferior" The colored man who wa
, beaten then was IAN inferior" but nov
he seems to be friend and brother.
: Through the kindness of his hear
: Lofiand is reported to have paid money
} out of his own pocket which saved Wal
: lace Brock and others hundreds of dol
lars, but the kindness of heart was
! probably put in the shade by the fear Of
what might happen if the three indict
10, h II
before the court. Much easier to pay $3E
to $50 to settle out of court than to run
the chance of getting more severe pun.
ishment.
! The Herald quotes Republican who
says he would vote for Sheriff Jordan
for second term if the law would per-
init him to succeed himself, and the
paper thinks this pretty good endorse
ment, but lie does not think Harry l..
Knight should have a second term.
Again the weather vane is blowing
Jordan to succeed himself would be all
right, because he made good official;
10 which we all agree, but knight must
pe defeated for a second term, even
though he has made an equally good
official. Consistency is jewel that doth
not dwell right here
day for beating his own son, and was
sent to the state prison for not less than
year. The man said he was justified.
He did not claim that the boy was ''his
inferior" but he said that, as a father
he had right to chastise him. The
court thought, properly, that he deserved
punishment and the brutal father was
sent to the state prison. AL. Lof1and,
who beat man whom he considered his
lnferior-possiblyh he referred to the mans
size-got off with fine. The father will
go to the state prison. Lofiand wants to
be sheriff with power to take such fell
lows to state prison.
Speaking on the subject of searching
titles reference is made to how the work
was done by former county clerks and
then the contrast with the present sys-
tenn is made. 1t must not be lost sight
OF that former clerks worked on the fee
system and did not employ more help
than they Ihad to, preferring to pocket
all the mouey that could be hauled into
the till. Then it must be taken into con-
slderation that the records in the county
clerks office were not kept in the good
condition they are now. An attempt
has been made to Feast discredit on the
clerk because of the expenditure of
money that has reduced the receipts of
his office, but when one remembers that
the books and records in the office had
been allowed to go to pieces, that the in
dexing had been neglected to such an
extent that it was necessary to do much
work to put them in proper shape, and
that, under Harry l.. Knight, the office
is in better shape than it has been for
years, there is praise to be bestowed upon
him rather than panslIrp
Be sure to vote and be sure that you
mark your ballot correctly. The law dis
tinctly provides for the mark on the bal
lot to be placed in the space on the left
side of the ticket, and if it is put any
where else it indicates a marked ballot
and the entire ticket will be thrown out.
There is no doubt on this point. 1t has
been ruled on in the Burlington county
courts by Judge Lloyd in case where
there was contest over the election of a
collector in one of the townships. In
that case there were sufficient number
OF ballots improperly marked to elect
the man who was at first defeated, and
the decision was reached on the fact that
the ballots which had been counted for
the apparently successful man had been
Improperly marked, some of the crosses
being on the right side of the ticket.
The judges of election held that these
tickets should be thrown out only SO far
as the candidates for whom the improper
marks were made. The conrt claimed
that the entire ticket was invalid.
So the editor of THE NEWS is giving
Harry l.. Knight "nerveless and weak
hearted support" Well, possibly we are
not turning everything upside down like
our contemporary is for Absalom. But
then we did not create Harry l.. Knight,
and did not put him up before anyone
else thought of it. We may be lacking
in enthusiasm or may not be working
according to the ideals of others, but it
must be remembered we have not the
ability that goes with age and experience
in others. If we have shown any lack
of nerve or a weak heart we are extreme
ly sorry, for we certainly want to see
Mr.. Knight who is admitted by his OPP
ponents to have made the best clerk we
have had in years, reelected, and kept
in the office where his record is above
reproach. We are glad to have had our
shortcomings pointed out in time to
remedy the matter. 1t is our earnest de-
sire to see Harry l.. Knight again elected,
and we have feeling that this desire
will be gratifed next week.
When newspaper says anything
about man that is good and suits him
he does not take the trouble to come in
and leave his thanks on the editors
desk, but let anything be said that does
not please him and he will quickly make
his displeasure known. And a peculiar
part of the transaction is that the man
who finds fault is not always a SUBJ
scriber to the paper he does not like.
of the Democratic candidates, from
Congressman to coroner, but one is a
subscriber to THE NEWS, yet they all
seem to get on to the items it contains,
and right soon after the paper is printed
Possibly they buy copy, possibly they
borrow one. In this connection one of
the Democratic candidates came to THE
News Office on Wednesday and express
ed his dislike of the way in which we
had put two items together in the paper
and said he felt that one of them seemed
to reflect on him, although there was
nothing in the article which applied to
him. OF course in making up our forms
we do not consider the ideas of every
reader, and it showed rather a thin skin
on the part of the young man, who
seemed to put on shoe that hurt his
corns. But, of course, the campaign is
worrying him some, and he notices