Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-09-18
Bergen Political Pot.
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anime have resided in this county be-
fore you were born, and have served
the public in numerous capacities, al
ways without salary. However, l eX-
cuse YOU, because of your youth, and
as 1 nave been informed, your great
ambition to become Clerk OF the new
Small Board of Freeholders, in the
event of the election of those alleged
nom partisan candidates who are to
be vouched for by the self-appointed
Citizens Committee.
"trom what information l have
been able to gather, your Committee
was formed and is now almost COM
pletely dominated by Senator Charles
O'Conor Hennessy, whose dictatlon to
the democratic party does not quite
agree with his preachings against the
rule of bosses. AS a candidate Tor
the democratic nomination for mem
Der OF the board OF treeholders, out
slue Oh the bracket refuse to take
MS dn ect dlctatlon, and certainly re-
1use TO be dictated to by HIM lndl-
recUly, acting through a mushroom
poltlcal organization which is COM
posed almost exclusively of 'brack-
eted' candidates or those who are
supporting bracketed candidates. 1
therefore, deem your inquiry to be
nothing more or less than political
buncombe, and on a par with similar
inquiries made in 1912 by the Fedora
ton of Civic Clubs, now defunct, OF
candidates in that year. l question
the right of your organization to set
itself up as the arbiter of the political
morality of the candidates, and l
sincerely hope that you, as its secre-
tary, will not meet the same late as
the reverend gentleman who was sec
rotary of the aforesaid Federation,
and who is soon to have the courts
pass upon his personal morality. l
have great faith in the public at
large, and it's ability to do its own
thinking, and l do not think men
care to have their politics fed to them
with a spoon, by interested parties.
AS a rule, voters show good Judg-
ment and | am certainly satisfied to
stand or fall as a candidate by the
will of the. majority who have done
their own thinking, rather than to be
sefved--up with a pedigree winch Is
prepared to suit, by an organization
whose very motives | question.
-- s"Since former Senator William M.
-J5hnson was. misrepresented In the
press and thereby placed In false
Light before the public, because OF
the action of your organization IN
making public a portion OF letter
which he recently wrote to 1T, while
.sappressing other important parts, !
must decline to make you my agent
in preparing for the voters "a far
summary of my publications Tor
nomination for and election to the
Office l seek. l shall do that work
myself, standing alone as man,
upon my individual merits, without
the use of the politicians bracket to
help carry me through, and without
the aid of misleading slogan. l
refuse to lend myself to the building
of platforms which collapse the
minute the polls are closed, and l de-
cline the offer of aid from men who
expect to ask for something in re-
turn for services rendered. l would
rather be defeated than resort to
these methods of campaigning, for
the good name l bear in my commu-
nity means too much to me to per-
nit me to do anything else than make
a square and open fight, with my per
sonal fitness as my argument To-
support"
Now, Mr.. Voter, you have some
thing about the jumble-scramble over