The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1915-11-16
Political Notes.

Emmor Roberts, AssembIyman-elect
from this county, has been put upon
the steering committee" an important
position.
The organization of the township
committee is now being considered. DR..
Prickitt and Albert G.. MAYER are named
as candidates for chairman, but it is
possible that Mr.. Royle may be selected
owing to it being his third year in the
committee, and the fact that he has such
a thorough knowledge of the business
and political affairs of the township.
While the election officers are required
| to pass civil service examination it is a
wonder how some of them get through
In the returns sent to the county clerk
| there were many discrepancies In one
township thaiwhole number of registered
voters was 288 and the returns stated
that 288 voted, yet there was not single
office which rolled up that vote. In
another township but three names were
signed to the returns, and in other two
were supposed to be sufficient. In
another township the returns, instead of
coming to Mount Holly, were sent to
Trenton. In another instance the num-
Der of persons who voted was left out en-
tirely and SO it ran through the list
One OF the features of Atlantic City
Day in Washington, which will occur
on December 9Th, when Congressman
Isaac Bacharach takes his seat from the
Second District Of New Jersey, will be a
dinner in the red room of the New Will
lard Hotel. Covers will be set for $50 and
among the special guests will be United
States Senators and Congressman from
New Jersey and other States. In
special train of all Pullmans, the Attain
n ~
night, December 9Th, and are due to ar
rive in Washington about midnight
On the special there will be commissary
car and luncheon is to deserved enroute
Following the Monday night dinner
there will be a complimentary breakfast
at the Hotel Raleigh and testimonial
| luncheon at the White House building.
| Notwithstanding the election is over
| there seem to be sore spots left and the
pr ediction is made that it will be long
| time before many Observation-Disclosures
township particularly will recover
from results that were caused by
personal spite. malice" etc. This is
not new condition. Three years ago a
Democratic collector was elected in this
| township after the Republican nominee
had made fair contest and had secured
the nomination by means entirely diff
| lcTeQt IIOul tuOSe uSeu III Jle laSb CAM
lpaign. THE NEWS, possibly because its
editor felt the defeat more keenly than
some others did, deprecated the
actions that prevailed in that elec-
ton, but THE News stood alone in its
denunciation of what is now termed
party treachery." That the result in
1912 was aided by at least one who came
up for recognition on the second of
November can be proven beyond a
shadow of doubt. The son of the editor
of THE NEWS was told in the presence OF
the latter and other witnesses, by one of
| the candidates on the Republican ticket:
''As long as your father lives you will
never be elected to Office in this town. "
AS we hope to remain on earth a little
while longer, the boys chances are, ac-
cording to that statement, very slim.
And member of the township commit
tee, who advocated that candidate. in
topen meeting of the committee, applied
Ito us the vilest epithet that man can
fuse. There was no political gossip
about these two things, they are facts
and we claim the same right as others
do to resent any such actions, much as
we deprecate Republican defeat.