The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1916-11-04

Wittpenn is found saying this of Mr..
Kinkead: Speaking of grating. J
have before me the latest number OF
the Jersey City Herald. that of last
Friday. September II. 1t contains
more Sheriff's advertisements than
ever. Some of them were issued "a
late as September Il and 10. Theil
publication price totals S373.62. The
Jersey Journal and Hudson Observer
together did not publish as many Oh
Saturday. On September 10 the Sheriff
said over his signature i'll an adjoining
column that he had stopped this Her
aid swindle upon the poor people Of
this county. As he has NOT kept his
word and evidently has no intention to
keep it. l shall have to point out what
the fraud mean in money.
advertising space in the Jersey City
Herald is worth less than two cents a
line, for it has little or no circulation.
The Sheriff is paying the sheet ten
cents a line for each first insertion and
eight cents a line for each subsequent
insertion. At the rate at which he is
shoveling these advertisements into
the publication he seems bound to pay
it about $1,000. or four and one-half
times what it could get from the most
i%mprovident merchant. Here is a dis
tribution of graft, then, going on at the
rate of $4,000 a year. Who is really
getting all of this money!"
Some More Compliments.
In the Jersey Journal of September
p, 1915. Mr.. Kinkead thus pays his
compliments to Mr.. Wittpenn: In this
county now we have two sets of can
didates asking for the suffrage of Dem
ocrats SO that they may be nominated
one week from today. One set is the
Wittpenn list-the Witpenn list, Mr..
Voter. get that. Hand-picked. picked
by whom? BY a man elected to office?
No. by a man thrown out of office,
thrown out of the party as far as it
was possible for the leaders of that
party. x y = When Wilson said to
Wittpenn. Don't rum he knew his
man. + = = I'll bet a cookie that
Woodrow wouldn't waste a good job
on Otto if he had to do it owe again.
The same day in the Jersey Journal
Mr.. Wittpenn conveys his compliments
to Mr.. Kinkead. sheriff Kinkead is
still clutching at the coat-tails of Il
beloved President, much in the same
manner as a drowning man frantically
clutches at a lifebelt. = = + When Mr..
Kinkead was promised the Postmas-
tership of Jersey City everybody knew
it was to hold him in line to vote for
the Panama Canal tolls. Other men
were persuaded to vote for this meas
ure by an appeal to their reason and
judgment. but the Administration did
not pay Mr.. Kinkead the compliment
of assuming that he possessed the
faculty, at least to the extent of di-
recting his actions as a legislator.
They knew his appetite for public
spoils from the time he sold blue jeans
to unfortunate paupers at Snake Hill
to the present day, when the kinkead
department store derives profits from
the unfortunate prisoners in the jail
Accusations of Graft.
Also. on September 81, 1918, the
Wittpenn forces inserted an advertise
ment in the Jersey Journal headed:
THE New County Jail and the Kinkead
Rattleheads." The residents of Hud-
son County are well acquainted with
the fact that all kinds of graft Il
tons were made in connection with
the projected building of the new Hud-
son County jail arranged for by a
Kinkead Board of Freeholders. This
advertisement calls attention to a
''howl' made by the Kinkead faction
about this graft when. as Il matter OF
fact, Kinkead people themselves were
responsible. Yet now" the advertise
ment goes on. ''at this late day, come
the Rattleheads with their calamity
howl about the new jail. Could any
thing be more dishonest, more con-
temptible? Was eve an effort to de
ceive voters more stupid? In the an
nails of Hudson politics was trickery
so cheap and puerile ever before re-
sorted to? The Rattleheads stand con
victed of falsehood and mean %chicanery
by the official records they themselves
have made. Mr.. Taxpayer. do you
want these Rattleheads and Deceivers
the same old crowd that squandered
your money on the Court House job
to build the new County jailF'
lotto, how you must despise your
SELF" says the genial Mr.. Kinkead to
Mr.. Wittpenn i'll the Jersey Journal of
September %, 1915. You make your
self ridiculous every time you say VIII
son. That's all you know how to say,
not being able to support yourself,
politically. If Wilson thought so much
of you, why did he write his amous
letter to James F. Fielder In 1913?
Why doesn't he come out for you for
Governor in 1916? Why doesn't he
kick Garrison out of his cabinet and
put YOU in his place-and give Garri-
son the Naval officer job? What do
you do for Il living, anyhow, Otto?
What does the Naval Office have TO