The Penn's Grove record., 1917-01-26
THE FATTED CALF KILLED
Gov. Edge Sets Progressives At
The Head of The Table

Governor Edge last Monday night
Killed the fatted calf and set the Pro-
gressive prodigals at the head of the
table when he sent into the Senate the
re-appointments of Frank b. Jess. of
Camden, and Frederic A.. Gentieu, of
Penns Grove, to be members of the State
Board of Faxes and Assessments. Five
years ago these strayed from the ortho-
dox Republican faith, became near
Democrats and were appointed minority
members on the State Board by Cover
nor Woodrow Wilson.
The boys who had always attended the
calves had many pulls from the politi-
cal teat and enjoyed the butterfats con-
sidered them as prodigals and scuttlers
of the party. To see them now set at
the head of the table is disheartening
to old faithful boys who tended the cows.
watered and gave calves meal when there
were no others to do it. Where does
the parable of the good and faithful SER
want come in?
Squire Smith. of Salem, who knows
what it is to be in the public fold for
many years, and has been a stray sheen
on the mountain. bleak and cold, the
past few years, says it would be politi-
cal suicide not to appoint Mr.. Gentieu.
If the old rams are to be restored to the
head of the feed box. why will the young
sheep continue in the fold? May not
some feel like s~traying to new progress
sive pastures and skip over the fence if
there be a tuft of sweet grass on a Dem
ocratic hillock? Why not play the game
as others have and be welcomed back to
the head of the table.
Squire Smith and the Salem contin-
gent walked behind the Penns Grove roy
al guards at the inaugural, thereby adj
hitting that the political capitol of Sa-
lem county is now in Penns Grove. Last
Monday when the trolley line started
many other politicians in Salem began
their journey to Penns Grove. 1t will
not be many years before they will be
bringing the county buildings with them.
Senator Gaunt, who was once an I'M
reasonable s~tand-patter, now admits
there may have been good reasons for
the Progressives %straying. He believes
they only made a Democratic incursion,
because a steer of whole years growth
was given to the boys after. their re-
turn. Senator Allen also has the same
belief, because he got a rich juicy steak
for the boys in Frogtown. If the South
ern Democrats continue to control Con-
gress and a Southern Democrat contin-
ues to be President, will not all the
black men in Frogtown and Bushtown be
deprived of their vote and probably be
put back ito slavery? Boys, you must
continue to vote for Abe Lincoln. even
though he told Judge Douglas he did not
favor giving the black man a vote.
Moo! Bringing back a Democratic
steer! Was there an ox-roast where
all could get a piece in a Democratic
way? Is riding in palace cars and din
ing exclusively in a Philadelphia roof
garden, with cabaret entertainment,
democratic? Where is the veal for the
boys who fed and watered the calf and
got no invitations to the feast?
We heard a standIpat leader say:
IAN employee of a big corporation
should not be on the Board of highest
resort to decide tax values" Was not
the campaign run on the issue of bust
ness efficiency by and for big business?
Does not to the victor belong the
spoils? Such ideas as our stand-pat
friend has discovered if allowed to run
riot, will create political hari kari. They
are populistic and made the people in
bleeding Kansas and Nebraska" forget
all about Abe Lincoln, a protective tar
if and a gold standard twenty years
ago. He must nave read the last mes
sage of Governor Hiram Johnson to the
California Legislature in the North
American, January 18th. on how corpora
ton rule was abolished there.
1t is a long political lane that has
no turn.
The old Republican ~war-horse, George
Stanton, who kept the faith and fought
the battles in a Democratic township for
many years without reward, said: you
must not take American politics in a
serious, personal way, but play the game
as you would baseball or football.
Whether you win or lose, continue to be
friends"
Our fellow progressive townsman, Mr..
Gentieu, is to be congratulated on get
ting the disappointment. After making
such a big battle in which he fed the
palate and the editor of the Record fed
the head, both to the best of their abil-
ity. who is more deserving than he?
The boys enjoyed the grand parades,
the entertainments and the feasts. If
last years Democratic salary furnished
a royal feast why should not this years
Republican salary furnish a Democratic
oX-roaSt?
We are all good, patriotic citizens,
only differing in methods as to govern
for the public good.