The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-12-03
Political Notes.

There has been much said about
what would happen to this country if
President Wilson went abroad. But
why worry? Joe Tumulty is going to
be on the job at Washington.
Just as hostilities had ceased, the
armistice had been signed, and the
best reasons for good Thanksgiving
had been presented, Trenton reporter
must needs send out dispatch which
upset-we were going to say everybody
but that would not be correct, as
there was only one person who seems
to have been terribly affected. The
Trenton writer would have done all
right if he had not mentioned the
name of County Clerk Knight, and
that was like red flag flung into the
face of the editor of the Mirror. 1t
had the usual effect and the young
lady-beg pardon-the young man
across the way, bristled up, every hair
on his head stood on end, and he had
his dyspeptic attack before eating his
Thanksgiving turkey. The article that
has caused SO much wrath was to the
effect that County Clerk Harry l..
knight would like to have" posi-
| ton that pays an annual salary of
81 800. And who would not like to
have such berth? Certainly brother
Folwell would not turn it down, espec-
ially when we remember the frantic
efforts he made to have law deposing
him from a Job in the Assembly de-
| l., ne uynll @ tho
way in which he held on, for nearly
ten years, to a secretaryship that paid
50. 500 a year for working one or two
DAYS a week. 1t was reported that he
was compelled to work more hours OF
get out. He says he voluntarily re-
signed, and no doubt that is correct,
for man with his fine sensibilities
would never want to hold on, without
giving value received, to an office that
had brought him in nearly $25, 900, to
say nothing of the clerkships he had
previously held which paid him many
hundreds OF dollars. But it is Harry
Knight who is being considered now
and that makes all the difference. Al
fusion is made to the tact that the
county clerk has had two terms in his
present Office and that he lis suffering
with office itch in a hopeless stage.
For a man who has scratched the palm
of his hand almost to pieces in trying
to allay "office itch" this is quite
amusing, for nobody was more afflicted
with that ailment than Foiwell, OF thu
Mirror. 1t used to be standing jok'
with some of his former employees tha
the Legislative Manual was pretty wei
worn out at the place where the ap
pointments were recorded, the edito
always being on the alert to see wha
was coming next and where he coult
get in. But the itch was alleyiatet
when it was decided that there must b
more work for the big salary, and tn
disease was completely cured when
lGovernor Edge went into Office, de
spite the frantic efforts OF the S75, OO(
beauty to prevent such an occurrence
But let anything with County Clerl
Knights name attached to it make 1t
appearance and the editor sees red
There is a reason for this. 1t need mo
Ibe given here, but it is rather interest
ling to read the highly laudaLory arti
cles that were printed in the Miro
when Mr.. Knight ran for the secon
term-and which may be reprinte
llater-and the present condition {
the mind of the fellow who then ''sloI
. ped over" to show what an excellen
man and candidate the present officia
lis. We do not know that Harry Knigt
laspires to the position that has bee
mentioned, but If he does all that ca
be said is Ego to it." Should he be S
successful as to land it that would r
move the red flag and would give til
editor OF the Mirror chance to put
, the office of the county clerk a ma
who would suit him better than tt
present incumbent and one who woul
be more subservient to his autocrat
desires. Maybe.