The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1918-03-05

there had not been criticism OF Cover
nor Edges appointment of Hon. David
Baird to be United States Senator.
While there has been general satisfac-
ton expressed In the state, there are
those outside Of the limits of New Jer-
ssy who seem to think 1t Ia their duty
sin the interests Of good government"
to csnsure Governor Edge and to ridi-
Guile Mr.. Baird. One Of the harshest
criticisms comes from the pen OF David
Lawrence who wrote long letter to
the New York Evening Post. He
heaps Goals Of fire on the head OF the
Governor, telling OF the latter's dream
Of future preferment and condemning
the methods used to further that end.
The Governor thought it necessary to
answer the remarks, and gave some
pretty sharp statements. especially
when he compared the actions OF DEM
ocratic Senators who are attempting to
thwart the desires of President Wilson
with what may be expected OF Senator
Baird The latter has pledged himself
to stand by the President and David
Baird has never been known to repudi- |
ate pledge, In his letter Mr.. Law
renee refers to President Wilson as "a
college professor, a man unframed in
politics, but with personality that
seemed to ring true" The writer over
looked the fact that this man, ''un-
trained in politics" served his state |
~ Governor little over two years to
become President or the United States. |
"Untrained In politics" he might have
been when he took the Gubernatorial
chair, but nobody will deny he went
into training at once and is now &C
knowlsdgsd to be the shrewdest politi-
cian in the United States. Mr.. Law
renee also points to the fight for Gov
ernor when power was taken out OF
the hands Of the bosses and given to
liberal and progressive spokesman,
but he fails to recall when there was
recoil. Governor Wilson, who seemed
to have had that dream Of upward
journey in the political world" which
the writer attributes to Governor Edge,
and who willingly gave up the ''reins
Of government" in the state before his
term expired. made the way for Jim"
Fielder to become Governor, but with
1.-THE power taken out Of the hands of
the bosses" and put back in the con
troll Of the people. Fielder was not able
to get the big vote that had been CIV
en- his predecessor. Wilson had
plurality Of $4,000. while Fielder fell
short about 1900. Evidently the
Democratic bosses were losing their
grip or the Republican bosses were re-
gaining theirs. And all this in the
Presidents own state, which had be-
come to be regarded as a progressive
state, says the writer. 1t certainly is
. progressive state and the people
showed what they though of the
Democratic rule under Wilson and
Fielder, when. in 1916, they turned
over all the big vote given to those two
men and elected Walter E. Edge Gov
srnor by the handsome plurality of
IS, 647 More than that. In 1912 New
Jersey. 'ths progressive state" gave
President Wilson plurality OF 80, $40,
and four years later 1t wiped out that
record and gave his opponent 1894.
Mr.. Lawrence, in his caustic letter,
says: "But right in front OF our own
noses-in President Wilson, own state,
New Jersey-something has happened
which signifies swingback, a retro
erosion, q return to reactionarism and
the rule Of the few, to bossisms and all
the obnoxious practices which were
repudiatsd by the people when they
slectsd Woodrow Wilson Governor in
1910" In this the writer is wofulIy
The people came to
their senses when, after Woodrow
Wilson was elected In 1910. they began
10 zee their mistakes and after term
81 "Jim" Fielder, put In the man who /
has Administered the affairs of the /
Dtate In manner that has won him
praise from all quarters except where
there have been some on the outside
Who have not felt satisfied with his
asst move. Mr.. Lawrence says: mo
,ody at the White House-nsither
President Wilson nor Secretary Tum-
llty-made any comment" Why q
hen has the correspondent of the New
York paper, with headquarters in !.
felt called upon to make r
UGH scathing indictment OF our Gov a
rnor? We do not wonder that Joe a
kept his mouth closed. He n
Vrote letter not long since, and the
nswer sent by Governor Edge has EVIL s.
emily made Joseph feel like keeping a G.
title shady. The present Governor e
nay be q candidate for the Senatorial
pat. Whether he will be elected is a =
uestion that will be settled by the :,
eople of New Jersey who have shown q
heir ability in the past to take care OF
heir own affairs without any sugges. N
ons from Washington correspondents =,
New York papers, or from any Of the H
'emocratic residents of the National or
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