The Mount Holly news., 1919-10-21
Political Printers

Our friends of the Herald have Gel
tainly awakened and are putting out
real political paper. They have every
body from Senator Edwards to th
Democratic members of the Board Q
Freeholders ready to be sworn in
There is not any fault to be found will
the enthusiastic campaign being car
ried on, in fact it is good thing for i
will show the Republicans that there il
need of being up and doing. There il
not any use in lying back and saying
that because our party has such q
large majority there is not any need tc
be worried. Large majorities have
been overcome and while we do not be-
lieve there is any real danger in the
present issue it is just as we'll for every
body to be on the alert
Worse things could happen" than
keeping Lawrence Mingin in the clerk S
Office, says one paper, and that is yerv
true. To put Lawrence Mingin out
and to put Dick Hughes in as deputy
would certainly be much worse. The
Bordentown Register thinks that there
should be ahousecleaning in the clerk S
Office, but thinks Democrat is better
fitted to do the work than a Republi-
can is. 1t has been intimated that in
the event of the election of Billy Alb
salon, Dick Hughes will be the
deputy. Dick says he would not have
the place. He says the office is so dirty
he would not accept position in it.
Frankly we must say that we never
knew Dick to be afraid of dirt.
The shades of (K) night still seem to
be falling and it appears to be impos-
sible for some people to forget that
such person as the former county
clerk still lives. At present the fear
seems to be that knight will control
the Office of county clerk. That is a
libel on the Republican candidate for
Mr. Reeves has openly stated that he
will not be controlled by any man, al
though there is one young man who is
quietly asserting that he will have
some say on the conduct of the place.
This is all nonsense, of course, for Mr.
Reeves will be the clerk not only in
name but in fact. 1t is about time to
drop all this talk about Knight and
Harris as it is merely done to crafty
spleen and it will do our candidate
more harm than it will do him good
Sometimes man may easily ask to
be delivered from his (supposed)
friends.
A situation has arisen that may
cause some inconvenience to the coun-
ty election boards throughout the
state. The name of Peter Henderson,
with the appellation Embossed Re-
publican" has been placed upon the
tickets. Application has been made
for rule to show cause why the name
should not be left off the tickets. The
reason given for this action is that
evidence is at hand showing that there
are names on the petition that are
forgeries and that Peters name
should never have been given a place.
The rule has been made returnable on
the 28th of October and the law re-
quires that the sample election tickets
must be mailed the next day. Now if
Henderson's name is ordered removed
it means that a new set of tickets will
have to be printed in every county of
the state. The whole thing has the
appearance of a Democratic trick to
raise question or delay that may
benefit that party. 1t will not make
any difference in this county as clerk
Mingin has made arrangements
whereby the tickets will be out on
time no matter what the decision may
be