The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-06-24
Political Notes

Nugent against candidate Edward:
will have a terrible result if we can be
lieve the words of an item from tn,
Newark call which says: Hence the
launching of sc.yTgflatgydt-nmeenE
esstatesnGt." This is awful but it goes
with heated campaign.
From the Philadelphia Inquirer
Representative Gallivan, Democrat
says 1t would be a Godsend to the
people of the country if President Will.
son would hurry home and clean
house in his official family But how
can the President be expected to devote
his time and attention to the details OF
government in this country while
wholly engrossed and occupied with
the larger affairs of the whole bloom
ing world ?''
1t has been generally understood that
the Republican party had several can
oil dates for the position of Governor,
but from the remarks of Senator Ed
wards and the article published in a
Newark paper, probably inspired, from
its earmarks, by a local gentleman
who has seen red for long time, the
only man in the field is Harry l..
Knight, member of the Public Utility
Commission. In a speech at Phillips
burg, few days ago, Mr.. Edw ards be-
gan to throw mud, having in mind
Mr.. Knight as the target He describ-
ed the latter as one whose only quail
tcation for membership is his ability
to sell railroad tickets over a counter
and to tell the time the trains left
Mount Holly to seashore points," If
there was ever better exhibition of
pothouse politics it has not been re-
corded. Mr.. Edwards also said that
Essex and Hudson counties are with
out representation on the Commission.
Possibly he meant direct representa-
ton, for he is not without knowledge
of the fact that Hudson county has
the office of counsel to the Board in
the person off Democrat, one of former
Governor Jim Fielder's appointments. |
1t may also be said that of the IS in
spectors connected with the Board, 10
of them hail from the counties of Es- |
sex and Hudson. But they do not
count when man has a handful of
mud he wants to sling.
Senator Edwards, in a biography |
published in the Legislative Manual, |
undoubtedly furnished by himself,
gives glowing account of the time of
his life from birth to date. He was not
connected with selling tickets over
the counter" but he went to college
and left at the end of the junior year,
whether voluntarily or by request the
biography does not state. He went in
to bank in Jersey City, but he left
after seven years service and at the
age of % took political position, but
later he went back to the bank. He
served six years as Comptroller of this
state but beyond the laudatory biog-
raphy in the manual, we have never
heard of him doing anything so extra
ordinarily wonderful. The ''life his
tory" says 'In politics, Democrat of
the regular stripe, he has for MANY
years been member of the Hudson
County Democratic Committee and
active in organization work. This
means lot. Everybody of the age OF
understanding knows what the ''regu-
lar stripe" of Democracy in Hudson
county has been and still is to certain
extent, not of the highest type when a
man of the calibre Mr.. Edwards will
want to pose as in his campaign stoops
to the lowness of attacking one partic-
ular man in the Republican party,
picking Burlington county as the
place, when he might have alluded to
what he would do in some other places
in improving some of Jim" Fielder's
But possibly Edwards
is excusable. The weather was warm,
perhaps, when he made the speech,
the first of July was near at hand and
Jim" Nugent had kicked over the
traces. Whatever the cause Edwards
has given full evidence that he is "a
Democrat of the regular Hudson coun-
ty) stripe" Let him employ some of
his political followers to dredge New
ark bay and get full supply of mud
and then throw it at some of former
Governor Edges appointees, while he
puts soft soap over some of Jim Field
er's pets.