The Mount Holly news. [volume] (Mount Holly, Burlington Co., N.J.) 1891-1942, 1919-09-23
Political Notes

| When it comes to getting up
''peerade" Rube Ross has it all owe
the young lady across the way.
Honestly now, if you have to have {
leader, or to put it more plainly-s
"boss" would you rather serve
under, Harry knight or Charley Fol
we'll?
An advertisement says: "Materlinck
the Belgian author, has written g
famous book entitled Our friend-ths
dog In it he makes. the dog almost
human in everything but talking" A
hasty glance at the advance sheets
fails to show that he refers to the lap.
dog especially.
| The Mirror was late getting to press
on Wednesday. The first page of the
paper was loaded to the brim with
political stuff attacking nearly every.
body whose views did not coincide with
those of the editor, and the weight was
SO heavy that the form bulged right
out in the middle and had to be reset
In order to get the paper printed.
What shame that Governor Run
yon could not have had some other
man at the head of his ''peerade". Two
men from neighboring town remark
ed on Saturday evening: Charley
Folwell has passed US hundred times
and never even looked at US but on
Thursday he nearly shook our hands
off," One day in the year for politics,
the balance for aristocratic demeanor
Vote at the primary election today.
This is your duty. 1t is your chance
to get the men OF your choice on the
ticket to be supported in November
Do it now and then you will not have
occasion to find fault with the nomin-
atoms that may be made. Even if the
candidates you vote for do not get
chosen you will have the satisfaction
of knowing that you did your duty in
trying to have them placed on the
ticket. 1t has been shown more than
once that one vote is very important.
State Comptroller Newton A. K
Bugbee leads the Republican candi-
dates for the nomination for Governor
in expenses, according to the accounts
filed with Secretary of State Martin.
His primary expenditures totaled $2l,-
1893. Governor William N. Runyon is
second, with $14, 6Se.SS; Warren C.
King, third, $l3,OO2.96, Thomas L.
Raymond, fourth, $685.. Mr.. Bug.
bee contributed sl7,s00 personally to
his fundi King. $4,000; Raymond.
$1,000, while Runyon did not con-
sTihuts anything. The New Jersey
anti-6aloon League contributed s5, 25l..
IS 10 Governor Runyon's fund and
Mrs, Lillian F. Feickert. as chairman
of the New Jersey Suffrage Association,
$4,000.
One Of the last card" sensations is
q statement that Governor Runyon
has ordered the Public Utility Com
to show cause after
primary day and before the
seventh Of October why they should
not be removed from Office. II they
should be ousted that would give Gov
ernor Runyon a chance to appoint
men OF his own selection. 1t has been
that Comptroller Bugbee has
been playing peanut politics" but If
there is anything that can compare
with the latest move OF Governor Run
yon it is still to be pointed out. Right
on the eve of the primary election this
action is one Of the greatest bids for
support at the polls ever made. 1t is
all nonsense to say that it is for the
"dear people,. 1t is q political move,
absolutely without any strings to it
and it is being received for just what it
is.
There was "peerade" on Thursday
and it was not headed by Reuben
Ross, or members of the Hog COM
bine." 1t was Charley Folwell's own
''peerade' and it was a dandy. The
was to take Governor Run
yon around the county on tour.
The start was made from Mount Holly,
and there were six automobiles in the
"peerade." In one of them was the
new hog and he had bugler
along, but why that was necessary is
not known as he is able to blow his
own horn. The ''peerade" went over
the route set up but the crowds" that
were expected did not naterialize.
The weather was quite cold and there
was heavy frost the next morning.
The Governor spoke at the court house
in the evening to an audience of about
100. Instead Of taking him into the
he was compelled to talk
from the steps and the light was so
dim that his audience was not able to
See him well, but they could hear him
talk and that he is a postmaster at
that is not to be denied.
Knowing that the fight is getting
to serious point the friends of Rich
ard P. Hughes are making a desperate
effort to secure support for him in the
contest against James Mercer Davis
for member of the State Demo-
cratic committee. The Herald in
q very happy frame of mind
writes that under all kinds of
conditions, through successes and fail
ures, calm and storm, Mr.. Hughes has
been Democrat, a faith
full and tireless worker" and so forth
and so on. That Dick has been con-
sistent Democrat is sure. When on
the Board of Taxation with the writer
he knew politics wherever there was a
chance to work 1t in, He was so con
that he could not stand for
our reappointment and had Jim Field
ing withdraw the nomination after it
had been sent to the Senate, stating at
the time that it was only on political
grounds that he acted. Dick Hughes
may be the kind OF man that some
Democrats want to see at the head of
the heap, but our observation is that
he is of more account in a minor ca
pacity.