Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1919-12-13

AT the last regular meeting of the
Palisade Improvement Association the
following resolutions were passed:
Whereas, The term of Edward A.
White as mayor of the borough of Fort
Lee is about to expire and that of
George Hill is about to begin, it is fit
ting that this association should give
expression to its high opinion of them
as officials and as citizens therefore
be it
Resolved, That the Palisade I'm
provement Association, voicing, as it
believes, the sentiment of a very great
majority of the residents of the bOr-
ough, hereby extends it's congratula-
lions to Mayor White on the success
of his administration. During the six
years he has been in office he has been
uniformly kind and considerate in his
relations with the people of Palisade
and of the entire borough and has
sought to deal fairly and justly with
them. The thought, care and ability
he has shown in the management of
municipal affairs have won our adj
miration, and we have come to regard
him not only as an official, but as a
personal friend. We wish for him as
he retires to private life success and
happiness in their highest form.
Resolved, That in Mayor Elect Hill
we recognize d man no less devoted
to the interests of the community than
Mayor White For him also we cher
ish the warmest feeling of personal
friendship and express the hope that
he may have the fullest measure of
success in official and private life We
hereby pledge him our hearty support
and sympathy in all efforts that are
for the benefit of the borough and that
tend to aid in municipal development.
Resolved, That to the members of
the council, both old and new, and to
all the other officials of the borough
we express our warm appreciation of
their unselfish devotion to public duty
and extend to them our best wishes.
"Resolved, That a copy of these res
olutions be sent to the mayor and
council, with the request that they be
spread on the minutes of their meet
ings."
What is one to think of passing such
a set of resolutions about a man who
has had as many doubtful distinctions
as he has? Did he not play himself,
body and soul, to the saloon keepers of
the borough?
Didn't he stop the one regenerating
thing that would have aided honest
assessments in the borough, the equal
ization plan of the Borough Club?
Did he not stand idly by and see
the Allison Land Company appeal on
its assessment of $136,500 and find
Member Conklin of the County Tax
Board write on the decision, Reduced
to $4,000, Assessor Cavanaugh con-
CURING" regardless of the fact that
he was forced to take this particular
case of maladministration of borough
affairs before the state board because
public sentiment was against him and
forced him to do so?
Didn't he stand idly by and see the
Sanford Ross property assessed for
$4,000 and $4,000 for many, many
years when the Borough Club wanted
it taxed on a basis of $4,000? And
did not this very same property sell
for 100000 outright right after the
tax was paid on it two years or more
ago?
The character of his politics was
never better illustrated, either, than
when, beaten in his race the last time
he ran, he made solemn pledge to put
commission government before the
people and broke his word outright aft
er agreeing the second time to do so
sin the spring" because the barrooms
would not let him. At whose behest?
Was it the saloons?
And when the State Board of Health
ordered all saloons and churches
closed in a decimating epidemic of in
fiuenza, didn't he allow the saloons to
open anyhow, whether or no, until
the State Board of Health in per-
emptory telegraphic order to close
them under penalty of the law made
him do it?
Let any man stand forth and deny
these facts.
And this is not bringing in his nu-
merous public Endorsements of the