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Political Pot Boiling Hard
lively Campaign Under Way
(Continued from Page 1)
long ago if the move were really
intended for the public welfare?
It was just as undiplomatic an
action as the “turning down ” of
Amor W. Brehman, ex-Mayor of
Ventnor, who was willing to
stand for the Assembly last fall
and had the hacking of the best
element in Atlantic County.
This action on the part of Mr.
Johnson was the real cause of
giving birth to the Clean Govern
ment League. It is a positive
fact that if Mr. Brehman had
been nominated, Mama S. Poul
son would never have run for the
Assembly and there probably
would never have been a Clean
Government League on Absecon
Island.
On this subject I will have
something more to write some
day which I think will prove very
interesting reading matter.
At all events Johnson seems to
have lost his finesse and just at
this minute it seems as if he is
being outgeneralled by Congress
man Baeharach, who undoubtedly
is quietly conducting his broth
er’s campaign and who is a mas
ter of the art, for he regulates
things with statesman-like diplo
macy, while Johnson tries to push
through by force, availing him
self of the power he has over the
men that are holding office and
want to continue to hold office.
This poor generaismp is dam
aging Bader, whose popularity is
becoming more apparent every
day and who would sweep the
city if he were free of the John
son toils. t
More and more men openly be
moan Bader’s subserviency to the
Johnson organization. / Many
clean-minded men who strongly
disapprove of the Johnson meth
ods, but who favor Bader person
ally, comfort themselves with the
fact that after the election Bader
will swing clear of the Jdhnson
faction. It is of course, difficult
to conceive how this is possible,
but it is the only argument at the
disposal of those Baderites, who
are at the same time Anti-John
son men.
Kuehnle’s cause has been
weakened and Kuehnle would
have been much shrewder if he
had refused to vote on the jitney
and Schmeidler questions, for
now Kuehnle is considered a
Johnson man sailing under false
colors. Kuehnle has had so many
friends and sympathizers that
verily I believe he could even
have won on the straight Johnson
ticket on the ground that he
probably would continue the next
four years as he has in the last
four years, during which time he
made a splendid record. But now
they say he is neither fish nor
fowl running on an independent
ticket voting with the Johnson
side. So it looks just at this
minute as if he has lost many of
his adherents and may not have
such a walkover after all.
me uiean uovernmeni
League, which has acquired a
great deal of strength is having
a kind of an internal dissension
for many of its members believe
that a half a loaf is better than
no loaf and that anything that
declares itself anti-Johnson
should be supported and en
dorsed by the League.
On the other hand, the dissent
ing elemerft thinks that both
tickets lack ideal candidates that
would truly represent the senti
ments of the Clean Government
League.
The whole Clean Government
League, however, was united as
far as Samuel P. Leeds was con
cerned and they wanted him as
an independent candidate for
Mayor, and great pressure was
brought to bear upon the Presi
dent of tile Chamber of Com
merce to run, but Samuel P.
Leeds showed good bard horse
sense in his declination and, as I
predicted in these columns,
turned a deaf ear to the over
tures of bis many friends and
prefers to retain his presidency
in the Chamber of Commerce,
where his civic activities are of
untold value to the community
and where his power is almost as
great as that of the Mayor of the
city.
Basing the calculations on the
voters of last November the
Clean Government League can be
figured on for the support of
about twenty per cent, of the
electorate of Atlantic City and
while this support is extremely
valuable, as a balance of power
it is completely futile as far as
trying to elect any specific can
didate. In other words if Bach- j
arach and Bader were to run j
about even the twenty per cent,
vote controlled by the Clean
Government League could elect
either man that the league de
cided to endorse, but the league
itself would be absolutely power
less to elect a man of its own
choice. ~
Bo it win 'De round m the end
that the Clean Government
League will throw its influence in
favor of the anti-Johnsonites, for
they could not consistently do
anything else. The only candi
date that has met with the un
qualified approval of the dean
Government League is Walter J.
Buzby and the league would like
to have an entire ticket of noth
ing ^but Buzbys, which is a Utopia
that can not be reached in Atlan
tic City at this time.
It will be found that when the
anti-Johnson platform appears it
will practically endorse the Clean
Government principles which
merely demand that there should
be no protected vice and an un
tarnished administration with
fair and just law enforcement.
me (jiean uoverinent
League, as I understand it, has
absolutely no intention or idea
of trying to revolutionize the re
sort or doing the slightest thing
that would prove of detriment to
resort enterprises. This they
have declared time and time
again both in print and by word
of mouth and this being the case
no great hardship will be in-,
volved in the endorsement of
these principles by the anti
Johnson forces.
Harry Bacharach is undoubt
edly gaining in strength. The
very few speeches he has so far
made have been convincing. He
stands on an unsoiled record and
points with pride to a four years
administration which was not be
smirched with graft and irregu
larities. He is not throwing any
mud, but he is trying to reason
with the voters and teach them
the desirability of a broad, lib
eral government with just enough
elasticity to stay free of protect
ed vice and underworld compli
cations.
The fact that Walter J. Buzby
has consented to run on the same
ticket with him is of tremendous
value to the intrepid Harry, for
the average voter reasons that a
man of Mr. Buzby’s high stand
ing, seeking neither self aggran
dizement nor pecuniary gain and
having at heart only the welfare
of the community would not be
likely to be the running mate of
any man unless he felt absolutely
convinced that he was on the bet
ter and the right side of the ques
tion. Mr. Buzby, like every other
thinking man does not concede
that there has been any break in
the Republican party of At
lantic County. The Republican
Organization as an organization
representing Republican prin
ciples stands as a rock and there
is no question involved that
would affect the Republicanism of
any voter be he Johnson or anti
Johnson.
There is only -a question of
leadership to be decided and this
can be illustrated in no better
way than in the homely language
Df one of our seafaring men who
said the other night:
“We’re all Republicans. We
don’t doubt the safety of the Re
publican ship, but boys, if we
were all going on a big long voy
ige and the ship had a captain
hat we thought was unsafe,
:ould any of us be blamed for
wanting to substitute that man
with a captain that we all posi
;ively knew was a safe and true
navigator and didn’t take any
chances of going near reefs or
into shallow waters that might
wreck the ship?
“That’s just what we are doing
in Atlantic County. We’re all
good Republicans, but a good
many of us believe that the ship’s
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The last minute activities of the
local Democratic organization
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further interesting elements into
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the field, especially if men of the
calibre of Judge Cole should be
entered in the race.
Pair Of Spectacles
Uncovers Gem Theft
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learned that the girl had fled to
Camden in a taxi.
The Camden police were wired
and the girl was nabbed as the
taxi approached the ferry. She
was held for Detectives Casey and
Bunting of the Atlantic City
Bureau and was brought, with
Ballard, to Ventnor. The rings
had been sold for $75.
Arraigned before Magistrate
Paxon in the Ventnor court, the
girl was charged with grand
larceny, and the man with receiv
ing stolen goods and conspiracy.
Bail was fixed at $1,500 each and
they are being held for the grand
jury.
Father Of Ventnor
Health Officer Dies
J. Cooper Rulon, 71,• father of
Walter J. Rulon, Ventnor City
Health Officer, succumbed Mon
day to an acute attack of heart
disease at his residence in Pit
man Grove, N. J., following a
short illness.
Mr. Rulon was well known in
Atlantic City, Ventnor and the
surrounding country .having been
established in business in Pit
man Grove for many years. He is
survived by two sons, Walter and
Harry, and a daughter, Mrs.
Lester Ostinder, of Camden.
Funeral services will held tomor
row at 10 A. M. from the Pitman
Grove residence, Broadway and
Hollywood Avenues.
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and adults are urged to aid in the
co-operative movement to con
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spreading of the rules of kind
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