Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1855-06-01
The Poor Tax-PaVerS! !

great commiseration expressed for th'
poor taxpayers of Union County. The
professional regulations Of three of the
greatest lawyers Of the Metropolis wa:
pledged, that the Lewisburg and Selins
grove bonds wero "entirely worthless ID
law" that if the County was divided,
the poor taxpayers would have to buy
the ground, and build the buildings, (the
Jail at Lewisburg to cost S6l, 900, ac-
cording to Mr.. VS. speech in Hartley y
Snyder County would have to pay ST.
600 to transcribe the records and hun
dreds of similar falsehGods were published,
verbally, and in handbills distributed
through the county, which no doubt, in
duced many honest voters to vote dife-
rently from what they would, had not
such misrepresentation been circulated.
Well, the election CAME and passed
over and notwithstanding these false
hoods AMI promises (and among the rest
one man promised the good Middlcburg
folks that if they would give unanimous
vote against division, if they would be
so unfortunate as that division would
carry, ho would give $1,000 to build
the County Buildings in Middleburg, but
as there were II who had the hardihood
to vote for division it was sufficient ex-
cuse for his subscribing 500 instead Of
$4,000 majority of the voters decided
in favor of division. Lewisburg and
Selinsgrove Gas well as other places ex-
ecuted the bonds in conformity with their
promises, which have been approved of
by the Court and published, putting the
lie on all the assertions of the Metro
politans to the contrary.
The people are satisfied: not SO with
the slab-walled Metropolis. Some thirty
Of them came before the Court of Quar-
ter Sessions on the 10th May, and, rep
resen.ing themselves as hepcQplc Of Union
County, accuse the officers of the election
boards with holding fraudulent election
and making false returns, and ask the Court
to permit them to contest the election.
The Court, instead of ruling the petition
out as being presented too late and not
in the proper Court, as they should and
would have done if they had given the
election laws proper construction, made
IN order to hold an adjourned court on
The 10Th June, Ito the great joy Of the
landlords of the Metropolis directed the
'rdcr to be published in three newspapers
If the county, containing the charges and
'peci6eations Of fraud, and subpGnas with
1uas tccum to issue. In all this, not
1ord is heard in behalf of the poor lax
,ayers! who will have to foot the bill 4.
The advcrtizing and subpening of wit
lcsses will cost hundreds of dollars, and
the Court should decide, on the ap-
'earance OF the voters, mot the "person"
lected according to the law of contested
lections) to 60 into an investigation
sked by the Metropolitans, thousands
Till not excuse the poor taxpayers.
After the adoption Of the Reformed
Constitution, in 1889, the Legislature in
onformity with tho provisions thereof
assed an act on the I'd July 1889, Greg.
la.ing the elections Of the Common
7ealth." This act provides for the elec-
ion of Congressman, Electors Of President,
Governor, L. S. Senators, State Treasurer,
nd toenship officers; but 10 County
ficcr is authorized to be elected under
nat act This act vests in the Court of
quarter Sessions the power to try the
ontestcd election Of townshp officers
lected under that act. On the same
lay the Legislature passed an act for the
lection of County officers. On the Sd
LAY, 1850, they passed an act authorizing
he election of District Attornies. BY
hcse acts for the election of County Off
ers Gin October, and not in March, the
'ower to contest their election is vested in
he Court of Common Pleas, upon Pc
ition being filed with certain requisites
-ithin ten days after tie election. The act
rccting Snyder county provides that the
lection therein provided for shall "be sub
cct to like trial and examination as is
'rovidcd for in case Of a contested elec-
ion for any County office under the general
lection laws of this Commonwealth" In
Judge Parsons reports Of the Philadel-
hia contested election cases, it is decided
hat the election laws Of Pennsylvania are
o be construed in pari materia-the
Fhole as one act-unqucstionably reIuir-
ng the petition to be filed in the Common
'yels within ten days after the election,
nd notice sent to the Secretary Of State
r Governor of the filing, so as to prevent
he charter of the new county being issued
i'll the contested election was determi-
ed. In the Uuion county ease, Gas far.'as
vidence has appeared,) no petition was
led, and no notice sent; the enrolernent
Ak was paid, the charter issued, Bonds
nd Subscriptions approved Of by the
'curt for the erection of the County Build
ngs, and the County division line run by