Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-07-28
LETTER FROM MERCER.
-, MERCER COUNTY, Pa, }
July 18th, 1880. J
Hon. John Ell NeqIev -

best selection you could have made.
He will be most cordially supported
by all the voters of the Republican
party in this County who desired to
have our Congressional district rep
resented once more by an able, honest
man, who would not be influenced by
the corrupt dynasty, known as the
Cameron ring, that has long dis
graced the State by its methods and
management.
Do not permit Mr. McJunkin to
make any compromise with Miller or
Dick by which his name would be
withdrawn, for he will get the support
of all the honest Republicans of the
district, let the result be what it may.
And if Miller and Dick should still
persist in placing one or the other in
the field they will be responsible for the
loss of Republican member from this
district if Mr.. McJunkin should there
by be defeated.
Yours Respectfully, ***.
The above letter is from one of the
oldest and most highly respected Re-
publicans of Mercer county, one whom
the Republicans of that county have
honored and trusted in the past with
positions of the highest responsibility.
1t is but one of the many evidences
coming to our knowledge as to how
Mr.. McJunkin's nomination is received
in Mercer county, and we speak know
ingly when we state that he will re-
ceive large Republican vote in that
county in November. In Crawford
county, as against Dick or Miller, if
either of them should be put into the
field against him, we also speak
knowingly, and what we have every
reason to believe as true when we say
that Mr. McJunkin will have more
than the half Of the Republican vote Of
that county in November In this,
Butler county, there is in truth and
in fact no dissatisfaction with his NOM
ination among the great mass of the
party and we do not believe there are
hundred Republicans in the county
who would refuse to support him. All
the opposition to him comes from a few
men here in Butler and which is made
from personal motives alone. Being an
honest man he would not answer their
purpose, and hence the hostility of Nc
Candless, Robinson & Co., to him here.
1t remains to be seen what their bolt
ing and detection can accomplish:
GEN. PURvIANoE contributes the fol-
lowing to the press of this county
which Is of interest at the present
time, when taken in connection with
the recent Census of this county and
certain provisions of the New Consti-
tuition of this State:
/ am frequently asked the question
lately whether we are entitled to AS.
sociate Judges if our county shall con-
stitute a separate Judicial district.
The question is raised under the last
of tie inhabitants, under
the 5th Section of the Judiciary Article
of the Constitution The provision by
this Section is "that whenever a
county shall contain forty thousand in
habitants it shall constitute a separate
judicial district, and shall elect one
Judge learned in the law and the Gem
eral Assembly shall provide for addi-
tional judges, as the business of the
said districts may require.-Counties
containing population less than is
sufficient to constitute separate dis
tricts shall be formed into convenient
single districts, or, if necessary, may
be attached to contiguous districts as
the General Assembly may provide.
The office of Associate Judge, not
learned in the law, is abolished in
counties forming separate districts, but
the several associate judges in office
when the Constitution shall be
adopted shall serve for their uneXpired
terms.
1t is provided by the schedule, Sec
tion IA, that ''the General Assembly
shall, at the next succeeding session
after each decennial census, and not
oftner, designate the several judicial
districts, as required by this Constitu-
ton"
1t is further provided by the sched-
ule, 18th Section, that Associate
Judges not learned in law, elected
after the adoption of this Constitution,
shall be commissioned to hold their
offices for the term of five years from
the first day of January next after
their election"
And it is further provided by the
25th Section of the schedule that "All
persons in Office in this Commonwealth,
at the time of the adoption of this
Constitution and at the first election
under it, shall hold their respective Of
fees until the term for which they
have been elected, or appointed, shall
expire, and until their successors shall
be duly qualified, unless otherwise
provided in this Constitution"
The population of Butler county ac-
cording to the returns of the enumera-
tors is about l,792 This then is one
of the counties to which the Constitu-
tional requirement applies, and is de-
clared by the Constitution to be sep
arate judicial district; though declara-
tory legislation may be necessary to
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of Lawrence county. But
no legislation can make it otherwise
than a separate district unless the pro-
vision in the 5th Section, relating to
counties containing population less
than forty thousand may attach it
to contiguous districts.-may apply as
to the counties situated as is the
counties of Butler, Mercer, ETC.,
each containing population of over
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