Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-08-07
THAT PKosrRArE POLE.

It Has Been Lying Flat Since Tuesday Last
In former issue of the INTELLIGENCEI
some account was given of the tribulation'
of the "best workers of the Eighth
ward, and their frantic efforts to erect OF
Manor street, a Garfield pole. They met
with one series of mishaps after another
from the time they started out to hunt the
pole last Tuesday. They were on that day
caught in heavy rain and nearly drown
ed before they got out Of the woods. Next
day, being unable to get Republican
wagon, kind hearted Democrat loaned
them one on which to haul their pole into
town but before reaching the city limits
the pole broke in twain aud had to be
abandoned OH the Mlllersville pike. Then
a committee was sent in search Of a splice
with which to mend and top out the bob
tail stick. In the meantime Mr.. Speidel, the
owner of the wagon, being unwilling to
have it longer exposed to the weather, in
sisted on rcgaining possession of his prop
erty, and the broken pole was tumbled off
by the roadside. Here it was spliced and
another team secured to haul it into town.
Yesterday was the appointed time to Gle.
vatc it, but the faithful were slow in lend
ing helping hand. The more prominent
RAIDS refused to have anything to do with
it, because they had been cheated out Of
their choice of county committeeman,
and they openly said that if Gardner, Sny-
der and company thought themselves able
to run tho Eighth ward, they ought to be
able to put up their own pole. But they
were not able, and so they resolved to call
upon the great bridge builder, Capt. Nc
Mellen. to put it up for them. McMcllen
happened to remember that the return
tinkers and ballot-box suffers of the
Eighth ward had, at the late
primary election, returned more votes
against Tom Davis, his Eavorite candidate
for district attorney, than there were Re-
publican vOte.s in the ward, and SO he
gave them the c.ld shoulder, and like a
sensible man went fishing for cells at Point
or Rocks on The Conestosa. He was per-
suaded, however, for a pecuniary consid-
Grafton, to hire Snyder, Gardner and COM
dollar ahead, and yesterday afternoon a
desperate attempt was made to raise the
slumbcring hickory. Between 3 and
o'clock i'm the afternoon the tackle was got
ready and the word was given that she
would "go up in fifteen minutes" But
it was "nO CO." First
The butt of tho pole
Skinned ont the hole
and went crashing through board fence,
coming within an ace of killing Frederick
Kahl, young man who was assisting at
the "raising." Hundreds of Democratic
boys were looking OH with mingled mirth
and pity, and generously offered to put up
the pole in ten minutes, if Hancock
board was put uponit. This generous offer
was declined and the Garfield squad again
went to work. By main force thoy lifted
tho top of it few feet from tho ground,
but becoming exhausted they let it fall
with thud This kind of work was con-
tinued for several hours; the pole would be
got up few feet from the ground and
then, Gariield-like, it would seek its con-
genial "pavement."
During the afternoon some Democratic
boys of the Ninth ward, who had been out
in the woods looking for a hickory march,
ed past the Garfield stick, having in their
possession splendid pole, which they will
elevate to-day at tho corner of Mulberry
and James streets, just to show that Dem
ocratic boys can do what Republican men
can not.
About o'clock in the evening Mayor
MacGonisle, who had been visiting friends
in the Eighth ward, passed tho PROSTATE
pole and was greeted with loud and long
continued applause,
This morning. Bernard Snyder, a Re-
publican, residing OH Manor street. oppo-
site the place where tho Garfield pole has
not been put up, called upon Mayor Mac
Gonigle and requested him to prevent its
erection as he (Mr. Snyder) is afraid that it
will fall upon and crush his house. The
mayor told Mr.. Snyder that if it was a
Democratic pole and there was any danger
of its falling down hc would see that such
danger was avertcd, but as it is Repub-
lican pole he could not interfere without
subjccting himself to a charge of "politi-
cal persecution" He advised Mr.. Snyder
to see the street commissioner, who would
see that the streets were not unnecessarily
Obstructed or neighborins property ell
dangered.
"Jcsse Nyc, superintendent of
Eighth ward pole raisings," says if the
best workers do not get their
pole raised by 6 p. m. to-day, he will erect
it and put Hancock board on it.
A Garfield pole on the Mannheim turn
pike short distance north Of the city is in
such shaky condition that it cannot stand
alone and SO its nurses have put chain
around it and tied it fast to fence post.
THE AMUSEMENT SEASON.
Plenty Of Good Shows Coming.