Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24

The Republican primaries of last Satur-
day were not as rough in some parts of the
city as they were last year or year before.
This was due to the fact that the Bull
Ring and Hog Ring lines were not SO
closely drawn, and there seemed to be a
better agreement among the ward leaders
ON the organization and the ticket to be
run. For example, in the First ward
when Sam Croft acquiesced in the Grant
Quay programme peace was easily obtain
able in the Second ward the Smith, Davis
and Mylin people agreed ON an Organiza-
ton in the Third McMellen was so COM
pletely cock of the walk that no bantam
crowed defiance this time; in the Fourth
the Griest, johnson and Mylin men made
common cause; in the Fifth Eberly' s
friends and Reinoehl's agreed on an organ
ization; in the Sixth Marshall, Davis and
Cochran fixed the officers in the Seventh
there was none to dispute Clutch Mil
ler's sway in the Eighth they had Eberly,
Smith and Mylin money to make sure of
uncertain things, and in the Ninth they
got to work without any trouble.
1t was very evident to a locker on at
any ward polls that there was a very ex-
tensive use of money, and that somebody
had contributed largely to a corruption
fund that was being freely disbursed. A
crowd of bummers and lOafers was at
nearly every poll in anticipation of any
difficulty in the organization ; which
having been generally avoided they lin
gered to make stake in the general poll.
Tho First ward window was one Of the
quietest and at the Second and Third the
scene was highly creditable i'll comparison
with the shindies of last year. Sensenig was
busy for Eberly and Mylin; McMellen, it
was soon made plain, had sold out Rel
noehl and Blaine, and was faithfully carry
ing out his part of the bargain with one
branch of the Bull Ring to vote for Mylin,
Quay and Grant if his new friends would
support Davis
In the Fourth ward Pete Fordney made
his fight for Davis; Tom Wiley ran the
Smith machine; Griest was Oh his own
dunghill and SO was johnson; while
Spurrier battled most bitterly against
Reinoehl. The usual rough element of
this ward was promptly OH hand and
"struck" for high prices. There was
not much discrimination in accepting the
votes of all who offered them. A gang of
negroes came over from the Seventh,
voted and were paid off in the shed. Our
reporter met "Dan" on the curb and
asked him what he was waiting for. He
said he had voted before he heard they
were paying, and he had sent friend to
sec if he was not to get his dollar and
a-half. Not less than fifty Democrats
voted at this poll.
In the Eighth, at the time for the
organization, there were about twenty
five voters present from the lower end of
the Fourth ward, and a dozen from the
Fifth, besides some thirty or forty Demo-
Gratis from the Eighth. Lorenz Snyder,
the county committeeman, told the Re-
publicans to stand up and be counted, for
judge, and he declared that majority of
the legal voters present were for Harry
Breneman for judge. The Snyders de-
clared they wouldn't stand that,
and the rest of the company
for Adam Snyder for judge.
He had the power of numbers OH his side
and the farce began with him as judge.
The best workers in the ward had plenty
of money. 1t is said they had 500 to be
spent in behalf of Smith, slOO for
Mylin and $50 for Eberly. A glance at
the voting or at the returns would lead
one to suppose that these estimates were
not too high. Everybody who would vote
could get pay for it. I~o hundred and
votes were polled, though it is
notorious that the utmost possible Repub- |
lican poll in the ward is 40, and of these
not 100 were out on Saturday. 1t is not
believed that half the vote polled in the |
Eighth ward OH Saturday was legal.
In the Seventh ward somewhat the same
order of things prevailed, though the pro-
portion of the illegal vote was not so large.
Bill Dean, who has for months been john
;on's fugleman, saved him little from the
wreck and made ungrateful compensation
or Johnson's untiring but vain work in
he bogus contest of John Merringer's
election for constable. The ward was car
led by money for Quay, but the best
workers. couldn't go Grant and SO the sur
,rising result was brought out of Quay
md Blaine running strongly together. In
he evening Bill Dean and Butch'' Mil
er had fight and Dean carries black
ye.
In the Sixth ward there was a free bar
or the bummers and a long purse. The
oters were bought shamelessly on the
urbstone for Davis, Smith and Mylin.
hey commanded from so cents to 80 per
ead, and were voted regardless of age,
color or party. Grant was a
avorite in this ward also.
In the Ninth it was pretty rough and to-
7ard evening big fight set in between
Chuck Boas and a young fellow named
)ommell. The battle ragged all through the
arroom and down the back yard. The :
olice stopped it and landed some of the ,
ombatants in the lookup. In this ward
nd the Fifth the Reinoehl men stood up S
D their work and when the returns came {
on this contest John l. Hartman and Ed. {
[artin were about the only men who
,uld show clean score. S
The Returns. .
Many persons hung around the square i
nd the streets from to 12 o'clock on Sat q
rday night to hear the news, and the Err $
miner and Neu Era Offices, the County +
Duse and the Exchange hotel were the q