Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-26
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE REPUBLICAN SHINDY.
THE COUNT PROCEEDED WITH.
Jake Prices Spirited Interruptions.

jake Prices Spirited Interruptions. [
Davis Declared the Republican Candidate
tor District Attorney.
Some time during yesterdays session Of
the Republican return judges meeting the
president was found. Meantime the count
was proceeded with. District after dis
trict was read and recorded. The tiresome
of the reading Of the long
columns Of figures was happily broken by
the spirited remarks of Jake Price, who was
almost constantly on his feet from the
commencement to the close of the session.
Our limited space, and the restrictive law
against the publication of obscene itera-
ture, precludes the possibility of reproduce
ing Mr.. Prices remarks in full. Suffice it
to say, he was all eye, all ear, all tongue,
and all muscle, and having read and ap-
proved the Jeffersonian maxim that ''eter-
nal vigilance is the price of liberty, he
appointed himself an eternal vigilance
committee of one to watch Jack Fry, Sam
Croft, Al. Edwards, Thad. Dickey and
the entire election board. He suspected
all of them of being dash
dashed frauds, and he might be blank
blankcd if he didn't keep an eye on all of
them At every movement made by any
one of them, he would cry out, 'fm a
watching of you-drop that paper-what
are you sticking in your pocket there ?
Mr. President, move this convention is
fraud. and want the motion brought III
front of the house. Fry, how much did
you get for sellin' us outo There you 90
again, changiu' more figures. If you do
that again may l be blank blanked if |
don't jump on the stage and tear all the
dash dashed papers to dash. Doyou hear ?
l move we adjourn for an hour and want
that motion put in front Of the house-its
always in order. You won't put it?
Then I'll leave
And Jake went out, greeted with cheers
and laughter. But he soon returned, hav-
ing evidently "seen man," aud, taking a
front seat, became more loquaciOus and de-
monstrative than before.
Meantime the count went OH and even
Jake's vigorous remOnstraces began to
lose their interest when another matter
was brought to the attention of the con-
vention. President Fry presented COM
munication from AdamJ. Eberly, in which
he declared his belief that he had been
chosen the Republican candidate for dis,
trict attorney, and that this fact could DC
; proved if 4 fair investigation were had
but he had reason to believe that a major
? Of cfSfro n
tended to stifle investigation; and he
therefore asked the board to direct the
, committee to fully investigate the alleged
frauds, and give timely notice of the tim'
of the meeting to the candidates interested
Squire Reidenbach presented resOlu
ton (also in.Mr. Eberly's haud-writtirs)
embodying Mr.. Eberly's views, and move'
its adoption.
Mr.. Croft protested that the only busi
ness before the convention was the count
inc of the returns. After this work shal
have been finished the convention|may con
slider other business if it be deemed neces
sary.
D Chairman Fry thought the present th'
proper time to consider Squire Reidcn
. bacll's resolution, as it had reference tt
the contested districts.
Mai. Cox asked the chairman whethe
1 any contested district had been counted
= and MIR. Fry answered No" Major Co:
: asked if it was the intention to count an,
5 contested district before the committee o
investigation reported upon it ; and MI
:. Fry again answered "No.'' "Then" salt
= Major Cox, ''lct us 60 OH with the count:o
v the uncontested districts" (Cheers).
l. President Fry insisted that the resolu
tion of Squire Reidenbach was before tn
t. house and must he considered.
N Several delegates declared the resolu
% % tion out of order and appealed from til
=, decision of the chair, but the chair wOul'
o not entertain the appeal.
IL A vote was then taken on'the questio
of considering the resolution, and it wa
voted down almost unanimously.
The counting of the returns was re
IA sumed, and Jake Price resumed his watch
-. He appeared to be even more suspicion
~, =. of his friend Fry than of his enemy Croft
y and he swore by all the oaths of which l.
II had command that if either of thel
ID touched another paper he would jum
II upon the stage and tear them all to hel
II. He attempted to make his words goot
" and springing over the railing of the OF
-, chestra he was in the act of clamberin
le upon the stage when he was seized by tw
Iy policemen and pulled down. There wei
Is loud cries of put him out, but Samm
,e Croft interceded for miand he was permi
ie 1e ted to remain on condition that he woul
i. i. be quiet and not disturb the business {
r. the convention. Disguised with what i
regarded as the villainy of the officers I
the board, Jake again left, but soon r.
= turned warmer than ever.
y. ~ The count went on with nothing to enlive
" it except Mr.. Prices eloquencc until late
a. the afternoon on motion the conven:iC
,c adjourned to the second-story of til
I'd opera house. Soon afterwards it was al
IS nounced that the committee on investig
~ ~ ton was ready to report.
~ The chair looked stunned and doubted
G. there was a quorum present, and unle'
ne there was the report could not be recei
g. ed. Against the protest of nearly tt
IN whole convention he ordered the roll to
vi called. Thirty-one districts answered
The chair declared there was no quorum
Bob Evans declared the chair to be das
ed ass Major Cox read the rule of IL