Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-06-03
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
LANCASTER AT CHICAGO.

And Now Who Will Occupy the Curbstone ?
! Dispatch to the Press.
After Illinois will come Pennsylvania,
when another long contest will ensuc.
John Cessna is the state representative on
the committee and he has determined.
under instructions it is said direct from
Cameron and Quay, to use every energy
to insure the rejection of the men from the
Lancaster, York and Cumberland districts.
f. X. Martin and his colleague, Kline, from
the former, are satisfied, however, that they
will be admitted. They have done all
to Lancaster its just representation and
do not seem likely to be disappointed.
| When they came here their claims were
ridiculed by the Harrisburg managers, but
they found in Mr.. Medill, of the Chicago
Tribune, who recognized in their case q
precedent precisely similar to those of
Cook county, an earnest friend. Through
the columns of his paper they were first
given full hearing, and the presentation
Of their case at once attracted the atten
tion of Senator Hamlin, Mr.. Frye and the
Blaine leaders generally. 1t was
thoroughly gone over by these
gentlemen, and the conclusion reach
ell that the right of the congress
sional district had been plainly usurped
by the chairman of the county committee
in his refusal to order primary elections in
time. The next step was to have the mat
ter placed properly before the convention.
Martin and Kline being powerless to do
this themselves, Mr.. Waddell of the Ches-
ter and Delaware district consented to
take charge of it, and General Beaver, see
ing the full force of their position and
being the chairman of the state delegates
to-day, acting the connection with Wad-
dell, laid the paper before the convention
before the committee retired. Messrs. Mar
tin and Kline, when they appear before
the committee, will explain the Lancas-
ter county system Of holding primary
elections, will show them the un-
broken line of precedents under which
they made their choice, and which has
never heretofore been violated, and will
adduce the evidence to prove that the
chairman of the county committee saw fit,
owing to the storm of popular indignation,
to reconsider his former action and order
a new election.
Thou Too, o! Brownie.
Record Dispatch.
A new contest was trumped up for tine
purpose of securing another vote. The
printed list Of delegates and alternates of
the Harrisburg convention as it appeared
in the Philadelphia papers shows Henry
Guck, of POttsville, as alternate for Lin
Bartholomew. Mr.. Quay and his friends
decided that J. Hay Brown, whose name
appears opposite to that of Mr.. McNIanes,
should be Bartholomew's alternate. Guck
intends to contest ON the ground
that he is the legal delegate, just
the same as William j. Pollock is
held to be Elliot's successor because his
name appears opposite to that of
Elliott. Campion has contested POllOck's
seat. This is one OF the cases where it is a
poor rule that will not work both ways.
As the committee on credentials is anti
Grant, it is certain that one or the other of
these gentlemen will be admitted, perhaps
both. The thing was planned by Nc
Names and Leeds is carrying cut the idea.
There is prospect that before morning
the Pennsylvania delegation will slip out
of Cameron's hands. Thirty votes are
necessary and twenty-seven are certain.
If the contestants are all admitted General
Beaver will be deposed from the chair
manship.