Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-16
LOCAL INTELLIGENCE.
THE KEPuBLIcAN CAMPAIGN.

Editorial Amenitles Of tho Season.
F. G. Musser, member of the board Of
county auditors of said county, being duly
affirmed according to law. doth depose and
say that Captain Elias McMellen, the pro-
thonotary Of Lancaster county, approach
ed him personally and endeavored to bribe
him from performing his duties as county
auditor.
Steal $50. 900 a Year.
New Era, Senseniy organ.
The debt of Lancaster county, in round
numbers, is about $500. 900, and every year
the county is cheated out of, or has stolen
from it, by or through the connivance Of
corrupt public officials, at least one tenth
of this amount, or $50, 900.
What Is Done With 1t:
Examiner, late Sensenig, now McMeilcn
organ.
1t is an open, admitted fact that Sem
senig is paying literally and gave the
whole thing away weeks ago when he said
to one Of his blossom Bricks" that
"they" would have all the money they
scda!ed, more than the other fellows, rs
only one Of their candidates had any
money, Umble and Fridy being both
poor.
McMellen's Bridge.
New Era, late McMellen, now Sensenig organ.
1t has been settled beyond peralventure
that his ''cOrner'' is in the rear Of the
market houses, and very nehr the head
quarters which the boss bridge builder
still runs in friendly rivalry with Sammy
Groll's new snapper box"
Eaby's Claims.
Examiner, ten cents u line.-
May 81, 1879, at the primary election
held in the Second ward, Lancaster city,
it was charged in an account published in
the Examiner Of about one year ago, that
the regular ballot box was not counted,
but that another box, fitted up before
hand, was substituted and counted, and
that John p. Good, poor, one-lcgsed
soldier. who was running for Recorder
against Benz. LOngenecker, received only
50 votes and LOngenecker 2O5 votes, that
if the genuine ballot box had been count
ed Good would really have had a majority
| Of the vote pOlled.
1t Wasn't Always So!
Brother Scnscnig to Brother Geist.
81 have been stalwart Republican
since the organization to the party. and a
Wing before that but when or any OF
my friends were candidates never could
induce the Examiner to speak gOU. wOsll
for us, to even tell the Gods truth about
our opponents. Jack said he hated per-
| sonal politics. and his friends must make
their own fight without the aid of his
newspaper but since he has placed him.
self under the wing Of Boss Nc.
Mellen all this has changed. II the cap.
tain wants any one he don't like shame.
fully slandcred and abused. the Examine,
must dance as he pipes. If Jack demurs
his new boss swears ut the God and NOR.
ality party and threatens to bust her
up if he can't have his own way, and
Jack praciously yields. What We Oh.
stalwarts couldn't get for love or money
Boss McNIelIen gets to the full by playing
the bull dozer. No other influence could
have induced Jack Hiestand to openly
libel his old friends High, Wissler and
Skiles''
| Then and Now.
| Re-published in the Ercn,iner, late Sensenfg
now McMcllen organ and the weakly In
! Quirer, late Senscnig, now McMellen organ
from the Ne,o Era of June 4, 1879. then McMel
len, now ScnscniG organ.
The character of one [prlmary voting
place], however, in the Second ward,
OWNED BY LEVI SENSENIG, is so noto.
Tious that feo citizens aehO keep their eyes
and ears open, could hare any Doubt as ID
WHERE tile imputdtiOn JUSTLY FELL. 1t is
notOriOusly headquarters for GAMBLING,
POLITICAL AND OTHERWISE, and that most
dangerous class Of PROSTITUTES when
| Webster defines rs "a base hireling a
mercenary, one who offers himself to infa-
nous employment for hire