Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-10
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A HURVEY OF THE FIELD
An "Old Politician" " Takes u Birds Eye
View.
The Old Politician wanted to see them
fish for shad, and as he and the INTELL1-
GENCER man drove down in the moonlight
from an experience at one Of the batteries
!" more than half mile from the COluu-
bia dam," of course, he told Of the i'm
pending struggle for Republican nomina-
tions in this county
''1tell you again." he began, sit is
going to be close fight and the nearer
it approaches the palmer this becomes.
The vote is not going to be large. There
is a big reserve in this county which no.
body can bring out except Herr Smith,
and which will come out for nobody cx-
cept him, but when it does come out it is
largely to the advantage of the Neu Era
party, and they will miss it this year. OF
course it is the big year, con
sidering the Offices to be filled.
and the individual candidates will
rally their friends, hut you will OBJ
serve there arc fewer than usual, and ON
the whole it is not likely over 12, 900 votes
will be pOlled. Besides people are good
deal disguised with the corruption of this
thing. Tom Davis's nomination soured a
good many the treachery of NlcMellcn and
Sensenig to their old friends and the new
and queer combinations formed will all
have a tendency to make the popular vote
smaller than in 1878. In fact I look on it
as fight between the politicians and
money"
"WhO has the best of it in such a con-
test? Well generally speaking would saw
first the side which has the most money.
do not see a great deal OH either side this
time. Krcady was taken by the Examiner
side for his money. He has more than
any other man on their ticket and tlley ex-
pect him to bleed freely. He always was
a little careful with it and not long ago
was in doubt as to whom he could trust
with it. You may depend upon it that
Jake Kready will he very slow to make up
himself pot to be spent to put tl,roug III
tho rest of his sides ticket Skiles is the
moneyed man on the other side and he is
liberal. Sensenig expects to strike him
for q couple of thousand, but Skiles is a
business man and lie may want to sec
before he entrusts any funds into
hAOopOAoAON' noAAO0 W UO StOlCu VI
spent for somebody else. Besides
these two cannot see where great deal
of money il to como from, unless some Of
the candidates have private hackers whom
tho pools are depending upon. A ring
this is to be without S., 900 in cash and as
dilates are elected. That is the profit of
tho riu WGv pC,c c>,, .o.r;.k .,,, ,,,rl
Breneman for sheriff each paid Sensenig
ran for Congress he gave Sensenig his note
High has crippled himself in previous cam
paigns. Ihear that somebody in COncstOga
is backing Umble. Grissinger is run on
pure speculation
''Has there been any change in the COM
has been trying hard to get on one set-up
he was too late for either. | hear that
his friends, Of course without his knOwl
edge, offered as high as So. .O0O for 4 place
on the Examiners ticket, but that Hcis-
tand kicked most vigorously and wOulln' t
hear to it at all. You sec J. w. johnson
has all along been sort Of manager for
OOAIPtOh sshu "OuAu AbsO CSCh iuCO
the Examiner pool with him, but lack Heis-
associate with johnson. Compton blames
his rejection on Gricst and tells his camp
meeting friends that the reason Griest Op-
poses him is that he (Griest) is always
antagOnistic to the elevation of good
Christian meh to office. Of course Griest
would have no influence one way or the
other to get anybody on or Off slate, as
he is not supposed to control more than
three votes in the county. For county
treasurer it has been reported that the
Sensenig and Geist party have had trouble
deciding between Good and Grider, but
there is no doubt on that point, and for
geographical reasons Goods candidacy
was fact they never could get over even
had they been SO disposed. Grider under
stands that perfectly well, but they are in
clined to keep him in the field because he
will cut Grissinger in the northwest where
Steve's strength is most solid. For COM
missioner both sides will. as has been pre-
dicted, support Sunny and Myers. Each
party thinks they have them, and neither
was willing to run the risk of going farther
and faring worse. Hiestand would have
been glad to run SlokOm, but the latter
backed water when Geist and Martin sat
down ON him, and the Examiner party were
afraid to endanger their ticket with any
further experiments in that line. 1t is
pretty much the same way with poor
directors and prison inspectors. John
Evans and Mart Kreider will be the di
rectOrs of the Door, a diversion being made
against Evans in favor of. Ben Lonsen-
ecker by the Eraminer's party to please
R0ebuck and some other others who don't
like Evans, but he will be elected and the
NeW Era party will have the best Of that.
For prison inspector Gish was brought out
to givo Fred Smith fight Oh his own
dunghill and the reformers will run him
and John ]. Long, Of Liberty Square.
The other side are Indifferent here too and
have not much to gain by "a hopeless fight
for a fictitious ISSUE For auditor you
see the New Era party have got out B. NJ.
Greider, Of Mt. Joy, and l hear they arc
going to run Enos Marsh from one of the
lower end townships. 1t looks to nc if
they had gone on and filled their ticket
with careful regard for location, and the
Examiner crowd have been afraid to dabble
with the lower places lest they might Grip
pie their top candidates. This defensive
position is 4 confession of weakness and
the aggressive policy of the other side will
secure them at least a fair vote in Mt. Joy
and Marietta, through Greider and Sunny,
while Gish, Long, Mart Kreider and Amos
GrOff-whO is now with the Era party
have fighting strength that will boost