Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-05-17
AMONG TIE POLITICIANS.
The work That Was Cot Out X.sssrd.

AMONG TEE POLITICIANS.
The work That Was Cut Out yesterday.
PROFESSIONALLY there was a good deal
to the bummers by the political bosses,
who had summoned their sdhereuts for
final Instructions. Nobody could stand
for an hour at either Of the headquarters
and watch the men who went in inquiring-
ly and came out looking satisfied. without
being confirmed in his opinion that q
large portion of the districts were
'.tixed," or supposed to be fixed,
by the payment to one or more
little bosses in each of them of a hand
some sum Of money to carry on his opera
tiOns. The negroes hung around ali day
and were especially impOrtunate. Toward
nightfall they became impatient and about
four o'clock q couple Of curious Demo
Gratis, anxious to know the ruling price of
the best workers, summoned two or three
Of the mokes to confidential conference.
The Democrats pretended to be inter-
ested in Kready and his ticket and opened
negotiations. They were informed that the
two rather scaly looking cOlored men
who stood before them were the secretary
and an influential member of the Garfield
and Arthur cOlOred clrb Of Columbia,
composed Of from 80 to 100 voters in the
First and Third wards. They thought
that to guarantee SO votes for Kready and
the whole ticket they ought to get $50 !;
for that amount they would undertake to
vote the whole club, to call special meet
ing ut once and fix things. II
any reduction in this price was
made, they must be left ut liberty
to strike one or more names on the ticket
according to the reductiOn-and make
up the deficiency elsewhere. Such is the
frankness Of the negro Republican politi-
clan Of COlumbia-S1.25 .25 per head.
a Notable Incident.
Shortly after this experience the repre-
sentative OF the INTELLIGENCER encOun-
tered prominent citizen of tho lower end.
\ worthy and intelligent Christian gentle
man. who recognized the fact that for
years the best citizens Of this
neighborhOod had not turned out to tho
primary. He had como to town this year
on purpose to find out for himself and
them who were the bost men running for
office with chances Of election, and was
going home to work and vote for them.
He showed Us his ticket as finally fixed. BY
4 strange coincidence it bore every name
on the Nec Era-Martin- Sensenis ticket
except that of John Evans. He was much
surprised to learn that that bad man Levi
SenseniG was supporting the identical
ticket which his investigation had led him
to pronounce the wOrthiest, but on rcflec-
tion he softly murmured:
" While the lamps holds out to burn
The VlleSt sinner may RETURN"
and indulged in much congratulatiOn that
Lewis reform had been thus accomplished.
Tas Strikers Iovy.
Old politicians inform Us that "the
crowd" was never more rapsciOus in it's
demands than yesterday. Ono politician,
who surely is not worth over 30 votes in
his township, got a little drunk in
the evening and let it out that
he had 500 for use i'm his
township; another declared "by c.
that if necessary he was authorized to
spend s3OO2to make his solid. We hear
the same bOastful stories from both sides,
Of their spies going to the other side. get
ting money and coming back to report
that it would be used against the men
who paid it to them, and there
will no doubt be good deal
Of this sort Of thing done. Many
of the. bummers took free whisky
ut the Leopard hindquarters yesterday
with Is much relish as they sucked beer
from the liberality Of the Exchange Null
hooys.
The presence at the Lock up alley head
quarters ofa prominent state official, in
Fndy's interest, led the rumOr that Quay
had put bari on tap there and toward
evening Fridy stock revived and his friends
left town boasting that he would cross the
COnestOga with 4 bigger vote than any other
candidate.
All day Squire Griler was Il thorn in
the flesh OF both sides and his solid
strength and uEswerving determination to
stay in the field, coupled with the recOllec-
tiOn Of his big vote three years ago, made
the Examiner and New Ern factions alike
nervous. All sorts of reports were aflOat
arising from his formidable strength, and
early in the day it was rumOred first,
that the Examiner would drop Girls
singer and run Gritler, and later that
the Nt~ Era party would run Grialer in tho
north. This latter report reached Goods
friends, and there was some blue swear
ing as to what would happen in Pequea,
Martic and COnestOSa. if this treachery
should be cOnsummated. Later in the day
this all quieted down and the contest
settled into Il triangular fight, Grider
showing well toward the front. II is plain
| enough row that if his friends had joined
in organizing a third independent
movement and cried "dOwn on both
sensenig and McAlellen,'' they could have
made the bosses treinble. A peoples
ticket, with Miles, Compton, Hershey,
Gritler and 4 few new men could have
been put into the fight with good aggres-
sivc management.
Tho Spy Artist.
The Nen Ern breaks out in .jubilatiOn
last night over the success of a little game
played by its friends OF which tho
facts are about rs follows: Each side has
been anxious all the campaign lest the
other was getting out some sort Of carl
cature, to be sprung at the last moment
and pasted up Oh the barn doors, with the
telling effect Of Ed. Martins famous Bull
Ring cut of three years ago. Neither
party, however, was quite willing to un-
dertake this mode Of warfare unless
forced upon it rs e matter of defense. To
be prepared. however, and ut the same
time to spy out the enemy's lines,
the Neso Em gang some time ago secured
a detective artist attache Of Chic, q
comic illustrated paper of Philadelphia to
come to this city, go to the other side and
represent himself rs anxious to get their
pictures for caricature, in which Geist,
Sensenig and others should be ridiculed.
Tom Davis, Sammy Croft and others en-
tered into the scheme with the hot en-
Of youth, and not only enter
tanned the spy-a artist but gave themselves
away badly. Commodore Hiestand sat