Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-02-27
THE REPUBLICANS.
REvIvISG THEIR QUARRELs.
Judge Livinystons ;Candidcly Used to
Dodge q Popular Vote on Beaver
and Butler

Judge Livinsston's ,Candidcay Used
| Dodge u Popular Vote on Beaver
and Butler.
The Republican county committee me
in q. \. X. hall at II o'clock this morning
Between sixty and seventy members wer
present, Including several substitutes, an
the room was crowded with city and count
politicians.
The meeting was called to order b.
Chairman a. F. Shenck, after which
Hay Brown, esq, offered a resolution il
favor OF Judge Livingston as Republican
candidate for supreme judge, and instruct
ing the delegates to he chosen to the stat
convention to use all honorable means t.
secure his election. The resolution wa
unanimously adopted without debate.
Mr.. Brown also moved that the chair
man OF the county committee issue cal
for the Republican primary election OF
the last Saturday III April to elect dele
| gates to the state convention, to nominate
candidates for county officers and to pass
upon the new new rules proposed by the
committee to prepare them. He had nc
doubt these rules would be unanimously
approved, as the committee had spent
much time and given careful thought in
their preparation.
A. J. Kaufman, esq, who had at !rst
favored the holding OF two primaries-one
to nominate a county ticket and another to
| select delegates to the state convention
had on further thought come to the con
cIusion that the two primaries should be
united and the delegates and candidates
be chosen at the same time.
| ). W. Johnson, esq. was delighted that
the factions Of the party could at last har
monize. by having but single primary
for both objects larger vote would be got
| C2t, and the views Of the party would be
more fully represented. He would offer
as an amendment to Mr.. Browns resolu-
tion};, Or more probably he would offer i
separate resolution, that the people be
allowed an opportunity of expressing at
the primary election their choice for all
the state officers and that the result of the
vote be considered instructions to the
delegates.
Brown 1T once sprany to his feet. and
said lie was in earnest i'll presenting the
name of Judge Livingston for the supreme
bench. If cur delegates go to the state
convention instructed for any other can
date, no matter wi.,, he may be, they will
be powerless to dc any thing for Living
ston. He wante! to see 4 delegation go to
Harrisburg untraiumeled by Instructions
for anybody but Livingston. He did not
expect to be 4 delegate himself, but if he
was one, although he was warm friend
Of Beaver, he would sacrifice him for But
Ter, ar even for Charley Wolfe, if by so
doing he could secure Livingston's nomi-
nation. Livingston had not sought the
nomination, but would accept it if ten
deIed but he had distinctly said he
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the united support of the Lancaster dele
cation.
johnson claimed that the delegation
could be solid for Livingston and also
truly represent their constituents in the
nomination of Z candidate for governor
and other state officers, ami not BE- called
ston's nomination. No such contingency
can possibly arise.
Points OF order were raised IS to the
matter before the committee. and the
chair decided that the question was on
the resolution naming the last Saturday
in April as the time for the primary. Th;
vote was taken aud the resolution was
adopted.
Inc report vi tbs committee uu ntN
rules was real, after which vote was
taken on the rules themselves and they
We're unanimously adopted.
Johnson then offered hi; resolution in
favor Of giving the voters chance to ex-
press their preference for candidates fer
the several state Offices. \ rom was at
once raised, ana it became evident to dis
interested outsiders that Livingston's
unanimous nomination for junge was only
4 cover behind which the factions We're
fighting Tor Beaver and Butler. Brown
and Johnson We're the principal speak
ers, but several others Clipped in.
Brown declared he vas al
thorized by Judge Livingston TO
state that lie woa.l not be 4 candidate If
there was to be u divided delegation, aud
johnson replied that he did not believe
that Livingston had said any such thing.
JUDI Livingston would not ask the dele
gates to lose their identity for his sake
alone the Republican party was too big
to be controlled by one man alone Brown
replied i'll answer to Johnson'i insult that
when he addressed the committee he spoke
only to the gentlemen and not to the mem
her from tho Fourth ward. As to the truth
Of what he said lie called upon Mr.. kau,f-
man and Mr. Kennedy to state whether he
had not spoken truly. Mr.. Kaufman
promptly declared he did johnson was
then jeered and laughed at, but he came
up to the s"ra ch again charged both
Brown aud Kaufman with being Beaver
men, and broadly intinated that their pro
iessed zeal for Livingston was really III
Beavers interest He was as true Liv
ingston man as eit!ier Of them but ne was
also a Butler Inan and was not afraid to
say So
"A.e you willing to drop Butler il by
SO doing you can secure Livingston's nom
iaation:" asked Brown.
81 am for Butler for governor, and will
do all I can for Livingston also,' said
Johnson, who was again greeted with de-
risive laughter.
After few other speeches vote was
taken Oh the proposition to instruct de-
legates for Livingston only, and resulted
yea 80, nay e5.
The resolution was declared adopted,
and Brown left the room in triumph.
johnson arose to a question of privilege.
lie said that Brown and Kaufman had
stated tlat Judge Livingston had said to
them in the presence Of Mr.. Kennedy tina
he would not be candidate for supreme
judge if the delegates were instructed for
any candidate for any other Office. He
was now prepared to prove by Mr.. Ken.
nedy himself that no such statement had
been made by Judge Livingston.
4 scene Of wild confusion followed, in
which Johnson and Kaufman each charged
| the other with misrepresenting the truth to
gain factional ends.
Order being partially restored, the chair
announced the following committee as
| provided for in one Of Mr.. Browns reso-
lutions, to secure from the people Of the
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