Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1883-02-21
IN STRASBUKG

The Democrats ard Independents ficjolGe I'm
aCitizens' Victory.
The election iii Strasburg borough re-
suited in victory for the peoples ticket
over the StalwartS and cur correspondent
there thus relates the event
The RuhicOn is cr0ssed-the die is
caSt-the vote is counted, and if the cor
respondent of the Eramener is agreed that
the next caucus will bc held in the ladder
shop or drug store, it don't matter which.
For the last three weeks the borough has
been in a ferment over the sad death that
was in store for the Independent party, In
connection with the township Politicians
especially the former protege of Levi-our
borough leaders had foreshadowed the
decree. The justice of the peace. whose
sin consisted in openly declaring his con
victious, and the school directors nomi-
mated at the citizens meeting, who were
the champions of cur present system, we're
to be sacrificed by common consent on the
altar of party spleen by the defeated cam
didate for recorder and his bevy Of post
office followers. Unfortunately for their
calculations, good citizens of the borough
I sounded the key note of common sense
N-and the Stalwarts died-hdrd. The
Justice of the peace, H. G. Book, was tri-
umpantly elected, and the school directors
Zone Democrat and one independently left
their Stalwart competitors sadly in the
cold-never to hope again. There never
was a more determined effort to sacrifice
the good interests of tho borough to
boss methods and machinery than
the campaign of yesterday, and when the
fact is taken into consideration that the
vote of the community is strongly Repub-
lican, the victory is still more complete. 1t
is I. still, small voice from a rural district
TO the hiGebound and Interested politician,
that blind adherence to party interests for
party sake has had it's day. The entire
citizen ticket with the exception of as.
SCISSOR, constable and one councilman out
of six, were triumphantly carried through.
For the next year our genial citizen, Chris
tian Rowe, will preside over the affairs of
our borough as burgess, and Ross Black, a
pronounced Independent, will act as judge.
The writer of this article has been
in the borough but short time
but he is assured by Old citizens that the
staid old town never witnessed greater
rejoicing over IN honest victory. The
township politician went early TO their
homes, and when the citizens of the bOr-
Ough, headed by the Paradise band, parad-
ed to the lower end of the town the mouth
tESdu Wdo uO WucIc w uC cCCh. AAO ioA
lowing is the ticket elected:
Judge-A. r. Black, Qnd.)
Inspector-H. H. Ingram, (Dem.)
AssessOr-W. 3. Miller, (Stalwart.)
Justice of the Peace-H. g. Book, (Ind.
School Directors-H. F. Andrews, Ind),
Amos Esternacb, Oem.)
Constable-Jason Stetton, (Stalwart.)
Burgess-Christian Rowe, Dem.)
Council-Jacub Carpenter. (On botl
/. tickets), Elan Mooney, (on both tickets),
= e. c. Musselmap, Qnd), VIM. Black,
(Den.}, Samuel Esternach, (Dem.
John K. Bachman, Und.)
High Constable-JOhn F. Hull, [citi
zen's ticket.)
Auditorium. Spencer, (Dem.)
Scattering Returns.
Girari Roth and Allen s. Ruby, Demo
Gratis, we're elected respectively to the
offices of burgess and high constable in