Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1885-04-27

Tho Local Aspect Of the Fight Tor Delegates
to the state Convsntson-Ths Names Of
Candidates for Recorder. solicitor
and Jury Commissioncr

neid ON saturday, June o, the principal /
county officer to be chosen Is a recorder Of /
deeds. The other officers to be selected are |
jury commissioner, county solicitor, prison |
inspectors and poor directors Delegates to /
the state convention 10 place In nomination a |
candidate for state treasurer are also to be |
chosen, and In the choice of these delegates |
the political bosses are more interested than |
they are In the election Of any of their friends
to the Offices above named.
Since Chris Magee, of Pittsburg, decided |
upon making our townsman, James Nc
Dewitt his candidate for state treasurer, the
political bosses In this county, who train with
Magee, have been at work setting up the dis
tricts 30 as to capture the delegation from
this county to the state convention. And
from present appearances they will succeed.
Their first determination was TO run Ben.
Longenecker through for recorder, and orders
were sent out to that effect Some of the
friends Of the other candidates kicked
and threatened to run anti-McDevitt dele
gates and boosted that they would be able to
beat Magee with the support they could mus
| ter led by the NeW Era. The McDevitt people
have dropped the recorders fight for tho
present, but at the last minute Magee's
friends will take hand and run Longe-
necker through If possible.
McDevitt has made good impression ON
"the best workers Tin the several districts.
He holds forth every Monday at the Stevens
house. The pickets who are OH the lookout
| to capture couptrymen, take them TO the
Stevens house, where after they have had
talk with the prospective candidate aud be-
forc they leave they are committed to the
support of Magee's delegates. Who these
delegates are have not yet been decided, but
| 1t will be the aim of the bosses TO secure
| strong men i'm the several sections of the
| county. Their names will be announced i'm
due time In the INTELLIeENcER.
| CANDIDATES FOR RECORDER.
For the Office of recorder there arc four
candidates Benjamin Longenecker, Harry
c. Lehman, Edwin l.. Reinhod and Daniel
M. Moore. The fights between Longenecker
and Lehman, with the chances at present in
favor of fLongenecker. II Longenecker can get
the solid support of the Senseng combina-
tion he can win. Sensenig is sick, however,
| and may be confined to the house too long
to take an active part 1t is said that Levi
and McMellen will not be able to muster the
full force Of their strength for any combina-
| tion this time, because they bOlted the Re-
publican city ticket at the last election.
Some Republicans go 80 far as TO say that
| they will not be allowed to vote at the COM
ing primary. There is nothing in the rules
governing primaries TO keep their votes out
| Of the ballot box.
Longenecker has been candidate for a
| county Office for twenty or more years, but
was always a little behind. He is confined
to bed with rheumatism and it Is said will not
| be able to make personal canvass. He is
postmaster of Strasburg and the Democrats
down that way think il is about time he was
bounced. Capt McMellen was with Levi
last year, but he can't consistently be with
him for Longenecker this year, because
Longenecker Is a great friend Of City Treas.
urer Myers, whom &cMellen hates.
Ed. Reinhold believes that he has sure
thing OF 1t and Is going to be elected by a
large majority. One reason he gives is that
he is the only candidate from the Northern
district Another reason is that he was an
, ] enthusiastic Blaine delegate at the Chicago
convention. 1t is true that he was for Blaine,
: although he was elected by anti Blaine votes
and was expected to vote for President
, Arthur. He leaned that way until it was
arranged that he was 10 have Andy Kanff.
mans office as collector of the Ninth district
. II Blaine was elected, when he turned in
| for Blaine with hurrah. Blaine wasn't
, elected he won't get the revenue Office and
now demands the recordership Of the county
for being for Blaine. Reinhold has already y
: made tour OF the county, and according tC
, his calculations he is all right and will win
Some districts he claims that he will have
solid and he has been nicknamed "Solid Ed
by some of his political opponents. He will
DO greatly disappointed when the votes are
| counted.
MAN WHO HAS BEEN WAITING.
: Harry G. Lehman, the deputy of blind
Harry Myers, the present recorder, is also
candidate. He was announced as can
| didate against John p. Good but withdrew
because Good was a one-legged soldier he
> was again candidate until Harry Myers
the blind soldier, announced himself when
he agreed to wait three years longer. This
time he says he is in the field to stay. He
has made many friends in his position a.
| deputy recorder and has larger circle of ac
quaintances than any of the other candidates
named for the office. While he has been q
| resident of this city for several years he came
| originally from the Northern district and ex.
poets to poll large vote there.
Dan Moore, the proprietor Of the Swan
} hotel, Is the remaining candidate. He was a
candidate three years ago. This time he il
| the only distinctively soldier candidate and
the cards he has strung around everywhere
: set forth that he served his country four
, years in cavalry company, and was
, wounded on st Patrick's Day A. ID. 1868.
He hasn't much strength and will be fourth In
the fight 1t is also said that he transferred
what little strength he had three years ago to
Ben Longenecker against the blind soldier
and that has driven the soldier vote from
him this time.
THE COUNTY soLICIToRsHIP.
For county solicitor only three candidates
have thus far been announced-George A.
Lane, A. +. Shenck and John II. Fry. The
| last named Is the present incumbent, and in
his card announcing himself for recollection
L
past year to the taxpayers of Lancaster
county, in the discharge OF my duty as
county solicitor, by refusing to approve
aldermen's and constables' bills for dismissed
cases, hereby submit such action on my
part to the Republican voters at the ensuing
| primary election" He ought to have added
that during his whole term he never con-
Quoted a suit in court for the county by him
SELF The above announcement is expected
| to catch countrymen's votes. From present
appearances George Lane will be an easy
winner, with Fry second, and Shenck badly
defeated, as he was three years ago. If VIM.
Leaman or some other lawyer of equal stand
ing would announce himself he would have
| a walk-over
For jury comm issioner, ex-Sherif Rowe
and ]. G. Zeller, of Mt Joy township, are
candidates. Zeller Is brother of John II.
Zeller, of Mt Joy borough, and will win
easily.
There are a number of candidates for prison
inspector and poor directors, and others will
| be announced in a few days. Their prospects
will be discussed in another article.