Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-04-17
A VERY DULL CAMPAIGN.
FIvE WEEKS sEFoRE THE PR'"hhihs
avn LfrrLE SRA.
s,.,,,,, In the Lead Tor senator aud R'inwhl
,,, ,,.,,,c, At,orney-1he Literary iinrrau
c,,,a,nu out Abusive Paragraphs.
Tho states Tor state Delegates Not
We, Made-Ali For pcaVer

Ittn NtfN iltilt Hnu tn' 'N'''''''' "
former campaigns II wanting, all of which !
rough on tho "boys" Four years ago whei
Col. e. \. Kaufman was pttod against JOIN
NJ. Stohman, tho campagn was rel hof
Then tho Ncm IRA was uncoasng In II
efforts to boat Stchman. In this campaig,
tho Era will keep hands oil and many q
tho friends Of that paper ar" open IN thei
support ot Stehman-not because they hav
any particular love for the senator, but bo
cause they know where Ia find him, and
IL claimed that cannot bo said OF hisoppononi
Ahram SUNNY. The latter prsos ~ a rc
frmor, but those who know him say IN
would pattake of reform Ia very small dosos
II elected senator.
The politicians of tho county are priuCi
paIy Tor Stehman this year. lie has beer
and IL making a quiet but effective canvass
and IL the election was held to-day he woult
boat SUNNY two Ia one. Summy's friend,
say tho canvass will be made lively enough
before the I'D of May. one rumor ~ thai
Ilostettor, tho rittsburg millionaire, who j.
relative ot SUNNY, will put sufficient
DOODLE into tho fight Ia capture tho little
bosses and elect SUNNY.
Summr'S friends are wagIng war on Steh
man through paid communications in the
papers OF tho Northern district. Here are
some sample paragraphs;
SOME NEWSPAPER ABUSE
"Sam Matt Fridy, the great political wind
mill ot the county, il the chosen henchman
of John NJ. Stehman In the senatorial con
test which Is now impending. He was paid
In advance by getting sham office at Harris
burg last winter through Stehmans in
fuenca, by whCh he drew sSO7 from the
state treasury for doing nothing. Frldy gets
his work In 10y promising the boys how he
will take thcm To- Harrisburg when Stehman
L. a tNH.. t..ll Ia
paster aud folder and have free pass over
tho failroal aud good time But, alas |,
Fridy'S promises are like Stahmau's and
Stehman'a like Fridy'-, and both together
have fooled the boys so Oi,en that IL Will be
hard Ia make them believe such stories any
more"
"Ono of the most Potent reasons why J ohm
NJ. Stehman should not be reelected state
senator IL the IA that he does not and never
has represented the people. lie Is the tool
ot politicians and mouopolies, but n ever the
servant OF the people From the first entrance
into political life he has studied how 10 get
on the right side of tho political tricksters
aud earn their support, but he has never
studied tn advance the interests of the
masses of the psople, who bear the burden of
government and whose servant he should
be.'
"'Wode for Slhamy on my aggound M a
favor to me il the way Commissioner John
'iingeriCh puts II when olectioneoring for his
landlord, boss, artful dodgor, and office
N'tAlhE NlHtSHlhll from iNpnlbfStDNn, WHOSE
greatest achievement while senator, In addi-
ton Ia the.i'rdy SSU1 treasury grab, was to
procure FREQ passes for his son and himself
and draw seventy dollars "A week Of the tpN-
payers hard. earned money out of the state
treasury for stay ing at home and attending
to his own private business four days in
week, only going to Harrisburg Tuesdays
and Thursdays and remaining there long
enough to vote for If not dodge the apportiOn-
ment bill, then returning home on his free
during great Iart oil tho extra session
of lsS3. An intelligent public will, am sure,
consider these facts and readily see why 1t
~ that our home', workshops and farms
aro annually increasing. Don't 'wodo Tor
Slhnmy.'"
THE DISTRICT ATToRNEYSHIr.
II. Il. Fulton has reconsidered his inten.
ton of being a candidate for district attorney,
and there will lie a square fight between
Reinuhl and Weaver for that office. Both
candidates are sangune Weaver has a
large personal following, and in the eastern
eud of the County-his former home-he is
very strong lie Is not much ot a politician
or he would have made the office long ago.
lie failed 10 make his strength felt in the in
terCst Oi other candidates the past seven or
eight years, and rs a consequence none of
them ie"i ike going out of his rOad To ac-
comnodate him. His greatest strength Is In
the Northern district, but whether his
friends will ho able to make a deal on the
senatOTShip that will be Ia his benefit re-
mains To bo seen. Major l.einu'hl ia work
ing hard and counts ON n hig vote through
the influence of his soldier friends Those
who claim To know the politics of the county
say Reinuhl has the better OF the fight, de-
cldcdly, and can not bo beaten.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Tins far nInc candidates have announced
themselves ~ willing to serve their country
~ representatives at Harrisburg, from the
Northern district They are II. s. Book,
East DpuTyal DIR. III X Rlpuuh Iliyuhnfb.
town; e.. q. Boyd, Penn &. &. kaufman,
Colnmhis; John =. kemper, Ephrata Geo.
RanCk, Earl w. =. Smith, Conoy; Ephraim
=. Hoover, Mannheim township, and A. q.
u generally conceded, will pull through, and
for third place there will be a close contest.
Either Ranck, Book or Boyd will win, from
present indications Neither kaufman,
Hoover, Biough nor Seyfert has any show at
winning unless there IL great change of
sentiment IN tho district,
In tho Southern district tho candid are
W. II. Brosius, Milton Ileidelbaugh, VIM.
Chandler Hiram Peoples and A. &. Baldwin,
Chandler - running on an anti-rairoad dis
elimination platform, but that won't save
him. Indications point to the election of
Baldwin, who poled a go 9d vote two years
ago, and flr the second place the choice will
be betweep Brosius aud debaugh.
Candidates have not yet announced them
selves from the city district 1t is known
however that DIR. y. Il. Davis would like to
the state tax now is too high, since 30 large
an amount OF money has been returned under
new law and he intends II elected to in.
troduce a bin reducing the state tax from
three mills to one-half mill.
Several other names have been mentioned
for this Office. Among them ~ that OF joel
l.. Hainos, eN-chef OF police. The retired
chief has plenty of leisure now to make u
canvass iii he do itp Tho name OF Walter
w. Franklin has also been mentioned, but
it ~ hardly likely that he will be q candidate
against DIR. Davis.
THE MINOR OFFICES
For directors of the poor and prison inspec
tors only few candidates are thus far in tn
field. William Good, OF East Earl, will b.
one OF the successful candidates Tor poor di
rectors, and MIR. Herr, the present eificien
president of the board, will probably he th
other successful director. r. w. Bard, VIII
was "A member one term, but who was dc
feated last year, will have some strength bu
not sufficient 10 win.
For prison inspector Calvin Carter IL
candidate ior u third term. lie has been a
efficient inspector and deserves reelection
John II. Miller, who also served two term
at different times, would like to get ther
again, but Dohner, OF East Lampeter, VIII
was defeated n year ago intends 10 get thor
II possible. lie will be strong candidate.
THE DELEGATES.
There are large number of politician
anxious 10 go to the state convention as del,
gates, but the states have not yet been a
ranged. They will be solid for Beave
Norris Tor anditor general will also have II
delegation. For lieutenant poysrnnr the