Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-04-04

which he is large stockholder. The
General has devoted much time to
this enterprise and the development of
the remarkable mineral wealth of the
region and is very popular in the bor-
ough. Men who have no connection with
the coal company and who have met him
are honestly and heartily for him. To
strike Hastings down in this borough
was in the opinion of Andrews, Barker
ct al almost as good as stabbing him in
the back in Cambria county itself. With
out notice to any of the citizens of Hast
tings, skuking in the dark, like such men
do, two tools of Andrews and Barker ar
ranged to steal the borough. They held
no primary election. They had no elec
tion board of any sort. They did not allow
any outsider to know what was going on
and there was scarcely man in the place
who knew that primaries had been called
by the Commtte. G. Westover, livery
stable keeper and Thomas Beynon, bar
ber, acting under Barkers orders, sneaked
out of Hastings, went to Ebensburg and
there had their certificates made out for
them by the Barker gang. They
entered the convention during roll call
and were among the last TO vote for the
Andrews-Delamater steal. They were
not even discreet. They boasted about
what they had done and the manner of
doing it. They admitted they had sold
themselves. The result was that when
their action and IL at of the convention
became known in Hastings, the Repub-
licans of the place and of the neighbor-
hood were furious. Letters were
promptly sent to Gen. Hastings by the
leading Republicans of the p ace repudi-
ating the action of Westover and Beynon,
and both men have been stunned ever
since, and their business has fallen off so
much that they probably will not con-
tinue in the town. This was one of the
most stupid pieces of rascality of the An
drews-Barker- r-Swank-Delamate gang.
HE TOLD ALL HE KNEW.
Gallitzln borough-This borough was
not worked by Barker directly. 1t was
manipulated by his lieutenant, Deputy
Revenue Collector KInkead. A week be-
fore the the day of the primaries, Kinkead
visited Galhtzin TO make a sure thing of
the delegates. He saw John Myers and
told him he and Barker wanted him to 90
to Ebensburg and to take Frank N.
Burke, the committeeman of the district
with him. Kinkead then went to the
saloon of Daniel Burke, tie brother of
Frank. The delegate-to.be was not at
home and Kinkead left letter with Dan
iel Burke TO the effect that Frank was to
go to Ebensburg without fail. Kinkead
also left So to pay Franks fare each way
Myers and Burke met and consulted and
agreed that there was no need of holding
any primaries or of letting anybody know
what was up. Myers ON Monday decided
that he could not go, and Burke went
alone. Before going he drew up cerrih-
Gates for himself and Myers and signed
them as judge of the primary election,
certifying to the election of his cympanion
and himself.
Burke himself boasts of his fealty to
Barker, although he says he was cheated
by Barker's crowd in his fight for the Gal.
litzin postoffice. He says Barker, Ed
James, and Harry Kinkead recommended
him for the Office after they knew another
man had gotten it.
" 1t won't do to hold any more of them
kind of primaries" said Delegate Burke
to the writer They raised hell here
among the people and they haven't got
done kicking about it yet. don't see why
Barker wanted to run things that way.
He amt to be trusted anyway. He's only
given me $40 after using me for years.
l wrote TO him not long ago and told him
if he wanted to use me to send respect
able remittance before the work was done.
| heard Barker, Tom Davis, Swank, and
the rest got big lot of Doodle and kept
it."
Gallitzin township-No primaries were
held here and all that was done was the
making of papers for Thomas Myers
who was given two votes. He was noti-
fed to attend the convention by Kin
kead
Jackson township--This township is al |
ways regarded as the property of Tom
Davis (Jackson)who manages the politics
10 suit himself. His brother, Samuel |
Davis, does most of the running and actual
setting up under the orders of Tom. That
disciple of Andrews and |
Oelamater told John Cuttings and John
5rey to come to Ebensburg as delegates,
ind they came. OF course, such thing
IS primary was never even thought of.
Tom Davis made out the papers for his
lenchmen and that was all there was of
t. Then they voted for Andrews and
)elamateI, were fed and sent home.
Lilly township-F. A. Thompson, the
postmaster at Lilly, was instructed by
<inkead to attend the convention, and he
lid so with Simon Conrad. They had no
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