Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-03-28
le Democrat.
FRIDAY, MARCH, 2s 1890.


Alnkeau came 10 me ana asked me 10 De
: delegate to the County Convention and
TO take with me some man who could be
trusted to vote for Barker and Swank as
delegates to the State Convention. l
asked him who they would be for and
Kinkead said that while they might be
for Delamater, if he looked like a winner
there would be no instruction by the con-
Vention for anybody. l agreed to this.
There was no primary of any kind in
StonYcreek township. Four of us went
and drew mp the papers asked w. D.
Miller to be my colleague, and Lewis w.
Buck and John L. Sivitts signed our
papers. They were not sworn.
"The convention at Ebensburg met at
1880. 1t was not in session more than fit
teen or twenty minutes. The roll was read
and then Tom Davis jumped up with the
written resolution instructing for Della
mate, which was read by Barker. There
were several objections from delegates
and few words of discussion followed,
in which took part. | claimed
that there should be no instruc-
ton. Barker applied gag law and
would not give anybody chance
to talk. Miller voted against the
resolution and so did |. If Davis had not
had his resolution ready in writing and
we had had chance l dc not believe it
would have assed even in that set up
convention. believe the majority of the
delegates favored Hastings, and if let
alone would have voted for him. The res
olutions were rushed through before half
of the delegates knew what it all meant.
After the convention heard a lot of del
egates, and some of them were close to
the Barker gang, kick about the way they
were deceived. About twenty said they
had been told there would be no in
structions. Several delegates intimated
to me that they were well paid The re-
port was that Andrews said Quay would
support Swank for Congress or let him
name q man to run against Scull, of
Somerset Storey was promised the place
of postmaster at Johnstown Barker had
the Ebensburg postoffice, Kinkead is
Deputy Revenue Collector and Tom Davis
is said to have got Doodle. heard that
Chairman Andrews and Delamater set up
the whole scheme. l don't think from
what heard at the convention that there
was a regular primary in the county. On
the morning of the convention, ii. w.
Storey gave me my ticket to Ebensburg
and return. There were about forty del
egates at the Johnstown depot of the
Pennsylvania Railroad and Storey gave
them all railroad tickets. Those tickets
cost $t.75 each"
A RANK FRAUD.
In the Second ward of Millville, now
the Fourteenth ward OF Johnstown, there
was a particularly bold game. Jacob
Mangus is Il well known Republican
worker. He has been prominent in the
party for twenty years in this ward. He
says: There were no primaries in our
ward Evan G. Lewis and Sam Lawrence
are the men who do Swank's work here.
They are down on me because was once
delegate to u county convention and
would not vote as Lawrence told me to.
These two men got,Constabe Boucher to
open up the hose house, ,on Iron street, on
the evening of the primaries. They had
no lamp lighted in the hose house, and
there was no sign of an election. went
to the so-calcd polls at o'clock, having
just heard about the primaries. There
was nobody there. There were no cleo
tion officers and nobody was sworn.
There was not a single vote cast. Law
renee went to the house of L. G. Huff
about $3.50, and asked him to make out
the election papers. Huff was sick and
refused. | am told that Lewis then made
out the papers. George Mangus told me
he wanted to vote, and went to the polls
about $50 and nobody was there. met
Lawrence in Finley's store before z
o'clock. We had quarrel. told him
wanted to vote and he laughed and said l
was crank. The papers were made out
for j. B. Gray and Jacob Stutzman as
delegates. They were not candidates,
and afterward said they did not vote be-
cause they knew nothing about the prl-
maries until the next morning, when Law
renee came to their homes, gave them
their credentials and told them to go to
Ebensburg, Monday, and vote for
Swank and Barker. StutZman told
that he got 50 for being delegate.
They will not talk now, tor somebody
has told them to keep quiet. There arc
about 112 Republican votes in our pre-
cinct and about twenty-five to thirty are
usually cast at primaries. Many Repub
licans in the precinct say that they will
vote for a Democrat if Delemater is nom-
mated, because of the way we were
treated. At the borough election we
were able to get only half of the regular
vote for the Republican candidates"
Adams township-No primaries J.
l.. Granting and E. d. Eye made out
their own credentials and acted as the
delegates in response O n written reouest