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

ier 10 give MIN any nelp, tneY Delng the
four Republicans of the district. There
was no voting, and even two of the Re
publicans wondered where McAteer was
on convention day until some member of
his family said he chad g.ne to see a
sick relative at Ebensburg. McAteer, in
addition to having direct instructions
from Barker, was visited by Sam Davis,
the brother of Tom, about ten days before
the date of the primaries, aud the work
was cut out then. McAteer had two
votes which went to the Andrews-Dela-
mater delegates
Munster township was manipulated in
a peculiarly cooi manner. III. T. Eberly
went to Ebensburg on convention day to
attend 10 some business connected with
his store at Munster. When asked in
the morning before the convention
whether he was delegate he replied that
lie was not and that he never heard of
the convention until the night before
Sunday. A short time after this Eber.
ly met the Andrews-B Barker people and
they insisted on his being a delegate, say
ing it would be worth his while to repre-
sent the district He agreed and the pa
pers were then made out for him.
NO ELECTION, OF COURSE.
A few days ago Eberly was asked about
the election. He had evidently been re-
Gently warned by the Andrews Barker
crowd, for he exclaimed: ooh, |
know what you are after. You want to
upset this thing. I've heard about you"
His suspicious were soothed and then
he said "Of course there wasn't any
election. You know that well enough
yourself. Ididn't know anything about
1t until Sunday night. was a delegate
to oblige Barker and those fellows and
had my papers made out in Ebensburg
Elt ction Why, - it, there wasn't an
election in the whole northern part of the
county. wasn't any different from the
rest of the fellows about not being regu-
larly elected. None of the fellows down
to our place knew anything about the
primaries or the convention either until it
was all over"
Portage township-This was one of the
Swank- Kinkead districts and John A.
Troxell, the postmaster, was one delegate
and William Hall another. No primaries
were ned and the credentials were made
out by the delegates.
HE IS NOT SATISFIED.
Iunnelhill borough-Samuel Huey was
the delegate from this district He is
very sincere, ghtforwarded old man,
AID when told by John Myers, of
Gallitzin, which place Tuunelhill over
looks, that he must go to Ebens-
burg as IA delegate he had
some doubts about obeying. He did not
believe in such an early convention and
in the secret methods of the Andrews
Barker ring, Finally, However, he decid-
ed to go and made out his own creden-
tials emitting him to two votes. Tie voted
for the Delamater outfit. but regretted it.
He was aboat the only delegate who paid
for his own dinner and railroad fare.
Harry Kinkead was TO have arranged for
Huey's expenses but did u0t see him.
Huey thinks that the Barker rinr j. ret
ting too bold and too hrggi,h, and says
one of these days the people will smash
this ring into bits.
Upper Iodcr township primaries were
held at the usual polling place, at the
Whisky Spring Hotel, and about thirty
voters wele on hand. There were three
candidates. Robert Barclay, William Gil |
bert and David Barnhard, the two first
being elected. The three names were
written on a sheet OF paper, and voters
made mark opposite their choice. Bar
clay and Gilbert were set up by Kinkead.
There was no regular election board, the
men who made out the papers were not
sworn and only such men as were known
to be all right and in favor of tie ring
candidates were told about the primary.
Washington town ship, upper district
SudlIihdu I1dlhCE WIOlG W JOuu w. I1dll
at Cresson and told him to come up and
bring Philip Pritch. There were no pri-
maries. The papers were made out in
Ebensburg after the delegates arrived.
Hall has since the Convention received |
an appointment in the Census Bureau in
Washington through the efforts of An
drews and Barker.
White township-John G. Gates. who |
has been county official and member
of the Assembly, and who is again can
didate for the Lower House. promptly |
obeyed Barker's summons to attend the |
Convention. He took with him Giles
Stevens and they made out their own pa
pors. There were no primaries.
Johnstown and most of the southern
districts were manipulated by George
Thomas Swank and Harry Kinkead and
Henry Wilson Storey. Their methods
were the same as those of Barker and
Davis in the Northern districts
Conemaugh borough, First ward-W.
W. Cope aud A. S. Aaron were asked to
Dc delegates by the Andrews people.