Johnstown weekly Democrat. (Johnstown, Cambria County, Pa.) 1889-1916, 1890-03-28


DDS in the County Laid Bare.
Tuesday evenings Pittsburgh ChrOn-
iele Telegraph contains the lengthy, but
interesting article given below:
JoHNsTowN, PA, March "a,
THE MAN OF VICTORY.
"If eUer there aoas a man of 0ict0ry that
person is Senator G. W. Delamater he
captures all hearts and passes on from sta
tiOn to station, climbing higher and higher
on each occasion.
" AH eyes are nOW turned upon US j; aoe
are passing IN re0jeaO before the Republicans
OT Pennsylvania. ~ From an editorial by
Chairman Andrews in his Meadville
Trt6une-Repn6Ijcan, March 4, 1901
How does the "man of victory" cap
ture hearts
What is the result of the passing in re-
view?
The county of Cambria was stolen by
Chairman Andrews for Delamater.
The political history of Pennsylvania
contains no chapter more shameful.
The audacity of the men who planned
this cold bloodcd steal was not accom-
panied by an equal shrewdness and care
fulness.
Thinking that the endorsement and
support of Andrews would shield them,
the men who stole Cambria and sold it to
the State Chairman and his Standard Oil
Company Gubernatorial candidate, threw
prudence and caution TO the winds.
Several counties of this Commonwealth
have ostensibly selected delegates to the
State Convention in the interest of G.
Wallace Delamater, of Meadville.
Cambria is ore of these counties, and
the story Of the methods employed in it
by Andrews Eliminates the dark spots in
all them.
Not q single legal o0te aoaS cast IN
Cambria county at the January Re
publican primaries, get 1t rolled up
1876 0OteS for Boyer at the FaU
election, taoO months preUiOuS.
Fifty-four districts had representatives
in the so-called Convention of Janu-
ary 9th, at Ebeusburg, and 1O4 votes
were recorded.
Not a single man 'oho mos present
tad q right to 0ote.
There was not legally elected dele
gate in the Convection.
George T. Swank and Florentine Bar
ker, who were selected as " delegates " to
the State Convention and " instructed" to
vote for q. Wallace Delamater, have no
more right to place in the Republican
Convention which names the candidate
for Governor, than two newsboys from
the slums of New York.
HOW THE STEAL WAS PLANNED.
1t was in September last that the plot
to steal the county was born. Chairman
Andrews visited Johnstown with ii. X.
Boyer, then a candidate for State Treas
urer, and had a conference with several
Cambria county otticeholders and Office
seekers. Then he visited Ebensburg and
saw the postmaster, who hitherto has had
some strength in the northern districts of
the county, After this there were several
conferences between Andrews and Della
mater on the one side and these Cambria
men on the other. These meetings took
place in Pittsburgh, in Blairsvile, on the
trains of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany and at other places where they were
not likely to attract attention and arouse
suspicion.
The final conference to settle the detais-
of the programme, to deliver the last in
stallment of cash and to distribute prom |
ises of reward in the shape of Federal |
offices, was in Blairsville January 23d; |
two days before the time fixed for the |
primary elections.
At this time George w. Delamater met |
Florentine Barker, Chairman of the Re-
publican Committee of Cambria county,
Henry W. Storey and Henry D. Kinkesd,
and the scheme was agreed upon and ac-
counts were settled up to date. No less
a parsonage than Mr.. Delamter himself is
authority for this statement. The Cam
bria politicians were too shrewd to 90
openly to a hotel and register. They
held their meeting in private residence
where they could be free from surveill
lance.
Delamater went to Blairsville from