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

! men they were to be delegates and drum
ming up the laggards.
Some men who had not even heard of
| the primaries or the proposed Conven-
| tion" were given their credentials and
railroad tickets Monday morning ut tie
same time that they were told of the
Ebe asburg meeting and that they were
/ TO attend it. THIS was the very cream of
Andrews county methods, locally APP
! piled.
Make it full convention" he had
told his leaders, 'send men from as many
| districts as possible"
-" Do the thing so it looks all right"
had been the command of Delamater two
! days before at Bl,irsville.
! A full convention it should be and a
full one il was. Swank's Tribune in the
editorial defense already quoted from, de-
clared: The convention was remark
able for several reasons First, because
{ OF the unusual fullness Of representation,
| especially when it is remembered that
| there was no work to be done except
electing delegates TO the State COnvcn-
tion and declaring the choice of the party
in the county for Governor
| That was bad editorial MetAinks the
! editor doth protest too much ! It's asser-
tions are crude falstications and its argu-
ments are absurdities. 1t crucies the
Andrews ringsters in the light of the now
known facts. 1t holds them up to public
scorn and derision, and was as unwise,
| imprudent, and unnecessary as many of
the violations of law committed before
and during that memorable and disgrace
full gathering at Ebensburg.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company's
depot at Johnstown was a lively place on
the morniug of January 9th. The twenty
seven delegates from the Johnstown
wards and at least thirteen from the ad
iaccnt districts were there with their
friends.
Candidate for. Postmaster Storey was
busy as chaperone. He had fixed several
delegates with the papers necessary to
get them into the convention, and with
one of the staff of the Tribune he bought
the railroad tickets for his political sheep.
Forty tickets at S1.75 each he gave out to
the delegates, going among them with his
handful of pasteboard strips with Il laugh,
a joke or word of caution and advice.
Mr.. Storey is lawyer. Did he not know
that this act alone was a violation of the
election laws of the State Did he not
know in spending the money furnished
by Andrews TO him and to Andrews by
the Standard OIL Company, for the trans
portation of delegates pledged by him to
vote for Delamater, he was as guilty of
bribery as though he had given each man
a thousand dollar bill?
The train left Johnstown with the dele
gates on board at 1913, and reached Ebens-
burg shortly after noon.
There were busy times in Ebensburg on
that same morning. The same tactics
nh ~, IL,
tricts. not represented, were used in the
north. In one case a man who had gone
to Ebeusburg to attend to some business
III connection with his store and who
knew nothing about the convention was
pressed into service as delegate and
given credentials made out in Ebensburg
by the Andrews Barker people. In this
way there was "full convention, ," there
being 10S votes present out Of possible
11S.
HOW DELAMATRR WAS ENDORSED.
The convention was called to order in
Armory Hall, across the street from the
handsome building in which they try the
criminals in Cambria county. The loca-
tion did not deter the Andrews conspira-
tors. They looked out of the windows
and saw the figure of Justice on the dome
of the Court House and promptly pro-
ceeded to carry out their nefarious and
illegal bargain.
Chairman Barker; by virtue of his office,
called the convention to order and briefly
announced that two State delegates were
to be elected.
F. w, Coke, of Johnstown, clerk in
the Cambria Iron Company, and Samuel
d. Patterson, OF Barr township, were ap-
pointed secretaries. The roll of the dele
gates was then called. and Irwin Rut-
ledge, an alderman of Johnstown and
confidential agent of Swank, pro onptly
moved to make the temporary organiZa-
ton permanent.
This was agreed to, and by this means
Florentine Barker presided over the con-
vention.
This in itself was clearly illegal Bar
ker was not elected as delegate to the
convention, he was not substituted by
any so-called delegate and had no shadow
of right to De chairman Of that conven-
tion or to take part in its deliberations
after its permanent organization. His
action was entirely in keeping with the
whole performance.
Before anybody else had a chance to
say anything, Thomas Davis (Jackson)
spIdu5 up, anu Win lnuCn uOuflSn, he
proceeded to read the following high |
flown resolutions
RPSo,Ued, That it is the sentiment of the Re-
publicans OF Cambria county that the western |
part OF the state is entitled to the nominee 10
Governor and further, that they favor the |
nomination OF that able and brilliant states |
man, Hon. George w. Deamater. OF Crawford |
county, who is an able exponent OF Republican |
principles and would make a safe and efficient
Chief Executor.
ReS0iUed, BY the Republican party OF Cambria |
county, In convention assembled, that the del |
egates this day elected TO the Republican State |
convention be and are hereby instructed TO
support and use all honorable means to secure
the nomination OF Hon, George w, Delamater
for Governor
Resolved, That Geo. Il. Swank and F. II. Bar
ker be chosen delegates to represent Cambria
county In the Republican State Convention.
There were protests at this, but the
body of the delegates were not kickers.
Peter Campbell, postmaster of Carroll
town, moved to insert the name Of Hast
ings for that of Delamater.
w. F. Cook, of Stonycreek township,
one OF the most prominent Republicans
in the county, declared the Davis resolu-
tion was unfair, and that if men were fit
to be delegates they were fit to go with
out instructions.
The Chair gave nobody chance to
talk, but rushed through vote on Camp
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