The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1892-11-16
Af,sr s,.ot,on oss. ana Ends.

Berliners propose having an OK roast in
honor OF Cleveland's election The day has
not yet been announced of course si'ss
Lichty win be master of ceremonies.
Democrats all over the county are busy
asking their friends to sign their petitions
for Office. and when they are unsuccessful
in this they ask them not TO ssgu for the
other fellow.
Our Democratic exchanges have contained
so many rocsiers during the past few days
tha; the HERALD Office has been converted
into veritable poultry yard. We are fond
Of chickens bot We don't ike the breed
In Montgomery county Farmer" Tag
art, who va, Ssast0r C4mer on's opponent
st the last session OF the Legislature, was
defeated on Tuesday for reelection. Four
Republicans and one Democra. were elected
Pennsylvania delegation in the present
Congress is composed Of II Republicans and
II Democrats They will be succeeded BY
p Republicans and eight Democrats. two
members being gained by the reapportion-
ment
John Biesecker, Of Jsnner township, was
appointed by the Court return Judge 70 car
" the Official vote for congress IN this coun-
ty to Holidsysburg. whore the vote of the
district is computed Mr.. Bies.eker lefs for
HolidAysburg Monday evening.
Harrison's plurality in Penrsylyanis viii
reach almost Go,oO0. TIE resarns show that
there hs, been slump Of nearly 1900
votes from Ii. vote cast two year. sgo- The
result indicates that the Baker ballot law
proved scarce. crow in some sections
A. A. Sgutzmaa, sx-Regi,ter and Record
er Of this county, was the R4publican can
didate for ProthOnOtary in Cambria county
at the last election. Nothin. strange in
Aby's" being = candidate, but be came
within several hundred vote. of being elect
ed
The Ohio Republicans elec. their Slate
ticke; by greatly reduced majority and
ten out CT tesniy-ore C0nsre-smen. Twenty
two out oftwsniy-three Republican elector,
carry the State. The one Democrat slipped
in through mistakes made in marking the
ballots.
Our friends Of the Tedetie are not satisfied
with filing their paper with roos:erS, and
are so full of crow that they have placed
live cock in their .anctEm sanctorum. We
should not be a; all surprised 10 learn that
the editors Of that nersy Journal had died
Of "crowitus"
The contest in Montgomery county was rs-
markably close and the official count chang
ed the result previously announced. The
Democratic candidate for County Treasurer
was elected by plurality of :, and the Re
p1blican candidate for Sheriff was elected
BY plurality of vote.
Two surprising results OF TIE election in
Kansas, which have up to this time escaped
general notice, are beginning to attract uni
vsrsal attention. one is the carryiu, of the
proposition to hold : constitutional conven-
tioa and the other is the cessation OF the en-
fOrcement of the prohibitory laws
The first formal move toward the re-elec-
ton Of Senator Quay rsS made at PhiIsdel-
phia Saturday, at a meeting held by tie
eight Senatorial representatives from that
city, when resolutions suiogistic of the Ja-
nior Senator and picdging the support OF
those present to his reelection were passed.
There are few II any newspapers in Penn
sylvania that would suspend publication
for two weeks in order to get ont a job of
printing. Thi. is what the Msyersd.Ee
Regi.s,r did, however. in order TO print the
ballot. for Somerset county. We presume
bo th the R,gisf-r and its patrons are to Be
felicitaisd.
Now that the slsctoss OF Pennsylvania
have cas-. their first vote under the Baker
ballot la-, the concensu, Of opinion IS ths;
the new mode Of voting i. a vast improve
meni over The former method Som. oom-
plant !. still heard in regard to the manner
of certifying nominations from the Slate De
partment to the County Commissioners.
EI-Consre.sm,n MeCom.s, Secretary Of
the National Republican Committee, j, in
hot vat.r. he j. charged with being
responsible for the defeat Of Wellington, the
Republican candidate for Congress, in bis
district It Is probable that McConas lssrn-
ed ihi, method Of campaigning from the
Somerset county statesman Who assisted
him on The stunPs few years sso.
Many persons believe that the election
board al Redwood over.ieppsd the marx
when they refused to take the ballots Of
electors who had made bet. on the election.
1t j. said that they did not wait FOR TIE voter
to be challenged, bet the judge had prepared
list Of all those who we're reported to have
made bets and put the question st them
when they offered to vote Several of the
reisc.ed ones are very indignant and threat
en- to bring suit against tie beard
In view ofal the discussion in regard to
the intrie.cies surrounding the b.llo, I.E
the vote in this county va, remarkably free
from error. So f.rSre have been abe TO
learn less than dozen voter, lost their IN
tire ballot on account Of being unsbl. to
make up their ballots in accorlancs with
the act OF Assembly. Tbs returns show that
forty sight Republicans, twenty -sersn Dem
ccr,,s, ten Prohibitionist, and three popu-
list, lost their entire ballot. except the first
clector, oy reason o, being unzole to mark
their ballots correctly.
The new ballot law entsiled an enormous
amount of labor in the distribution OF bal
lots. blanks and. other election stationery
from the Office Of the County Commission
ers to the thirty-nine election districts in
the county. The area OF our county IS Of the
largest in the State aud it IS nearly thirty
miles from the Court Hos.e to some of the
election houses. When this fact is taken
int consideration. with the further fact,
that only few Of the districts can Be reach
Cd by rail and that the Commissioners lad
to drive to a majority of them, some idea Of
the labor they had to perform in the four
days preceding the election can be formed.
Il was day and night work bat the Com
missioaers performed it successfully and
there was not a slip up. Then, too thu
| Commissioners felt the responsibility resting
upon them in carrying cut the many re
guirenents OF new ani uniried law sue
cessfolly, and were constantly snnoyed by
the questions fired At them in regard to The
law by every person who got shot at them