The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1892-03-04
ABOUT THOSE TICKETS

printed at this Office on Monday evening did
not contain the names of the poor directors.
The tickets were printed just as they were
ordered by the candidates, without one name
added or taken off, and the reason that the
tickets were printed without the names of
the poor directors was simply this-it was
the opinion of all that the tickets would be
voted just as they had been in the past the
town ticket to 90 in one box and The poor
directors to go in a separate box. When the
poll opened Mr.. Buckingham and Mr. Brown
went to the election boards and induced them
to use but one box, thereby making it neces-
sary to vote poor director on the same ticket
Then it was that tickets were ordered with
poor director on including the name of Mr..
Dentlcr, with vote left blank. - This is the
whole story about the tickets and what could
have induced the COLUMBIAN to so malicious
ly misreprcsent the facts is more than we can
understand. Certainly any man with any
regard for truth and decency would not have
done so."-Sentipe', Ftb. 26h
Well, let us see how near we came
10 the truth about the ticket business.
Ir the first place, the above admits
that one thing we said was true, namely
that the tickets first printed at the
Sentinel office did not contain the
names Of the Poor Directors. In the
second place we have the positive as
surance of a reliable man who was
present when the tickets were ordered
that no order was given to leave the
names of the Poor Directors off, but
on the contrary it was fully expected
that the tickets would be printed with
the names of all Democratic candi.
dates on Them. William Krickbaum
was present, so he cannot play his
usual trick of putting the blame on the
manager, or the reporter the boys,
or somebody else. On the morning of
the election when it was found how
the tickets were printed, the person
who called for them refused to take
them because the Poor Directors
names we're not on them, and he came
to the COLUMBIAN Office and got some
tickets that were printed according to
law and custom. This omission Of the
names; the fact that persons in Krick-
baum's employ solicited votes for others
than the regular Democratic nominees
for Bloom Poor Directors and the fur
ther fact that William Krickbaum and
John S. Williams had quarrel in the
Prothonotary's Office the day after the
election, and the former attempted to
apologize in the evening by saying that
he was in bad humor because he dill
not like the ,oay the election ace,st, all
point to the inevitable conclusion that
the names were Intentionally omitted.
But he says the reason why the tick
cts were so printed was "that it was
the opinion of all that the tickets would
be voted just as they had been in the
past the town ticket in one box and
poor directors to go in separate box"
The tickets have not been so voted
in the past. Within our recollec-
tion, we have never printed the poor
district tickets as separate
ticket and J. C. Brown, editor
OF the Republican, says that he
never printed them in that way. Fl
nally, we have been handed ticket
identified as containing the names of
persons voted for at the Blooms
burg election in 1850, the last
poor district election, and also ident-
flied as having been printed at
the Sentinel Office at that time and
in the body of the ticket it contains
the names of c. A. Klein and l.. M.
Petit for poor directors not on a
separate ticket, nor separable, but all
under the head of EAST District" and
to be voted in one box In the face
of these facts Krickbaum's claim that
the tickets were printed just as they
had been in the past, is too thin. If
he had said that he had forgotten how
he printed them only three years ago,
it might have been excusable.
In all that we said, there was Meth
er malice nor misrepr esentation. We
have given the facts as they exist, and
can be proven, and "any man with any
regard for truth and decency" would
not attempt to deny them when con
fronted by such evidence as the ticket
printed by himself at the last poor dis
trlct election and in the very way which
he says it has not been printed in the
past.
This subject has already occupied too
much space, but when we have the
proof positive of our statements at
hand we shall not withhold them when
accused of malicious misrepresenta-
tion."