Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-10-29
STARTED THE PRESSES.
The Ballots for Allegheny County
Being Printed Rapidly.
THEY WILL BE ISSUED ON TINE.
The Form Of Tickets Said to He Illegal
and Irregular.
VOTERS NAY YET BE DIsFBAXcHISED

The Pittsburg Printing Company, at II
o'clock last night. began printing the
official ballots for Allegheny county. The
publican candidates for Congress in the
Twenty-fourth district, reached at Harris
burg on Thursday, delayed the printing
until the last possible minute.
| The official form of the ballot arrived in
Pittsburg last night by mail. The letter
was delivered to Webb Murray, chief clerk
to the Commissioners The official form
was by him certified to the Com.
missioners and was then turned over
to the printing company. The several
forms of ballots for Allegheny county had,
by that concern. been put in type and the
great presses OF the firm were all ready to
start when the certified ballot was COM
pared with the form they had already pre-
pared. The Acheson-J Jobes controversy in
the Twenty-fourth district, in which part
of Allegheny county is embraced, had de-
layed the printing for a week at least, and
when the official form was received no time
was lost in starting the machinery so that
the ballots may gotten out within the speci-
fed time.
Carefully Guarding the Ballots.
While many of the official ballots were
printed last night no one, not even the
county authorities, were allowed to see one
of them last night The presses will be
kept running constantly until the printing
is completed.
eve are trife late at starting" the
manager of the Pittsburg Printing Company
said last night, "but." he went on, eve will
get the work out in accordance with our
contract. The cards of instructions have
been printed and are now being pasted and
bound. All the work will be out before We
attempt to rest"
Notwithstanding the fact that the bal.
lots are now being printed, I am satisfied
tho Democratic County Committee, said
last night. 'Section IA of the Baker ballot
law says positively that the candidates for
each Office shall be arranged under the
designation of the office in alphabetical order
according to surnames. This section of the
law has not been followed in the arrangement
of the ballots for Allegheny county. This
beyond question makes the ballot illegal
and any court in the land will 50 decide.
Another section of the Baker law provides
q severe penalty for printing illegal ballots,
and there may yet be serious trouble over
the election, which later on may be declared
invalid"
VIII Wait Until the Spring.
Mr. Bremen said that he would not move
in regard to the construction of the ballots.
He said that some OF the other county
chairmen might move in the matter. 'We
will pay no attention to the matter now,
but we will certainly have the court pass on
the question before the spring election,
Mr.. Bremen said.
The people of Fayette county are con-
siderably worked up through fear that the
election in their county will not be legally
held in November. The Sheriff's procla-
nation must, according to the law, be
posted throughout the county, as we'll as
be printed in the county papers.
before II o'clock tonight, which
will be the required time
before the election. The Jobes- Aches dis
pute was not settled in Harrisburg until
Thursday night, and, as a certified copy of
the official ballot must be embodied in the
proclamation, the document cannot issue
until the official ballot arrives from Harris
burg, and the registered letter containing
the certified ballot is not likely to arrive at
Uniontown before noon to-day. This will
make it necessary to get the proclamation
printed and distributed before midnight,
which, it is feared, will be impossible.
Sheriff McCormick's attorneys attempted
to get the registered letter from the Pitts
burg Office last night. but they were not
successful. They believed that if the letter
was given them in Pittsburg last night,
they could hurry it to Uniontown before
daylight this morning.