The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-12-16

Positively Stated the Deal is
Not Broken.
NO RESULT YESTERDAY
The Meeting at the County Jail Was a Hot
One, but Commissioner-elect Allen still
Remains Firm-Sot Disturbed by Threats
of impeachment.

Special Herald Correspondence.
TAMAQUA, Dec. l6.-The report published
in last nights issue Of a Pottsville paper that
the Allen Martin deal had baen broken was
positively not correct.
Your correspondent is not at liberty to give
the source Of his information, but it can be
stated with certainty that the deal is not
broken and will not be-
On Friday County Chairman w. j. White
house, w. T. Davies, of Tamaqua, County
Commissioners. elect Allen and Martin, Hon.
s. A. Losch and j. o. Ulrich, Esq, met at
tho county Jail. The meeting was a stormy
one.
Mr.. Whitehouse told Mr.. Allen that as
chairman OF the Republican party of Schuyl-
kill county he wanted to see a reform in the
management Of the county affairs. At times
the conversation drifted TO criticism and the
exchanges were hot The meeting resulted
in nothing and the deal still stands.
MIR. Whitehouse brought all the power of
arguments and threats to bear during the
interview and at one time Mr.. Allen was
threatened with impeachment if he failed to
make an arrangement with Mr. Rentz, but
neither threats or persuasion had any effect
The public does not fully understand this
Allen affair. / am in position to say that Mr..
Allen has positive proof that Reutz arranged
| secret meetings with the Martin people and
that plan had been made for deal by
Rentz with Martin week ago last Friday,
| the very day Allen and Martin made their
| agreement. The substance Of the whole mat
ter is, that had Mr.. Allen failed to do what
he did he would to-day be in the position
that Mr.. Rentz finds himself
When spoken to about the threats of i'm
parchment Mr.. Allen scotled them. Hi.
friends say that if such steps are taken simi.
lar proceedings will be instituted at once
against two other Republican officials elect.
The threatened impeachment rests upon
assertions that Mr. Allen made promises be.
fore the election. This he says is false He
denies that he made any promises directly OF
indirectly before the election; but says if the
matter is not dropped he will produce some
evidence about promises that will make mat
ters warm for somebody.
Your correspondent is positively assured
that the deal is NOT broken and NO amount Of
! persuasion or threats can break it,
Miss Jennie q. BOYD has gone to Phiadel
phia to spend a week with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. w. Thomas of Llusford
spent Friday here visiting friends.
Miss Florence L. Behal, of Philadelphia, is
the guest of Mr. and Mrs Sig, Livingston.
Prothonotary elect James Deegan and
Commissioner-elect Frank Rentz spent Thurs
day in town.
Claude G. Milestone, of the Philadelphia
visited his parents here this week Inquirer,
The engagement of Geooge W. Krell, OF
this place, and Miss Josie B. Simpson, of Lans-
ford, has been annoeuced
Since George Jacobs has been manager Of
Aliens opera house we have been getting
some of the best plays on the road. Mr.
Jacobs is the youngest manager in the county
if not in the state, but is probably one of the
best known in the profession. He has beer
assistant manager ever since the erection o
the opera house and during Commissioner
elect Allen campaign had entire charge
John J. Kelly, clerk at the P. & R. station
has been made ticket seller.