Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1893-08-03

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thought will very likely be the
ticket. He has been pretty !
well over the county lately, as
his business calls him to all
parts, and therefore he is
given opportunities to make a
careful estimate of the work
the convention in all 'probabil-
ity will do.
Here is his expectation of
the composition of the next
Democratic county ticket:
Controllers. w. Boyd.
Treasurer-W. M. Alexan-
der.
Register-John j. Brislin.
Commissioners-Ed. Burke,
John Helferty.
"This is not my choice as a
sure winning ticket said my
prophetical friend, "but from
what l can gather l think the
men l have named, with posi-
bly, one exception, will be the
successful candidates. There
may be a slate fixed up in the
courthouse somewhat different
from this, but if so is has been
kept in a dark corner yet"
l asked him if Boyd would
not be opposed strongly in
some quarters on account of
his frequent tilts with several
of the influential politicians.
He acknowledged that the
Wilkes-Barre editor will have
to make steady fight, espe-
cially as his opponent, NJ. A.
Quinn, of Plains, is a popular
young man, but he felt certain
that Boyd had the inside track
and would win. His reason
for regarding Alexander as a
winner against Roger McGarry
in the treasurership battle was
based upon nationality. He
says it is one of the offices
which invariably goes by
"turns" to the leading ele-
ments of the party, and,
though a friend of McGarry,
he would not consider it good
politics to nominate him for
treasurer this year.
When | mentioned that there
were faint rumors of a scheme
to "freeze out" Brislin from a
place on the ticket he smiled
in a most significant manner.
"Brislin," he said, will hold
his own in any part of the
county. If there is one can
didate who will go into that
convention with a following
strong enough to control the
field he is the man. The little
politicians who may be making
plots and combinations to keep
Democrats off the ticket will
be begging Brislin's support
when the delegates are elected.
Mark my words on that point"
| tried to get some informa-
ton from him upon the com
missioner question, and after
a short thinking spell said he
could not give me any definite
reasons for prophesizing Burke
and Helferty as the winners.
"Perhaps," he said, 81 am mis-
taken on these candidates.
know Dullard is going to sur
prise some people with his
strength, and Tom McGraw is
not sleeping, as many suppose.
However, the nominations will
depend to great extent upon
the sort of a campaign the can
dida6es will conduct in their
efforts to obtain delegates. If
they unnecessarily antagonize
men who are looking for other
offices they should not expect
to have their hopes encour-
aged at the convention by the
friends of those whom they
are now trying to defeat" l
thought that a sensible remark
and one which some of the can
didates for commissioner might
ponder upon with profit to
themselves.
Locally, politics have not yet
reached the point termed by
the newspapers as "red-hot. T"
There is enough skirmishing
for votes, however, to keep the
average Democrat from for
getting that he is wanted on
the afternoon of August 10 to
cast his vote at the delegate
election. The mention of the