The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-05-20

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dent has not bored your readers with much.
ado about-nothing letter recently. When l
can find anything of interest you may de-
pend upon it will dress it up and serve it
up for you.
With the foregoing short apologize pream-
BILE let me deal little with the great
problems which are to be solved this fall.
The first is who is going to be elected
Judge?
Judge Weidman is making an excellent
impression on the Bench. He is studious
hArdworking and painstaking, and the
people are.beginning TO find out that even if
the Governor was mean enough to spurn
Republican claims to Judge Green's seat, he
gave us pretty good Democratic Judge at
any rate. Governor Pattison is to be excused
for not knowing much about men. He never
associated much with them. His acquaint-
ance with people was almost limited to the
jOurneymen soul savers who thrOng camp
meetings and such places before he went into
the executive office, and since then he has
had to depend upon such wonders as Hensel
and Harrity to tell him who the people are.
So when he was told that Mason Weidman,
Esq, would make good Judge, that he was
genial goo1 soul with a iolly-along
countenance and withal a hard worker and
conscientious some one got very close to the
Governors left ear who knew that the
Governor didn't know but wanted to know
| Just who to appoint, if he appointed Demo-
crat, and that was the Governors particular
game just at the time.
AND IT MAY COME TO PASS.
Judge Weidman took his seat and took the
peoples fancy at the same time. For his
part the new Judge is playing well and the
Democratic convention will not be forgetting
its lines if it endorses him as its nominee,
But-and there is always a but interposing
! itself-what are the whoop- -'er-up boys of the
unterrified going to do about it? They are
| quietly going to serve notice on the Governor
and his advisers that they have another
candidate for the Judgeship, besides the one to
who he gave prestige by naming him as his
choice. They are organizing an aggressive
campaign and it may come to pass that the
local Democratic ticket in Schuylkill county
this fall will be headed by George j. Wad.
linger, Esq. He has the organization at his
back and host at his heels who will cry out
in loud voice that the Governor may pro.
pose but the people will dispose.
This is to be the contest this year in the
Democratic fold.
| Mr.. sRLTZER HAS THE FIELD.
On the Republican side William D. Seltzer,
Esq, has the field all to himself 1t is a
pretty large field and William fills it pretty
we'll He has many friends in both parties
and while it would pay him better to remain
at the Bar and attend to his large and grow
| ing practice, he and his friends feel that the
honor Of this nomination belongs to the man
who has done so much for his party in by
gone days. In campaigning Mr.. Seltzer
always was the war horse who Travelled at his
own expense for other people, No committee
/ ever had to stake him to 60 out and stump
the county He is almost alone in this par
ticular among the orators Of both parties. To
get most Of them out you must first cross
| their palms with enough to set 'em-up and a
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itous work Mr.. Settler has done for his
party. He has never received preferment IN
all his life, but has always been ste ID aside
for some one else, Whenever he lad ambi,
ton for office some one else generally popped
up for the same thing and Mr.. Seltzer grace,
fully withdrew from the field because he was
asked to yield to the other fellow, This time
he has come to stay and will yield to no one
and if he is nominated he will show the
people of this county one of the strongest
Republican candidates whoever headed q
ticket Stimmt fur del Settler
AS TO SOME OTHER PLACES.
The present outlook for the Commissioners
/ ticket is-on the Republican side-C. d
Arters, of fremont, and b. r. Severn, o
! Shenandoah; and as to other opponents
John S. Martin, of Pinegrove and Pottsyille
and p, J, Ferguson, from above the Broad
mountain. The treasurership is still contested
closely by your toWnsmen, Messrs. Muldoor
and Folmer in the majority party, with the
Republican still to hear from. Clerk ToolC
viii be re-nominated for his present post and