The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1893-11-23
Thursday, ,November23, 1898.
Another Of Leshefs Mistakes.

An old adage says, MISERY loves
company The truthfulness of this
time honored saying is exemplifed
in last weeks issue of .he Selins-
grove Trmes under an article head
ed Where the fault lies" in which
Lesher. the "Star' of the Snyder
county Democracy, tries TO wriggle
himself out of the "hole" into which
he has gotten by his own stupidity,
by attempting TO throw the blame
Of not having the candidates for the
Office of Associate Judge certified to
the State Department.. upon the
Commissioners Clerk For Mr..
Lesher's express ediiication and in
formation | will here state that two
months before the election ! wrote
to the State Department asking
them what nominations. if any,
should be filed with them from the
Commissioner Office. The reply j
received was none. As the Associ-
ate Judge draws his salary from the
State Department, he is evidently II
state officer. This fact il further
confirmed by the fact that he re-
ceives his commission from the
Department of State. Certainly,
there his nomination should be Ger
titled to the same Department. The
State Department has IN plain Eng
lish said that the certificate of his
nomination shall not come from the
County Commissioners. Where
then is it to come from There Is
only one other place from which it
could come. viz : From tie County
Chairman This view is corrobor-
ated by the legal opinions of Judges
Gllkeson and Furst.
In view Of these facts and
opinions, Mr.. Lesher must daddy
the responsibility and must admit
that it was through his own blind
ignorance that the name of II. q.
Fiss did not appear on the official
aist of nominations, sent to this Of
rorr AZ election
/ saw tifoy- for
Associate Judge ,SJ.,lv the
above mentioned oilicia lsr, sa,t it
was not my busin IS t. st, or Mr.
Lesher's dear litti political boat"
clear of the maelstrom of public
criticism.
1 am employed by the Commits
sioners and not as Mr. Lesher's
private secretary.
He further says that AL names
must be printed on the ticket, un-
less objections are filed III writing
Is days before the election" This
is true of properly filed county NOM
nations. But in State nominations,
Of which the nominee for Associate
Judge is one, the legal time for fill
ing objections is u days
Mr.. Lesher further states that
''the Commissioners Clerk should
have seen this, for the law is plain.
] admit that the law is plain, and
the Commissioners Clerk did see il, |
and is willing to have his acts pass
ed upon by any twelve men III Sny-
der county, whose minds are un-
prejudiced. But this clause in the |
Ballot Law was evidently not plain |
cnOugh for Mr.. Lesher's undevelop- |
ed mind 10 grasp, or he would have |
sent the nomination of II. c. Fiss to |
the State Department according to |
Section of the Revised Ballot Law
Of 1893.
Should Mr., Lesher still be of the
opinion that the Jd,W lies ,cith the
Commissioners clerk, would ad- |
wise him to make information |
against the Commissioner Clerk, |
according to Section 33 Revised Bal
lot Law Of 1898, and then we will
see who will have to undergo one
years Imprisonment or pay $1,000
Mr.. Lesher or the Commission
er's Clerk.
Mr.. Lesher should be thankful to
the COMMISSIONER Clerk for help
ing to keep him out of a ''hole" into
which he was liable to fall, by not
having his county nominations filed
according to law, for had not the
afore mentioned Clerk written to
him two days before the last day for
filing county nominations, telling
him that in two more days the time
for filing said county nominations
would expire, the probabilities are
that the Democratic party would
have had no ticket to vote on Nov. :. |
In place of thanks for this act of
L.: 1,,-.... NJ. T,.l,.,, t,.;o- J.. III