The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-03-31
Political Representations BY
an Old Correspondent.
FHE STATE AND COUNTY
Hon. James B. Reilly VIII Undoubtedly
Receive REORGANIZATION for Congress,
But There Is "A Haziness About His
Ability to Beat shoener or Brumn.
speciAl to the HERALD.

PoTTsvILLE, March 3O.-It will be most
surprising if politics in this county, es-
pecially within the ranks of the Demo:
cracy, does not commence to wax hotter
and hotter fromsthe beginning of the in
coming spring month and so continue
until the close Of the fall campaign.
There are various causes which have
united to quicken political ardor so early
this year and the most obtuse observer
cannot fail to name them. Prominent
and most noticeable of these causes are the
sweeping Republican victories of last
November and February and the naming
of an early state convention by the com
mittee of tnat party for the nomination
of principal state officers of Governor,
Lieutenant Governor, Auditor General
and Secretary of Internal Affairs.
GOVERNOR DAN
1t goes without saying that prince of
good fellows and Natures nobleman, ex-
Adjutant General Daniel Il. Hastings, of
Centre county, nominally and of the
United States, universally, will be nom
mated by acclamation for Governor by
the convention and elected almost unan-
imously by the people. 1t matters little
whether Walter Lyon, of Pittsburg. or
Jack" Robinson, of Chester county, gets
on the ticket for Lieutenant Governor, or
Auditor General and Secretary of Internal
Affairs. Ii is conceded by all right-minded
Democrats that saltpetre wouldn't save
from defeat any state ticket the Demo-
cracy may place in the field and that
party is now actually going begging for
state candidates this year.
THAT DOG WON'T FIGHT.
There is, for instance, Pop Singerly, of
the Philadelphia Record, who would like
to succeed his dear friend, Bobby Patti
son, and become "Your EXcellency" for a
term, but all the Establishments of his
friends, Aleck Mcclure, of the Times, and
Charles Emory Smith, of the Press, tend
ing to bring out the smart and willy
Record owner are like pouring water on a
ducks back. No. that dog won't fight'
this time, and it will be difficult to find
one that will. So our friends in the hope
less ranks of Squire McMullens party
have virtually given over the state offices
to the party of General Hastings and
War-horse Grow, two winners from
Winners Creek-away up.
LET Us BE BRIEF
After an absence from the journalist
field for time it becomes your CORES
pondent to be epigrammatic rather than
too prosy in his first essay. So let it be.
/ know your valuable columns are
crowded with more entertaining reading
than any lengthy article of mine on
political affairs can possibly be, so l will
simply give you what l think is informR-
tion.
Recently Congressman Reilly told me
that he would have little or no opposition
for reorganization in the convention. "By
that time, he said, my opponents will
have seen the futility of kicking against
the inevitable" This was weeks before
the county committee meeting of the oath
inst, when Reilly's victory for Stoffregan
over Mr.. Murtha p Quinn and his alter
ego in politics, Big Jack, was so well
earned, If not so pronounced, and his
words seem most prophetic, because it is
pretty well established that Hon j. b. r.
will be re-nominated by his party for his
old job.
"AYE, THERE'S THE RUB"
But how about the election if either
John II. Shoener or Hon G. N. Brumm
are pitted against him? Mr.. Sassy Ag-
gressive Losch is not in it for the office
of Congress or anything else, this time, so
| can afford to be very epigrammatic so
far as he is concerned. He has made
enemies of one-half of the Republicans in
the county by his recent actions on Court
House hill while losing nearly the entire |
following he had in the Democratic ranks
which saved him from defeat for Legisla-
ture two years ago If he ever shows his !
barren pate in a contest for Office again he |
will see how voters will as easily desert
his cause as before they rallied to his sup
port. The people of this county are about
done with the politician who lives off the
business and can't live without it.
HOW ABOUT SHERIFF?
Mr.. Reilly's nomination will have no
effect on the nomination for sheriff, un-
less too many of one kind force themselves
to the front The Congressman will then
have to favor man whose candidacy
will strengthen the ticket Given the
nominee for Congress south of Broad
mountain, the present sheriff being also
from that section, the nomination for the |
latter Office will belong to north of the |
mountain. This makes the chances of
your townsman, Hon. II. j, Higgins, |
superior to all competitors If a Demo- |
crat is to be elected why not limit the |
choice to the genial Higgins EXPoor |
Director Bergen, who played the baby |
act last year when Curran beat him in !
the convention, will not reach a second |
ballot this year. Gerald McKernan is a |
good man and there are Democrats here |
abouts who would like to see him win, |
but the claim of "above the mountain" |
people Injuries his chances somewhat
Mr. M. f. Doyle, of your town, has |
announced himself for the lower house |
of the Pennsylvania Legislature to his |
intimate friends OF course, the HERALD |
will 'go" for him.
William McQuail's little boom for Con !
gress petered out long since. The big |
blarney OF Blythe will reserve his oratory |
for the wilds of West Virginia
In the new reader to be adopted for use
in the public schools of this Common |
wealth is to appear this
@ Who carried Pennsylvania for |
Galusha A. Grow
A. Sam Losch.
Dunkelberger for prison warden will be |
confirmed on Monday.
1t is said that the Democrats of the