The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1894-05-17
NO. 20.
Republican Fidelity y,

Elsewhere in this issue we pub
lish the proceedings of the Republ-
can Standing Committee in session
on Saturday. Some turmoil was ex-
pectod because of the circulation of
the petition for recount containing
81 names. The petition itself was
not expected to make any change in
the business of the Committee be.
cause no special charges were pre-.
ferred against any one election
board. Some rumors were ailoat
that the Adams township board
were accused by some of tue peti.
TONERS of having submitted fraudu-
lent returns. The election board
spurned this rumor with burning
indignation and threatened to bring
legal action for thus assaulting their
integrity and manhood. This settled
the matter of making any specific
charges of fraud against any one
election board, and no specific
charges were present ed
The meeting was n pcaccablc and
harmonious one. The endorsement
of the regularly nominated candi.
dates passed without dissenting
voice. In fact the Committee could
not do otherwise than to endorse
the will of the majority. Besides.
some of the petition ers came to the
Committee and sai Il they were sorry
they had signed the paper and that
they had done so without consid-
ering the purport of the petition.
A member of the Standing Commit
tee said he would pay $50 to have
his name off the petition.
G There are other reasons why the
G committee re fused recount.
First. Because the time since the
I election was SO long that no one
.eonld now swear the ballots had not
D. been tan
e. Second Use in the districts
n of Adams, Union, Jackson and Mon
N roe (where rumor placed the fraud
~ bhc NOb'lo Scbihttl w bt SuUlSnGtl
that their votes were properly count
Up ed and credited while the petitioner,
t. reside in II part of the county where
re no fraud was alleged.
10 THird Because the extra precau
Ill tion had been taken ut the couyen.
tion to have all the returns sworn
to.
FO"rth. Because some of the
men who had signed their name,
to the petition, asked the Committe,
not to endorse recount on tn,
strength of their signatures, sine,
their opinions were of differen
Sc nature.
tai We desire to state right here tha
we have no preferences in this con
tn test. As II staunch Republican pa
,r, per, the PosT endorses the part
candidates.
lis The party was very fortunate thi
spring in having four good men VIII
to were willing to serve it's legislativ
interests in tho House of Represent
II atives. Any of them would repre-
ire sent the interests of our people will
much credit to themselves and will
he much profit to our taxpayers. TIL,
PosT would have defended lust n,
valiantly, Dr. Smith, w. w. Witten
L." myer or Horace Alleman, had an,
.et of them received the nomination.
l." One of the grandest principles q
81 right and Justice which we can al
vocate is the principle of submittin!
to the will of the majority. At pre-
sent we are actuated by no othe
motive. The Standing Committe,
DIV was actuated only by the dictates O
~ such principles. The harmoniou
III meeting of the Committee on Satur
IN day has allayed all suspicious in tn
gy minds of the unbiased. The speed
70 and decisive action of the Commit
~, W tee should also allay all factiona
Vi. discomfort.
at We congratulate the Committe
by upon it's wise choice and the unani
,sb nous endorsement on Saturday j
but prophetic note heralded /,
'ds precede the fall election.
wn p. s. We desire to say by way O
explanation that in assigning on
mt reasons for not publishing the peti
~, tion in our last issue, among other
rse we assigned the reason that tn
md names were all in the same han
eat writing. We did not for one MON
tch ent suppose that the original cop
did not contain genuine signature,
GU but because the petition we receiy
oes ed contained names all in the san,
or hand aoriting, was not marke
nd copy" as il should have been, an
being accompanied by an unsigne
ne request to publish we did not deer
In it properly authenticated for publ
cation.