Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1898-08-25
INCIDENTALLY A TICKET WAS NAMED.

Cott, Tripp and Bender Met Defeat. A
! Western End Nominee for Prothonotary
| Doubtful of the Future.
I The Democratic county conven-
ton, which met at the Court House
F! Tuesday, carried out the prearranged
harmony program to the letter, and
the Democrrtic county ticket is as
follows:
Congress-Alphonsus Walsh
State Senate-E. j. Mullen.
Assembly-Jacob Meyers.
Prothonotary- Edward Franck.
Sheriff-James Walsh.
/ Chairman Gallagher called the
convention to order at $3.50 and the
roll when called showed 81 delegates
present out of the 40 elected. The
following officers were chosen: Pres
ident, Hon. Russell Karns; Nice-Pr's
Hon. Conrad Kraus, John A. Speak
er; Secretaries, Geo. Streby Thos. T..
| X German; Committee on Resolutions,
| p. III. McGee, Thos. S. Tompkins,
John f.. Finan.
The nominations were all made
unanimous with the exception of
Sheriff. The last ballot resulting i'm
giving Walsh - and Cott IS.
"Ilarmony" characterized the pro-
ceedings from first to last, the har-
monizerS being i'm such decided
majority that they could compel
the kickers to be harmonious,
| although it required several hours of
preliminary work before going into
| convention. a secret meeting that
lasted nearly two hours after the
time for calling the convention to
| order keeping the court room in strict
seclusion. Delegates We're grouped
| here and there and seemed rather
slow to respond to the call after the
bell had been rung several times.
The reasons for all this was most
| likely that the nominations had been
| agreed upon in advance by the lead
ers, and democratic harmony for
| such an occasion is so plentiful as to
| be Il drug on the market. Those
who dOmineer the party now talk
harmony. They inhale harmony as
| they breath and eXhale it with their
cigar smoke. They dream of har-
mony in their sleep, and eat, drink,
talk, work and sleep in an atmos-
phere of harmony so dense as to be
almost oppressive, and in their
speeches before the convention used
the word "harmony'' almost inces-
sanity. But why?
At the close of the convention the
nominee for State Senate, f. j..
Mullen anXiously responded to a call
for an address, i'm which he distribut-
ed oratorical bouquets with strict
impartiality to all the slated nomi-
nees just elected, and spoke of the
confidence of success, seemingly in
their ability to nominate their own
candidates and elect their ticket.
| His denunciation of the Republican
party was too hot to be printed upon
ordinary paper. As he spoke in
| this strain his hearers liked it and
listened to it with absorbing atten-
| ton. He closed his remarks by
stating he would give the floor to
the gentleman who had been given
the honor of running for Congress.
All looked for the tall diplomatic
figure to rise and sustain the distinc-
| ton given him by Columbia county
newspaper in his last campaign-one
of his eloquent speeches." But 10
and behold the seat was already
vacant, which signified that he did
not propose to simplify the situation,
| and called to mind irresistibly the
parrots soliloquy: "The trouble
with me talk too much" Adjourn
ed for refreshments.