The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1898-02-24
VOL. 33
POLITICAL POINTERS.

people, and all that sort of stuff. The
auditors surcharged Rhodes with the
amount received by him for the work
so done.
When Mr.. Krickbaum published
the county statement for 1896 and
received $50 for it, he stood in the
same relation to the county that Mr..
Rhodes did to the Poor District, and
his taking pay for it was just as un-
lawful as it was for Rhodes to take
pay for work done at the Poor House.
The auditors very properly surcharged
Mr.. Krickbaum with the amount re-
celved for publishing the county state
ment.
The Sentinel says that printing for
the county to the amount of $Io was
done at that office after the Commits
sioners failed to get other Offices
to print them, and when they were
pressed for the blanks" The only
job of printing that THE COLUMBIAN
office could not do for the county, by
reason of pressure of other work, was
worth about one dollar.
We are not Judge Ikeler's champion
But Judge Ikeler is upon the bench,
and ii is but just to him as we'll as to
the people of the county, that when
he is wrongfully accused, he should
be set right in the public eye.
In the matter of the Bloom Poor
District, nominations for Poor Direc-
tors were made by both parties in the
manner that has been recognized and
followed ever since the organization
of the district. The committeeman
of the several townships embraced in
the Poor District were regularly called
together, and the nominations were
made by them. This did not suit
certain parties, and they proceeded to
make nominations in a different man.
ner. An alleged convention was held
In the Court House, the Democratic
delegates first holding session and
nominating Geo. W. Miller for Poor
Director, and then exchanging places
with the Republicans, who named B.
F. Sharpless. No notice of a dele.
gate election was given, no delegate
election was held, and the so-called
delegates to these conventions were
entirely self-constituted. Certificates
of nomination of the persons named
at these conventions were filed with
the Commissioners, exceptions were
filed to the certificates of Rhodes,
Trivslpiece and Hagenbuch, who had
been nominated in the regular way,
and a petition for a mandamus to
compel the Commissioners to print
the names of Miller and Sharpless on
the ballots was presented to the Court.
The cases were argued and after due
consideration Judge Ikeler refused the
mandamus and dismissed the excep-
tions, and for this action he has been
very harshly criticised. He could have
done. nothing else with any sort of
legality. If the nominees of these
conventions were entitled to have
their names on the ballots, forty others
might have been named the same
way and with as much regularity, by
conventions called and conducted as
these were. The action of the Court
was perfectly legal and square.
William H. Rnawn, Esq, is can
didate for State Senator in this dis
trict. He is we'll known throughout
the county as lawyer of more than
ordinary ability, one of the recognized
leaders of the bar. His cases are
always we'll prepared because of his
industrious habits, and should he sue.
ceed in securing the nomination In
the district, the interests of his con-
stituents will be faithfully looked after.
C. Z. Schllcher of Beaver township
has announced himself as candidate
for Representative from the south
side. He is a comparatively young
man, and has succeeded in obtaining
an education by his own efforts. He
is now, and has been for some years
engaged in teaching school. Mr.
Schlicher is nephew OF the late ex
county commissioner Moses Schlicher
Orion B. Mellick was appointed
Postmaster of Bloomsbury on Mon
day. He secured the appointment BY
reason of his pull with Congressman
Kulp, and despite the frantic efforts o
the local leaders, who for years have
controlled and led the Republican
organization in this county. Mr.
Mellick will probably take charge o
the Office within a week or two. AL
the clerks In the postoffice come
under the civil service rules except