Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-09-28
The Democratic Convention(?)

nc ldluiliul loW REPRESENTING IHc
Democratic party of Cameron county,
after numerous caucuses, corner Whis-
| perings, etc, met at the court house
on Tuesday, at one O'Clock, p. m, and
organized by electing Benjamin Egan
chairman, and Geo. q. Wylie and Joe
NJ. Shafer, Jr., secretaries, when
Brother Hockey smilingly took his
seat with the few faithful, fully be-
lieving that he had properly creased
the machine and the business would
move along without a hitch. But no;
Joe NJ. had neglected his task and
after several winks and mods from the
| Chair, Joe NJ. was made aware that he
had document in his pants pocket
that was highly necessary before that
august body could proceed with bust
ness in true Jacksonian-Bryan order.
Now, to make sure that there would
be no more accidents, l. K. took his
station between the "mighty hunter''
and the Chairman, feeling confident
that his "childlike and bland" cCun-
upon the fifteen delegates present, who
were expected to vote early and often
the more the better-only don't en-
danger the slate. By this time Joe.
NJ. had succeeded in reading the docu-
ment taken from his breeches pocket.
At this juncture it was discovered that
Geo. w. Warner and S S. Hacket, two
old-timers were circulating among the
few delegates Ito figure how the clan
expected to cast AZ votes) present, and
fearful that they might disturb the in
nocent calculations of the machine by
{ slling for the reading of the creden-
ais, which heather Chinese-like were
] ,pt up I. KS coat sleeve, it was very
quickly deemed prudent, in the inter-
est of pure politics and justice (?) to
all candidates WANTED by the ring) to
adjourn fifteen minutes, the chairman
declared, "to agree upon a ticket."-
The delegates were hudled together in
the ladies waiting room and kept there
until l. K. and Joe M. could "see
given signal from the northeast tower
door the weary travellers filed in, each
bearing card of merit, properly seal
ed in silver. Everything was now in
apple pie order for the nominations (?)
| when Lumber delegate made dick
over the selection of county committee
when Gen. Egan fired the delegation
back to the star chamber, and the bal
ance of the audience, mostly Republi-
cans, listened to them chewing the
rag" but they finally agreed and peace
was restored, still the boys thought
the last Doodle did not belong at the
tannery end. Now business was on.
The free for all vote for O. dnty Com
missioner opened, with Geo. w. War
ner, A. F. Vogt, S. S. Hackett, A. w.
Mason before the bar Mr. Hackett
promptly withdrew his name, not de-
string to be slaughtered in the house of
his friends (?), as a reward for his life
time service to his party. Mr.. Hacket
retired from the hall, to his credit
Not SO with Judge Warner. The old
Roman eft them a good fight" but it
was no use-the hat was stuffed The
ex-Tammany Chief called upon all
hands to deposit all tickets in Joe Ms
Greeley hat-I, K. crying to Lysett,
"keep down the vote little fear you
will overdo it," Tom only winked his
weather eye and pulled Dalrymple by
the coat tail. All having voted who
wished, the chairman whistled when
about to announce the vote, viz: G.
w. Warner, IA; A. F. Vogt, 81; A. w.
Mason, %. Total vote cast "a. Judge
Warner scratched his head and said,
don't that beat rats how they do it.
Who to nominate for Sheriff had
worried the sages, when w. A. Dal-
rymple, the silver-tongued orator from
Kentucky, thought this an excellent
time to get in his work on Sheriff
Lewis and placed in nomination Moses
Minard, son of Judge Minard. Joe Nj.
said it was about time Grove township
was rewarded, because it was the only
reliable Democratic district in the
county-when they could pull the
wool over Republican eyes--and placed
in nomination John G. Crum, of Grove,
but the convention would not listen
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