The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-10-10
Reasoning Sound.

Court agreed to the soundness of Mr..
Olmsted's reasoning. Mr.. Flynn ad-
mitted that the Melvin hall convention
filed local nominations as the "Inde-
pendent Democratic party" but that it
also, at the same time, filed nomna-
tions local and for congress and Or
phans' court judge, as the Democratic
party of Lackawanna county.
In explaining why he was for endors-
ing Connell, George Tanning said:
'Those fellows that were on the Fahey
side were electing Connell for about
twelve years, and l thought I'd give
them a hand this time" The afternoon
session closed at 5.45 o'clock. A recess
was taken until 7.15 p. m.
AT the opening of the evening session,
further testimony was taken to expose
the fake contests by which the Fahey-
ties ousted the delegates who would not
go along on their opposition. John I.of-
tus, Seventh ward, Third district,
Scranton, testified he was elected with
out opposition and had no knowledge
that his seat was being contested.
Michael Hughes, First ward Third dis
trict, gave similar testimony. He was
| ousted in favor OF Thomas Neary. John
j. Connors, one of the Vigilants of that
district whose name was attached to
the Neary credentials, testified that his
name was forged to the paper.
NJ. j. Walsh, First ward. Second dis
trict, Scranton, who was elected with
out opposition and ousted without
notice in favor of John Padden, testi-
fled that Padden lived in the Fourth
district, and that two of the three men
who signed the Padden credentials as
viglants We're not residents of the
ward.
p. j. Durkin, First ward, Fourth dis
trict, was elected without opposition,
but was contested by NJ J. Coleman
and ousted Michael Walsh, one of the
vigilants who signed Durkins creden-
tials, testified that the names on Cole
mans credentials We're fictitious, to the
hest Of his knowledge and belief. He
knew of no such persons, though he
knew everybody in the district.
Kearney's Case.
Patrick ii. Iiearney, Thirteenth ward,
Second district, was opposed by Mar
tin Lavelle. T.. j. McNally, Michael
Kearney and j. j. Bertram composed
the vigilance committee. The vigilants
We're elected by the voters that day.
Lavelle was defeated by a vote of 81 to
20. Lavelle was seated on credentials Is
signed by John j. McTague, II. II.
Brown and William Cadden. Kearney
swore that the last three did not even
pretend to act as viglants. He further
stated that Il. j. McNally told him he
would be contested if he did not stand
by the organization" He said he would
vote for Connell and Hoban, and was
ousted
Il. j, McNally corroborated Kearney,
except as to the last statement. He
only told Kearney that he was to he
contested.
Thomas Garden, First ward, Fifth
district, got % votes to 10 for John Cor
rigan He was ousted. William Car
den and John Mcdonald, two of the
three visilants who conducted the pri-
maries, corroborated Garden, and
further stated that the three men whose
names appeared on Corrigans creden-
tlals as Yigilants made no pretense of
conducting primary.
Il. j, Hogan, Second ward, First dis
trict, Scranton, who was thrown out by
the Faheyites, testified that he had no
opposition in the primaries, and that
+. j. Mulhern, who was substituted for
him, lives i'm the Fifth district.
James McHale. Fourth ward. Third
district. told that he and Thomas
Campbell received three times as many
votes as =. +. Monaghan and John j.
Lavelle, but the latter two were seated.
McIiale didn't know he was contested
until after the convention was over.
At $50 tonight the hearing was ad-
journed until $50 tomorrow morning.
The hearing viii likely continue until
Saturday afternoon, T. j. Duffy.