Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1905-11-16

Treasurer-elect Berry has engaged
Homer L. Castle as special counsel
The Pennsylvania shift impresses on
the Chicago Post the fact that though
1T will be tremendously hard work it
is necessary Ito picture Governor
Pennypacker in the role of reformer. y
Perhaps it will not be quite so hard If
you remember that the role is really
that of 'reformer in spite of himself. +"
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Butler county cast 1861 votes at the
late election.
Plummer carried Armstrong county
by 153, and Crawford county by 275.
Westmoreland Co. cast 1876 votes.
Berry carried Lawrence by 1885,
though the Republican County ticket
won out.
Beaver Co. went for Berry by 1,156,
and elected Holt, fusion candidate for
Judge over Martin by 97S.
Pattisons plurality in Ohio over Her
rick is Al, ,705. and the Cox machine"
in Cincinnati went to the dump with
the Penrose- Durham combine of Phila-
delphia-
venango Co. gave Berry 1.1S4, and
elected Criswell by 3S2 over Glenn.
Berry carried Plummers home coun-
ty of Blair by $780, though it is usually
strongly Republican.
The official vote of Delaware county,
the home county of Treasurer Elect
Berry, is: Plummer, 1856; Berry, 9.S21;
plurality for Plummer of A. Last
year Roosevelt had a plurality of II ,470,
In 1908 Mathues, for State Treasurer.
who is also resident of Delaware Co.,
had plurality of 9.096.
Chester county, oficial-Plummer.
z 1856; Berry, 10,5S7.
Edward D. Reilly Dem.) will not ac-
cept the office Of County Commissioner
of Lancaster Co.. to which he was elect
ed after one of the bitterest political
battles in the history of the county.
Reilly won over Eli Hess, the Lincoln
candidate. The reason advanced by
Mr.. Reilly is that he cannot conscien-
tiously take the oath of office, as he gave
Hess note for 81, 900, ostensibly to
cover campaign expenses, to secure
Hess withdrawal in the Democratic
which assured Reilly's nom
ination. Hess never cashed this note,
the receipt of which he publicly ac
knowledged and it figured prominently
in the campaign 1t 10 claimed that as
a consequence of Reilly's refusal the
court will reappoint J. Val Wise, pres
ent Democratic Commissioner
The finding of mutilated ballot boxes
In the North river, in alleys and in the
dark corners of voting places in New
York confirms the suspicion that Tam
many was practicing its usual crooked
tricks at the late election. 1t is too
early to say whether these disclosures ]
and recount of the votes will place /
Hearst in the mayoralty seat or leave
Mcclellan safe with a further reduction
of his slim plurality, but there is no
question that frauds were perpetraued
at the polls.
One feature IN connection with the
proposed contest of the election for
Mayor in New York is worthy the study
of Pennsylvanians and particularly of
Pittsburgers When it appeared that
there was doubt as to the honesty of the
count there was unanimous agreement
outside of Tammany that the ballot
boxes should be placed in custody at
once and recount had at an early day
Such lawyers as Jerome. WINS and
Judge Gaynor approved this course; and
the imminent probability that it would
be done may have had its influence in
the bestowing of ballots in the river
and in alley ways. The reason for this
course is plain enough. The honesty Of
elections is SO clearly the foundation of
republican government that any doubt
casts cloud on the title. Elections,
like Caesars wife, should be above
suspicion If it is worth while to spend
to hold elections it is certainly
worth while to take the extra time to
provide check on fraud by an easy ex
animation and recount. For this reason
intelligent opinion in New York is a
unit in demanding a recount on the
suspicion of fraud.
To the few intimate friends who re-
ceived election returns with him at the |
White House. President Roosevelt did |
not hesitate to express satisfaction with |
The triumph of the reform element. He |
was particularly gratified oyer the cleo
lion of Jerome as District Attorney IN
Weaver and the city ticket in Phila- |
delphia. 1t ls said, also, that while |
somewhat surprised over the way the
voting went generally in Ohio, he did
not shed any tears because of the defeat
of the Cox machine in Cincinnati. When
Secretary Taft made his famous speech
at Akron, in which he declared that if
he were in Cincinnati on Election Day
he would vote against the local Repub-
lican ticket, it is believed that he echoed
the sentiments of his chief. The recent
utterances Of the President on his
Southern trip made it clear that he had
no sympathy with the kind of bossism
that prevailed in Ohio.
Speaking of the contest between the
Finn and Biglow factions the Pittsburg
Dispatch says: In considering the local