Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1906-06-21
Elk County Gangs
Desperate Trick.

the contemplated trick to be played
by the desperate Elk County Gang
on Tuesday, in their frantic effort
to defeatJ udge Green S nomination.
The unheardof program was to con-
vene the Republican County COM
MITTEE and name three Judicial
Conferees, which they did and in
structed the three conferees, Messrs.
Geo. HI. Younger, Johnsonburg,
Anthona Sammick. Benzinger and
Leo Fl. Garbarino, of Jay township,
and instructed them to vote for
Capt. w. G. kress, of Clinton, for
President Judge. 1t is needless to
say that those Republicans and
hundreds Of Democrats not owned
by the Gang, are thoroughly indig-
nant at this piece of high-handed
machine dirty conspiracy. Scores
of Democrats in this county openly
denounce the fraud and rally more
Loyalty to Judge Green's support.
The Lock Haven Daily Express,
last evening, editorially says:
ga SNAP session of the Republican
county committee of Elk county was
held in the parlors of the New Hyde
hotel at Ridgway yesterday afternoon
at l O'Clock to elect three judgeship
sonburg, Anthony Sammick of Benzing-
er township and Leo H. Garbarino of
Jay township were chosen as conferees
and instructed for Capt. w. G. Kress of
Lock Haven for president Judge of the
Twenty fifth district.
The committee was in session just 30
minutes, the pre- arranged program be-
ing carried out with neatness and dis
patch. So far as we have been able to
learn no Republicans had yet announc-
ed their candidacy in Elk county for
judge and are reliably informed that
the committee was summoned on Mon
day by telephone to meet in Ridgway
yesterday to select three conferees to
meet with the conferees of the other
two counties of the district, to place in
nomination Republican candidate for
president judge.
This unseemly action on the part of
the Elk Republican county committee
is being severely criticised by Republi-
cans throughout the district and those
who believe in fair play denounce such
tactics as outrageous. People naturally
look for the motive that prompts such
proceedings and those in touch with
the judgeship situation in this district
do not have far to seek to find it. The
power that is believed to have influence
ed the action of the Elk county COM
mittee is the same that dominates the
politics of both parties in Elk county,
and is now reaching out with view of
debating the nomination for judge on
both the Republican and Democratic
tickets in the district. This once ac-
complished the balance of the program
will unfold according to the wishes of
the resourceful Elk Democratic ma
chine that is just now trying to manip-
ulate the politics of the Twenty-fifth
judicial and also the Twenty. sixth sem
atorial district, of which Clinton county
is a part.''
"'What are the Republicans of Clin-
ton county going to do about it,? is the
question that comes home to them just
now. The Elk Democratic machine is
composed of astute politicians of expe-
rience and they have been quick to
recognize that Judge Green is the most
logical and strongest candidate that
the Republicans can nominate for
president judge, hence their activity in
doing all they can to embarrass his
candidacy and prevent his nomination
if possible. If they can cause any dis
sension in the Republican ranks of
Clinton county so much the better, for
any seed of discord that can be sown
among the Republicans will bear fruit
for the Democratic nominees for presi-
dent judge and State senator, and the
men slated for these honors are Harry
Alvin Hall, Esq and his brother, SEN
ator James X. P. Hall, both of Ridgway.
Are the Republicans of Clinton going
to be caught in the trap so neatly pre-.
pared for them by the enemy, or will
they rise in their might and assert their
honest convictions as to whom they
believe to be the strongest man to
nominate for judge?
The Express favors the nomination
of Judge Green, the appointee of Gov
ernor Pennypacker for the vacancy
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