Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-08-04
PAXTANG HOLDS
FIRST ELECTION
Citizens of Baby Borough Turn
Out For Red Hot Nonpartisan
Contest Today
MALLW UNOPPOSED
Will Be the First Burgomeister
of the Newest Municipality
in the State
S MALLWOOD UNOPPOSED

PaXtang, pennsylvania INFANT Dor
ough, is holding its first election to-
day and with one-fifth of it's citizens
candidates for office and another fifth
out working for them and still another
fifth watching the rest work things
are lively out the pike to-day.
The borough rejoices in 1872 regis
tered voters and from surface indi-
cations every n would register his
vote by the time h sun began to
sink behind Harvey Rutherford's house
tonight. At l o'clock so of the rfee-
men had exercised h inalienable pre-
rogative of PaXtangians and cast their
ballots after ~extricating their fingers
from the stickers.
Stickers may be out of fashion in
voting in the rest Of the state, but In
this as in its selection of its first bor-
ough fathers, it's guides and protectors
of the school children, its arms of the
law, assessor n collector of the
shekels, the borough is not like COM
mon municipalities. To begin with,
there was the simon-pure essence of
nonpartisanship in the selection of
officials to-day. Some people were
unkind enough to say that because
there are only a little over a score of
Democrats that ~partisanship was not
worth while, but the fact remains
that party lines were forgotten and
Fred NJ. Gilbert and John H. Fought,
Democrats, appeared to be doing as
vel for seats in council as c. NJ. For
ney, /. r, Lyme and other adherentS
of the grand old party.
Unusual All Around
Because there was nonpartisanship
there had perforce to be something
else unusual and that was In the fact
shat no nominations were made. Men
with aspirations and those urged by
their neighbors to have aspirations
q y na.naad fhni- anJfdoo{a hu rrnrd
of mouth, letters, placards and dis
seminators of information. The ball
lots served to the borough were all
blanks and the voter had to write in
names or else use stickers.
Inasmuch as the voters had to run
the gauntlet of H. l.. Holmes, D. NJ.
Kicker, j. Q. A. Rutherford, Jr., How
ard c.. Fry and other active candi-
dates, he looked like a man who had
been at a paper sample show by the
time he got to the door of the school
house where the election was being
held and he could not have used
pencil had he tried. He was stuck full
help and will enable the baby election
board of the baby borough to get the
baby count out early tonight.
Burgomeister SmalIwood
There are fourteen candidates for
the seven seats in council, six for the
five seats around the school board
table, four for the job of collecting
taxes and some other contests, but
there is d unanimous uprising of the
people for Thomas w. Smallwood for
burgess. From the start of the cam
paign no n else has been heard of
from the corner of the borough UP by
old Paxton Church down to where the
borough caresses the Harrisburg city
line at Melrose. It's going to be
Smallwood for the first b~urgomeister.
He is backed by all the leaders
County Treasurer Arthur H. Bailey,
w. G. Dyckman, William e. Seel, Don
Rutherford, William Kunkel and all
the rest.
During the day there were a num-
Der of those city politicians out to see
how Paxtang ran it's first election, but
they had nothing on the keen bunch
that was out electioneering around the
schoolhouse. There was no need to
send men to pull doorbells or to hire
hacks or automobiles. The PaXtang
men were all on the job and the cleo
ton was a genuine treat to them. No
more long walks to the blacksmith
shop down by the burn that rambles
through the fields on the eastern end
near Jack Rutherford's coal yard.
Paxtang is now holding elections in its
schoolhouse, ! k every other progress
sive town.
Band and Redfre
In further celebration of it's doffing
of swaddling clothes and putting on of
it's municipal first pants" the youthful
borough will tonight have a band and
redfre. The citizenry will gather at
the schoolhouse to hear the returns
and will then have a parade.
Rumor has 1t that there will be
speeches and a declaration of policy
by the new fathers.
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