The Democrat.
FRIDAY, APR" .O0.
•' IT won't do to hold any more of them
primaries," said Delegate Burke, of Oallit
r,in. No sir; not at any rate, if there is
any danger of the rascals falling out
afterward.
IT is about time for the Cambria
Herald to make public the " personal"
reasons why Qeneral Hastings did not get
the Cambria county delegates. Hie llera,d
threatened to do this if the Republican
kicking papers d ; d not desist from abusing
the local party leaders fur stealing the
county for Delamater. Come on brother ;
it's your turn now.
ONB round-trip ticket from this place to
Ebensburg costs.>l.7s, and forty of them
cost S7O. It is said that Delamater and
Andrews know nothing of the round-trip
arrangement, and that they paid the full
fare for each round trip, or $2.10. Some
body had a profit of thirty-five cents on
each ticket. There are tricks in all
trades, but politics furnishes the greatest
opportunities for the monumental trick
ster.
" TUB ballot-box is the ark of safety for
the Republic," said Senator G. W. Dela
mater recently. The concluding chapter
of his and Chairman Andrews' political
methods in Cambria county are given else
where. It is to be supposed that the Re
publican politicians in this county are so
" pure" that the swearing of primary
election boards, us required by the laws of
Pennsylvania, isjan entirely unnecessary
procedure. But such men, as thos e
whose methods have been laid bare, are
fit tools for such a briber of Legislatures
and abettor of bribers as Matthew
Stanley Quay, who stands for all that is
.irrupt and vile in politics.
IN our local columns will be found the
proceedings of the citizens' meeting last
evening for the purpose of getting up a
demonstration for the day on which the
new City Government is <o be inaugurat
ed. No more worthy move could be
made. It is very proper that some acliou
should be taken to properly observe
Joliustown's greatest day. We need some
move to make the people feel that tin re
is still some of the former spirit in the
place. Especially is it so in view of the
fact that we have not had a parade or
other public demonstration since the
flood of May Gist. Au era of general
good feeling needs to be inaugurated, and
nothing would better serve that puipose
than to have all our people turn in and
help to make the day a memorable one iu
the history of Johnstown. Then the in
coming officers, who have a stupendous
task before them, need the encourage-
ment that a proper observance of the day
would give.
THE NA I.Alt IKS OK 'lll EC ITT OVFICMtN-
There is now a move on foot among a
certain class of spoilsmen—because they
•re not having a finger in the pie-to arouse
dissatisfaction about the salaries of
the city officers. They are the fellows
who come out in print as " Anxious In
quirer," •" Taxpayer," or something else
t tat may mean anybody or most likely
nobody. They lack the moral courage to
ome out over their own signatures and
u'r their opinions.
Take the office of City Engineer, the
salary is fixed at $1,300. It takes years
at study and practice, to say nothing of
superior mental ability, for anyone to get
to be proficient in engineering. And we
predict that no engineer will be able to
make, duiing the three years of his term,
the real estate registry—which would be
a great saving to the city at any price as
well as to the property holders by ending
ali litigation as to lines of streets, alleys,
and all properties—and the topographical
survey, both of which duties may, at the
pleasure of the Councils, be imposed upon
that officer. Both these surveys should
be made, and they should be made now.
We want to sturt out righ. tNo second
class engineer is competent to do the
work.and.no flrst-class , man will leave
better employment to 'take a poor-paying
job from the cit)\ The city must pay
salary enough to command the services
of competent men.
We might speak of the Mayor's duties.
Johnstown, be it said to her credit, has
chosen for Mayor a man whom she can
safely trust with any duties that may fall
upon him to perform, and the city will
rest satisfied that such duties have been
rightly performed. When an ordinance
has been approved by him we can rest
assured that it will bear the test of a trial.
And few people have any idea of the great
amount of labor necessarily expended 111
prawing up any carefully prepared ordi
nance.
If those who are disposed to kick will
study the law providing for the starting
of the government of a city such as ours,
and will lake the trouble to attend a few
Council meetings, where the dif
ferent ordinances and other meas
ures are fully considered, they will
get some idea of the great task before the
in-coming officers of the new city. Years
of training and professional study, as well
as practice in legal matters, arc only
some of the requirements to a successful
administration of public affairs, particu
larly at the outset of a citv government,
and they cannot be obtained without their
being paid for.
" Why don't you run a newspaper like
that ?" a grocery merchant in a country
town said to his editor, throwing out a
Chicago daily. "For the reason you
don't run a grocery like that," the editor
replied, turning to a five column adver
tisement of a Chicago house, showing a
twelve story building. The grocer) .iked
attentively at the advertisement and the
picture for a moment and then said : " I
never looked at it in that way before.—
Exchange.
Ho¥ IT WAS DONE!
The Way Cambria County Was
Stolen by the Politicians.
THE TRRBIBLE TURPITUDE.
The Outrageous and Disgusting
Details or How the Cambria
County Republicans Were
Betrayed and Defrauded—
Another Sickening Chapter
of Republican Politics—No
Wonder Cambria County ts
Becoming More Strongly
Democratic.
The following is another chapter from
the Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph' de
scription of the great political fruud per
petrated in this county in the interests of
Delamater. It shows the methods used
to defraud the honest people and glorify
the tricky politicians. It is a fearful and
terrible story, and shows a state of things
that is dangerous and demoralizing.
The following are the details :
A PEOCLIAK CASB.
Carrolltown borough—'This was a pe
culiar case. Chairman Barker wrote to
Peter Campbell, a fair-minded, honest
mau, aud asked him who was to be the
delegate from the borough. Campbell,
in reply, said lie would probably some
himself, and declared he was for Hast
ings. The Barker crowd evidently
thought it well to have some Hastings
men in the for they did not
oppose him. He went up to tho conven
tion and was quiet until Davis sprung
his resolution. This he said was taking
snap judgment, wa9 uufair and did not
represent the feelings of the people.
When it came to a vote he cast the two
votes of the borough against the resolu
tion. He was always a friend of Barker
and his gang and they got the Carroll
town poslofflce for him, but lie declared
he could not swallow such a dose as they
were giving tin convention and lie was
the only ofllccholder or candidate who
took this muuly course. Trained in the
Barker school he made out his owu cre
dentials.
Carroll township held a sort of sug
gestion meeting at which it was agreed
to send Vincent Keig and Thomas B.
Davis to the convention, they having
been both appealed to by Barker, James
and Tom Davis (Jackson). There were
no election officers sworn, no formal
voting, and two unauthorized persons
signed the credentials.
Clearfield township—Tcrance Dclozier,
at the written desire of Chairman Bar
ker, made out his own credentials, with
out taking a single vote, and cast two
ballots for the Andrews-Delamater set
up.
Ceopersdale borough—Acting under
Chairman Barker's direction, Clerk
Loughry voted twice for his borough
having made out his own papers, there
being no primaries.
Croyle township—No primaries, no
votes, nothing but two self-constituted
delegates named John Wendroth and
Aaron Shcrbine.
Dean township—There was nothing
which savored of an election here. Henry
Marlitt made out his certificate and voted
twice for Andrews, Delaraatcr &Co lie
was a trusted lieutenant, for through the
influence of the Darker crowd he was
made a paster and folder in the last legis
lature. He, no doubt, had " met " An
drews and Delamater more than once,
is BARKER'S HOME.
Ebensburg, Eastward—Not even in the
home of Chairman Barker did Andrews'
hired men pretend to give the Republican
voters a chance to express their opinions.
Primaries ? Not much. Election board ?
Certainly not. Wha.'s the use? The
statutory oath ? Bah .' Oaths are all non
sense. When the time came on Monday
morning Thomas D. Evans and William
A. Jones, two trusty henchmen of Bar
ker, went to Ed. James' drug store and
made out their credentials. Not a vote
was cast for them, not even the skeleton
of an election was held.
Ebensburg, West ward—This is the per
sonal property of " Tom " Davis (Jack
son.) He does not care for elections un
less there are opportunities therciu—Con
gressional election preferred. When the
janitor of the building ordinarily used for
election offered to start a tire and get the
place ready on Saturday afternoon for a
dollar, Andrews' worthy representative
replied that there was no need of the room
as there would be no election. The papers
of Thomas Davis and T, M. Richards were
also fixed up bv themselves in James'
drug store, and somebody signed them as
judge and inspector. Perhaps Barker
was one. Nobody outside the guilty ones
know this point, and nobody ever will.
Just think of it! In the two wards of
Ebensburg, which cast 127 votes for
Boyer in November, 1889, and 105 for
Myers for Poor House Director, who led
the county ticket in that town, not a soli
tary vote was given at the January pri
maries under the Andrcws-Delamatcr-
Barker-Davis management.
Franklin borough was represented by
a single man—John 11, Murphy, ex-con
stable. He wrote himself into two votes
for the Andrews-Delamatcr scheme with
out primaries or pretense.
IN HASTINGS lIOKOL'QU.
This was a beautiful and shining ex
ample of the Andrews-Delamater method
—one of the finest in the whole county.
This is the town built up by the Hastings
Coal Company, which is named
after General Hastings and in
which he is a large stockholder. The
General has devoted much time to
this enterpiise and the development of
the remarkable mineral wealth of the
region ana is very popular in the bor
ough. Men who have no connection with
the coal company and who have met li.m
are honestly and heartly for hiin. To
strike Hastings down in this borougii
was in the opinion of Andrews, Barker
et al almost as good as stabbing him in
the back in Cambria county itself. With
out notice to any of the citizens of Ilast
tiugs, skulking in the dark, like such men
do, two tools of Andrews and Barker ar
ranged to steal the borough. They held
no primary election. They had no elec
tion board of any sort. They did not allow
any outsider to Know what was going on
and there was scarcely a man in the place
who knew that primaries had been called
by the Committe. C. Westover, a livery
stable keeper and Thomas Buynon, a bar
ber, acting under Burker's orders, sneaked
out ot Hastings, went to Ebensburg and
there had their certificates made out for
them by the Barker gang. They
entered the convention during roll call
and were among the last to vote for the
Andrews-Delamaler steal. They were
not even discreet. They boasted about
what they had done and the manner of
doing it. They admitted they had sold
themselves. The result was that when
their action and tl at of the convention
became known in Hastings, the Repub
licans of the place aud of the neighbor
hood were furious. Letters were
promptly sent to Gen. Hastings by the
leading Republicans of the p.ace repudi
ating the action of Westover aud Beynon,
a'id boih men have been shunned ever
since, and their business has fallen off so
much that they probably will not con
tinue in the town. This was one of the
most stupid pieces of rascality of the An
drews-Barker-Swank-Delamater gang.
HE TOLD ALL UB KNEW.
Gallitzin borough—This borough was
not worked by Barker directly. It was
manipulated by his lieutenant, Deputy
Revenue Collector Ktnkead. A week be
fore the the day of the primaries, Kiukead
visited Gallitzin to make a sure thing ot
the delegates. He saw John Myers and
told him he and Barker wanted him to go
to Ebensburg and to take Frank N.
Burke, the committeeman of the district
with him. Kinkead then went to the
saloon of Dauiel Burke, tke brother of
Frank. Toe delegate-to-be was not at
home and Kinkead left a letter with Dan
iel Burke to the effect that Frank was to
go to Ebensburg without fail. Kinkead
also left $3 to pay Frank's fare eacli way.
Myers and Burke met and consulted and
agreed that there was no need of holding
any primaticsor of letting anybody know
what wns up. Myers on Mondny decided
that he could not go, and Burke went
alone. Before going he drew up certifi
cates for himself and Myers and signed
them as judge of the primary election,
certifying to the election of his companion
and himself.
Burke himself boasts of bis fealty to
Baikcr, although he says he was cheated
by Barker's crowd in his fight for the Gal
lit zin postofiice. He says Barker, Ed
James, und Harry Kinkead recommended
him for the office after they knew another
man had gotten it.
" It won't do to hold any more of them
kind of primaries," said Delegate Burke
to the writer. " They raised hell here
among the people and they haven't got
done kicking about it yet. I don't see why-
Barker wanted to run things that way.
lie ain't to be trusted anyway. He's only
given me $lO after using me for years.
I wrote to him not long ago and told him
if he wanted to use me to send a respect
able remittance before the work was done.
I heard Barker, Tom Davis, Swank, and
the rest got a big lot of boodle and kept
it."
Gallitzin towuship—No primaries were
held here and all that was done was the
making of papers for Thomas Myers
who was given two votes, He was noti
fied to attend the convention by Kin
kead.
Jackson township- This township is al
ways regarded as the property of Tom
Davis (JacksonXwho manages the politics
to suit himself. His brother, Samuel
Davis, docs most of the runningand actual
setting up under the orders of Tom. That
distinguished disciple of Andrews and
Deluraatcr told John Gittings ami John
Grey to come to Ehensburg as delegates,
and they came. Of course, such a tlung
as a primary was never even thought of.
Tom Davis made out the papers for his
henchmen and that was all there was of
it. Then they voted for Andrews and
Delamatei, were fed and sent home.
Lilly township—F. A. Thompson, the
Postmaster at Lilly, was instructed by
Kinkead to attend the convention, and he
did so with Simon Conrad. They had no
primaries, nnd Thompson made out the
papers.
A J'OSTMASTHIt'ri WORK.
Lorctto borough -There being but four
Rcmiblicans in this borough, it is easily
handled. The organ of Andrews and
Delaraater, the Johnstown Tribune, in tbo
list of delegates gave the name of W. W.
McAtecr and William Fry as represent
ing Loretto. This was no doubt done to
swell the list of names. There is no
William Fry in Lorctto, but there is a Se.
bastinn Fry,who is an undertaker and who
was burying sombody while the the con
vention was in session. McAteer was at
Ebonsburg, however, you may depend on
it. Being postmaster ho could not neglect
his delegate allegience to the present dis
pensers of the Federal political pap. When
he had fixed up som of the other districts
be made out h s own papers without ask
ing either Fry, H. Pruner or Charles Mil
ler to give him any help, they being the
four Republicans of the district. There
was no voting, and even two of the Re
publicans wondered where McAtcer was
on convention day until some member of
his family said he "bad gene to see a
sick relative "at Ebensburg. McAteer, in
addition to having direct instructions
from Barker, was visited by Sam Davis,
the brother of Tom, about ten days before
the date of the primaries, and the work
was cut out then. McAteer had two
votes which went to the Andrews-Dela
mater delegates.
Munster township was manipulated in
a peculiarly cooi manner. H. T. Eberly
went to Ebensburg on convention day to
attend lo some business connected with
his stole at Munster. When asked in
the morning befo' e the convention
whether he was a delegate he replied that
he was not and that he never heard of
the convention until the night before
(Sunday). A short time after this Ebcr
ly met the Andrews-Barker people and
they insisted on his being a delegate, say
ing it would be worth his while to repre
sent the district. He agreed and the pa
pers were then made out for him.
SO ELECTION, OK OOURBB.
A few days a go Eberly was asked about
the election. He had evidently been re
cently warned by the Andrews Barker
crowd, for he exclaimed: "Oh, I
know what you are after. You want to
upset this tiling. I've heard about you."
His suspicions were soothed and then
he said : "Of course there wasn't any
election. You know that well enough
yourself. I didn't know anything about
it until Sunday night. I was a delegate
to oblige Barker and those fellows and
had my papers made out in Ebensburg.
EUction! Why, it, there wasn't an
election in the whole northern part of the
county. I wasn't any different from the
rest of the fellows about not being regu
larly elected. Mono of the fellows down
to our place knew anything about the
primaries or the convention either until it
was all over."
Portage township—This was one of the
Swank-Kinkead districts and John A.
Troxell, the postmaster, was one delegate
and William Hall another. No primaries
were Held and the credentials were made
out by the delegates.
HE IS NOT SATISFIED.
l unnelhill borough—Samite' Huey was
the delegate from this district. He is a
very sincere, stiaightforwarded old man,
ajd when told by John Myers, of
Gallitzin, which place Tunnelhill over
looks, that he must go to Ebens
burg as a delegate lie had
some doubts about obeying. He did not
believe in such an early convention and
in the secret methods of the Andrews-
Barker ring. Finally, however, he decid
ed to go and made out his own creden
tials entitling liim to two votes. lie voted
for the Dohimuter outfit, but regretted it.
He was about the only delegate who paid
for his own dinner and railroad fare.
Harry Kiukead was to have arranged f .r
Iluey's expenses, but did not see him.
Huey thinks that the Barker ring i- r,.t.
ting too bold and too In egish, and says
one of these d ays tin people will smash
this ring into hits.
'.pper Voder township primaries were
held at the usual polling place, at the
Whisky Spring Hotel, and about thirty
voters weie on hand. There were three
candidates, Itohert Barclay, William Gil
bert and Duvid Barnliard, the two first
being elected. The three names were
written on a sheet ot paper, and voters
made a mark opposite their choice. Bar
clay and Gilbert were set up by Kinkead.
There was no regular election board, the
men who made out the papers were not
sworn and only such men as were known
to be all right and in favor of tie ring
candidates were told about the primary.
Washington townrbip, upper district-
Chairman Barker wrote to John W. Hall
at Cresson and told liirn to come up and
bring Philip Pritch. There were 110 pri
maries. The papers were made out In
Ehensburg after the delegates arrived.
Hall has since the Convention received
an appointment in the Census Bureau in
Washington through the efforts of An
drews and Barker.
White township—John C. Gates, who
has been a county official and a member
of the Assembly, and who is again a can
didate for the Lower House, promptly
obeyed Barker's summons to attend the
Convention. He took with him Gilts
Stevens nnd they made out their own pa
pers. There wore no primaries.
Johnstown and most of the southern
districts were manipulated by George
Thomas Swank and Harry Kiukead and
Henry Wilson Storey. Their methods
were the same as those of Barker and
Davis in the Noithern districts.
Concmaugh borough, First ward W.
W. Cope aud A. S. Aaron were asked to
be delegates by the Andrews people.
There were no primaries. Five men met
and settled the matter and made out the
credentials without taking votes by a
sworn board.
Grubbtown There were eight or nine
votes cast in this township, but no election
board was organized and no officers sworn.
John Sell and L. Miltenbcrger were the
delegates.
Richland township--John 11. Vail, who
got the Scalp Level Postollico through
the Barker icrowd, was delegate with
I). D. Stull. Barker told Stull to at
tend the convention. Vail had the cre
dentials. He made them out. There
were 110 primaries and no attempt at vot
ing.
Millvillc, First ward—There were no
primaries in this ward. No votes were
cast. No board was sworn. W. P.
Reese, who is Deputy Revenue Collector,
had charge of the ward and had the capers
made out for himself and 8. 8. Reed. The
latter absolutely refused to talk about the
election.
1 ast Conemaugb—There were no pri
maries here. T. It. Davis, father of the
postmaster, managed the affair. No
board was sworn aud no votes received.
T. R Davis and J. B. Kaufman were del
egates.
East Tajior townsnip -D. B. Wilson,
postmaster at a town in this township,
was told lo be a delegate by Barker. He
had the credentials made out for himself
and Jos. Rcighard.
Prospect— I There were no primaries
here. No board was organized or sworn.
E. J. Myers and Wm. Gibson were the
delegates.
South Fork—There were no primaries
htre. Postmaster Luke was the only
delegate, going as the result of a letter
from Barker.
Woodvale held no primaries. The
credentials were made out forC B. Davis
and John Gruber. No board was sworn
and no votes were cast.
In Summerhill, Susquehanna, Lower
Washington, West Tiylor, Wilmore,
Reade and Lower Yoder there were no
primaries. No boards were sworn and
the papers of delegates were, according
to the information received, n.ade out il
legally.
There were no delegates in the conven
tion from Cambria borough, Second ward
ot Conemaugh, Chest township and El
der township.
IN JOHNSTOWN.
Johnstown at present has sixteen
wards, but before tile consolidation with
the townships and boroughs it had but
seven, it being in that form when the del
egates were elected.
At the time of the election the people
were still too stricken with sorrow and
too busy Willi reorganizing business and
lepairing homes to think of politics. Only
a small number of those who usually take
part in politics knew of the primaries and
nobody outside of the conspirators had a
suspicion that there was to be any Dela
mater set-up. In spite of all that the
Cambria manipulators may say, a union
of the Hastings anil Mo tooth men in
Johnstown proper would have elected
every delegate. This was well known to
the schemers and they kept their secret
well.
Barker, Kinkead and Storey were very
active during the time of the primaries.
They did not take chances, neither did
they see that the law was obeyed.
The methods in Johnstown were quite
as illegal and almost as loose as in the
country districts.
In the First ward there was the nearest
semblance to a legal election in the
county. There was a " Chairman"
chosen by the voters, and a Secretary.
They were Robert 11. Thomas and W. B.
Keller; twenty-two votes were polled.
There were several candidates for dele
gates, but E. O. Fisher and A. H. Walters
were elected. No board was sworn am!
the papers wi re made out by the " Chair
man " nit "Secretary." Fisher was a
Mou'.ooth man and Walters was for Hast
ings. Fisher says he thought there was
no use in sticking to Moutooth and stam
peded to Delamater. Walters was one of
the independent live who did not yield to
the conspirators and who loudly protested
against the Delaina'er set-up.
Tiie Second ward election was a farce.
Isaac Chandler was Judge, Fred CV.xc
and Kbeu A. James Inspectors, an 1 a Mr.
Statin was Clerk. No votes were cast
and no officers were sworn. Fred Coxe
and John D. Jones, a policeman, weie
made delegates, and Chandler and Jauies
signed the papers.
The Third ward sent Scott Dibert and
J. M. Fockler as delegates. There was 110
formal election. No hoard was sworn.
In the Fourth ward there was no board
sworn. There were seven men at the
primaries, including the men in charge of
the set-up. They all voted and papers
were made out for H. W. Slick and J. L,
Caldwell.
The Fifth ward delegates were Alder
man Irvin Uutledge and 11. E. Smith.
There were five votes cast, it is said. No
board was sworn.
In the Sixth ward 1 here were fourteen
votes cast. No board was sworn. F. M.
Stearn, a policeman, and Conrad Bader
were the delegates.
In the Seventh ward there were two
votes cast by L. Messrige and Theo
dore Judy, the first of whom acted as
Secretary, and the second as Judge.
They were not sworn. They made out
lie papers for VV. R. Barrick and J. M.
Wertz.
This shows that less thau fifty votes
were cast in the wards whicli gave Cars
well, Republican candidate for Controller,
1,100 votes at the election in February less
than a month after the so-called pri
maries.
CHAIRMAN' BARKER PLEADS GUILTY.
Chairman Barker, when asked if the
primaries were not held unusually early,
seemed somewhat confused, and i.flci
some hesitancy said :
" Oh, yos, we had reasons."
" What were they i "
" Well you see the municipal elections
were coming up and we had to hold tho
primaries before that."
" Were the primaries legally conduct
ed ?"
" Oh, my, yes."
" Were the election boards sworn ? "
" No, I guess not."
" Well, do not the election laws stipu
late that tho officers of primary election
boards must be sworn ? "
" I guess they do."
" Was any money spent ? "
" Only a little. The fare of some of the
delegates was paid."
" Who paid it?"
" We did."
" Who am we ? "
" Well, some of the Republicans. Ido
not think it was good policy to have all
but ten of the delegates for Delsmater. I
would liked to have seen about twenty for
Hastings, and then it would not have
caused so much suspicion."
WHAT BTOIIKY BAYS.
The following inteiview was held with
Ilenry W. Storey, applicant It r the Johns
town postoffice:
'• Do you consider that the primary
election held in Caiqbria county on Jan
uary 25, 1800, to elect delegates to the
County Convention which elected Messrs.
Swank and Darker as State delegates, and
which instructed for Mr. Delamater, wasa
legal election conducted in an ordinary
manner ? "
" Yes, I do. Emphatically so. If >'
that was not a fair election there never
was one held in the State of Pennsyl
vania."
[This answer was given after Mr.
Storey has refreshed his memory as to
the terms of the primary election act of
1881.1
" Did you ever meet Delamater or An
drews in Blairsville or elsewhere and
arrange with them in regard to
electing delegates for Delamater from '
Cambria county, and did they or either
of them give, or otler to give, a consider
ation for such work on your part ?"
" I refuse to answer that question, but
I will say that there was no illegitimate
use of money or anything else at the
primaries."
"Why was it that the Cambria County
Primaries were held so much earlier than
usual ? "
Mr. Storey declined to answer this ques
tihn without consulting with his associates
n the matter. P. W.
PKKPAKING DO It INAUGURATION DAY.
A Public Aleetlng Y.ust I"veiling; in the
Council Chamber.
Pursuant to the call printed in the
newspapers for a meeting of citizens to
consider a programme for the proper ob
servance of the day upon which the
Mayor and other city officials will take
their oaths of office, a number of gentle
men met last evening in the Johns'own
Council Chamber. Dr. Geo. W. Wagoner
was elected Chairman ot the meeting and
Mr. Geo. A. Ilager, Secretary. The
Chairman made known to the gentlemen
the object of the gathering, after which
a general talk and interchange of ideas
concerning what was the best mode of
observing the day was had. The sense
of the meeting soon found expression in a
motion by Jas. M. \\ alters, Esq., to the
eifect that the Chairman of this meet
ing appoint a committee of two
persons from each ward to formulate a
programme fer the proper obsei vance of
inauguration (lavand to take such prelim
inary steps for the success of the demr nstra
tion as they may deem necessarry, the
Chairman of this meeting to be Chairman of
the Committee. This motion was carried
unanimously, and the following Commit
tee was appointed :
First ward, 15. F. Speedy, George A,
Ilager: Second, Capt. Jus. 11. Gageby,
Ed. F. Creed ; Third, J an. J. Mil.igan,
Abrum Cohen: Fourth, Jas. M. Walters
John M. Ifose; Fifth, Dr. A. N. Wake-
Held, irvin Hutljdge; Sixth, Alex.
Kenned.*, David Marsh: Seventh.
Wdliam D*idson, Geo. J. Akers;
Eighth, S. A. Weimcr, Emil Boettcher;
Ninth, John J. Devlin, Emery West;
Tenth, Thus. Matthews. Wm. Cuthbert :
Eleventh, Chas. 15. Davis, Adam Roidcl;
Twelfth, David Harry, Wm. Gibson;
Thirteenth, Thos. P. Keedy, Ralph Her
rington; Fourteenth, Jas. P. Burns,
Fiank Stutzman; Fifteenth, Hobt. 11.
Bridges, George Lorditch; Sixteenth,
John Burkbardt, Patrick Keating.
This committee will meet on Saturday
evening, March 29th, at 7:150 in the Johns
town Council Chamber.
On motion of Mr. Akers, it was unani
mously agreed to instruct the Secretary
to inform Judge Johnston that, as they
have learned with pleasure that he is to be
present at the inauguration of the City
Government, the meeting respectfully re
quest that, it it be his pleasure, ho deliver
an address ou the occasion.
On motiou, the meeting adjourned.
TUK " MAIL. AND KXPKKB3" FUND
How tlie Work of Arranging for Dist rilm
tioti In Progressing.
The work of arranging for the distribu
tion of Colonel Shepaid's Mail and Ex
press fund is progressing rapidly, al
though the Committee on Distribution can
devote buf about four hours each day on
the work, their other duties in connection
with their churches • occupying the re
mainder of their time. A representative
of the DEMOCRAT called on the Committee
last night. They were not disposed to
talk very much, but it was learned that a
number of pcrsous who were worth from
SIO,OOO to SIOO,OOO had made application
in a pitiable manner.
The committee had divided the appli
cants into three classes. The rate for the
different classes will be decided as soon
as the number in each class is known.
They mean to give the same amount to
every one under a particular class.
The committee dicidcd before the work
was begun that every cent of the money
would be paid out in 9olid cash. There
will be no ten per cent, business about it,
or any large amount held back to print a
report of the distribution.
The committee is now working very
hard and as soon as the checks are ready,
which will be in about twenty days, the,
committee will notify the people through
the press of this city.