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Irving E Veley victorius, Potter County Sheriffe; JJ Morley makes good run; Henry Bartoo, Frank Schadenburger...
The Potter Enterprise
Coudersport, Pennsylvania •
Thu, Nov 4, 1915 p1
wetzupdoc • 09 May 2024

•COUDEBSPORT, POTTER CO, PA,THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 1915.
BACKBONE OF OLD POLITICAL GANG BROKEN
Irving E. Veley, Head of Washingtoa Party Ticket Is a Winner. Washington Candidates Made Wonderful Fight. Bosses Concentrate Energies on Newton, Who Claimed Both Coudersport and Shingle House As His Home Towns. Booze Element Solid For Him and for Spoor and Bernard. Austin Snowed Under. Morley Makes Good Run. But Board of County Commissioners Democratic For First Time In Many years.
Thank you! We are feeling flne
over the results of the election. Of course there are some things that we would have had different. We would liked to have seen every man on Washington ticket a winner but this was impossible,

had good and worthy candidate Dreamng up or.

tne oia political gang but with the decent vote of the coun- or ringsters mat ior 10 tnese many ty divided it was impossible for ' years has controlled the politics of either of them to win. Lloyd S.'the county. It is believed and hoped Newton the Republican candidate that this new board of county corn- I had the advantage of claiming both misioners will- prove honest and re- on the' Coudersport and Shingle House as his liable; that they will.

, transact the ht : this was iniDossible Thev are'home towns and whIle he did not car" business of the PePle with the sameiney are rnrtrar,nrt Rtill honor and integrity as thev would every one of them fine, clean, splen-(his yote wag lar'ge as compared wlth their own. Frank Schadenburger, did , citizens and the Enterprise is the voBte in the country districts that Democrat has already prof en to the honored in 'having given them loyal must offset it Then too he had the People that he will be on the lookout support and every one of them who 'big Galeton vote upon which to de- to see that the taxpayers ' get aj ' , , .. 4t. . Jpend beside which he had the undivi- square deal.

The people know him was ame to enter inLU ui the '(liquor element , and , trust him, and the Enterprise a vigorous, energetic and - splendid ( These wer6 handicaps which the op- doesj. not believe that he will- disap-campaign. The Republicans came nosing candidates could not overcome Point them. Mr. Schadenberger is out of the fray even those who won With- these advantages it was not in from Eulalia township and this is the knowing that they have been in a' the cards to defeat him.

Then too first commissioner from this section htil rnvnl Tl-m Wash nztnn nartv me Dig Dosses conceuuatea an tneir .mou candidates had terrible odds to over-' energies on - Newton. They were mn m, i i- ' hfnmd that hp shmilfl win at nnv Office. come, iney naa ausuiuieiy nu uuuuij ; organization; they had not a single &cu.nm.o "i i"y LU1"- Nelson was elected to that Henry S. Bartoo, Republican is a committeeman in any township, while Nearly' the same conditions prevail- J""?688?1 husiss ma and farmers elected chairman, there was absolute ly no money for him to use in forming an organization; in getting voters to the, polls or to in any way ad vancing the interests of his candidates, and it is marvelous that these Washington candidates ran so well and were able to in every instance keep their opponents stepping until the-game -was -declared--finished, he has the confidence of all who know Perkins and Stocum divided the rural r'1" ""s 1H ms IlrHl exP61' vote and the almost solid vote of 'e"ce a!ong1, heSe PoIltlcal lines th" Galeton landed the Galeton man in Efn fr p"se A6 J"?!8 wlU be worthy office. Both Stocum, the Washington cthe tr"st that has been put in him.

candidate and Perkins the Democrat . Henry les- Democrat, Te-elected, made good fights and with anything !? agood1 busmess man. Although he like an equal show either would have as been keeping rather bad company won easily. he is honest and if he will cut loose "put anything over while the . taxpayers 1 trom the riner nnrl tha Wciflini ir,fl !!..thLC0"fliCt t0r- !i8ter and.,re; ence, there will -be-no -question -as- to Trl- Ui Vlm Wa.hltnn o!-, ; T.! rcrv ...i w " v"" K1VB tO u.

yww, owuufi in vjii mo uju vuiea llvui the taxpayers of the countv date and sheriff elect of Potter county Galeton. This advantage with a div-, with a mn .tni.i,. i. j has won a wonderful victory He had ided rural vote could scarsely be of. county commissioners, it will bo V,,1'UJU, J M ' rather difficult to ujicvt wiLu Luc annual buuu yuio uL rui Liiti uibi, time in many years on the people vision uacK li mm auu rreu uurus xne ooara 01 county commissioners are entirely at the mercy of a crook- ui wuuiojjuil " ini iuu iiyuui unci I'm iiaYB A nicxjuiiLJ- Ul J-eilluCI atlC ests solid for him.

But the farmers members. It is a board that bids who after all can if they will, purify fair to be a good one. It is a great the politics of the county stood back disappointment that J. J. Morley did of Veley with the above result.

j not win for he is a fine man and The people may be sure that in Mr. would have made a splendid arid Veley they will ha've an honest and honest official. However the Enter-worthy official.- . .' prise has gotten in an opening wedge In the contest for prcthonotary both t to bring about the result for which the Washington and Democratic par- it has been fighting, that is the ed or dishonest board. Surely this s a great victory for the people.

. The gangsters, ringsters, rumsters, like any other serpent will apparently keep alive for some time by the wiggling of its tail, in the , little hangers-on that they will still keep in the court house, but its fangs are drawn and its back, is broken. . . of.

United States
Pennsylvania
Coudersport
The Potter Enterprise
1915
Nov
04
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Irving E Veley victorius, Potter County Sheriffe; JJ Morley makes good run; Henry Bartoo, Frank Scha

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