Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1870-05-12
TIE FOURTH WARD FOR EMERY.
Meeting Of the Reform Republicans.

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The Fourth Ward Reform Republican Asso-
citation held their regular weekly meeting last
night at their ball, cerner of eth and ID streets,
j. III. Crane, President, in the Chair, and w. +.
Han Secretary.
ton TO the work of registration now going on,
and said he had heard some Of Mr.. Bowens
friends say that they would carry the election
by fraud. He could name them il necessary, and
he thought that IL was time, when they openly
avowed that this was to be their course, for this
man Bowen to be displaced. When he allowed
II to be openly said that he intended TO thrust
mSe on the people Of tns Tlty smI
see that he oaght to be defeated. Three persons
were deteetedin the Fourth Ward on Saturday
last who registered ffaudulentlyi they gave the
arrest but they could not be found. In the Sixth
Ward the same programme was being carried
out-more colored men had been registered as
voters than actually lived in the ward. There
was enough evidence to show that Mr.. Bowen
ought not TO be trusted. The bank account was
overdrawn $4,000 and 500 900 worth OF Corpo-
ration checks floating about the city; the police.
fremen and laborers not paid, and in the face of
all this two thousand laborers put to needless
work to manufacture votes for Mr.. Bowen, from
three to i've thousand dollars being paid out
useiessly every day to obtain votes for Mr..
Bowen. But they have figured it all out, they
have got everything fixed, they know just how
many coiored votes they will get, how many
white Republican votes they will get and how
many Conservative and Democratic votes they
will get. Joseph Campbell, who opposed the
Republican party last year in this ward,
who was a Conservative challenger, and
who told the speaker that his party-the
Republcans-were fraudulently registering
men to carry the election, is now a sup
porter of Mr.. Bowen. He had been promised
the Commissionership OF the Fourth Ward
Why, there is not an Office under the corpora
ton that Mr.. Bowen has not promised to a
dozen men, III one of the dupes hears that
such an Office has been promised to some one
else, and asks the Mayor about 1t, he denies it.
II two Of them meet him together, he has for
gotten all about it and promised the office to
some one else. The corporation Is like ship at
sea, with an incompetent man for pilot. The
Conservatives were the passengers, and il they,
as part OF the crew, asked the passengers to aid
In saving the vessel, they were very stupid if
they did not do it. The contracts were given
out to whom? In the First Ward, to Fletcher
& Birch; in the Second Ward, to w. s. Morse
TALL the practical paving that he ever did was
In the gift concert concern, corner of Pennsyl-
yania avenue and 9TH street;) Third Ward,
Joyce; Fourth Ward, Andrew Gleason, (who
was concerned in the O'DOnOvan contract;)
Fifth Ward, Delaware Hndnell; Sixth Ward,
Thomas Kirby, who kept a tea store at the
corner of 9Th and / street; that was all he knew
about practical paving;) Seventh Ward, Pat
rick Culinane. Walk through the city and see
specimens of his work. Where cutting was to
be done. he left it alone; where filling to be
done, he left 1t alone; yet by some hOcus-pocus
IL was all measured and paid for. Yet the con-
tract for the Seventh Ward, the largest Ward
in the city, was given to him. The reason why
practical PAYERS could not get the work was be
cause they would not pay enough for it. He
knew of one payer who was told that he could
get contract by paying S1,oc0. He promised
$500, and the work was partly promised to him,
but he was afterwards refused the work. Mr..
w. A. Cook stood between the Mayor and Mr..
Morse; Mr.. Morse stood between Mr.. Cook and
the contractor; so that the Mayor was
not known in the case at all Look
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for nearly a mile not half enough gravel on it,
and In some places not any at all. Patrick
Cuiinane had private contract, in which not
only the corporation laws, but the laws of Con-
gress, had been violated; for he was receiving
his pay in bonds that were issued to pay the
floating debt. Stephen Tally had contract
which was paid in the same way. In conclu-
sion, he advised every one to appoint himself a
committee Of one to see that all his friends
register. tApplause.l
h. j. g. Stephenson SAID that he had all
used his humle efforts to have Mayor Bowen
elected. He was ashamed to- say and to
feel that Bowen had violated all the pledges
that he had made. The speaker remem-
bered that after his (Bowen's) nomination
for Mayor there was a grand ratification meet
ing at the City Hall, and Mr.. Bowen came down
on the steps of that City Hall, in the center of
transparencies, which were inscribed with the
words " Economy and RefOrm"-promised that
his administration should be economical; that
the corporation should not 60 any further into
debt. Look at the record to-day. The report
from the First National Bank TO the Councils
last Monday night showed that the corporation
had overdrawn SIS, 900 and some hundreds, and
checks to the amount Of 100000 were floating
about the city. When Mr.. j. II. Crane was
Commissioner OF the Fourth Ward, and the la
borers had not been paid paid for a long time,
and he asked the Mayor only one months pay for
those men and received the reply - no money"
that very same day check for 50 900 was drawn
ior John ODonovan when not a spade had
hppn puf IN the Wark A ms in nj
whose child died. went to Mayor Bowen and
asked Tor enough money 10 bury his child
and was turned away from the Mayors
Office without money and with insult. 1t
was time that this corruption was stopped
Put man in Mr.. Bowen's place who Is without
81. q. Emery is that man; his bitter
est enemies, those men who now oppose him in
this political content, cannot find one spot on
day, at the City Hall, the speaker was talking
10 some gentlemen who were friends of Mr..
Bowen. One of them said Mr.. Bowen will be
the next Mayor. The speaker said: 81 guess
not. he won't get votes enough" His interlO-
cutor rejoined that they could elect Bowen
again; they didn't care how many votes the on
position had. There would be frauds attempted.
ana every man should make it his duty to look
out LOT these frauds. 1t would be attempted to
register men from the country and from Mary
land. In the Sixth Ward they are trying to i'll
umidate the colored men by threats to make
them vote for Mr.. Bowen, and it was their duty
Emery. 1t was said that the Bowen men were
going to have grand ratification meeting at the
City Hall, and that Hon. Charles Sumner was
going to speak and advise the colcred people to
vote Tor MIR. Bowen. 1t was his opinion that
when Mr.. 8. knew that the paid bullies OF Mr..
Bowen, on last Thursday and Saturday, under
his very nose, assaulted men because they said
they would support Mr.. Emery, that he being a
friend Of free speech would not support Mr.
Bowen. iApplause.l
Mr.. Rbinehardt said that he had come to the
CONCLUSION, after all that had been said and
done to viify Mr.. Emery by the Bowen men,
that the better class of citizens were in this
movement, He referred to a letter in morn
ing paper signed s. j. Bowen, and SAID Mr.. b.
in that letter says that she did not wish the
nomination, but il would be ingratitude to the
Republican party to Decline" when he knows
that he, Cook & Co. have caused this division In
the Republican party. 5. j. Bowen has been
the bone of contention. Why, ne instigated and
dictated the measures and fraud by which he
was nominated. The party who elevated him
TO the position which he now holds-the majority
of them-are opposed to him. Let him be put
out of the way, and let Matthew q. Emery take
his place. He says further on, that " he is not
OF those who give pledges before or after the
nomination" Why, his contractors are quar-
reling among themselves as to who has the
promise Of the best contract. lie learned that
the Commissioner and Assistant Commissioner
Of the Fourth Ward we're quarreling among
themselves, and an outsider had stepped in for
the Commissioners place, and they were now
trying to step into the Emery ranks. Further
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