Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-25
BL00DLESS BATTLE
Waged by Rival Democratic
Factions Last Night.
BOTH SIDES ARE HOPEFUL.
Results Will Tell When the Smoke
of War Clears Away.
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BOTH SIDES ARE HOPEFUL.
O'LEARY SAYS SOLID FOR BIGLER.
The Hardest Fighting Was Apparently
Done in the City Wards.
RUMORS OF A POSSIBLE FREEzE-OUT

cracy last night was attended with great
good humor, the contestants loosely allud-
ing to each other as "Old Guard" and
"Seashore Delegation exponents of the
doctrines of the faithful. Each side in
dulged in glittering generalities at late
hour last night, and definite information
was as rare as civil service reform ideas.
The Democratic primaries were held be-
tween the hours of and z P. II. all over
the county. The whole fight was Bigler or
anything to beat the ex-Internal Revenue
Collector, and minor matters were entirely
lost sight of owing to the walk-over which
the mention of r. H. Johnston's name
stood for. Even the composition of the
County Committee was tame and spiritless
matter. The "Oid Guard" announced itself
as out for a cleansing of the Augean
stables" as Hon. Timothy O'Leary, Jr.,
conciseIy expressed it, while the aforesaid
"Augean'' stable force headed, by nimble
Mr.. William Bremen, fought manfully for
the maintenance of the ground achieved in
former contests.
The band played V igorously all along the
line, but the main fight was in the Third,
Fourth and Fifth Legislative districts for
the delegates to the State Convention. In
the sections of the city embraced by those
divisions the fun was fast and furious, and
at midnight both sides were claiming every
thing in sight, and more, too.
CLAIMS DISAGREE.
The First Legislative district will send
two delegates to Harrisburg. 1t embraces
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to know who was running. The same could
be said of the Second district, also part of
Allegheny. Patrick Foley, at IL o'clock,
conceded one delegate in each of the First
and Second districts to the O'Learyites.
The latter, struck by Mr.. Foley's mag
nanimity, were yet too modest to abate a
jot or little in their claim of all four dele
gates.
ILTne most blissful uncertainty reigned on
both sides as to the composition of the dele
cations to the State Convention from the
Sixth, Seventh and Eighth districts, the
rural contingent The Sixth district, con-
sisting of ali the Southside wards and bor-
oughs south of the Monongahela and Ohio
rivers, will elect three delegates to Harris
burg. The Seventh district, consisting of
all the boroughs and townships north of the
Ohio river and west bfs the Allegheny, will
also send three good men and true to Har-
risburg. Two true-blue representatives of
the principles OF jefferson will mingle with
the State Convention, representing the
Eighth district, which consists of all the
boroughs and townships lying between the
two rivers. Each faction was strenuously
insisting that their slate had pulled through
in the three above districts, but Chairman
Watson's Monday morning mail will tell
the tale, nor can anything authoritative be
said until then.
THE REAL BATTLE GROUND.
The great fight was fought in the Third,
Fourth and Fifth legislative districts. The
Third district consists of the Second, Third,
Sixth, Seventh, Eighth, Eleventh and
Thirteenth wards. At midnight Patrick
Foley joyfully gave it ou. that Mr.. Law
renee Ennis had carried the district single
handed, and that the convention would
nominate the man VINO would be "Larry's''
running mate at Harrisburg.
Mr.. 7. O'Leary, Jr, thought Mr.. Foley
rather optimistic, inasmuch as the 'Old
Guard figures showed that Messrs John
Oa0lll, OF Tue OlAbu Wdru, ana w d. Cur-
ran, of the Seventh ward, had won the
fight. The statements do not harmonic,
and neither did the factions during the con-
test.
The Fourth district consists of that Justly
far-famed "Bull Run" bailiwick, hard by
the length and breadth of Penn avenue
embracing the First, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth
Tenth and Twelfth wards. Messrs. Foley
and Bremen conceded one of the elected
delegates, David Barry, of the Twelfth
ward, to the O'Leary faction, but hugged
Matt eCavanaugh to their bosom as their
delegate. Again came slight discrepancy
in claims, for Mr.. O'Leary positively stated
that Mr.. Cavanaugh was his man, first last
and all the time, leaving the situation one
decidedly of yOu-pays-your-money-an
takes-your-choice.
But the elimination of the primary ex-
citement beiell in the Fifth Legislative
district containing the bulk of Pittsburg
and the Southside. This is where all the
hard work was done, all the blows given
and taken. Mr.. Bremen staked his
prophetic reputation upon the assertion that
his faction had achieved glorious victory
and that the delegation to Harrisburg
would be himself from the Fourteenth
ward; john Dillmuth, of the Seventeenth
ward; MichaelC c. Dwyer, of the Eighteenth
ward; John Pierce, of the Twenty-fourth
ward; William Walls, of the Twenty-sev-
enth ward, and Patrick Foley, of the
Thirty-sixth ward.
Mr.. O'Leary was equally emphatic in his
claim that the following gentlemen would
hold down seats in the Harrisburg conven-
ton: Charles Schaefer. Fifteenth ward;
Thomas P. Mccullough, Seventeenth ward;
Joseph A. Weldon, Nineteenth ward;
James A. Clark, Twentieth ward; Frank
jackson, Twenty-ffth ward, and James
Doian, Twenty-eighth ward. Knowing
ones say that Mr.. Brennan's men had the
votes on the face of the returns in the
Fourth and Fifth districts, but that Mr..
O'Leary's slate will pass unframed through
the Committee on Contested seats in the
State Convention.
OLD TACTICS EMPLOYED.
Mr.. O'Leary himself confirmed the report
that his delegates would be seated, while the
others would jump from the springboard of
fate into the soup of oblivion. He said:
"We have the majority of the votes honestly
cast at the primaries. The Brenne mites
have taken occasion to put themselves upon
record as vigorously anti-Bigler They will
run against a stone wall when they strike
solid Bigler convention at Harrisburg, and
We will get even with them for some
of the tricks of past years. We
actually believe that solid Bigler delega-
tion will go from Allegheny county, and re-
ceive seats in the convention, and we are
just starting a fight of determination. We
will fight them all along the line. 1 under
stand that Pat Foley wants to be Permanent