Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-01-24
GETTING OUT TICKETS
The Twelfth Ward School Fight an
Object of Great Interest,
THE EIGHTEENTH WARD PRIMARY,
Mr.. DWYer Treats 1t Airily and Says Mr..
Bracken is Young.
ARRESTS REPORTED NEVERTHELESS

In political circles yesterday was a very
busy day. The distribution of tickets for
| Saturdays primaries was the chief occupa-
ton of the retainers of the different candi-
dates, and that it was we'll done is best evi-
! denced by the fact that before P M yes
terday every ticket was issued for the can
didates who have opposition, and the ma
| jority of the tickets for those who have none.
All question of opposition to b. I. Gour-
| ley for Mayor is now settled by the fact that
everybody in the Republican ranks has set
tied down to work, and seem determined to
make his calling ana election sure. There
will be some lively contests for Council
manic and Aldermanic elections in differ
ent wards, but on the whole the feeling
seems to be that the successful candidate
will be we'll supported. The contests where
they occur are at the least good-humored.
One of the most interesting fights, made
so by a mere accident, is that for member of
the School Board in the Twelfth ward.
There are now some 13 candidates in the
field with several districts to hear from. As
there are only two to elect from the O'Hara
School District, review of the field is
rather interesting.
The report was circulated some time ago
that John j. Davis, Assistant City Control
Ter, the present President of the School
Board OF the Twelfth ward, was not can
didate for reelection. Yesterday he was
waited on by delegation of citizens
from the ward requesting him to reconsider
his determination. He replied that he had
not intended to be candidate, on account
of his duties limiting his time to SO small a
compass, and, in fact, was unwilling to put
!, Sv1k ~ L,.A -
tation of so many friends would reconsider
his determination. He is, therefore, in the
race.
LIST OF CANDIDATES.
The other candidates on the Republican
ticket are: j. II. Armstrong, real estate
agent; John Torley, roll turner; John Lit
tell, laundryman; J. G. Reyburn, P. r. R.
Inspector; Robert Newell, of the Sheriff's
Office; William Welsh and Chas. Hiield,
of the Westinghouse Airbrake Company;
john Paisley and Evan Davis, of the Fire
Bureau, and John Lauman, OF Twenty-fifth
street, is one of the most prominently men,
toned candidates.
from are: Robert Lidell, Patrick Burns and
james Mason.
Mr.. M. G. Dwyer, when asked last night
Eighteenth ward, in which it was insinuated,
if not directly charged, that Mr.. Frank
Bracken had been done up in the Third dis
trict, replied that the stories published were
utterly false, and would be admitted to be
so when people had cooled down. Mr..
Dwyer said the trouble was a sort of a
friendly one gotten up as much to bring out
the Democratic vote as anything else. He
also stated that unusual interest was taken
in the contest owing to the unusually bad
condition of streets ard roads in the ward
(there was an indignation meeting on the
road question last night, and the people
were worked up more than usual. He
stated that there wasn't much margin either
way politically, but expressed no fear
of being able to make the rifle.
MR.. DIVERS FIGURES.
Mr.. Dwyer thus gives the vote at the
primaries, and says itean be proven correct: