Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-10-18
VERY LITTLE VOTING,
Local Democrats Do Not Seem Anx-
iouS TO Have the Constitution
Revised at Present.
BOTH PARTIES STILL INACTIVE.
Colonel MoOre's Plan for Political Club
That, 1t Is Predicted, Will
Rival Tammany.
BOTH PARTIES STILL INACTIVE.
GLOWING TRIBUTE TO WILLARD GIBBS
sraichour Democrats Hold Big Meetings in Allegheny
and TaTentum.

No interest was taken yesterday In the
Democratic primaries TO elect Senatorial
and district delegates TO the conventions to
be held next Tuesday for the nomination of
delegates TO the Cons itutional Convention,
Some Democrats said they had forgotten
there were primaries While some people
think our Constitution needs dose of blue
mass, others think it Is in fairly good shape,
and as the issue does not as yet appeal TO
the pocket there is considerable general
apathy.
IN Democratic circles generally the tenor
ot report was substa antially the same. The
leaders profess to be sure of the election of
tie State ticket and the candidate for Jury
Commissioner Councilman Mullin reports
that after canvass of the country districts
lie is confden5 tha. the judiciary ticket
named by Governor Pattisol will have at
least 900 majority over the highest vote
on the straightout Republican ticket.
Chairman Bremen, of the Democracy,
stated that D. J. Freeland the miner orator
Of Luzerne, will nex5 week speak in con-
nection with others, at various PLACES in
this city. He is speaking under the aus
pices Of the State Committee.
Saturday night, at which Messrs. Gregg and
Morrison, Colonel Thomas Stewart, Secre-
tarv of Internal Affairs and Major f. A.
AIontooth will make speeches.
Chairman Grip2 states that as to the
county ticket, it is only question of ma
iority, as all real Republicans are on the
alert and all that is wanted is to get out the
vote.
COLONEL MooRE'S POLITICAL CLUB
Colonel W. d. Moore has devolved a new
method fer the publication of politics that
he thinks viii not only catch the average
reformers support, but also place himself
and fellow Straightout Democratic leaders
q; the head Of an organization almost as
great rs New NOrk's Tammany Hall At
the election on November 3 it is the in
Iyntioa Of the Straightout Democrats to
have the voters of their own faith assemble
IN caucus at each polling place and elect
onc member 10 q committee which is TO be the
new VIrty'S county organization. Colonel
Moore most brilliant scheme, however, is
20 have new Democratic club formed
which. lie says. viii not be a speak-easy
concern, but a cold water organization with
library and free reading room that will be
open he year around.
W alN 1NislS ~ puIll1 pOllllCS, DOI
make drunkards," said Colonel Moore.
The other Democratic clubs have buffets
and card rooms, and, las natural result they
have become headquarters for social meet
lug> rather than political education. Our
Club VIII be kept open all day, and until
reasonable hour at night, and will be sup
piled with good reading matter that
Will teach the younger members to break
AWAY from bOSsism and be independent
will ha Srriatl,- nnli+in.l
and Will continue the fight we have SO well
began.
THEY WILL FIGHT FOR COUNCILS.
Our next struggle will be TO elect repre-
sentaliycs 20 Councils at the February elec-
zion. We expect TO again unite with the
srrarltout Republicans at that time, and
Hi>a when the Mayoralty contest comes
up"
Other Srraightout Democrats are as en-
tEusiastic as Colonel Moore in their worr.
OF publication. William Walls, the ex-labor
leader and a member of the dissenting
Democrat committee of 81, thought that
even if the new organization did not sue
ceed in electing their own men, they could
Al least knock ont William J. Bremen
from the chairmanship of the regular Demo
cratic committee. He admitted that the
movement was IN reality a war against
the former Democratic leaders. Attorney
Charles O'Brien was equally confident
that the StraightoEts would freeze out the
Democratic partv's present advisers. 1--WE
VIII keep up our fight" he said, 'and in
case Alderman McKenna is nominated for
Mayer by the Democrats We will put
up another man and defeat Nc
Aenna. Why that man is not a
Democrat; he is a Republican" continued
Mr. O'Brien. "Who ever heard of him as
party man until the new city charter pro-
vided that one police magistrate should be
ot different politics from the others? Nc
Keuna was createc Democrat bv an act of
the Legislature, and is subject TO repeal
whenever the Republican leaders say So"
A TRIBUTE TO WILLARD NJ. GIBBS
4 largely attended meeting of the
Straightout Republican County Executive
Committee was held yesterday afternoon. A
touching address was made on the death of
W. ". Gibbs by Attorney David Smith. A
committee on resolutions was appointed
and the following was offered:
willard NJ Gibbs, Chairman OF the
Straightout Republican County Committee
has been stricken down by death in the
prime Of life and in the zenith Of usefulness.
Three months ago lie brought to the Straight
Cut Republican movement the inspiration
OF hi. presence in our councils, and to his
viror Of intellect, strength of purpose and |
fearless LOYALTY to the grand. old PRINCIPLES
OF EepublicaniSm was due in n great meas
urc the vitalization of the contest which it |
Is our mission to continue. To those among |
us who were associated with him. then it |
would have been impossible to realize that |
the hand of dea tn was upon him. We saw him |
active, earnest. fertile in the conception OF |
ideas and rapid in their execution, with the |
genius Of leadership written on his brow,
kindling in his glance and expressed with |
emphasis in the address with which he |
pOlnted out the way-the only honorable |
way ont of a complex and unfortunate po- |
litical situation. We saw him wreathed |
with the laures OF previous victories won |
mainly through his zeal as repre- |
sentative Republican coupled with natural |
ability as an organizer. We saw him ra-.
diant with hope and eager for the conflict (
against the enemy, which had sought to rob /
him and his bI ethren in the party of their /
s1tffraEeS. Little did we think that he was |
never 10 see the fruits of the tree which be |
had hclpcd to plant But Providence or |
Ccrpd il otherwise. " hile the Young tree |
Nf:rst into leaves and blossoms the life of |
willard VI. Gibbs was hanging in the bal /
ancc and before he could look upon the |
fruition his great heart was stiled forever. |
In his death we recognize an irrepara BILE |
loss, the loss not alone OF valuable asso- |
ciatc. but one who fulfilled in all respects |
the ideal OF an upright American citizen and |
tIlc natTiot over his grave pledge our
selves TO adhere without hinchinC to the |
principle Of which he was an exponent and /
OF which memory will be a continual re- |
3uinder. Willard NJ Gibbs was one Of those |
men whose Lives live after Them His WAS |
no tranSutorv influence. 1t is with us |
nCw and will remain with us, honored and |
cherished in the hearts of those he has left |
DphiYG.
70 she bereaved family of the deceased |
the committee extends its profound sym
nathy IN their af,iiction, let them take
consolation in the thought that the husband |
and father who is gone leaves them a heTit- |
age Of A stainless record and the esteem and /
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