Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-19
A VIGOROUS CONTEST
For National Delegate Honors Will
Be Decided at the
DEMOCRATIC PRIMARIES TO-DAY,
The NOrthside District Is the Scene of the
Struggle.
ALL CLAIMING To BE FOR CLEVELAND

The Democratic primaries to be held this
evening to elect delegates to the State Con-
vention and name delegates to the National
Convention have been for q week or more
absorbing the attention of the local poll
ticans. The arrangement between the
leaders by which j. NJ Guffey and George
Fleming are to be the national delegates
from the Twenty-second Congressional dis
trict disposes of fight on the Pittsburg
side of the river.
The State delegates suggested in the ar
rangement will have no opposition, but the
fight for delegates in the Twenty-third Con-
gressional district is hot enough for State
campaign. The candidates for national
delegates in the Allegheny district are Her
man Kunkle, Henry Meyer and Mr.. Os-
borne, who are running together, and Lee
Frasber and John Huckenstein, who are
making battle against the other three.
One of the Campaign Charges.
There are but two to, be elected. 1t is
claimed by the Frasher and Huckenstein
people that an arrangement has been made
between Meyer and Osborne that the one
receiving the most support at the primaries
to-day shall be the national delegate if
either is successful. The lines for
the battle have been closely drawn.
Back of Meyer, Osborne and
Kunkle are John B. Larkin, T. O'Leary, P.
Foley and other recognized Cleveland ad-
herents, while behind the Huckenstein-
Frasher combination are Chairman w. j.
Bremen, c. M. King, Thomas Mullen,
Hugh Craig, Alderman McKenna and j.. M.
Gufey
Charges and counter charges have been
made on both sides. Henry Meyer alleged
81, 900 in the fight to beat him, while g. M.
King alleged that the departments at Har-
risburg had been assessed literally and that
the proceeds had been dumped into the
Allegheny contest to elect the Meyer
Kunkle-Osborne combination.
Jiles Looking for More scalps.
Yesterday j ohm Jiles, clerk in Secretary
of State Harrity's Office, appeared in the
Allegheny district in opposition to Huck-
enstein and Frasher. He remained in the
district but short time, however His
presence in Allegheny was especially ofen-
sive to Mr.. Frasher, who last night said:
1.-THE fight in this district is decidedly
lively, but we are hopeful of winning. The
opposition are claiming Justify that they
are the only true blue Cleveland men in
this county The fact is everybody in
this county is for Cleveland. What we are
fighting for is to determine who shall
deliver the( delegation to Mr.. Cleveland.
We all live in Allegheny county. Our
business is here, and we are fighting to make
j. NJ. Gufey our leader, while the other
fellows are fighting to make Mr.. Harrlty
the accepted leader in the State. That's
our fight exactly. We are for Allegheny
first, last and all the time, and we are for
an Allegheny leader"
Henry Never, ESQ.,, recognized as an out
and-out Cleveland man, in speaking of the
fight for delegates to the Democratic Ma
tional Convention yesterday, said:
Why He is for Cleveland.
Iconsented to help the Cleveland men in
Allegheny and to stand for him without any
and am supported in the fight
by Frank Osburn, Herman Kunkle, Frank
Fertig and Messrs. McCutcheon, Kaylor,
Peyton, Trainor and Kalbfuss. When the
fight began it was we'll understood that John
Huckenstein, Lee Frasher C. NJ. King and
Alex. Wilson represented David B. Hill and
were making the fight for him. These gentle
men, believe. are still for Hill, put they ma
the sentiment is strong everywhere Tor Mr..
Cleveland and they are now claiming
to be for him. 1 talked to most of them be-
fore consented to run. and know what
am talking about when say that Mr.. Cleve-
lands friends are not for them and do not
regard them as representing anything but
opposition to Cleveland's nomination. Gen
eral James Atwell, who formerly lived in
Allegheny and one of Hills lieutenants, is
backing Huckenstein and Frasher, and he is
assisted by Mr.. C. Nj. King, one of General
Atwell's partners.
1 consider ex-President Cleveland one of
the ablest and strongest men in the Demo
ment of the country and believe he will be
nominated and elected by the country out.
side of New York. II, however, the Demo-
Gratis OF the country permit MI. Cleveland to
be pushed aside, that the machine methods
OF New York politics may prevail, would
not be surprised at the loss of the Presidency
and to see the Majority in the House of Rep
seldom at fault, and especially is that true
in the case of public men who have been
tried and have met public expectation.
Mr.. Cleveland is no mans creature and is
moved by no mans whims or caprice. He is
the embodiment of everything thaH3s pure
in American politics and has the courage to
stand by his honest convictions. 1t
him. They can not handle him nor can they
coerce him, and that makes him strong with
the people. His good, hard common sense,
strong indivfd uality, great force of character
and answering disposition to be right have
given him power to survive defeat that no
sessed. New York has no claim upon him
that is not shared by every other State. He
is national character. and may be pre-
sented at Chicago by half n dozen different
States, who regard him as the ablest Demo
crat OF his day and generation, without re-