Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-29
GUFFEY IS HOPEFUL.
He Believes He Will Defeat Secre-
tary of State Harrity
FOR THE LATE ". L. SC0TT'S PLACE
As q Member of the National Democratic
Committee.
CoRBETT WANTS AN HONEST DOLLAR

The result of Saturdays primaries in
Washington and Dauphin counties and the
action of the conventions in those counties
yesterday were decidedly satisfactory to the
anti -Harrity Democrats of Pittsburg. and
the followers of J. M. Guffey now claim to
see more bright stars in the political sky.
Mr.. Guffey was himself somewhat elated
over the result in those counties and he was
disposed to talk freely on the subject.
Naturally, am very much gratiied at
the result in Washington county," Mr..
Guffey said yesterday. ''The fight there
was fair and square between Mr.. Harrity and
myself My friends won easily, and as an
evidence of where I stand and where my
friends stand, they Endorsed Cleveland fc-
President. The effort to persuade the peo-
pie of the State that I have been making q
fight against Cleveland and for Hill or any
other candidate has fallen fiat, and when
and where the lines have been drawn be-
tween Mr. Harrity and myself have won.
NV friends are Democrats They want no
power to swap off for selfish purposes, and
it is unfair to charge them with straying
after false gods just for the purpose OF de-
feating them"
Both Sides Claim an Ultimate Victory.
The contest between Mr.. Guffey and Mr..
Harrity for the late W. L. Scott's place on
the Democratic National Committee is
daily attracting more attention. The Gut
few people are confident of success, while
Secretary Harrity's followers claim they
will win the fight easily.
THE primaries on Saturday last would
seem to settle the contest for place on the
National Committee, one of Guffey's fol-
lowers said yesterday. ''The result in
Washington county settles the fight in the
Twenty-fourth Congressional district, as
Washington and that part of Allegheny that
is in the Twenty-fourth district have dele
gates enough to name the two national del
egates. The four national delegates from
Allegheny county are for Guffey, Bradford
county has controlled the Fifteenth Con-
gressional district for Guffey and Lycoming
county has decided the Sixteenth Con-
gressional district in the same way. At the
primaries in Dauphin county on Saturday
four Harrity and four Guffey delegates
were elected, but Perry county in the same
Congressional district last week instructed
for the Guffev candidates for national dele
gates which settles the Fourteenth district
in our favor.
Against the state ADMINISTRATION.
s1n the Sixth Congressional district
Michael Murphy, MI. Gufey's business
partner, will go to the State Convention
and will see that Guffey man goes to the
National Convention. In the Eighteenth
Congressional district Franklin, Union and
Snyder counties have announced themselves
as being against the State administration.
Ex-Secretary of State Stenger and d.
A. Orr, editor and owner of the Harris
burg Patriot, live in that Congressional dis
trict, and they will give it to anyone who is
opposed to Mr.. Harrity. Lackawanna
county, the Eleventh Congressional district,
and Luzerne county, the Twelfth Congress
sional district. have declared against Mr..
Harrity, which, up to date, leaves Mr. Har-
rity, outside of the Philadelphia delegation,
with the Nineteenth Congressional district
pronounced in favor of his candidacy.
These figures are absolutely correct"
the gentleman concluded. 'Of the districts
in which primaries are yet to be held Mr..
Gufey is confident of winning a majority,
especially when it is known that
the contest is not against Mr.. Cleveland,
but is between Mr.. Guffey and Mr.. Har-
rity.'