Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-01-02
Expected at the Meeting of
the Democratic County
Committee To-Day.
POINTS, OF THE CONTEST.
1t Issa Straight Fight Against the
State Administration.
GUFFEYiPE0PLE CLAIM A VICTORY.
The Hardest Struggle Will Be the One
Between Jiles and Clark.
ITALIAN REPUBLICAN CLUB FORMED

The Democratic Committee OF Allegheny
cnunty will meet in Common Council Cham.
Der, City Hall, at II o'clock this morning,
to elect members of the State Central Com
mittee. The meeting, it is believed, will
be the largest ever held by the committee,
and unless all signs fail it will be the live
hest ever known to the Democracy of Ale
gheny county. The committee is made up
OF about $50 delegates
In the Forty-second Senatorial district
James Tracy and John Sullivan are the can
didates for membership of the State Com
mittee. Sullivan is pronounced Harrity
man. while Tracy is opposed to the Seer
tary of State. In the Forty-third district
Alderman McKenna will be chosen the
member of the State Committee. He is a
pronounced Guffey man. In the Forty
fourth district James Clark and John Jiles
are the candidates for the place on the State
COMMITTEES. Clark is Guffey man while
Jile<, who is employed in the State Depart
menr at Harrisburg, is for Harrity, his
chief. In the Fortv-ffth district p. Foley
will be the State Committee man without
opposition. He is Harrity mar.
The Point of the Contes:
The contest in the County Committee this
morning will be made between Guffey and
Harrity, who are candidates for w. L.
Scott's place on the National Committee.
Gutfey's friend' contend that the Harrit v
people should not have made fight in
vi -. h..
that no matter who is named for the State
Committee they will be instructed to vote
for Guffey for the National Committee
The resolution instructing for Guffey will
be vigorously opposed by the Harr'ty peo-
pie and on this issue the committee will
divide and may split.
The fight on either sid, will be in compe-
tent hands. The same political warriors
who have been making the Jiles-Clark
struggle will be arrayed against each other
in the committee meeting TODAY, and it is
not unlikely that large hail will be neces-
sary to hold the members
Z. Foley, who vii. leao the Harritv
forces, said last last nig',l that the County
Committee has no authority to instruct the
State committeeman In his opinion he is
backed by Commissioner Bowie who is
helping Jiles in HI: fight. Chairman Bren-
ner. I. O'Leary, John B. Larkin, Alderman
Mckenns, Thomas Mullen and other Dem
ocrats OF their class, who have been making
the fight for Clark, will lead the Gufev
forces. They Will see to it that the mem
bers of the State Committee are instructed
for Guffey, and they say that only Guffey
men will be sent as members of the State
committee.
Bremen Has New Scheme
1t was said last night that the entire
County Committee could act in electing the
State Committeeman. eve are not bound
by one district" Mr. Bremen said Such
an arrangement would be surprise to the
Jiles people and would likely guarantee
their defeat 1t is not likely, however, that
such plan will be adopted and the MEM
bers from the four districts in the county
Will likely be allowed to act separately in
naming their representatives.
In great many districts in the county
where members of the County Committee
are not elected by popular vote in their dis
tricts Chairman Bremen, by the authority
Of his position this year. as in former wears,
filled the committee by appointment The
Jlles people complained yesterday that in
this way the committee was set up against
them. Chairman. Bremen said last night
that in filling out the committee he acted
for the best interests of the party. In sup
port of his argument Mr.. Bremen said that
on Monday Mr.. Wallace who is brothec-
in-law OF Mr.. Jiles, came to him and asked
that he placed on the committee from one
of the Lawrenceville districts. His request
was granted. Yesterday it was discovered
that Wallace does not live in the district he
had been appointed to represent.
THAT is the way the Chairman would be
imposed on if he did not act independently
of both sides in making up the committee"
Mr. Bremen said last night 1t is probable
that Mr. Walkers seat will be contested to-
day, and he Will be thrown out if the conf
mittee find Misrepresentation.
Where the Fight Is Hottest.
The JiIes-Clark fight attracted the atten-
tion of all the Democrati. politicians YES
terdav. Both sides are active and much
work was done. Each claims the
victory, but neither side was willing to give
out figures or make any public estimate of
their fight. In the Jiles-Clark district
there are 1S3 members of the County COM
mittee. The district includes Lawrence
vile, B-addock, McKeesport and the
country and Millvale, Sharps-
burg, Etna, Tarentum, Springdale and the |
surrounding those towns. In the |
country ,Jiles is especially strong, but his |
opposition are confident that they can |
whip him. They claim they are not max |
ing the fight against Jiles personally, but |
are endeavoring to rebuke the attempt OF |
Mr.. Harrity to get the members of the |
from Mr.. Guffcy's county,
The fight between Tracy and Sullivan in
the Allegheny district is decidedly lively,
but mas not attracted much outside atten-
ton. 1t is denied that Tracy will be
elected, but the Sullivan people have not
yet abandoned the contest
Alderman McKenna and mis- friends are
bitter in their denunciation of Mr.. Harrity.
They allege that Harrity could have had the
and that there would have been
40 contest in the county if he had asked for
he delegates, and had not sent one OF his
into Mr.. Guffey's district. The
contest has now resolved into fight against
he State administration, and it promises to
give the party in Allegheny county lively
howing up.