Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-03-30
THE TABLES TURNED.
Serious Charges Sworn to by an
Allegheny Democrat, Who
SHIFTS THE OFFENSE SOMEWHAT.
Michael Marks Tells How John Sullivan
Got His Credentials.
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Michael Manks yesterday went before
George R. Boutwell,, Mavor's clerk in Allie
gheny and Notary Public, and made aft.
davit to the effect that on March 21, 1892,
John Sullivan approached him
and for q consideration induced him to
transfer to Sullivan his credentials
as q delegate to the Second Legislative
district convention which was held in ALE
gheny City Hall on Tuesday evening, March
o. 1t was announced last night that Sulli-
van would be arrested to-day. t'
The affidavit made by Manks grew out Of
the fight for national delegates between the
Harrity and Guffev factions of the Demo
cratic party in the Twenty-third Con-
gressional district. Both Sullivan and
Marks live in the Seventh district Of
the Sixth ward, Allegheny. Sullivan
was candidate for delegate in the interest
of Henry Meyer and Herman Kunkle. who
were alleged to be representing the Harrity
element, while Marks was running as q
delegate in the interest of Lee Frasher and
John Huckenstein, who claimed to repre-
sent the Guffey wing Of the party. Marks
won the fight by six votes. After the pri-
mary, which was held on Saturday even
ing, March %, he reported at the Frasher-
Huckenstein headquarters and produced his
credentials.
An Oner for MankS Credentials.
The following Monday Marks called upon
Lee Frasher, James Tracy and others, and
told them that John Sullivan wanted his
credentials and that Sullivan had offered
to make him his barkeeper In the event
of his getting license, provided he, Manks,
would transfer his credentials to Sullivan.
Marks also stated that T. D. Casey had Of
fered to secure for Manks a situation
in the Riverside Penitentiary as q
reward for transferring the credentials to
and Tracy advised Marks to make the deal
with Sullivan because they were confident
of success without Marks and because Sulli-
van had charged OH Saturday night, Sunday
and on Monday that the Guffey people had
won by bribery and corruption and they were
anxious to entrsp their accuser. On
Monday night, the affidavit states, Sullivan
again approached Marks on the same sub
ject and the transfer of the credentials was
made at 1:30 o'clock that night.
When the convention assembled on Tues
day evening Mr. Sullivan appeared
with the Marks credentials He
refused to go into the regular
convention, but in the lobby of Allegheny
City Hall he made short speech, advising
the Harrity delegates against going into the
convention, and asking them to follow him
into an adjoining hall.
Serious Charges Made by Sullivan.
Ten of the delegates followed Mr.. sulli-
van, and an Independent convention was
held. Mr.. Sullivan was chosen Chairman
of the independent gathering. On assum-
ing the chair he made bitter speech against
the opposition and charged recklessly that
several of the Harrity delegates had been
bought up by the other side. The regular
convention elected delegates to the State
enstein for national delegates, and the Sui
lvan convention elected delegates favor
able to Meyer and Kunkle as national dele
gates. Both conventions Endorsed Cleve-
land for President and applauded the ad-
ministratlon of Governor Pattison. Both
conventions adjourned with rousing cheers
for their candidates for national delegates.
The day following the convention Messrs
Sullivan and Kunkle charged through the
public prints that immense amounts of
money had been used to elect the delegates
to the regular convention and Mr.. Kunkle
asserted that improper considerations
prompted the publication of some of the
news bearing on the subject.
When John Sullivan was asked to ex-
plain how he secured the credentials from
Mr. Marks he said he had been doing some
fine detective work, and had gotten the Gre
hanf IS in hn In o1e
that Manks and himself were running to-
gether in their district, and that Sullivan
was to get the credentials no matter which
one was successful at the polls Marks, in
answer to Sullivan's explanation, says
that two weeks before the primaries
Sullivan came to him and sug-
gested that such an agreement be
made between them and that Sullivan ad-
vised him to get all the money he could
from the Frasher people, and that the Har-
rity people would also pay the expenses of
his campaign. Marks says he refused to
90 into such an agreement, and so told Sui
livan, and as an evidence of his sincerity
points to his success at the polls.
E1-Jury Commissioner Jiles' Argument.
In q written statement, which has not
been sworn to but which has been signed by
Marks, it is set forth that John Jiles, o
clerk in the Office of Secretary of State Har-
rity came to him In Allegheny and that the
two then came over to Pittsburg, where they
met John Sullivan, after which both Jiles
and Sullivan agreed to secure him place
in the revenue service in the event of the
election of Democratic President,
in case he would transfer his
credentials to Sullivan. He alleges that
Jiles also argued that the anti-Harrity
delegates would not be admitted to the
State Convention even if they were elected.
C. NJ. King. who was active in the Ale
gheny fight, said last night that the war was
now fairly on in Allegheny and that
other damaging afidavits would follow
the one made by Marks. 'sWe have been
charged with bribery and all kinds of politi-
cal jobbery," Mr.. King said, land in Justice
to ourselves and our friends we are anxious
to have the light turned on"
The announcement that Marks had
made an affidavit in regard to the
transfer of his credentials created con-
siderable confusion among the Allegheny
Democrats last night and all of them de-
voted the evening to discussing the subject.
Mr.. Sullivan could not be found last night.
Hts former place of business has been trans
ferred to another,