Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-07-22
HUFF Is STILL IN IT,
And Nesbitt's Chances for Nominal
tion Are Subject to Discount.
FLUCTUATIONS IN CONFERENCE
That Are Taken as Signs That a Selection
Will Be Made To-Day.
OTHER FIGHTS FAR MORE EXPEDITIONS
rTRoM A STAFF CORRESPONDENCE

tFRoN A STAFF coRREsPoNDBNr.1
SALTsBURG, PA, July 2L-All signs
will fail if the Republican nominee for
Congress in the Twenty-frst district is not
nominated tomorrow. Who that man will
be is trife undecided, with the exception
that Mr.. Nesbitt's chances are considered
slight. Without doubt every effort is being
made to settle on man, and that Nesbitt is
not considered as the man comes from more
than one camp.
From the apparent relaxation of consulta-
tion about II o'clock tonight it was evident
that winner had been decided upon. Not
an interested party would talk. They
would smile and cheerfully say that things
would soon be righted and the choice of the
district would be acceptable to ALL
Although strongly denied by the parties
interested, the Indiana. Jefferson Senatorial
contest is playing large part in the selec-
tion of Congressman. Armstrong county
has changed her tactics tonight. Mr..
Heiner said the Armstrong delegation was
willing to meet any county half way. He
said propositions were offered him, but'in
each case he received buzzard, while the
other man would get juicy slices of turkey.
Not offered q Bit OF Gobbler.
When asked if he had not been offered
little gobbler the gentleman denied it, and
said he had entered into no agreement with
any other county.
If such is the case, some peculiar afilia-
tions will be affected then, if the impression
is true, tomorrow will see a settlement.
The interesting feature of the day
occurred this afternoon, soon after the con-
ference had assembled. All day long
the conferees had been scattering their
votes far and near, but not in the least
coming near a solution of the question. It
was on the forty-fourth ballot that Jeffer-
son led off by giving Nesbitt its solid vote
Westmoreland followed and Nesbitt secured
another. Armstrong came next, voting 2
for Heiner and for Huff Indiana was the
last called. She raised Nesbitt to g. then
all was on the tiptoe Of expectancy. The
last man in the delegation cast his vote in
another direction, and thus was Nesbitt's
advent into public life checked, or, at least,
that is what some Of the people thought.
Version From Armstrong County.
An Armstrong county man has version
which seems to be proper one. He says
the Senatorial fight was back of the voting
this afternoon. According to him it is not
the wish of Indiana county to secure the
nomination OF Nesbitt, but she wants to
hand the goods over to MI. Bond. 81
think" said he, 'the fourteenth ballot was
an evidence of this. Jefferson county only
voted for Nesbitt as bluff If the man
holding the winning hand in the Indiana
delegation had thrown it to the home candi-
date think that Jefferson would have
withdrawn. I believe Westmoreland's man
would have stayed"
The Westmoreland delegation is saying
nothing tonight, but doing great deal Of
hard work. 1t still holds good, strong
hand. It's influence is unbroken, and any
one having the impression that Colonel
Huff is out of the race is laboring under o
delusion. WI.