The Wichita daily eagle., 1894-02-15
READY FOR BATTLE
HALLOWELL AND DOUGLASS FORCES
WAITING FOB TODAY'S CONTEST.
Both Sides Claiming Victory-The
City the Center of the Fight-Hal-
lowell Recalls the Battle of
Fort Donaldson-Fashion
able Fourth Will be Init.

It will bs great contest Of persona
strength.
That is the verdict of everybody who has
watched the progress Of the fight between
Colonel Hallowell and George l. Douglass
for the delegation to the state convention.
| Every inch of ground from Valley Cen.
ter to Cheney will be contested, and every
| Republican in this area has been seen by
| either the participants or some of their
| friends.
The center of the fight will be in the city
OF Wichita. The science of successful
| fighting is to throw force where there is
least resistance, aud this is what is being
done. The science OF fighting and the art
of fighting are two different things, aud the
candidate who knows more about the art
of battle will be the successful one Mum.
bers will not count in this contest. One
man may have 25OO followers in the county
and another may have only 1900 aud yet
the latter may get there. 1t is question
of proper distribution. In the Italian
campaign the Austrians had three to two
against Napoleon and yet the latter won
nearly every battle and skirmish in all that
memorable war. The AustriaIs knew
the science of war fully as well as the
French but Napolean knew more about
the art of war than either Wurmser or
the Grand Duke Charles. aud whipped
both of them successfully.
The art of war is what counts in politics
and especially in primary elections.
Talking about war Col. Hallowell point.
ed out coincidence last night. Thirty
tyyn he
fought at the battle of Fort Donaldson and
was shot through the hip and also through
the arm." Some of his friends asked him
IL that was not an evil omen and he
promptly replied, How could you think
80; didn't we whip the enemy them" 81
think it Is very good omen and there is
not day in the year would sooner stake
my chances of success than ON the ami
versary of Fort Donaldson"
That both of the con testing statesmen
have enthusiastic supporters there is NO
doubt. Both, of course, are claiming
success-in fact claiming everything
Col. HallOwelPs friends are claiming every
ward in the city aud will not listen to the
man who doubts it, but Douglass friends
deny and dispute every claim they make.
SOiOucl lIlcuuS diSO Ciditu
sixteen precincts of the country and this
claim is also vigorously contested and de.
MED. The would-be prophets who desire
to be on the safe side are standing pat SO
as to be in a position tomorrow morning
to say, 81 told you SO"
Colonel Halowell has done good deal
of personal work and talked in person
with mostly all the Republican voters of
the county. Mr.Dou9las has been equally
active aud in addition sent out thousan DIS
of sheets of paper containing all the
eulogies that have been passed upon his
career by the newspapers.
During the past few days the offices of
both of them have been crowded with
their clans men. Last night at dark, how
ever, Douglass office was closed aud he
was going about with some OF his lieuten-
ants seeing persons individually. Hal
lowelPs office was open till late hour
and with about thirty or forty of his
friends they were receiving as it were and
giving directions for the coming battle
Mont. his son, was by him like young
John Talbot at the battle of Orleans. get
ting his first snuff of battle. Mont shows
3 good deal of skill in the art of politics
and many of his fathers lieutenants
watched him with interest.
1t is admitted by the friends of both |
parties that the heat of battle in |
The city will be in the Fourth |
ward and of course each side was very anx- |
ous to get strong delegation there. |
Usually the Fourth ward votes with un-
ieviating dignity, but the indications now |
are that the era of vest pocket vote in |
that fashionable quarter is at an end, for |
The voters thereof are taking sides In the |
most pronounced and positive manner aud |
t is no hard matter to get an expression
II their views.
Both sides have completed their tickets,
t is understood. in all the wards.
The polls will open at o'clock aud close
1t Z, and it is expected that all the returns
will be in by 10 or II o'clock tonight from
LII parts Of the county.