Evening journal., 1894-04-30


Long Time George II. Hollis Gives the
Lie to Postmaster Stewart
MoMuIlln Explains His Position.
''It will be Gilis for sheriff and Std
ham for coroner" said a Republican
politician. That's the way the wind is
blowing, and the Finn Stewart Mahaffy.
Martin Sterling combination can't change
it. - EVENING JOURNAL, Thursday,
April 2G
The Stewart -Mahaffg g-Gould-Dowuey-
Finn combination is in sackcloth and
ashes. 1t has hung It's harp on the weep.
ing willow tree and has gone into politi
cal insolvency. Postmaster Stewart may
know how to build stables aud other
outbuildings, but he evidently knows
nothing whatever about building fences
He was outgeneraled at every point by
Chairman Bach, Major Edmund Mitchell,
Jr, City Auditor Billany and their aides
In the political fight on Saturday. It was
a Higgins victory, pure and simple.
What grieves the postmaster is that his
enemy Bach, should have whipped him
so numerically in a fight of his own
making
| dred, was nominated for sheriff by a
plurality of 2. l59 in total vote of o. 09l.
The total votes for the several candidates
were: Gillis, 1898; Finn, 2, 1854: Rettew
9, 104 Taylor 25S; Cooley, 103. The
last figures show how completely Good
ley was deserted by Mahaffy and his
/ following
Emmett F. Stidham won the nomination
for the coronership by plurality of 33S,
in poll of 9. 1S0 votes. he had nine
competitors, but WAS fortunate in being
on the slate with Gillis. Jackson came
next with 1.71S votes, while Cloud. who
evidently stood in with neither side, had
only 356 supporters in the whole county.
The Finn men were whipped from the
start but could not see it. They thought
the Higgins machine was disabled and
never dreamed that It could grind out
voters for Gillis and Stidham with such
perfect ease. They are wiser this morn.
ing and are sorry they had 10000 tickets
printed for the use of only 2, 1864 voters.
Finn is looking around for junk dealer
TO dispose Of the surplus
His Big Run at Home.
Paul Gillis swept the rural hundreds
like hurricane He polled 2,013 votes
to Films G54 In White Clay Creek
hundred be polled 51S votes In the
Eastern district there was only one vote
cast aga nst him and it Was for Taylor
In the Western district Finn polled
votes aud Rettew ?.
Finn Men Cry Fraud.
The Finn men are charging all sort O.
fraud. They say that the bsllot-boxei
were wrongfully manipulated; that the
Republican block book was used 10 p @.
vent Finn men from voting, and that
the three hour voting system In this
city was inauguraied to enable the
ellis men to block the voting for tn,
other candidates by getting to the poll
ing places first and holding the Windows
longer than was necessary. All these
charges the Gillis men naturally deny.
End of Stable Domination.
"This is the end of it,, said promi
nent Gillis supporter this morning "rhi
political influence of Martins stable Is a
an end. The people down there on ThirC
street have been naming the sheriff for
great many years, but they won't be abl
TO do it again in a hurry"
"Of whom do you speak2" said the re
porter.
Joe Gould, Bill Martin, Joe Martin
, Psirce Gould and their immediat
friends"
! "Whom have they named2'
, Frank Stioham, defeated by tn
z Democrats; Philip R Clark, elected h
: 1880; James Martin, elected ia 1882 b
\ nine votes and saved by William g
Whiteley when the Democrats wer
about to count him out They brough
out Peirce Gould originally, and, whei
Bill Simmons came out, the only reaso
. tine stable gang did not bring out Goul
= in opposition was because they though
= the party stood no show OF electing thei
y candidate simmons was defeated by Tor
Ford. He came out again in 1890, and th
stable people, thinking there was sho'
for electing the shrievalty candidate
j. brought Peirce Gould ont to contest tn
h nomination, but Simmons defeated him
. In 1892 they brought Gould out agai
= and secured his nomination. This tim
n they supported Fllnu against 6illis an
! got dose they will never forget, de
spite all the Addicks money they had a
command
S. "Did the money they used have an
a appreciable effect2"
a mo l don't believe that $50. 900 woul
y have changed the result It was q YES
Y pocket vote for Gillis He was supporte
by class upon which corruption fun
has no influence. That was most motto
able in the middle district Of th
Seventh ward where there is not
single colored voter"
"Do you think that Postmast'
to Stewart and his following will cut Gill
le at the election in November
.. "What following has Stewart and b
II lieutensnts2 The only following the
have is the venal voters whom they pu
r chased, and that class of voters withol
y principle. Such men are just as likely
vote for the Democratic candidate as no
,e but there is not enough Of them to affe
y the result. There is no ork anizatiC
" back of Stewart or Peirce Gould l don
9, believe they could control ten Repub
~ can votes against Gillis at the next ele
IT, tion even II they felt inclined to do so
n "What does the nomination Of Gill
h signify2'
el 81 don't think that It has any signi
~ cancs except that the voters thought th
the rural part of the county was entitl'