Evening star., 1895-09-16
THREE DELEGATIONS
Possible Result of the Local Repub-
lican Situation.
THE FACTIONS ARE Wide APART
GIeeson, Carson and the Union
Republican Club.
THEN M'KINLEY'S FRIENDS

The Star recently, in discussing the po-
litical situation IN the District, said that
the contest for the selection of delegates to
the next national republican convention
would have to be decided by the national
committee Of the republican party. The
announcement on the part of the Gleeson-
ties Saturday that they would contest the
right of Mr.. Aaron Bradshaw to call the
convention for the selection Of two dele
gates has made the political situation
| here more complicated, and The Stars an
| nouacement that the national committee
will be brought into the fight will prove
true The Gleeson people claim that the
| major portion Of the republicans here are
with them, and that the only way they can
be defeated will be by snap judgment on
the part of the Bradshaw central COM
niittee, so they have announced that they
will fight down to the last ditch and will
then throw themselves upon the national
committee, to determine the justice of
their cause. They will have some member
of the Aldrich central committee which,
they claim, is the legal committee. to call
the conventions in the several districts
and the Gleesonites will obey this call,
select the delegates, hold a District con-
vention, select two delegates to the ma
tional convention ana name a new central
committee.
1t is said that the Gleeson people will Sc
lect. as Gleeson's colleague w. H. Smith,
who for many years was the assistant
librarian in the law library at the Capitol.
1t is said that Smith will be selected the
colored delegate because he is favorable to
the selection of T. B. Reed as the republi-
can candidate for the presidency. All the
time that Gleeson went to the national con-
vention he was favorable to the selection of
Blaine as the republican candidate, but
since Blaine is no more Gleeson has hitch
| himself n Maine'
and wants Smith as his colleague on the
delegation, because he, too, is Reed man.
The Bradshaw Position.
While the Gleeson people are saying that
they will not recognize the Bradshaw call,
Bradshaw is pursuing the even tenor of his
own way and says that he will call the
conventions at the proper time, and will at
tempt to accord justice to all of the aspir-
ants to the national convention. He says
tfat he is confident that If there is con-
test before the national convention, the
convention will decide favorably to him,
as he claims that 1t did before. Perry Car
son will join in the call which will be issued
by Bradshaw, and he says that the Brad
shaw convention will have in 1t the dele
gates which will be chosen by majority of
the republicans here.
The Tribune of New York, which gives in
its yearly almanac the names of the chair
men of the republican party in the different
states and territories records Mr.. Brad
shaw being the chairman of the republi-
can party of the District of Columbia.
In the absence of Frank Aldrich, who the
anti ti-Carson-Bradshaw people claim is the
chairman, 1t is said that they will have A.
H. S. Davis who called the conventions
four years ago, to call the anti-Carson con-
Chese claims also that Mr.. Bradshaw has
no more authority than he has to call the
several conventions. ,r . ,.....
Mr. Parkcr's Chances.
The announcement of ex-Commissioner
NJ. M. Parker during the week that he
would accept Of the honor of being dele
gate if it was rendered him caused those
who have been talking in friendly way
of him as the white delegate to renew their
talk in his behalf While Perry Carson
has not come out for any one as his
colleague on the delegation, 1t is known
that he is favorable to the selection of
Mr.. Parker. The fact that the Union Re-
publican Club and the republican members
of the board of trade are also favorable
to his candidacy has caused some of the
local leaders to believe that he will be Sc
lected as its white delegate.
Present indications point to the selection
of three sets of delegates from the Dis
trict. The Union Republican Club has an
nounced that 1t will select two men Of
''respectability and WORTH" and will send
them to the convention and have them
seated upon the representation that the
people here want change in District pol
itics. and want the affairs handled by such
men as they will send to the convention.
1t looks as If the Carson people.will send
as delegates Carson and Bradshaw, the
Union Republican Club will certify to
Parker and Daniel Murray, and the Glee-
son faction will choose Geeson and w. H.
Smith.
The Mckinley League.
The Mckinley people are not at all
asleep, and if they don't select delegates
they will throw their strength to some one
of the other factions. and will compromise
by selecting one Mckinley delegate Rob-
ert H. Keys, the young colored man whom
the Mckinley people are backing, is "out
hustling," and it looks as if he will be
somewhere in some one of the delegations.
A delegation of colored men waited on
Mr.. L. NJ. Saunders and c. ]. Ortlip during
last week, and as these two gentlemen are
favorable to Mr.. Mckinley the delegation
wanted them to put up some "stuf' for
them to go to work on-creating sentiment
favorable to the selection of Mckinley dele
gates. 1t Is said that the two gentlemen
religiously turned the delegation down and
declared that it was too early to begin the
fight.
All of the different factiops seemed de-
termined to select delegates to the next
convention. the Mckinley people hoping
committee that they will be. seated; the
Reed faction trusting that he will be in
high favor that they may get inside the
breast works, and the independents be-
lieving that neither candidate will be in
control Of the credential committee and
that they will be seated with the hope OF
having them won over to the side upon
which majority of the credential COM
mittee may finally land.
The situation Is much complicated and
promises to be more SO by the time for the
selection of delegates, as each faction
seems determinde to fight it out to the end.
She Demands Support.
Application for maintenance was filed to-
day by Salle Eugenia Long against Frank
Hall Long. Mrs. Long states that they were
married here December 81, 1892, and lived
together until August Is last, when her
husband she charpas p,illfull1 daSartal