Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-28
DR.. Purvis Denies Having With
drawn From the Field.
FACTS ABOUT TIE DELEGATE FIGHT
Men to Be Chosen by Convention
and Not bv Direct Vote.
CHAIRMAN CARRIERS COURSE

The lecture room of the Capital Savings
Bank building. on F street, was filled with
the lieutenants of Candidate L. c. Bailey
last night who belong to the executive
committee of the Bailey Campaign Club.
Reports were received from the repre-
sentatives of Mr.. Bailey in the various
assembly districts, all of which hreathed
the spirit of walk-over for him against
Colonel Perry Carson. Mr.. Frederick
Dyson, who presided at the meeting, de-
veloped the plan of campaign that Mr..
Bailey is conducting by declaring that the
impending conflict for convention honors,
as far as the colored republicans were
concerned, was between Messrs. Bailey and
Carson, and claimed that Bailey would
carry ten districts solidly and get enough
votes from the others to assure his cleo
ton. 1t was decided to fight the battle
along anti-Carson lines exclusively, and
this announcement was received with much
qualification by the persons present. -
The districts which are claimed to be
solid for Mr.. Bailey are the twenty first,
twentieth, eighteenth, tenth, eighth, sew
enth, fifth, fourth, first and third.
In the second district there was a meet
ing of republicans held Thursday night,
and Carson club was formed, with over
a hundred members. J. C. Shumate was
president; S. l.. Perry, secretary: Solomon
Page, treasurer, and George Frye SER
geant-at-arms. The club will hold a mass
meeting at Mount Bethel Church next Mon
day evening.
DIR. Purvis and Perry Carson.
Perry Carson does not appear to be in
any wise disturbed over the claims of Mr..
Bailey and his friends.
Among the stories out today was one
hot d
draw from the contest for delegate and
give his strength and influence to Carson's
candidacy. A representative Of Mr.. Bal
ley, who took prominent part in the meet
ing last night, is also said to have visited
ex-Distrct Commissioner Myron NJ. Parker
yesterday, with view to making combi-
nation between him and Mr.. Bailey but
Mr.. Parker declined to dicker, stating. it Is
understood, that he did not intend to join
with any faction In the forthcoming con-
test. DR.. Purvis, when asked today by
Star reporter as to his status, declared
that he was still a candidate, and believed
he had the largest following of any of the
candidates. He said he had been asked to
give his support to Carson, and he would
give the matter careful consideration, but
he had not yet authorized any one to state
that he had withdrawn. MIR. Parker's office
on F street has been steadily besieged by
local republicans with convention aspra
tionS ever since it became known that he
was a candidate for delegate to the next
national convention, and that he would be
appointed by Chairman Carter one of
the supervisors of the primary elections to
be held here in the spring. but general
port has it that none of the visitors have
been particularly surcharged with hope or
satisfaction when they came out again.
Chairman Carter will formally announce
in few days the appointment of Mr.. Par
ker as supervisor, to serve with MeSSrS
Carson and Gleeson, and he will be made
hG nrn Iant of hn rI hn nir,f-
ment would have been announced officially
by Mr.. Carter ere this, but on account of
the great diversity of opinion as to the ex-
act meaning of the resolution passed by
the national committee the chairman de-
sired to take sufficient time to couple Mr.
Parker's appointment with full eXplana-
ton of the intention of the committee and
a complete specification of the duties that
will devolve upon the supervisors and the
authority with which they will be clothed
A Convention Will BE Held.
1t was taday announced with authority
that the delegates to the ST. Louis
vention will not be elected by a direct vote
cast at the primary elections. In Chairman
Carter's forthcoming announcement he will
include the resolution passed by the ma
tionnl committee.
Great stress has been laid on the alleged
fact that the resolution provided for the
holding of primaries for the selection of
delegates in accordance with the custom
followed in Crawford county, Pa, but
the resolution as adopted had no refer
ence to that county, and if it had," it IS
stated on authority of David Martin of
Pennsylvania that there is no law Or rule
in that county providing for a direct cleo
ton of national convention delegates, ID,
Consequently, Chairman Carter Will di-
rect the supervisors to select day for the
holding of primary elections in the Dis
trict Of Columbia, at which delegates shall
be voted for to attend a convention, at
which two delegates and two alternates to
the national republican convention shall be
chosen He will also specifically define
their duties, which will include authority
to select the judges of the primaries, choose
the date upon which they shal! be held and
receive the returns.
District Representation in Jeopardy.
1t was stated today that in case there is
contest over the result of the choice of
district delegates and the controversy Is
transferred to the committee on credentials
of the national convention, as the case has
been so frequently in the past, there will be
no more representatives in future national
republican conventions from the District of
Columbia. A rational committeeman of un-
questioned knowledge as to the intentions
of that body in this regard is authority for
this declaration. The committee is con-
there will be an electoral vote cast in the
District. and while it does not object to the
local republicans having a share in the Sc
lection of nominees, it is opposed to
having national convention work delayed in
the future as it has been in the past be-
cause of the necessity of settling squabbles
between the angry factions among them
Anti-CarsOn People Dissu tisfied.
This news is not relishe(fwith any degree
of satisfaction by the anti-Carson factions
1t Is said because they hoped that the
vote for delegates would be a direct one,
and in case Of contests arising over the re-
suits in the various districts the whole
fight could be transferred to ST. Louis
Neither will the intention of Chairman
Carter to give the three supervisors COM
plete control Of the primaries be altogether
pleasant. Many local politicians have pro-
fessed to believe that when the time came
for Chairman Carter to announce the
methods which would govern the primaries
he would recognize in some way the
central republican committee of the Dis
trct. but it appeags that the action of the
national committed eliminated such body
as the central committee completely, so
Messrs. Parker, Carson and Gleeson will
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