The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1895-08-21

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, August 2o,-The
Republican primaries to select seventy
delegates to tho state convention aud
also 10 choose candidates for various city
Offices were held tonight The indica-
,ious at midnight are that the Quay
faction have certainly elected eighteen
delegates aud possibly twenty-five,
with one or two districts with live add.
.iOual delegates still in doubt Tho
anu.Quay peOpIs concede she senator
sixteen votes.
The polls were open from o to S p. m.
and the scenes around the various poll.
ins places ia districts in which thors
we're contests recalled an exciting pres
idenu,l election. Never before In the
history Of the Republican party in this
city nas there been sucn q hight In the
primaries. In many wards almost the
iull Republican yot9 was pollaI. AL
thou,n the contest was an earnest one,
,h,rs was very little disorder, and tho
lev arrests that were made were Tor
minor oAenses.
Ihs result was in SOME respects
nrprise to Senator Quay himself, who
did GOT expect to overcome the inau-
sace that would DO brought to bear
against him in certain localities. The
tblr,y.seyen wards OF the city are
grouped into twenty-oiGht legislative
districts, aud these elected from one to
seyen delegates each. The hottest
arh, were in the Fifteenth ward, in
winch Mayor Warwick resides, and the
West Philadelphia wards, the twenty
fourth aud lhittyiourIh. In the form
er the mayor was badly beaten, the
Quly forces, headed by Alexander
Crow, IT,, Carrying twenty-seVen out OF
i3',y.IRFee diWsloDst with contests IN
two.
Ia West Philadelphia, State Senator
Thomas, the Quay man, won his hght
handsomely, notwithstandin. the tact
ih4. David Martin, the anii-'lnay leader
IN ,hlscity, took personal charge oil tue
hgnI during the past week.
lhslwo districts elected seven Qnly
dclegaIe,. The Second, Third, Fourth,
Fun, Seventh, Eighth, Thirteenth,
4veu,y.sevenlh aud ThiTtieIh wards
also elected elevon Qnay delegates,
making total OF eighteen. In
tile FiiIh ward, tho an;i'Quny leaders
changed the polling places IN majority
Q! the divisions, AMI the result was that
double pr, ,marlcs were held. Both atdcs
claim tie one delegate from this ward,
Du, tho anii.QuAy man was given the
creIeniIs, ant h,s opponent h'et no
iIcn oil protest
4. midnight the result In the First
ward, where ionr delegates are to be
elected, u in doubt.
The Quay people claim 10 have car
RED iReniy.soYsn ont OF itty.tTo dtYl'
soas, with seven in doubt II this ver'
sion Of tho rs,uIt IS verified. Quay will
hlys twentyiTo delegates from this
d'y. The Qliyltcs also claim that tho
Iwenty.seclnd, Twenty.thitd anl
TTenly.d'th ward', elecIing i've dele
gv,es, are in toubt.
Io.nighls contest practically closes
the tignI in the state. LeIIigh being the
only remaining county to elect dele
ga,es. II appears almost certain ihat
Senator Qnav has won his iighL Tor tho
'ihie chnlrmanshlp, with some votes 10
spare. A conservative estimate gives
htH 100 yotca In the convention. iittoon
moro than tho number neceIsafy TO
elect.
Tho senator tonight occupied his
'l.,e Of rooms in the Motropol, Hotel
auI 3 constant alTeam OF visitors passed
IN and ont, C0ngrAtnIatlnI hin upon
l' victory. iie declined 10 bo inter
viewed, saving that ho would not speak
iu' publication until after tile conven'
ton which meets Al Harrisburg on An.
gnH 2s. lie wna OAied at tho result OF
tpnugIIs primaries and replied good
na'uTpIIy to llia compliments that
Trrs-hpGcrod upon him. The contest
aNIG'.oi to the city politicians oil aI. de-
s'n'' from all over tho state.
INno CfowdOd tho headquarters Of
tue two factions AMI ongsrty watchot
tho u,utni. Senator lcntn'e, VINO,
more than any ono olao, prectpitaIod
lUu I.It, carried hi4 ward, tho Eighth,
i'a ED'o Of 70 TO 3. and will ~ to tho
Convention rs n delegate.
John Russell Young ran a "A Quay
candidate In tho Eighth ward. Thia
"'lIsurcqdcd ovorby sheriff Clement,
7Hp O.l not permi. Mr. Young 70 carry
ahufe division.
!. gn, stated nt tho Quay henlquar'
,efiIpuIght that two ol tho four dolo'
ri'o, from Northampton county and
n0a'fpm Conrllnll county, hayo dolcrt'
OIL 0lo 1nthQiny clnd.date for athio
ub.mm, H. T. Gilkuon, Tho follow
ln' Mniida,os Tor city olli1ot Will bo
o.lUon At tho conventions to.mptrowi
Uurnl attorney, q. y. Grhnmi corr
onor sunnOI IT, AshbrIdln, city con-
r''.nf John W. Walton; CIcFk Of quar-
an'upni William B Ahteni rocofd'
on ui IooIi, William VI. Hcary.
Tho Ptnn (anu.Qiay aud llopubll.
mII, will say tomorrow, IN
if'rmura tn toddv'H H'tHaFia7
'NH tho result eiyr1 Quay only
about hnIi lha delegates Clhimrl IN thls
t'yHnI only hail tho number essential
o. lus publication NJ tlU claims Tor
lnufiuln conventions.
iho Srrln American CQ1ny Rnnnbll.
t'1I viii myi All tho indications arc
iuNt w. quay lias won cpn'pcntns,
'slIuc1nl aud extraordinary Victory.
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