Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-12-20
Lively Interest Taken by the Dis
trict Republicans.
COL. PARKER THE THIRD SUPERVISOR
This is Not ReIished bv the GIee-
son Faction.
A PARKER CLUB FORMED

Local republican circles continue to be
very much agitated over the question of
how the delegates to the next national
convention are to be chosen owing to a
wide diversity of opinion upon what the
recent resolution passed by the national
committee and providing for primary cleo
tions really contained or meant. There
are three purported copies of the resolu-
ton in circulation no two of which agree,
and when Chairman Carter's letter which
contained a paragraph relating to the
primaries, coupled with a reference to a
convention, is added to the literature, it
is as easy for the interested parties here to
understand as plain Sanskrit.
The Gleeson people claim that the resolu-
tion meant that the delegates should be
CHOSEN by a straight vote of the people,
pure and simple, and the Carson people
say this system is perfectly satisfactory
to them but under this apparently candid
agreement there seems to be lively cur
rent of mutual distrust, and each faction
fears that there may he some means by
which the acknowledged intention of the
committees resolution may be set aside.
The powers of the supervisors appointed
ur der the resolution ave also the subject of
deep discussion, and pretty nearly every
other local politician one meets clothes
them with a different sort of authority.
The announcement that ex-District Com
missioner farker WCuld be appointed TO the
vacancy now existing in the board has
caused a great deal of objection on the part
of the Gleeson men, and many of them deny
that Mr.. Parker is to be a member Sena-
tor Carter said this afternoon that he had
not yet appointed the third member, but it
Is known that Mr.. Parker has virtually
been offered the place, and that he will ac-
cept 1t. He left for Vermont this afternoon
and on his return the formal announcement
of his appointment. will probably be made
The force of the Gleason party's argument
that Mr.. Parker should not be selected as a
supervisor because of his own candidacy for
the position Of delegate is somewhat weak
ened by the fact that the other two super
visors are even more pronounced candidates
than the ex-District Commissioner
1t was said today by a well-informed re-
publican that the local question would
ing of the national committee in January,
f2 st. Louis, and all the vexed points be
settled. He also said he had no doubt the
committee Tould equip the supervisors with
power to throw out of the final count any
precincts where evidences of fraud during
the primaries were plain.
Mr.. Parker's candidacy was further ac-
centuated by his friends in the sixth as
sembly district, who met last night and
organized a Parker republican club. After
organization. which resulted in the election
of j. c. Wright, president: DIR. George W.
Cabaniss. vice president; T. A. Cox, sec
retary, and John Early, assistant secre-
tary, resolution was unanimously adopt
ed indorsing the candidacy of Mr.. Parker
and promising that the club would do all
In Its power to secure his election TO the
convention in st. Louis, June IL next.