Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-06
WAXING VERY WARM
An Early Election Makes a Quick Cam
paign Necessary.
The Supervisors of the Primaries to
Hold Meeting - What
They VIII Do.

Ex-Commissioner Myron NJ Parker to-
day called a meeting of the supervisors
appointed tc take charge Of the primary
election fer the choosing of delegates to
the republican national convention. The
hour set Is o'clock tomorrow afternoon,
and it Is expected that Messrs. Andrew
Gleeson and Col. Perry Carson will both be
on hand. Organization will be completed
by the election of Mr.. Parker as president,
and q secretary, who will be named by
Col Carson. The supervisors will then
take up the details of the methods to be
pursued regarding the primaries, and 1t is
understood that the board will decide that
candidates for the position of delegate will
be voted for direct. The selection of the
judges will take some time, as 1t is the in
tenti0n to appoint only the best men OBJ
tainable for these places. The date of the
primaries will be set for some day in the
first or second week of February. The rea-
son for ali election thus early is said to be
on account of the long campaign that the
various candidates have been iRdulging in,
the struggle having commenced in the early
part of last August. Despite Mr.. Gleeson' 5
complete denial of the rumor that he would
decline to serve as a supervisor, the gos-
sips still maintain that he will not act in
that capacity. In such a case 1t is prob
ahle that Mr.. Parker and Col Carson,
forming majority of the board, will pro-
1.c thing in the resolution passed by the ma
tional republican committee which author
ICES any of the Supervisors to delegate their
duties to any. ore else. 1t will be seen,
therefore, that II Mr.. GleeSon declines to
serve, the other two supervisors will have
nc thing elso to do but proceed without him.
Carson begins Active Work.
for the holding of the election will only
To ka hc ion, IN,
ress all the hotter and Col. Perry Carson
has announced his determination to throw
eff the reserve which has characterized him
going around in his buggy and capturing
the meetings of his opponents, and will
begin an aggressive fight which he is
confident will result in his triumph at the
polls. Tonight he will address his con-
stituents in the hall at r street and Ver-
mont avenue. Tomorrow night he will do
some spell-binding in the suburban town
OF Hillsdale, above Anacostia. and Wed
nesday evening there will be two meet
1Egs. one at Green's Hall, on Pennsylva-
MIA avenue. and the other at Mt. Bethel
Church. West Washington will hear him
on Thursday night, and Friday night he
Will hold forth at Brightwood. Col. Car
son announces that he is going TO unlimbef.
the batteries of his rhetoric ard pour de-
NaStating Crane and canister into the ranks
or his enemies.
\ New Candidate.
Rev. Walter H. Brooks, the pastor of
the Nineteenth Street Baptist Church. has
entered into the race for delegate, and
George W.. Stewart has withdrawn in his
favor. l.. n. Saunders, the white real es-
tate man, is courled with Brooks on the
Stewart tickat. and their campaign, Is be-
ing waged on the basis of reseate prom
tses Of a restoration of suffrage. to the
t,-;n pofIa -,
Heutenants, who have been holding meet
1Tss every night for the past two weeks,
have decided to hold two or more meetings
a night hereafter, and altogether the local
political pot promises to boil as it never
has before from now until the primaries
are held.