Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-01-09
Republican Delegates Will Be Elect
ed January %.
cine TO Be WHITE and ONE COLORED
Review Of the Situation at the
Present Time.
STRENGTH OF NTS

The adhere,.ts of the various candidates
who have plunged into the struggle for
seat in the st. Louis convention next June
are enthusiastic and earnest.
This condition Of the local republican
party is abundantly proved by the number
of men who attend the various meetings
which are being held in different sections of
the city every night. Probably at no other
time since the days Of regular elections in
the District has there been such a general
and active interest taken in things political,
and there has certainly never been local
struggle into which so many different fac
tors entered.
With no less than ten candidates in the
field. and each Of them sure of following
large enough to make his candidacy more or
less formidable, the fight at present is in
terest;ng and growing daily more exciting.
Old combinations have been broken, new
arrangements made, and the men who have
been for so long identified with one fac
ton or another find it difficult to discover
where they must stand under such perplex-
ing circumstances. An old colored man
voiced this uncertainty yesterday evening
while waiting for meeting to begin.
Il dunno whar Is" he remarked ruefully.
In de pass time WIFI boddered. Ole Pair
Cyars n he wuz my fren'. ell Misser Amy
Glees'n he gimme my w,lk. Misser Glee
5 IL he gimme eT JOD rite crlOnS y1t, en- FAR
Cyars'n he still my fren'. but dem two is
ersin each udder now, stidder bein' pullin'
tergedder. en- Misser Glees'n say don't glib
no vote ter Pair. en- Pair say don't glib no
I'll hab ter keep sluar wid bofe dem men
en- vote fur sum yuthar black man en- sum
yuther wife man, kase I don't wanter GIT
th'owed outen my job, en- sutny do remire
ole Pair Cyarsn."
Carson md Gleason CONFIDENT.
This feeling is found to animate a great
many Of the former followers of the joint
fortunes of Carson and Gleason, but Col.
Perry and Mr.. Andy alike scorn the sugges-
ton that it will affect their votes at the
primaries to any aprreciable extent. There
will probably be several Withdrawals from
the contest before it Is to be de-
cided, the cost of holding the primary
elections must be horne by the respective
candidates, according to the decision of the
board of supervisors at Tuesdays meeting
This will amount to no inconsiderable sum.
There will be tweEty-three polling places,
and. while the suggestion has been made
that judges and other election officers should
be selected who would be willing to serve
without pay, this course has never heen
found to be satisfactory successful in
what is known as practical politics. The
printing will cost goodly amount also, and
there will be other legitimate necessities
that will swell the total, SO it Is believed
that only those candidates who will feel
assured later on that they have some chance
to win will be found in the fight on election
day. The impression prevails even now that
the only candidates VINO will be in the final
round for supremacy will be MeSsrs Carson
Bailey, Key, Parker, Saunders and Cleo
son, and possibly Rev. Walter Brooks. Mr..
Saunders remaining in the race depends en-
tirely upon the combination ticket that may
be made with his name and that of one of
the colored aspirants.
Present and Past Conditions.
no lott ohor oho,,t
going in with any white candidate other
than Messrs. Parker and Gleeson. Under
the old regime there would be a scramble
to join forces with the latter, but under the
new order of things it is expected there
will be large outpouring of white repub-
icans who have not taken part in the
choosing of convention delegates hereto
fore, for obvious reasons. They feel, how
ever, that the primaries may be managed
properly, and if future events satisfy them
on this point they will go to the polls. AS
this large and influential contingent is
generally credited to Mr. Parker, several
of the colored aspirants are counting coall-
ton with him. The chances are, however,
that Col. Carson's tickets will contain the
name of Myron NJ. Parker, and Mr.. Par
ker's tickets that of Perry H. Carson. This
inference is only natural, as every Carson
meeting recently has Endorsed MIR. Parker
and the Parker clubs have invariably done
the sumo thing for Col. Carson. That COM
bination is generally conceded to be pretty
hard to beat. There are many who claim
that MIR. Bailey will run ahead of the col
orel but any one familiar with the politi-
cal events here in the past decade or two,
as well as with the present sentiment, If
asked for an opinion would say that Perry
would unquestionably poll two-thirds of the
eolored vote in the District. That, of
course, means a pretty good majority Of
the republicans in this neck of the woods
who will exercise the elective franchise.
Election to Be Held This Month.
The battle will get more bitter and the
rivalry become more intense from now on
because Supervisors Parker, Carson and
Gleeson, at a meeting held late yesterday
afternoon, decided that the primary election
for delegates and alternates to the St.
Louis convention should be held January
-, and that the polls should be open from
to q O'Clock in the afternoon 1t was
also decided that the representatives sent
to the convention should consist of one
and one colored alternate, who should be
elected by direct vote Of the people, the
white delegate and alternat tie receiving the
highest number Of the votes cast for white
candidates to be declared elected, and the
colored delegate and alternate securing the
largest vote cast for colored candidates to
be also declared elected. 1t was further
agreed that there should be three judges, to
De appointed by the board, in each voting
precinct and the various candidates were
notified to submit to Secretary Brown the
names of the persons they wish to have
appointed as election officials.
District Politics in Rhyme.
The following, which was picked I'D at
one of the political meetings last night. de-
velops that the campaign has poet who
Is liable to be heard from as the fight
grows hotter:
They are gathering in Bloodfeld with razors in
their boots; 40
They are gathering In Froptown WHARF III. ,..,,
mostly shoots; 1''-'e
And up in Foggy Bottom, where their weapon's
half brick; iA
And In Howardtown and Buzzard's Point You'll
find em mighty thick '"N -
Here yell goes up Cor Bailey: there tho sbopt,
arise for Key: D'
Now the magic name Of Saunders animates the