The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-17
LOOKS SOLID FOR MORTON.
PLAT MEN sAY EVERY CONGRESS
DISTRICT rs SAFE.

cen. Conis Beaten in lHis Ovr Election
District aud In the Congress District.
Too. Apparentiy-fr Any Anti. Pintt Mas
Has n Chance ~ Seems 60 re q. N. hiss.
Weather conditions last night were not such
as are considered favorable to n big outdoor
demonstration on the part OF the better ele-
ment" In politics. II was the night which had
been selected for the primaries Of the Republic
can party TO choose delegates to the Congress
district and Assembly district conventions
which are to determine II the national delegates
from this city are to be for Gov. Morton solidly
or II the Mckinley men are TO have a delegate
or two. AS Plat Ia for Morton. the better ele-
ment' is for Mckinley.
II made n good fight in some Of the election
districts, but the platt- Lautcrbach folks were
claiming after the returns began coming in that
they had carried everything. and that not a sin-
gle Mckinley delegate will 90 to st. Louis from
this city. Some Of the returns seemed to war
rant these claims. but there was Just enough
doubt In the Twelfth Congress district to war
rant the claim of the opposition that they
will succeed In electing Cornelius N. Bliss there.
The Bliss men said they had carried one or
two districts In the colored belt Of the Twenty
fifth Assembly district, which might give them
the majority. In the Congress district conven-
tion to be held tomorrow night.
MIR. Bliss ~ the only candidate of the oppo-
sltion in the Twelfth. No opposition is made to
the election OF Howard Carroll. the fight being
made against Thurlow Weed Barnes.
Late last night secretary Manchester of the
County Committed said that he had received
iSfielsn It. ,sa,i m 81 to o. indicate q. the 1s election seid OF
the Plat men had swept everything before
them, and will send q solid Morton delegation TO
the National Convention.
In the Fifteenth Congress district the returns
from several election districts which went anti
Plat in December show that they were carried
commissioners Coils and Wright are the
Louis from this district. Gen. Coils lost his
own election district by one vote; los
en- Eng Jo teTf' M HslssStc son E in his c distries BY
Lester, an anti.Platt man, lost his. by twelve.
Edward Lauterbach in December. Their
change insures the election Of Mr.. Lauterbach
as a delegate from his home district.
Several election districts in the Twenty
eighth, Thirtieth. Thirty second. and Thirty
frat Assembly districts which were anti-Plat,
the election Of Murray and Friedsam, Morton
to st: Louis. seems assured.
They show Morton gains; though, in the Twenty
Assembly districts. which promise a Morton
victory In the Convention This Will mean the
opposition candidate.
John II. Gunner reported that he had suo-
sfea a IN IN s thee TMen ay Gaf Of A es aef1ys dis.r for.
These are divided between the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth Congress districts. AT midnight
State Inspector OF Gas Meters James l..
Stewart, the Plat leader in the Twentieth
Assembly district, reported to county head
that he had elected seventy Of the
eighty delegates from his district. Most of
these seventy will vote against Mr.. Bliss In the
Twelfth Congress district, and a few against
Gen. McCook in the Thirteenth.
The returns show that John !. Collins of the |
district played fair with the Morton
men, and did not succumb to the Establishments
Of the Mckinley men, who were trying to win
him back to their fold.
This means that Mr.. Collins and ex-Police
Commissioner Murray will be the Morton dele
gates from the Ninth. There was no fight
the name in the Seventh. Eighth,
Tenth, and Eleventh Congress districts.
In the, Fourteenth. however. Col. T. G;
lately of Cincinnati. made a good
fght for Mckinley. but there is said to be no
doubt OF the choice OF Congressman Quigg and
abraham Gruber as the delegates from there.
All Of the Congress district Conventions ex-
cept that in the Sixteenth. which includes West
One OF the results OF yesterdays primaries Ia
the Plat column.
Among them are the Fourth. Twenty-second,
Twenty-fourih Twenty-ninth, and Thirty fifth,
and it is possible that the Twentv-sixth. Thir-
tieth, and Thirty-first may be counted among
The accessions. At any rate, enough
have been won over so that 1t can
counted as absolutely certain that
President Lauterbach will have the necessary
vote of the County Committee to
amend the constitution Of the organizatio n to
,uit the PURPOSES of the majority faction