The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1896-04-03
PORTLAND PRIMARIES
More Interest Taken Than a
General Election.
THE FIGHT EXCEEDINGLY BITTER
The simon Forces Beat the Hume
Frank-Minto Combination in
Most Precincts.

PORTLAND, April 2.-Republican pri-
mares today give promise of being the
most hotly contested in the history of
the county. There are two tickets in
the field, Simon and Mitchell. The ST.
mon ticket is headed "For Low Taxes"
The Mitchell ticket for J. H, Mitchell"
The Simon forces have control of the
polling places, while the others have
control of the police and special deputy
sheriffs to the number of four hundred.
Should any underhanded work be at
tempted serious trouble is threatened.
A noticeable thing is the presence OF
large mum Der of strange men in the city
who, it is charged, have been brought
here for the sole SUPPOSE of voting both
early and often. Both sides are conf
dent and determinSta.
At 2 O'Clock an attempt was made by
the police to arrest Larry Sullivan, a
sailor boarding house keeper, for intimi' :
dating voters in the Second ward. The
polling place is located in Sullivan's
boarding house and when the officer ap-
preached Sullivan, he retreated into an
upper story of his stcastle," and secur-
ing his shot gun announced to the surg
ing crowd that the first man who at
tempted to arrest him would be killed.
He took seat in the second story
window, shotgun in hand, and, sur
rounded by several of his peelers,
watched the proceedings.
In the Third Ward Pete Grant is di-
recting affairs for the Simon faction.
The crowd is lined up for blocks away
and it is probable many voters will be
kept from the polls.
The principal points of interest on the
west side OF the river are at the Second
and Third wards. Here the voters are
lined up for about two blocks waiting
their chance. Voting is very slow ow-
ing to the number of challenges and the
manifest attempt to keep voters from
voting. In the lines are all conditions
and classes of men. Business men are
sandwiched in between morphine fends
and hoboes. No attempts at repeating
have been discovered yet. Simon is con-
Quoting the fight in the Second ward IN
person.
Voting was suspended in the Eleventh
ward (Albina) late this afternoon by
arresting one of the judges.
Among the placards on the many
hacks at the polling places Taxpayers
against taxeaters" is the most conspicu-
Gus. Long before the polls opened mot
ley crowds of intending voters gathered.
At some polling places objection was
made to some of the judges but without
avail. Simon men would not yield.
The polls opened at O'Clock and the
struggle began.
The Oregonian today devotes Six col
umns of its space to the results of the
primary elections. We excerpt the fol-
lowing:
The Frank Hume. Minto combine was
defeated at the Republican primaries
yesterday by the taxpayers, notWith-
standing a most desperate and violent
means adopted by the office-holders'
ring to defeat the will of the Republican
party, and to control the city and county
convention. The scenes at majority oil
the polling places were without parallel
in the history of the Northwest. The
entire police force of the city was de-
voted to the use of the ring, and, by
most flagrant and indecent misuse of its
authority, intimidated voters. threat.
ened, and even assaulted judges, and
abetted and connived at violence, fraud
and outrage. There was no pretense or