The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-07
LOCAL DEMOCRATS
ARE ALL AT SEA
Nothing Certain Can Be Predicted for
Tomorrow's Convention.
"ChRISTY" BOLAND Is KlNG.PlN

And There's the Rub. Others of the
Democratic Family Will Not Get in
Line ,.slathers of Candidates, but
an Absence Of Slate, and 1t Is Un.
safe to Guess Anything About What
the Music Hall Gathering Will Do.
The Democratic host In Scranton
and the county, notwithstanding the
conference in Mayor Bailey's office FRI
day night. Is very much like father
with a scattered and troublesome fam
lily. "Christy" Boland Is still father
of the thing. There ia no telling who
will comprise the family when the
county convention is called to order to-
morrow morning in Music Hall.
All efforts to make a slate have been
useless and the only circumstance. ap-
parent and assured, Is that Mr.. Boland
will try and stand sponsor for some
congressional nominee. be chairman Of
the county committee and stand as
king-pin Of Democracy In this section.
No matter how soundly the congress
sional nominee is whipped. no matter
what happens to the county ticket, Mr..
Boland is bound to stand as the pillar
Of routed house and is willing to take
chances on Mr.. Bryan's election. in
which event the suave city treasurer
would be the patronage distributor
free-silver plenipotentiary and chief
Bryan factotum for hereabouts.
The Tribune's exclusive announce
ment that A. w. Dickson was favored
by Mr.. Boland for the congressional
nomination Is authoritative. Mr.. Dick
son has not said he would refuse the
honor. He has said he is not seeking
a political candidacy, and that Is true
But. unless matters change very ma
terially during the next twenty-four
hours, he will be the choice of the con-
vention.
OLD CAMPAIGNERS LACKING.
If any number Of prominent and old
line Democrats were engineering the
local campaign the convention would
not be called without a slate; or, rath-
er. slate would be made before the
day of the convention. AS 1t Is, there
are five candidates for county commits
sioner and as many for county auditor
and any and all of them appear to
have equal cha for success.
The aspirants for county commission
er are w. ]. Burke, who Is ex-cOunty
commissioner, and ex-deDuty revenue
collector. and ex a good many other OFF,
ces; Select Councilman Michael E..
Clarke, of the Sixth ward: John De-
muth. one of the present incumbents,
and Henry Koehler, all of Scranton; M.
F. Gilmartin, of Carbondale and James
Butler, of Moosic. The auditor candi-
dates are p. w. Costello; +. w. Warnke,
William Koch, James ]. Coleman and
r. L. O'Boyle, all of Scranton; and Jud-
son Calender. of South Abingdon and
f. J. Ward. of MOosic.
In Saturdays convention primaries
but very little interest was shown, and
from but few dictricts will be con-
tests for seats in the Music Hall gath
ering. Following is as complete list as
could be ascertained up to last night.
Archbald-First ward, First district,
FLYNN. Secpnd ward, John McHale.
Third ward, ]. Kearney.
Carbondale City-First ward, First dis
tr!ct, Henry Bolton Third district, An
drew Quinn. Second ward, First district,
Timothy McGarry; Second district, John
Barrett; Third district. Napoleon Dren-
nan. Third ward, First district, Thomas
Gordon: second district, Michael Moran
Fourth district, Peter l.. Neary. Fourth
ward, First district, Jay Murphy Second
district, John Casey; Third district, James
Pidgeon. Fifth ward, First district, b. A.
Kelly Second district, John Monahan.
Sixth ward, First district, Thomas Ben
der; Second district, Michael Mcdonald.
Dunmore-Sixth ward, First district, p.
O'Connor.
Jermyn-First ward, j. ]. Cox. Second
ward. Frank Muldoon. Third ward, Dem
mis- Sullivan.
Lackawanna townshp-South district,
John j. Diskin: Southwest district, Mi
chael Henry and Patrick Cawley.
Mayfield-James j. Hanothy.
Taylor-First ward, John Mcdonald.
Second ward, George l.. Timlin. Third
ward. Felix Day. Fourth ward. John
Shields.
SCRANTON DELEGATES.
Scranton-First ward. First district. M.
]. Clark. Second ward, First district. o.
p. Miller Second district, Thomas p. Null
len; Fourth district. Thomas Golden; Fifth
district, James j. Golden. Third ward.
district. Anthony Knight and Dennis Can
non. Fourth ward, First district, ]. c.
Allen; Second district, John A. Mohinger;
Third district, John Malta; Fourth dis
trict, Frank johnson. Fifth ward, Second
district. Patrick Mitchell; Third district.
Charles Yoos: Fourth district, Michael 9.
Lavelle. Sixth ward. First district John
Maloney; Second district, James O'Malley
Third district, James Stanton. Seventh
4 IL .
Third district, p. F.. Murray and NJ. T.. Gil
roy. Eighth ward. First district. w. p.
Boland; Second district. Thomas Gilgal-
lon and F. J. Fitzsimmons. Ninth ward.
| First district +. j. McAndrew and Peter
Regan; Second district, NJ. F. Mcdonald;
| Third district. John NJ. Corbett. Tenth
! ward, George Kinback. Eleventh ward.
First district, Anthony Fisch; Second dis
trict Joseph Rosar; Third district. NJ. d.
! Flaherty. Twelfth ward. First district,
Michael McGrail and Michael Hale: Sec
| ond district Joseph McNally and NJ. j.
| Coleman. Thirteenth ward, First dis
trict, Thomas ]. Langan. Fourteenth
| ward, First district, T. J. Jennings; Sec
| ond district John .O'Brien or Nicholas
| Burke. Fifteenth ward, First district,
| John O'Boyle: Second district, Ed Fitz-
| simmons. Sixteenth ward, First district,
NJ. Gillispie. Seventeeth ward Second dis
| trict Patrick Boland. Eighteenth ward.
Thomas Rooney and John McHale. Nine
| teenth ward. First district, Stephen
| Spruks; Second district, Frank Manley
| and Chris Kellerman: Third district. John
| Snyder: Fourth district, William Smith.
| Twentieth ward. First district, Patrick
Roche. jr.; Second district, John Christie
| and Thomas Smith.
The Second Legislative Democratic
| primaries were also held Saturday FOL
the convention to be held tomorrow
| morning in the arbitration room at the
court house. Mr.. Koehler, who is men.
toned as a candidate for county com.
| missioner. is said to be also candidate
| for the Second district legislative nomi.