The herald., 1896-10-09
COERCION AND BULLDoziNd
Beius Used by Some Of His lodlscfeet
Supporters
The Fusion Arrangement Is At Last About
Completed
Democrats Will Be Given Six Places
on the City Ticket and the Populists
Three-Silver Republicans Ac-
lively Working-Notes.

The Democratic city convention will
convene tomorrow at the Temperance
temple.
A careful poll of the delegates elected
to the convention establishes the fact
that something over 200 of them were
distinctively elected as anti-Rowan
men. These delegates 1t is understood
are for M. P. Snyder.
The Rowan people admit that they
are flfty-f1ve votes short of nomina-
tion, and are claiming ninety-flve votes.
They still have hopes Of getting more,
but where they are to come from it is
difficult to see.
1t Is not to be disputed that II the
nomination Of any man Is accomplished
in the Democratic convention by the
use of money or by unfair means, that
nomination will be repudiated by the
great body Of the party.
The friends of Mr.. Rowan yesterday
adopted some peculiar tactics to secure
few Snyder delegates to the support
of their man. A number Of Mr.. Rowan's
friends called on a young man who had
been elected as a Snyder delegate and
informed him that unless he violated his
pledge and voted for Rowan they would
withdraw their patronage from the es-
tablishment in which he was employed.
They even went to his employer and
threatened him. Thus far three cases
Of this kind have been reported, and
this course Is not helping Mr.. Rowan In
his fight one iota. It's indiscreet of his
friends to pursue such methods, and
they ought to learn that in this day and
age politics done along those lines
amounts to nothing. Ns-
Mr.. Snyder's friends are making no
effort further than to retain the strength
their candidate obtained by square
fight at the primaries, which, save IN
the Eighth ward, were cleanly conduct
ed. AS far as known the Water com--
pany has not succeeded in breaking the
phalanx of Snyder delegates, and un-'
less coin is used copiously he will be
nominated on the first ballot.
Speaking Of primaries rotten and raw,
If you had been before the committee
on credentials of the Rspuhlicanrcon-
vention yesterday you would have had
uncovered more rottenness, evidence Of
disgraced a primary in this CITY, The
Eighth ward Democratic primaries were
not in 1t compared with the Republican
primaries in numerous precincts in the
city.
The friends Of Isadore B. Dockweiler
are pushing him for chairman of the
Democratic city convention, and he will
probably be chosen by acclamation
Mr.. Dockweiler Is a young man of high
standing in the ,community,a he
would make an excellent chairman. He
is we'll versed in parliamentary law and
would be able to handle the gathering
without any difficulty.
The conference committees on fusion
met last night and arrived at an agree
menf as regards city Offices The Dam
| ocrats will make the nominations for
mayor, street superintendent, city en-
gineer, treasurer, city clerk and city
| assessor. The Populists will take the
| nominations for city attorney, auditor
| and tax collector. The Democrats will
| have six councilmen and the Populists
three. The committee will meet today
to determine how the wards should be
apportioned. *+s Ak
The fusion agreement arrived at by
the committee will undoubtedly be ap-
proved by the convention.