The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1896-01-27
Candidates Greasing the Wheels
Ct the Machine.
THE MEN IN THE CONTEST
Carson Claims He Is afe by Mt Least
$4,000 VOtes-Saunders Feels Ren-
walkover-The Others Are Not So
Sure, but Each l = Doing His Best.

| national convention i'll June.
| The election will be the first exercise 81
political rights in the District for many
| years. 1t will he Il clash OF many opposing
| forces. Rank, condition and color make.
| no difference with the ambitious politicians
| Just SO the vote is for a Republican,. Tn,
election. or rather selection, of men TO rep
resent the District i'll the Republican con
ventions have not aroused as much Interest
III former years as the present one.
New elements have entered the field, an,
the cry Of suffrage Tor The District hai
| formed the basis Of every Candidates prom
isc to secure support. Perry Carson, who
has been little opposed in the past. enters
thcnelltocombat with opponents assessing
| money and so,i al strength.
The element OF refinement has permeatcd
| the lines, and there are candidates who up
peal Ia the people to relegate to the rear
the ring element to he found among the
hoodlums and tough residents. They appeal
to the intelligence Of the residents, ana ask
that men of respectability and high standing
be sent TO st. Louis 10 represent the District,
and not men known as mere political in
| triguers.
Thequcstion Of financial standing has been
| inculcatcd iii the minds OF many, and used
| by Mr.. Leonard C. Bailey, the wealthy col
ored barber, to lower the stock of Col
! Perry Carson, who is said TO he possessed
| of little of this worlds goods.
The ari>lucratic element is represented
| among the colured people by Col. NJ. NJ. Hol-
land. who has been accused of sending his
children to white schools, and himself Join
ing white organizations. These assertions
he denies. bat admits thai he is backed by
/ what he terms the respecta BILE culored peo-
! pie of the District.
Col. Lorin NJ. Saunders is running on his
dignity, and Col. Myron NJ. Parker, whose
many accomplishments and high social
standing was being used to offset the rough
ness of Col. Perry Carsun's Jacket. has de-
cided the game is ''toodirty to play in" He
is not sure that he has not been already
tainted by the use Of his name for delegate
rial honors, and says he intends leaving the
city the morning after the election.
HE WILL LEAVE TOWN.
He has not announced how long he will
be absent, but presumably long enough TO
wait until HE upbeaval caused by the elec-
ton has subsidized.
Gen J. Hale Sypher must not he forgotten
and il should be remembered that while heis
not a candidate, he has on more than one
occasion warned the col"red people to be
quiet, deport themselves as gentlemen and
demonstrate the purity Of the ballot, be-
cause therein lies the hope of suffrage in
the District. Gen. Syphcr wakes warm
when lie sees a too Jealous candidate ere
ating disturbance, and lie has aiwa VS. been
found sounding note of warning.
There have been several candida ties pro-
duced during the political controversy of
the past month, and there have been candi-
dates, who for reasons best knuwirt To them
selves, have retired. DR.. Purvis. while an
advocate OF suffrage. is on record as having
blcwn his bubble of ambition and allowed
1T 10 burst, retiring him without much-f-tio.
Since his retirement other persons have
appeared, and while little has been SAID
about Oscar Nauck and Rev. Walter Br J'ks.
there are those who sageiy shake theft
heads and predict that their vote will be as
tonishing II is not said they will he elect
ed. but it is generally believed that they viii
poll many votes not expected by the lder
acndidate ties.
Mr. Nauck and Mr.. Brooks head their
tickets with preiensions To purcr politics.
and claim theirs TO be a "citizens' Iickar
The old candidates are well known To the
people of the District, and their strength
has been variouSly estimated. The foremost
in the rank as far as general knowledge
is concerned are Perry Carson, known as
the old colored war horse, and Andrew
GIceson. familiarly called Andy The
first named is a Marylander by birth, and
soon after the war came to the District
His residence is at Ivy City and there he
has created a friendship that no Coored
man can destroy
In Ivy City, which is located in the First
precinct, Carson will poll his greatest
number of votes in any one precinct When
the question of selecting judges was be
fore the board The other day and the com
bined candidates were naming their man
his only. objection was that the man did
not live in Ivy City.
Carson has great strength among the
colored people in the counties and Hills
dale precinct, which comprises the towns
OF Hilsdale, Stantontown, Garfield, Con-
gress Heights, and all the vicinity around
Anacostia is believed to be pretty strongly
Carson.
The old war horse has his headquarters
among the coIored element on Pennsylvania
avenue. Stlttl, anu
every night Carson crowds assemble in the
Philadelphia House and over the bar
pledge their allegia nee TO the man known
to every cOIOred street gamin and crap
shooter. II would he hard to tell just how
he will come out in the election tomorrw,
but he estimates that he will win by at
least fifteen to twenty thousand Those
who know Perry are inclined to look upon
this as a bluff. and they say if he wins at
all it viii be by the skin Of his teeth.
GLEEsoN's CHANCES.
Andy Gleeson. the big-hearted Irish
man. whose popularity is due to his liber-
casions the partner of Perry Carson, and
on two occasions they side by side plea ded
their cause for election and succeeded in
gaining the coveted honor. This time they
have broken asunder and Carson is said to
be getting the worst of it.
1t was asserted the other day that gen.
erous Andy, on the last trip to the Repub-
lican convention, gave literally to Perry's
financial needs, and if Carson had at the be-
ginning of the present campaign needed a
partner, Gleeson would have come tohis aid
1t was another case, however, of giving old
friends for new, and the bitter being bitten,
for Carson made an alliance with Col.
Parker, and the latter withdrew, leaving
the former in the shade, and caused Col.
Gleeson to decide that there were others
besides the old warehouse.
Col. Gleeson came to this country from
u reputation. locally, for his championship
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