Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-10-13
BUT some WEAK SPOTS ARE EVIDENT
McKinley's State Chairman Claims
$4,000 Majority.
DEMOCRATS OUT OF FUNDS
Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.

only two districts in which there will be
two candidates from the same party. and
they are the sixth, where Congressman
Jack" Robinson of Delaware and ex-Judge
Butler Of Chester have decided to fight 1t
out at the polls, failing to reach an agree
ment in conference, and the twentieth dis
trict where Congressman Hicks of Blair
claims the nomination, and is contested by
F. j. kooSer Of Somerset This latter con-
test Is In the courts, and it may be settled
to the mutual satisfaction of both candi-
dates. In the first district the republicans
have renomiIated Gen. H. H. Bingham.
and there can be no question Of his re-
election; and the same may be said of Der
tie Adams in the second district Con-
gresham Halterman is not going to have
as easy time he had two years ago.
Naturally his district, the third Philadel-
phia, Is democratic. 1t was made by old
Gen. Cameron for the late Samuel j. Ran
dali, and it comprises about everything
that is democratic in Philadelphia. Halter
| man slipped in two years ago, defeating
| JOS. P. McMullen, who had defeated William
McAleer for the democratic nomination
| They say that McAleer's friends did the
| trick for McMullen. All democratic differ
ences in the district have been buried, how
ever, and McAleer who has secured the
nomination, stands good chance of again
occupying the seat Of which he was de-
prived through the vengeance Of William
| F. Harrity. James Rankin Young will sue
| coed John f. Reyburn in the fourth dis
trict, Reyburn having been turned down be-
| turn iE for Quay In the big fight between
Quay and Gilkeson for the state chairman
| ship.
| Other Dfstricts.
A. C. Harmer will succeed himself in the
| fifth district, his opponent, F. d. Wright,
being weak brother. with little following.
In the sixth. or Chester-Delaware. district,
,.,<v> I,,G rl,x t. -,
Butler, democrat is likely to carry Off
the honors. The democrats have named
| w. H. Berry, and he is very popular,
| there is every prospect Of the district being
| represented by a democrat for the first
| time in its history. In the seventh district
| l. P. Wanger again has the republican
| nomination, and the democrat pitted against
| him Is ex-Sena tor Vandegrift. There is
| not much doubt Of Wangers being re-
| turned The eighth district is naturally
| democratic, and there was a hot fight be-
| tween Congressman Hart, who wanted a
denomination. and L. H. Barker. Their
| conference split, and each received mi
nority nomination. which made the chances
| OF republican very rosy. The republicans
nominated ex-Judge Kirkpatrick, who made
the running two years ago. and was de-
| feated by Hart, and Hart, seeing the
dagger. withdrew in favor of Barker. This
made Harris friends very angry, and they
threaten to vote for kirkpatrick, whose
| chances are excellent Kirkpatrick was
| only defeated by a couple of hundred votes
| two years ago, and is very strong in this
rock-ribbed democratic stronghold. Daniel
Ermentrout is the democratic nominee in
the Berks-Lehigh district, and he is not
finding 1t so easy to get through as he did
when Berks gave 10000 democratic ma
Jority and Lehigh close on to 5000 Mr.
Ermentrout has as his republican opponent
| Oliver Williams, plain man of business
with business meth DDS Williams cam
paign methods are unique. He goes to the
mills and factories, and talks to them
something like this:
Clever Campaigning.
Fellow workingmen. 1 am a candidate
for Congress- and l am here to ask for
your votes. You have never been repre-
scented in this district except by LAWYERS.
Dent you think it is time to let business
man, and an old workingman, have a
chance, that he can help the business
men and the workingmen? Think 1t over"
And before he leaves the place he general
: ly manages to secure number of pied yes
This style Of campaigning is puZZling Err
mentTout. He dare not attempt to cam
| paign on the same lines, for he has held
| Office almost all of his life since he had a
vote, and has been notorious for his dema-
gosism. Marriott Brosius will be returned
by the republicans of Lancaster county,
his opponent, E. d. Reilly, not having the
ghost Of a chance. In the eleventh district
Cornell, republican, a wealthy Scranton
man, and Edward Merrifield, a Scranton
attorney. Council fought Joe" Scranton
t for years, and 1t Is said that Mr.. Scran-
! tons friends will see that Cornell will get
the gaff at the proper time. Morgan b.
Williams, an ex-senator Is the nominee of
the Luzerne republicans to succeed Mr..
E Leisearing, who has gubernatorial aspira-
1 lions, and is being groomed for the gov
I ernor's chair by the coal region crowd.
, Williams is Welshman, and it is said to
r be a matter of record that Welshnan
was ever defeated for office in the coal
api0n PI1f no viii ha n h11S 10 ic
year His opponent Is John NJ. Garman
= the democratic state chairman, a Wilkes
e barre attorney, who knows every man.
! woman and child in the county, and car
! call more men by their first names than
= any other man in the country. Garman is
| what you call a mixer and the bes
| glad hand extended for miles around. He
> has camped on Mr.. Williams trail, and
). says his scalp will dangle at his belt sure.
The schuylkill District.
:, In the Schuylkill district Mr.. Brumm will
4, | be extremely lucky to save his bacon. H,
>, | is suspected Of having silver tendencies
V and that is what some OF his party do no
r like Then, too, Brumm has the count!
y committee against him because Of his ag
: | gressiveness in the past. w. 7. Sh epher'
10 IS his democratic opponent, and is making
10 an aggressive campaign. NJ. E. Olmstead
- Harrisburg attorney, will succeed Congress
a man Woomer from this district. He is
~ very popular candidate, socially away u
10 IN the scale, and the most brilliant cor
- poration attorney IN the state. When IN
votes are counted the democratic candi
date, j. F. Klugh, will wonder If he wa
. in the hunt at all. J. H. Codding Will re
er turn from the fifteenth district, and tn
N | sixteenth will send Horace 3. Packer,
~ bright young fellow from Tioga count.
e who defeated Congressman Leonard for tn
~ | nomination Farmer NJ. H. kulp, the pref
ne ent representative from the seventeenth dis
" trict has as his opponent Alphonsu
sf walsh and a very pretty fight is on. Kul
wrasted the district from the democrac
~ two oe years ago by defeating that old demo
III cratic war horse, Charles R: Buckalew. bu
ee r. &c a toss-up as to the winner. Congress
D. man Mahon will return from the eighteent
district, having practically no opposition
and a new man, Frank E. Hollar, has bee
nominated from the nineteenth to succee
r. Colonel Stable 1t Is a question whetht
of Hollar can be elected. The district Is yer
NJ strongly democratic, and Hollar has en-
cd mics. The democrats have nominated &c
y, J. Benner of Adams. and he has the II
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