The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1897-02-03
POLITICS ARE
GROuING uHRN
Second Ward Democrats Get Into Per-
sOnal Encounters.
BITTER FEELING In THE RANKS
The Citizens Party Sailing Along Quietly
and Doing Effective Work with the
Endorsement and Assistance Of the
Regular Republicans-Fruit-
less Democratic Efforts.

Politics have again foated to the surface of
local topics and is the prevailing theme in
nearly all public places. In some quarters
the discussion grows so warm that personal
encounters have been brought about. The
latter results, however, have only been dis
cernable in the Democratic circles, in which
there are unmistakable evidences of bad
feeling and revolution. One of the clashes
took place in an East Centre street saloon
yesterday, when a prominent Democrat of
the Second ward who has been quite active
lately in denouncing certain proceedings of
his party in that ward, was assaulted by one
Of the Democratic leaders. The encounter
was not attended by any serious results to
either Of the parties, however, and has been
put on record with one of the little family
jars which have become quite numerous in
Second ward Democratic politics this year.
There is a determined effort ON the part of
some Democrats to whitewash the spirit of
revolution and independence that exists in
the party, but they have thus far failed to
get the coating sufficiently thick and the bad
color will show. As a sample of this effort
the Coal street organ has tried to break the
force of the Fair Play letter which ap-
peared in the HERALD a few days ago by de-
clar1ng that the communication was written in
the HERALD sauctum and no other belief will
be entertained unless the name of the writer
Is furnished. This statement has brought to
the 'front.' the party who was responsible for
the publication with a declaration that if the
newspaper raising the question will give good
reasons for asking the name of the CORES.
pendent he will furnish his name for publica-
ton, but he will not do so to satisfy mere
curiosity. The party is evidently very
determined in the stand he has takon and
says he has nothing to fear by the publication
of his name. He adds that he first
took the letter to the Coal street organ and
asked them to publish it. The person to
whom he applied made a memoranda of the
matter, but the paper failed to either publish
the letter, or the memoranda, and the
correspondent then submitted the letter to
the HERALD. If such are the facts the Coal
street organ must know who the writer is
and, while trying to make the public believe
that it is a fake product of the HERALD
sanctum, must know that the communication
is as genuine as it possibly can be.
Affairs in the ranks of the Citizens marty
are directly in contrast with those in the
Democratic ranks. The Citizens party is
sailing along upon a sea of perfect harmony,
Notwithstanding desperate efforts of Demo-
Gratis since last Thursday to create splits in
important quarters and the Republicans have
given hearty endorsement to all the Citizens
party has done thus far. The efforts of GER
tain Democrats to split the Citizens
party vote and make a clear avenue to the
Chief Burgesship for Tabor by getting
Alex. Davis to come out as an independent
candidate for the position failed, much to the
disappointment and modification of the
Democrats who undertook to make the deal.
Tit movement was a strong one and great
pressure was brought to bear, but Davis was
convinced by his friends that the Democrats
were only trying to use him as a tool and
would throw him on the scrap iron pile after
his defeat at the election. A similar attempt
in connection with the School Dictatorship in
the Third ward has also failed, so that the
Democrats must make their fight on their
own merits, and without any assistance they
hoped to gain through independent Citizens
candidates.
The Citizens Standing Committee held a
meeting last night and perfected its part Of
the campaign work. Hereafter the campaign
will be in charge of the joint Citizens and
Republican organization.