Evening star., 1898-11-03
Pennsylvania Democrats Claim 18th
and 18th Districts.
BOTH CONCEDED as DOUBTFUL
Anti-Quay Sentiment Favors DEM
ocratic Candidates.
PERSONALITY OF CANDIDATES
Special From a Staff Correspondent.

| Special From a Staff Correspondent
| POTTSFILLE, Pa, November 3-There
are three congressional districts in this i'm
| mediate section of the state which the DEM
ocrats expect to carry next Tuesday and
, which the republican managers admit are
in doubt the thirteenth, seventeenth and
| nineteenth. The two first named are repre-
| Sented in Congress now by republicans and
| the latter by a democrat.
| Investigation of the conditions existing in
| those districts shows that the democrats
have foundation for their hope in these
! districts, and the republicans have need to
he alarmed, although they have not con-
, ceded defeat in the thirteenth and seven
| teenth, nor abandoned all hope in the nine
| teenth.
The thirteenth district is composed of the
| county of Schuylkill with a population of
| 154,16 In the last election for Congress-
| Mr.. Charles N Brumm. republican. was
elected, receiving 1868 votes. against H.
512 for Watson F. Shepherd democrat and
2''9 votes for S. G.. NJ Holoneter, Druhi-
bitionist. MIR. Brumm has been renomi-
mated by the republicans. and his opponents
are James W. Ryan, democrat, and Pierce
! Walker, socialist labor.
History of the District.
| The political history of the thirteenth
|
| that Mr.. Brumm has been a perennial can
| didatc for Cong1 ess and that the majority
vote has swung from party to the
other in the elections of the past with con-
siderable mDartiality. The vote is tickle,
! and neither party up to this time has been
| able to claim the district as its own for
| keeDs, as in the case of some of the other
! rock-ribbed republican or democratic dis
| tricts of the state. Sometimes the renub-
| licans have hold of it for two or three
| terms and then the democrats would get
| turn ct it.
| their innings and the republicans are
| somewhat lukewarm in their resistance to
| the claim. Mr.. Brumn is recognized as
| one of Senator Quays stancheSt adher-
| ents In this section OF the state He has
enjoyed the favor of that reputation in the
| past and now is experiencing some of the
disadvantages which attach to association
| with the Quay organization in the present
! campaign.
| In this Donnybrook fair shindy which is
going on among the republicans the cry
Is, "Wherever you see a Quay head. hit
| it Consequently. the republicans are not
pausing to differentiate between state and
| national issues candidates. 1t is feared
| by the managers that the republican voters
| of the district who vote against the
ganizdtion on state iSSUeS may vote against
| the republican candidate for Congress.
The county of Schuylkiu takes in con-
siderable section of the anthracite coal
region, with the cDSm0rOllta1 population
| of the coal miner The general conditions
| therefore. are in a measure similar to those
| which exist in the adjoining county of Lu-
Zerne. and which were described in a recent
| dispatch from Wilkesbarre.
PsIaa<Iers Are Democrats.
The Polanders will generally vote the
| democratic ticket. the Hungarfans will
| largely follow their employers who are re-
| pubIicans, and the Italians will in the main
vote for the republican candidate There
| are no local conditions to bother the demo-
Gratis, while, on the other hand the re-
| pubicans are sorely beset by the Quay dis
! affection within their ranks. Independent
republican candidates have been nominated
! in two of the four legislative districts of
| the county. and will undoubtedly draw
from the republican vote.
The seventeenth district is composed of
the counties of Columbia. Montou-. North
cumberland and Sullivan, with popula ton
OF 15si!0 1t was carried in 1896 by Mr.
Monroe II. kulp, republican, by vote of
1915, against 14.073 for A Walsh. demo-
bitionist. In this campaign Mr.. VIM T.
Woodin is the republican candidate for rep
resentative in Congress, Mr.. Rufus X.
Polk, democrat, and Mr. John NJ. Caldwell.
prohibtionist.
Mr.. Woodin is wealthy manufacturer
of Berwick, and in the conduct of his cam
paisn proceeds upon lines somewhat differ
ent from those of his principal opponent
MI Woodln rides about the district in an
electric motor carriage and addresses his
audiences sometimes from its seat. He
tells the people that ne will give mis- con-
Stituents the benefit of extensive foreign
travel" His wealth and social position are
expected to aid his candidacy. but his cam
palSn is being urged with vigor and his
lieutenants are busy in every district
Mr. Polk is a nephew of James X Polk,
one time president of the United States
| lie Is a popular young man, talented and
ambitious TO enter public life. He is maxi
ing nota bic campaign and winning favor
wherever ne appears. He visits every vii
| laGe and crossroads hamlet. and rouphs il
In the back counties like an old campairn-
er.
Anti-Quay influence Felt,
The conditions in the district involve
| mainly straight fight between the demo-
| Gratis and republicans, but the anti-Quay
quarrel is expected to have considerable
! influence upon the outcome.
Northumberland county was carried by
the prohibitionists one year ago, when DE-.
Swallow, now candidate for governor, was
up for state treasurer There is no rea-
son to expect diminution of that prohibi-
uon vote this year, and If it goes to the
prohibition candidate for Congress it will
weaken the vote for Mr. Woodin because
the most of it will be drawn from the re-
pubicans. Hope for the republican can
didate, however, lies in the possibility of
the anti-Quay republicans voting the pro-
hibition state ticket and the republican con-
greSsional ticket.
| The nineteenth district is regarded as
likely to go democratic 1t includes the
counties of Adams, Cumberland and York
with population of 1S0,246. 1t was car
ried by Mr.. Jacob Bsnner. democrat, i'm
1896. by 22.16O. against p ,3S2 for Frank E
Hoiar, republican, so votes for W. H. ALI
bright, prohibitionst, and 49S votes for c.
A. Hawkins. gold democrat. In this cam
paign the candidates Robert J. Louis,
republican, and Edward J. Ziegler demo-
crat. The district will turn upon the vote
| in York county, and the only cause for un-
easiness On the part of the democrats is
some friction in York city and county
over local affairs but this may be more
| than counterbalanced by the anti-Quay fac
tional troubles among the republicans. The
contea9 for representative in Congress is,
therefore, close enough to be interesting,