The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-08-20
FELL LIKE A BOMB.
Spy Story Stirred Up
a Rumpus in Guild
Bates Lines.
LEADERS HUSTLE ON A HOT DAY.
Secrets Up Sleeve Drawn
Forth and Presented in
a Big Broadside.
LEADERS HUSTLE ON A HOT DAY.

dropped out of things today, and the
dropping was precipitated by the arti-
Gle on conditions in the Bates-Guild
campaign printed in The Spy this morn
ing.
The Guild campaigners changed the
outlook in moment by announcing
that Representative 8. Ives Wallace is
pledged to Gen. Guild, and has been so
pledged for the past five weeks. His
of fealty to Guild
was, 1t was learned by a representative
of The Spy, today, recorded in the Of
flee of Guilds campaigners more than
four weeks ago. The record is said to
be letter written by c. Frank Fair
banks, in which Mr.. Fairbanks informs
Guilds campaign manager of the result
of conversation between Mr.. Fair
banks and Mr.. Wallace. This was the
in which Mr.. Wallace an
his position to Mr.. Fairbanks
The gentleman who tells the story says
that it happened in this way:
c. Frank Fairbanks is president of the
Young Mems Republican Club. The Of
fee is not merely a dignity In his case.
Mr.. Fairbanks is a hustler AS soon
as Mr. Fairbanks determined to hustle
for Guild, he saw the necessity of Sc
curing the support Of Mr.. Wallace, who,
as chairman of the republican town
committee, would have great weight.
He accordingly asked Mr.. Wallace point
blank what position he would take in
the contest, with the result stated
In the meantime, everybody, includ-
ing one of his nearest friends, have been
predicating Mr.. Wallace as a Bates
man. They have based many of their
predictions that the Bates campaign
would be successful here, en- the sup
position that Representative Wallace
would at some time prior to the caucus
declare himself. This hope Of these
friends of Mr.. Wallace was expressed
in The Spy this morning. The Guild
men read it there and determined to
administer the coup de grace.
Accordingly, three or four Guild men
got out among the voters and commu-
nicated the news that Mr.. Wallace is
bound to Guild.
The effect here was tremendous. IT
has created as much surprise here as
the announcement would in New York
that Van Wyck is in favor of Bryan
for president.
The result is disastrous to the Bates
wing of the party. Mr.. Wallace is the
leader of the only faction that might
make trouble for Guild. The fact that
he is pledged, precludes even the prob
ability of an unpledged ticket
Ora L. Stone and Mr.. Fairbanks were
hard at work all day today At o'clock
this afternoon the announcement was
made that Mr.. Fairbanks had written
down in little book the names of so
leading republicans who pledged them
serves to Guild during the day. The
DOCK was shown, but not everybody
was permitted to read the names.
The claim is now mazda 1xyi4I,
appearance of truth, that among the re-
publ1cans who are Guild men are, be-
SIDES Mr. Wallace, Mr.. Fairbanks and
Mr.. Stone, former Representative Wal
ter F. Howard, Frank e. Howard. clerk
OF district court, Judge C. C. Stone,
Charles L. Stevens, William Rodger and
ii; ID. Lowe, members of the board of
selectmen, Alexander Stevenson, Neil
walker, Eugene E. Prescott, William
A. Fuller, E. e. Thompson, Town Clerk
5; W. Tyler, Town Treasurer Charles
e. Shaw and others.
Inc convention for the nomination of
delegates will be held Sept. 26.
The keen interest in Guild is largely
que TO CHARLES G. Bancroft, recently q
cltlzen OF the town. Mr.. Bancrofts rep
resentative here is Ora L. Stone. Mr.
stone Is doubtless as close to Mr.. Ban
crort as anybody, and is therefore most
ed on the intricacies Of Guilds cam
palgn, which Mr.. Bancroft manages
In all the territory outside of Boston
Mr.; Stone said this afternoon that
speaker Bates will not have more than
900 votes in the convention. He saws
that worcester is on record in Guilds
ONCE IN Boston as being six wards for
Sullo ana two for Bates. Wards 1 and
are the wards credited to Bates.
~ Lne towns round about here the
a in xr-sfI
against him a story to the general a.
tect unat he is depending upon the
Methoqlst church for much of the sue
cess OF his campaign. His expected
presence at the Sterling camp grounds
To-Day was used in various quarters az
an evidence of the story.
some significance is attached to the
story by Guild men. Today it was an
nounced IN the local newspapers with
ueelslon lnat Jacob W. Powell has de-
Guild. Ns4i'
Inc announcement is official and If is
worded in this way: Another support
er OF Mr. Guild is Jacob w. Powell. He
Is president of the Epworth League. and
IL was expected that Mr.. Bates general
~ would have the support of the Metho-
dlst church. Mr.. Powell has. however
come out squarely in favor of Mr.
Guild" - Az
Mr.. Stone related this anecdote Of
zen. Gulld To-Day, as showing his mod
esty and hatred of titles. A Roston
newspaper man came to Mr.. Stone III 8
morning and asked him why it was tha :
certain Boston newspaper always
printed the name of Gen. Child as
Mr." Guild. Mr.. Stone made an in
curry thinking that some discourtesv
might be intended to Gen. Guild. He
discovered that early in the Campaign
the editor of the Boston newspaper had
written lester to Gen. Guild, asking
MIN If he would prefer to be called
Gen, "Col." or ''Mr." Guild. The can
didate for lieutenant governor prompt-
" declared in favor of the more modest
designation This paper. the transcript
refers altogether to Mr." Guild.
Democrats will hold their caucus for
the election of delegates to the state
convention about Sept 26.
They are not looking forward To a
contest for the gubernatorial chair this
year. But they are going to join with
the other democrats Of the county In An
effort to make Rome howl in 1900 when
they will try to land another governor
In the heat of a presidential campaign
Spring politics are more discussed nv
democrats than fall politics are
Democrats are pruning themselves
tnat things will be all their way in the
spring Two republicans are going off
the board of selectmen and only one
democrat The democrats can get n
majority by electing one man: the re-
publicans can retain their majority
only by electing two
The fact that mitigates against demo-
cratic success is the ancient feud he
tween the Morrison and Harrity wings
OF the party But if the feud can be
healed at all, 1t can be healed when two
men are to be nominated for selectnen