Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-06
THE CLANS WILL CLASH
Democratic Central Committee Will Meet
. Tonight.
The Characteristic warmth of Such
Occasions Expected to Prevafl-PrO-
posed Division of Two Districts.

There promises to be hot time at Myers
Hotel tonight, and the probabilities are
that any one who happens Ito be on Penn
sylvania avenue between Al. and 9Th streets
during the ante-midnight hours will be
aware OF IT. The occasion of the eptici-
pated warmth will be a meeting of the dem
ocratic central committee of the District of
Columbia "a body which has been more or
less surcharged with differences ever since
its origin. but which has been fractured
hope essiy ever since October last, when it
divided into even sides on the subject of
recommending successor to the late Law
renee Gardner on the national democratic
committee. The local body consists of
twenty-five members each representing one
OF the election districts in the District of
CoumDla, and each faction claims to be it
one side being known as the Norris and the
other as the Holmead party.
Proposed Division.
The meeting tonight will be. it is under
stood. devoted largely to an effort to change
the existing order of Things. so far as the
constitution of the local democracy is con-
cerned. by increasing the number of dis
tricts from Twenty-Five twenty-four. To
accomplish this ii is proposed to split dis
tricts Nos l and 2 in half. The districts
embrace. respectively, the territory across
the Anacostia river and that surrounding
Brightwood. District No. l is represented
on the committee by Mr.. Victor Boyer of
Congress Heights and District No. . by Or.
Henry Darling of Brightwood. The other
delegates and the districts they represent
are as follows:
John Maher third; Arthur Small, fourth;
Thomas l.. Conner. fifth; William 3. Holtz-
claw. sixth; John Boyle seventh: William J.
Donovan. eighth; Charles II. Turner. ninth;
Thomas b. k6lbfus, tenth; George Neitzey.
eleventh; Michael B. Scanlon, twelfth; J.
Fred Kelley, thirteenth; Frank McQuade,
fourteenth; Z. l.. Jordan. fifteenth; J. &.
Wittekindt sixteenth: Robert E. Doyle,
seventeenth; VIM l.. Wells. eighteenth;
George Killeen. nineteenth; E. Lynch, TWEEN
tieth; John A. Clarke, twenty-first and
John b. Miller, twenty-second.
The chairman Is Thomas B. Kalbfus
who is absent in the Philippines, and John
A. Clarke. the vice chairman, will preside
tonight. The secretary is J. Fred Kelley
and the treasurer, NJ B. Scanlon.
Assertions of Interest.
1t is alleged by some democrats that the
movement to divide the first and second
districts as stated, while based upon the
claim that the great increase in their popu-
lation has made such additional representa-
ton proper is really intended to secure two
more members who will, it is declared, sup
port the Holmead wing of the committee
and permit another meeting of the commit
tee to be neld to consider the national COM
nlittee membership. This assertion seems
to be based on the fact that Mr.. Boyer and
I'r. Darling of the first and second districts
supported Mr.. Holmead and that In case
two new delegates are chosen from their
territories that they will also be Holmead
men In any event the meeting promises
to be lively. all gatherings of the body
invariably are.