The sun., 1900-08-20
LEWIS AND CRU2CHNAN
TO SPEND MONEY TO
DEFEAT KNOWLES
Four Polling Places Instead of
One in the Seventh Ward
and Many Cabs.
HIRED RUNNERS FOR $3.50
AT the Anti-Addicks Primaries To.
day the Fight in the Seventh
Ward VIII be an Example of
Dirty Politics and the Use
of Much Money.
HIRED RUNNERS FOR $3.50

Of Much Money.
In the Anti-Addicks primaries to be
State convention which meets tomorrow, /
the entire strength in dirty politics and I
corrupt expenditure Of money will be
massed in the Seventh ward against the |
election Of Horace Greeley Knowles. |
! The fight has attracted more attention |
than any delegate election held in this |
city for YEARS. Anti-Addicks Chairman
! Phil Churchman and City Tax Collector
Tom Lewis. two of Colonel du Points |
leading hpnchmen have declared, in
language both impulsive and impressive,
that they intend to run the -Anti-Ail-
y dicks politics of the Seventh ward and
because Knowles refuses to come under
their thumb he must be defeated.
4 Latest developments in the man hunt
show that Lewis and Churchman a4'e
turning to questionable methods. One
voting place had been selected in each
ward for today's primaries. Lewis and
Chnrchman have changed the program
in the Seventh ward. They have Sc
lected four polling places with the idea
thnt il would be impossible for Mr..
Knowles to get enough friends to be
III .olr different polling places. With
one polling place Knowles could be
there with his friends and do consider
able work.
Lewis and Churchman have hired
, workers and Mr.. Knowles said last
night that it is estimated that they will
spend about $500 this afternoon lit each
polling place. Lewis and Churchman
Z have arranged to have four cabs with
| a number of runners and window men.
, Several runners have been hired for
$3.50 each for the afternoon.
One or two men whom Lewis and
Churchmun had employed and were eN-
pected ut the polls when they heard Of
t the man hunt, resigned saying they
) would be ashamed to hand the scratched
ticket to Il voter.
; Mr.. Knowles said last night that he
| is not spending a cent in the contest
) except for printing Of the tickets. He
, was forced to get out his own tickets
) hecauSe Lewis. who is the ward chair
man. refused to allow him more than
! seventeen Of those furnished b. the
> ward committee. 4 number of Mr..
4 Knowles friends have volunteered to he
. at the polling places and hand out IN
s marked tickets in order that the voter
e may vote his sentiments.
4 In addition to other schemes Lewis
!. and Churchmail have dropped into in
| timidation. To one man in the Seventh
Q ward who holds Il government position.
f ii was intmated that unless he would
. do all he could against Knowles. he
would lose his place. He asked for the
reason of the man hunt. None was
+, given and the government employee said
\ he would lose fifty jobs like he had
\ sooner than join in such n persecution
of man against he had or knew moth
ing"
D In an interview Yesterday Mr.. Knowles
sums ZIP the attempt of Lewis and
Churchman to boss the Seventh ward as
follows:
.'The fight being made against me by
Churchman and Lewis is nothing more
or less than man-hunt. 1t is an eX-
ample of the ingratitude on the one hand
and the maevolence on the other that
sometimes occur in politics. The two
men firing at me from ambush are Tom
Lewis, tax collector and Chairman of
o the Seventh ward Republican commit
q tee. and Phil Churchman, Chairman of
the Republican State Committee.
/. have helped and supported Lewis in
every election in which he has been IL
r candidate. and have had the ill-will of
8 Phil Churchman ever since the first
t manifestation of friendship toward me
i on the part of Senator Higgins. and i'll
i politics and out, these two men have
been bounding me for years.
! 1t is now evident that Lewis and
G Churchman (they both work together
!, and claim to control absolutely the
:. Seventh ward), did not intend that /
l. should go as a delegate to the State
i convention or they would not have
q started Immediately after the meeting
q that nominated me to organize one of
il the most despicable man hunts ever con-
:. Quoted in this city.
II 1T is said that Phil Churchman is
figuring to be made Secretary of State,
n and that all combinations for Governor
i and everything else on the State ticket,
must be shaped and made in accordance
= with and Suhservient to his interests.
l. Excepting to few of his intimate
y friends he has not told the name of the
man he intends TO make Governor of the
q State. He accuses me of trying to bring
d the nomination for Congress to Wilm-
j, ington, which if done. would cause the
:, nomination for Governor to go to one
!. OF the two lower counties, and this
il would he, he thinks. interfering with
V his lordly hopes and aspirations"
Speaking of the 1900 tickets on which
ii Tom Lewis marked off Knowles name
and which have been sent to every
d registered voter in the Seventh ward
/. Mr.. Knowles said:
"rhs last act on their part. in my
4 o. tio1, was gping to g.eat ltngths. and
: WIS equivalent tn an oder from Church.