The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1901-03-02


Republican machine managers are throw.
ing all their strength into an effort to get
Judge ZachritZ to quit the race and declare
himself for George w. Parker. Every IN
fluence at their command Is being orousht
to bear on the Judge to give up the struggle
in favor of his opponent and thus lend the
appearance Of harmony to the Republican
situation.
.'If Billy Zachritz will come out Saturday
and announce himself for Parker he will
be the idol of the Republican organization
and nothing can stop him four years from
now," is the way one of the machine lead
ers put it yesterday. can the boys are with
him for old times sake. but they don't be-
l!eve he can win, and they are for the fel-
low that will land them back in thefr jobs.
Zachritz Is impossible. But we are willing
to take the chance with Parker.
"Do you know what's keeping Billy Zach
ritz In the fight? Nothing more or less than
that Hl-advised editorial In the Globe-Dem-
ocrat on the morning of the day that Par
Ker was picked-last Friday-Washington'
Birthday.
''The night before. in the City Committee
conference in the banquet hall Of the St
Nicholas Hotel, we took vote, and of the
seventeen members present nine voted Tor
Zachritz But the silks, who were down.
stairs were against him to man. we
were going to send out for him. but it was
too late-half past T.
HOW ZACHRITZ
TREATED THE COMMITTEE.
..The next morning the committee was
sent over to ask Zachritz to withdraw
Every man on the committee was Zachritzs 8
friend. What did he do when they went
over there? Sat and watched them from an
other office in the building which commands
a view OF his headquarters and didn't make
a move to come over and meet them. The
vi, ofR
to find him, all the time knowing he was
right in the building and watching the COM
mittee through a window.
.F,inally he came in. NIL chesty and
swelled up, not like the old Billy Zachritz.
He was as formal as If he had been on
the bench. And what did he do when tney
sprung the object Of their mission? picked
IN the Globe- Democrat and read that edt-
torial to them.
"Thats what's sticking In his craw He's
fighting all his old friends and making
big hurrah against q combination he can't
beat lust because he is sore at that edi-
torial.
"The Mayor and the others on the COM
mittee assured him that they had had moth
ing to do with the writing Of the editorial.
that Houser had been sick and did not
attend the caucus. and that they did not
know how 1t came to be written But ne
was sore. He knows as well as the rest
of us know that he can't win next Tuesday.
But he's sore at that editorial. and OF all
the stubborn little fellows in the country
he's the stubbornest."
CONFERENCE IN
ZACHRITZ's OFFICE.
All sorts Of moves were made yesterday
on the Republican checkerboard. At
O'clock in the afternoon Judge Zachritz and
his manager, Ed Mepham, called at the he s,,
publican City Committee headauarters rs, IN IN
in Secretary William H. Hahn's private
office. 1t was given out that Zachritz and
Mepham would also visit Parker headqaar, @ n,,
ters in the Union Trust building. but they
didn't show up there Hahn was one of
the original zachritz men. He wouldn't say
what he and his visitors talked about.
Soon after Zachr1tz and Mepham returned
to the Lincoln Trust building, John b.
Owen, one of most energetic OF the macnlne
workers who are trying to nominate Far
ker. called at the Zachrltz neaaauarIeir,Ss .si, :;
He had an earnest conversation WIN
Afterwards Mepham said that owen had
laid down the law about the us use of OF repeal, oes
| which had been circulated to the erect tnat
zachritz would have such men working for
him were fabrieations pure e,da ana simpe
were sent to bring in the Zachritz mana
gers. One by one they responded, Henry
Besch, City. Register; John II. Pohmah, nn,,f
ex-Sheriff; George j. kobusch, ex-RepuD-
| lican member of the Election Board: Ed
Albright member of the House of Dele
gates from the Seventeenth Ward; Sam +.
Inversion, Central Committeeman from the
Twenty-eighth Ward and Louis Diekmann;
ex-Speaker of the House OF Delegates. ana
now a clerk in the Election Commission
er's Office. EX-Deputy sherlH BIZ pye mas
70 admit no one without instructions from
Loud words were heard from the he interior @ O.
! Of the room at times. It was sly o CLOCK
when the conference adjourned. When the
| men who had been In the conference came
| out they smiled, but had notnlng 10 say
to reporters which weuia eve .e tbat q ni haS
! Of the nature OF tne oeiioei "'ioN' s-'' 'N
Parker workers were boasting last y might sht
and 1fhta .hat Mseraen had said
tnat he could see Zachritz's finish. IT'S an
! np-hiil fight" was Zachritz's remark Wnen
I the subject of his chances was proacheo.
ZIEGENHEIN
DIDN'T APPEAR.
The word went around In the moTning
| and afternoon that Ziegenhein had kicked
! on the scheme to put him IN the ne PACK PACK
ground until after the primary. and tnen,
too, II possible. In the I'll n5elhoom Ian, ein sne
declared that the report that MS Iatnsr mug uI,
/ heen asked to keep out OF sight was all
wrGHg;ii Hs;il speak tonight at the Twelfth Ward
| meeting" said he.
But the Mayor didn't show up.
Neither did he appear at the me meenag 81, N
the Eighteenth Ward, wnere ooth rarAei
Parker values the Mayors AID IN the
Apht for the nomination. but ne doesn',
It e Spen ali saa tns Ins to tesp ses e zese
US to mention to him."
W. A. Hobbs, Republican member member o1 the M
| rnich was held at National Hall. at Dol