The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-10-09
Republican State Chairman Inter.
views Several of the Judges
Men in His Office.
MAY NAME A DARK HORSE.
Primaries Bring Out the Butler
Strength in Several Wards
Where Their Friends
Need Help.

Republican primaries yesterday have no
settled tho S!dcner-Zachri;z question. Pol
.t!cians who were at the Board of Eec
Ion Commissioners office last night wher
the returns came In were still WONDERING
what the effect would be. and in different
corners Of the Office arguing over the mat
ter with fist and tongue.
Yesterday afternoon State Chairman
Thomas K. N~iedringhaus requested
George B. S!derer and four of his most
ardent supporters In the City Committee
to zee h.,a az the headquarters. SIdene,
and o Fl. Becker Of the Eighth Ward
Charles Troll o: the Eighth and other
wards. Ed Koeln Of the Eleventh and
George Reichmann of the Eighteenth all
appeared.
Nr. N~ied-inghaus took them into his
private Office and gave orders that he
was not to be disturbed. Just what oc-
CURED behind the closed doors was no,
vcuchsafed by any Of the participants
after they had left the room. Last night
NJ. Niedringhaus ate dinner with Sidener,
where. 1t is presumed, the situation was
talked over. 1t is said that a message
has been sent to Mr.. Walbridse asking
him TO come TO the city to-day and pre-
vent the nomination of Sidener and Zach
ritz.
1t Is probable that to satisfy the de-
nands CT the Buffers, preceded, Of course,
the Buffers can be satisfied. a dark horse
who is satisfactory to them will be named
for Circuit Attorney. The Sfdener follow
ing is said to be opposed to Arthur n.
Sager. while the peculiar condition of the
fight practically puts 1t Up to Election
Commissioner Louis P. Aloe.
The Twenty-eigbth Ward delegation,
which Mr.. Aloe named. has eleven votes.
Yesterday they announced that they were
opposed to Sager because he lived in the
ward and had not first talked the matter
over with them. Sager's friends claim
that he now has more than enough votes
to nominate out of the 16l delegates. Sid
ener's friends. on the other hand. claim
that he has 105 votes, SO that there is q
Discrepancy.
DOUBT ABOUT FTNKELNBURG.
1t was said yesterday that G. A. Finkeln-
burg woul not accept a judicial nomina-
ton. II this is the case. Matt G. Rey-
nolds. William NJ. Kinsey and William
Zachritz will have to tight for the two
nominations left after Judges Wood and
Fisher and General George H. Shields
have been nominated. ZachritZ is cons!d-
cred the Butler candidate.
There was the usual sample of fraud
in the primaries yesterday in the Second
District of the Third Ward. Two Judges,
whom Deputy Patrick Regain of the Elec-
ton Commissioners office, declared were
not Republicans, signed returns giving the
Straight Republican Delegation Si votes
and the regular delegation twelve votes.
The two other Judges gave the regular
| delegation eleven and the straight delega-
ton seven votes. The returns from the
other district were accepted. There the
regular delegation. headed by Nicholas A.
Polito, received 155 votes to three. This
district was not thrown out though the
relative votes were about the same the
other way.
City Committeeman F. ". Wesseler OF
the Ninth wen in his fight by a vote of
3S7 TO go for the Straight Republican del
eEation. In the Fifteenth there was a
split delegation. with Norman F1orsheim
Il loser against the Schlingmann delega-
ton. On the Regular delegation, Henry
Steinka,np received 50 votes, Casper
Brakeman a. and l. w. Vinegar 70 votes.
On the Roosevelt Republican delegation
Norman F1orsheim received "a George W.
Steinhaker rs and Jefferson c. Covington
"A. thus making the delegation stand
Stenikamp. Brakeman and %Steinbaker.
City Committeeman Conrad G. Otto
was beaten in the Sixteenth Ward by
William j. Budde, with n vote of 465 to
loo. Henry weeke. City Committeeman
and member of the House Of Delegates,
won in the Seventeenth by a vote of 4S
to 43. He a Thomas ]. Roche. the lead
er of the opposition, arrested for carry
ing concealed weapons.
The Fred H. Smith delegation won In
the Twenty-fourth by a vote of FL to Isl
and another Butler man will be made a
City Committeeman in place of William
II. Blake, who is rabidly anti-Butler.
Chris Schumacher called on the Buffers
to help him in the Fifth Ward. and he
succeeded in beating City Committeeman
Joseph L. Schiller. Attorney John C.
Gernez went to the Election Commission
ers' Office last night with Constable Ed
ward ]. Morrisey. a Democrat. Schiller
charges that about forty votes were used
from Morrisey's old saloon to beat him.
The total number of votes cast was 1871.
Nc casualties were reported. The conven-
ton will meet at the Hamilton Club to-
morrow at 10 o'clock.