The daily sentinel., 1905-02-27

by THE TAIL SAD ACCIDENT CUTTOPIECES
The Republicans Imagin-
ed They They Had Things

iHS lSpuullliH leaders are as mad
as hornets today. They were all d1v
Sunday, at the way they were caurb,
mapping Saturday az their primaries
Had the plan not have been disc,v-
cred in time, the law and enforce
ment league people would have had
majority Of the delegates To The
republican convention which meets
Wednesday.
The leaguers carried the EAST
Third ward by a majority of six
votes. They made good showing
in several other wards. and I'm the
Second ward e. NJ. slocomb. lsae-
uer won out and will be deleeate
to the convention.
The republicans, resting i'm sespr-
ity, believed that they had the world
by the tail with a down-huI pull. and
why should they not have believed
so? The big joss of the "big five"
told them that everything was lovely
and they thought he knew and made
little or no preparation to combat
any contest. Hal it not been for the
friends OF Ted Primrose. who is a
candidate for the Office of city clerk.
it is believed that the law and en-
forcement league would have cap
tured the delegates. Ted Primrose
and his friends early in the after
noon found out what the league peo-
pie were doing, and he aroused the
republicans from their somuoIence.
and then something got busy" for
the rest OF the afternoon.
In the East Third ward the league
people who voted at the booth were
told they must declare their iutcu-
ton of supporting the republican
ticket of they would moi bc permit
led to vote The officers at this
booth We're o. NJ. p. Steele and Har-
ry B. Jones. Some of the old-time
republicans, who had become idenu-
fed with the leaguers, did not take
kindly to being compelled to swear
in their vote by any pledge, when
they had been lifelong republicans.
and there was some severe hot air
hurled about for the time being.
In the Third ward, Judge Caswel
generally recognized as the big joss
of the big five and to whom all
the other republicans bend the preg-
nant knee, had little set to with
George Smith. the chairman of the
city central committee. Mr. Smith
is also a prominent Lacquer. and
there was something doing for the
time being. Evidently Mr. Smith is
not getting along with his new po-
litical relations as well as when they
first folded him to their bosoms when
he left the populist party. Bryson
Blair. the other prominent aposute,
stands hitched better than George
Smith and he is pulling off big rich
and rare plums from the political
tree.
Prominent republicans say that If
George Smith, Dr.. F. r. Smith, p. A.
Rice, q. NJ. Slocomb. ]. II. Ramey r.
S. Ramey, Walter Merrill j. H. Her
ron and several others don't behave
themselves and get back into the
ranks at once and stop their foolish
ness about the law and order league,
they will be formally read out Of the
party.
A very active worker in the league
and one of the best known republi-
cans in the party stated to Sentinel
reporter this morning, when asked
about the threat to drive them out
of the party in national and state at-
fairs and also in local matters, that
there was no republican i'm Mesa
county big enough to do the 'read-
ling out" act; that some men denom-
mated as leaders were not much
larger than peewees when they We're
sifted down.
The following are delegates elect
ed:
First ward-W. E. Stockton, w.
E. Payne, Frank schwalbach, w. NJ.
Sheldon. II. e. johnson.
Second ward-W. S. Phillips, c. u.
Covey, A. S. Mckinney, NJ. o. Della
plain. E. f. Miller Heman r. Bull
j. B. Willstack, Felix Alllire.
East Third ward-Chas. $. New
ton. Harry B. Jones, ]. II. Gallupe
Sam sturtevant, Walter l. Mulkey
c. II. Crawford, s. r. Johnson w. s.
Core, Chas. Keene.
West Third ward-W. N. Merrill
George Smith. L. e. Blackstone, j. H.
Ramey. Chas. B. Rich. w. r. Baul-
ton, T. S. Ramey. l.. c Hedges + A.
Enoch, r. i. Nichols
Fourth ward-AleX seegmiller' g.
NJ. sllcox, Henry Grubbs r. L. Starr
! Claude F. Hull A. r.. Cullen, N. n.
smith. Edwin Price W. F. Boiey' E.
NJ. Hardy.
No. 3 was twenty minutes late to-
day. ,.
J. A. McLuen is conducting Dug