Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-24
NOW PREDICTING VICTORY
See Chance to Win Owing to New
man Costello War.
FOR UNRESTRICTED DELEGATES
Tickets Will Be Placed in Several
Districts-Policies
Are Set Forth.

Districts-Policies
Are Set Forth.
While the Costello and Newman fac
| lions of the local democratic party were
hammering each other with might and
main today, fighting to obtain the use OF
the Clark emblem for their primary
ticket for use Monday. along came the
Darr organization with the Jackson and
Liberty" banner, and began banging the
heads of both.
Where you see head, hit it." shouted
| the Darr workers, and all along the line
the cudgels few thick and fast.
With the Costello and the Newman
men UP in arms against each other, the
jackson and Liberty boys. with hopes
for an uninstructed ticket in ten local
districts. took on high hopes today and
made the open assertion that they would
control the city convention to be held
May %. Not only that. but they hope to
carry two or more-especially more-dele-
gates to the Baltimore convention.
Charles w. Darr said this morning that
with the regulars fighting among them
| selves there is no chance for his or
ganization to lose. He plans to slip in
between the two of them and sweep the
field.
Fight Is Peculiar.
Here is a peculiar fight The Newman
people, with six members of the central
| committee are fighting the newly formed
Costello organization with sixteen COM
| mitteemen. Both Of these hope to shut
ha h1t
be cleaned. there is no disposition to
combine their forces against the Jack
son and Liberty" banner. However. the
Dar fighters are banging heads OF both
the others. because they see in them only
diversified forms Of the same organiza-
ton which gave the Darr organization
| terrific fight In previous years. They are
chasing around the city in a circle, over
taking an opponent here and there. who
| is endeavoring to trip up a man in front
of him and at the same time prevent
himself from being tripped UP from
either in front or behind.
| Charles w. Darr said this morning that
he is still democrat, and good one,
too, despite the statement of Mr.. New
man to the contrary. He also made the
statement that he would do everything
he could to beat Mr.. Newman and his
ticket. He claims that his Jackson and
liberty ticket has received unfair treat
ment, and Is preparing contest for the
city convention. He will contest the
| tickets in the first district. on which ap
pear the names of Thomas G.. Moore and
Henry Perkins; third district. Georga
Killeen; first. John E. Boland: eighth
John Hodgkins; eleventh, Mr.. Scott thir-
teenth. Mr.. Mayhem: fourteenth, Harry
Freeman, fifteenth, William j. Neale and
| Robert Foy.
Districts to Be Invaded.
The Darr tickets will appear in the sec
ri
teenth. nineteenth. twentieth. twenty
| first and twenty-second districts
1T is reported that although your
ticket is marked for an uninstructed dele
CATION said a Star reporter to Mr.. Darr.
you are really working for a Wilson
| ticket"
Il know that is being said,'' replied Mt.
| fected a democratic organization here
which wants to send purely democratic
delegation to Baltimore. We want to
send delegation that will vote for the
| best man In the party. and we are not OPP
posed to any of the men now mentioned
| for the nomination. What we want first
of all is to impress our policy on the peo-
ple-District men for District offices.
I'VE have the interests of the party at
heart. and We don't want to be tied up
to any tag which will leave us stranded
| high and dry in case the nomination Is
settled by lot of politicians behind
closed doors. In every convention 1t has
been six or seven delegates who have
elected the man, and there is big feeling
| here against instruction"
The Darr organization will hold a rally
| tomorrow night at Donohoes Hall. 314
Pennsylvania avenue southeast. 'Prin-
| ciples, not men. are the foundation of
| the democratic party" says the handbill
advertising the meeting. The speakers
Joseph Wright. Charles A. Douglas E.
Z. Benton and Levi David.
Clark Club Rally.
The final rally of the Champ Clark
Democratic Club will be held tonight in
Old Masonic Temple. 9th and F streets
| northwest. Lorenzo G. Warfield, secre-
| tary of the club, in sending out notices
60 the press. took a whack at Mr.. New
| man, saying that the club recognized the
| national committeeman as an anti-Clark
| leader.
At the same time. 1t must be borne in
| mind that Mr.. Newman is promising to
| get out an injunction to allow his ticket
tho exclusive use of the Clark emblem.
| MI Warfield drew a further distinction,
saying that his organization is distinct
| from the so-called Costello faction" At
the same time John B. Colpoys, one OF
the speakers at the rally Is a Costello
worker and leader. Other speakers to-
night will be Representative Lubey of
Missouri. Representative Lobeck. Ne
braska. Lafe Pence, Kyle b. Price.
| Last Nights Meeting.
| At the meeting of the democratic central
committee at Costello's Hall last night.
in addition to voting to prohibit the New
man democrats from using Champ Clark s
picture on their ticket. the committee
| heard from the hitherto silent Carr-Darr
| faction. which protested against half a
dozen tickets and several polling places.
During the meeting Robert f. Mattingly
and F. Edward Mitchell came so close to
overstepping the bounds of parliamentary
propriety that the meeting went into ex-
| ecutive session.
| The Carr-Darr faction protested in a
letter signed by Charles W. Darr that
| certain tickets would have to be removed
| from the field or there would be a con-
test. He contended they were not filed
| according to the rules.
Tickets Causing Objections.
The tickets objected to are as follows:
| First district. ticket headed by 7. G..
Moore and one headed by Henry Perkins;
the ticket headed by George Killeen in
the third district; the ticket headed by
John +. Boland, In the fifth strict: the
| ticket headed by John Hodgkins, in the
| eighth district: the one headed by Mr..
| Scott, in the eleventh district: the ticket