The Washington herald., 1912-05-27
DEMOCRATS READY
FOR VOTE TO-DAY
Rival Facions Bitterly Assail Each
Other on Eve of Primaries.
Both Sides Confident.
NEWMAN FACTION IS
EXPECTED TO BOLT CLARK
Fiftq-six Tickets in Field Promise
Bitter Battle-Situation
Is Complicated.

With ffty-six tickets lined up In the
twenty-five voting districts the Demo
cratic primaries in Washington to-day
will decide the six delegates to be sent
to the Baltimore convention. The polls
will be open from to o'clock.
Following the repudiation Of the New
man faction by Champ Clark's man.
ayers in indorsing the Costello forces
as the instructed Clark ticket, and the
rumor that the Newmanites would bolt
| to-day, Fred T. Dubois last night gave
out the following statement:
| Information has come TO the Clark
headquarters Of statements made by
parties connected with the so-called
Kelley -CIayton-Newma faction, which
dorsing the ticket which Will bear the
] Clark emblem. placed In the field by the
| faction with which DR.. Hammond, Capt.
Miller, Mr.. Mattingly, and Mr.. Costello
are connected.
May Bolt Clark.
I'VE understand the Newman faction
contempIates casting OF its mask and
posing no longer as Clark men, and join
ing in with the Darr faction for an un-
instructed delegation. We relterate thE:
I a
the nomination OF Champ Clark for the
| Presidency, by way Of expressing their
preference for Clark should vote for the
various delegate tickets upon which will
be found printed a likeness OF the
! Speaker.
we know that the District Democracy
favors Speaker Clark. II we chose to do
so, we might properly characterize at
tempts TO deceive the voters into be-
lieving that men are Clark men who are
named on a so-called Clark ticket, when,
/ in fact a considerable portion Of these
men are for other candidates. However.
We do not consider II necessary to do so.
1t is sufficient to say that with this blind
ballot the Democrats, II they favor
| Speaker Clark. should be guided by the
statement We gave out last night and
vote for the only Clark ticket in the
! field which is for Clark
| Ed8in A. Newman, District national
committeeman. last night said:
In view OF the statement issued Satur-
1 day by the Clark headquarters, we deem
| 1t but just to ourselves and party as
sociates. and a duty We owe the public.
| to make response. Not until Saturday
\ did receive an invitation from the
| Speakers headquarters to call and dis
| cuss the local situation and II was
| stated that the reason for the invitation
/ was to see whether a compromise Of
the existing differences could be effected.
Sought for Harmon.
Il was accompanied by P. T. Moran.
Dr. Samuel z. Lewis, Hugh F. Harvey,
Bernard G. Brown. Frederick L. SD
dons, and William J. EeaIe. A similar
invitation was extended to Mr.. Costello
and some OF his adherents. ! and my
colleagues offered to agree that twelve
Clark delegates be sent to the Baltl-
more convention. six to be named by
the Costello faction and six by our as
sociates, each to have a vote and that
all tickets should be- Withdrawn in the
several legislative districts where con-
tests have been filed against them.
I'VE waited three hours for a response
and when II came it was a rejection Of
our proposal, with an intimation that
we might have One-thlrd OF the delega-
ton to Baltimore and nothing more.
This ended the attempt at harmony.
destined We felt from the first to fall
ure, for we knew that II was no part Of
the plan Of Mr. Costello and his faction
IS agree to anything but complete sur
render on our part to the worst form
of machine rule, and this must have been
known to the Clark headquarters. with
whom Mr. Costello and his associates
have been for weeks in close consUlta-
ton.
That Mr.. ClarkS managers have been
misled as to the purpose OF Costello and
his faction, we have no doubt. It is a
fact that on Mr.. Costello's ticket in the
Seventh District there is an organizer
Of the Harmon forces. J. J. Purcell. On
their ticket in the Fourth District is
Frank J. Wissner, n candidate Of the
Costello faction as a delegate to the Bal
timore convention, who has publicly and
repeatedly stated that he Is unaltersbly
opposed to an instructed delegation to
several Costello tickets who are in no
degree Clark supporters"
Costello Makes Statement.
Walter ]. Costello, leader OF the author
lied Champ Clark ticket, last night said:
The important point for the voter to
keep before him. provided he wants
Champ Clark to secure the six delegates
TO Baltimore instructed for him first
last. and aIf the time, is to vote the
ticket bearing the Speakers photograph
which was specifically indorsed by his
national manager. Fred T Du BoiH
TO vote for the Newman ticket divides
the Clark strength and enables them to
elect the Darr-Carr-Benton and Mitchell
tickets, which are allied in this fight for
that purpose. 1t is impossible for you
to make a mistake II you prefer Clark,
and I know that at least 90 per cent of
the Democrats OF the District are for
him."
L. c. Moore, a leader In the So
called colored Democratic party, yester-
day instructed his adherents and colored
voters in general to stay away from the
polls, owing TO the friction in the party