Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-28
BOTH CLAIM VICTORY.
Result of Democratic Primary
Remains Undecided.
VOTES YET TO BE COUNTED
Several Ballot Boxes in the Hands
of the Police.
CITY CONVENTION TOMORROW
VOTES YET TO BE COUNTED
CITY CONVENTION TOMORROW
Exchange of Charges by Newman
and Costello Factions-Resent-
ment Against Clark Managers.

Both sides claiming complete victory,
with the returns not yet in, and seem
ingly taking more trouble to count than
the returns from the entire state of New
York: with f. A. Newman charging the
Costello voters with repeating; with bal
lot boxes in the hands of the police, and
with charges that Mr.. Newman intend
ed to bolt the city convention tomorrow.
this. day, following the election of -yester-
day, surpasses the excitement of the &C
tual depositing of the ballots. E. A. New
man disclaims he ever admitted defeat.
and the Costello faction is planning to
sweep the convention tomorrow.
The democratic battle to send a Dis
/ trict delegation to Baltimore is not half
over. and the biggest surprise is in store
for some of the i'conffdent predicters"
today.
The Darr ticket is going to be the prize.
1t looked today As if the uninstructed
delegates to the city convention would
hold the balance of power. The Costello
people have predicted that Newman dem
ocrats would combine with the unn-
.structed delegates. Mr.. Newman today
denied ever planning such a thing.
The city convention will be held in Old
| Masonic Temple tomorrow. The Costello
people claimed twelve out of twenty-five
districts today before the returns were
counted finally. If that is true. they
will control the convention and the city
organization. The Newman people claim
| practically the same thing.
Newman Claims Control of Conven-
tion.-
Mr.. Newman had several picturesque
/ dissertations of no In re
when Star reporter talked to him this
morning. Mr.. Newman said:
Il do not admit defeat. / never said
\ a word about it. The publication in a
morning paper that 1 acknowledged my
self beaten needs correction. We will
have control of the city convention to-
morrow. | want to say right here that
did not make any statement that we in
tended to join forces with the Darr fac
! ton or any other faction . do not prom
| Use anything in that direction. All I will
| say is that we will control the city con-
vention.
1--WE do not intend to make any con-
tests. We intend to let the Costello
people do all the contesting. / do know
| that We won in those districts where the
ballot boxes were stolen. The Costello
faction ran off with the ballot boxes in
the eleventh. fourteenth and seventeenth
districts. Those ballot boxes were locked
up at the police stations and will be
counted this afternoon. / know we will
win in those districts. All this trouble
was brought about by repeaters at the
polls. With all of that against us we
expect to control the city convention to-
morrow. We won't bolt; we won't COM
bine. But We will control.
Clark Managers Accused.
we would have swept the city if we
had not lost half our votes by the theft
of the emblem. We started our itera-
ture with the picture OF Clark and edu-
Gated many men that ticket Then
when the Clark headquarters robbed us 4
of the picture many men voted the en-
blem and not the ticket. 1t was an out
rage for the national Clark headouar-
tiers to mix in this local politics. For
the first time in history it was DONE and
done in a high-handed manner. | don't
believe Mr.. Clark had anything to do with
it. These Costello people, who have been
sleeping on the Clark doormat, seemed
to get the ear of those people at Clark
headquarters regardless of what l told
them l know for fact that many of
the men on the Costello ticket are not
loyal to Clark
The Costello people are claiming dis
tricts where they had no ticket We
were the only people to put twenty-five
full tickets into the field. Take the first
district for instance. l organized that
district myself. In that district Thomas
j. Moore, one of the successful candi-
dates. is against me. but the other two.
Dr. Mudd and DR.. Watson, are with me.
It's the same way in the sixth The Cos
tello people claim that district, but that
ticket is really Newman ticket and our
side will get the votes from it. Hammond
is against us in that district, but the
others are with US.
Repeating Charged.
I'm the second district, where they
polled so many votes, they used many re-
peaters,- but am inclined to concede
victory to them in that district. l under
stand that Jere Costello's Spanish war