Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-05
DROPS bLUMENbERG |bR|ST0W AFTER !
Lormer Committee Summari|y Senator Throws Scare
Dismisses Its Reporter. District Republicans.
RELEASED FROM CUSTODY SENATE CALLS FOR MAI
Charged With Contempt Conduct Would Know What Government
Saturday Night. ployes Are Taking Part
FRIENDS EXPLAIN HIS COURSE LAST WEEK OF CAMP
Declare ouburst Fur Beginning
Breakdown Brought Delegates
by overwork. National
Senator Throws a Scare Into
District Republicans.
SENATE CALLS FOR NAMES
Would Know What Government EN-
ployes Are Taking Part.
Fur Beginning to Fly in Contest for
Delegates to the Republican
National Convention.

The Senate this afternoon took a hand
! In the local fight for election of dele
gates to the national conventions On
the motion of Senator Bristow a reso-
luton was adopted directing the Com
missioners to report to the Senate the
names of any employees Of the District
government who are engaged in political
activity in the District, and to submit
statement showing the compensation re-
ceipted by the employees so engaged and
showing the character of the political
activity with which they are connected.
The resolution was adopted without a
dissenting voice. Just what use Senator
Bristow expects to make of the informa-
ton is not known.
When the Commissioners send to the
Senate the long list OF District employees
who are guilty of talking politics the list
will be headed by Aaron Bradshaw, can
didate for delegate to the national re-
publican convention on the admitted ad-
ministration ticket, and DIR. William Tin
dan, alternate. Aaron Bradshaw and DR.
Tindall have been in the District service
for more than twenty-five years. Leonard
Bradshaw and Robert Bradshaw two
more District officials are deep in the
political current
Like a City Directory.
Commissioners will furnish a list OF col
ored employees that will resemble a city
directory. Scarcely a colored man in the
District building is not connected with
some republican organization. Nearly
| every colored messenger is the president
| or vice president of some sort of political
| club. and every one of them ID either
| for or against Mr.. Bradshaw, with no
halfway measures.
t>afl
| to establish a primary law i'm the Dis
| trict. Anti-administration republicans
| here were looking forward to that bill as
| a weapon to defeat the Taft republicans
| at the primaries.
The Commissioners were in conference
when the news of Senator Bristows reso-
luton was taken to the District building
and an expression of opinion could not be
| obtained. Confusion, however. prevailed
among some Of the colored presidents OF
republican clubs. who imagined that an
AK was being lifted over their necks.
Fur Beginning to Fly.
| The fur is surely beginning to ly in the
local republican primary fight, which
will eliminate next Saturday at the bal
| lot box. What one amateur politician
isn't say ing about his neighbor. his neigh
Dor is saying about him, and everybody
has a theory on why Sidney Bieber en-
| tered the race.
| Everybody knows the reason and every
body is telling it-except Mr.. Bieber him.
| self. He hasn't said more than two
words since he planked down $400 In
John Lewis Smiths office and declared
himself candidate. The reasons offered
| for Mr.. Bieber's appearance against the
administration ticket are as numerous as
the sands on the oceans shore. but to
all inquiries Mr.. Bieber presents the calm
smile which means so little.
| However, there is no denying that if
Mr.. Bieber cannot win. he certainly can
! set a pace. because the Bradshaw-Chase
crowd threw in the high-gear clutch Sat
| urday night and began to make things
| hum.
Blaine Club Gets Busy.
The first thing the ADMINISTRATION people
did was to stir up the fire in the Blaine
invincible Club.
| James r. Wilder had given out a state
ment to the effect that the president of
the club had promised to withdraw the
| clubs Endorsement Of the Bradshaw
! Chase ticket and swing the organization
over to the Biebe-Wilder ticket
What happened in the Blaine crowd
! yesterday afternoon can be guessed
when it is known the club was in active
and oratorical session from 2 O'Clock
until 30, and that the roof stayed on
| wasn't the fault Of the speakers. To-
ward : o'clock the club indorsed the ad-
minstration ticket.
The Administration Republican Club
met last night at 32l Virginia avenue
southeast and indorsed the Bieber-Wild-
| er ticket with Messrs. GIeeson and Col
lins as alternates.
The club made the commutation OF
Matte Lomax's death sentence cam
paign issue, and asked its candidates
/ to stand for that plank in the local
platform.
Bieber- Wilder Endorsement.
| A. rally was held Saturday night at
the Young Mems Republican Club, l01i
| 11th street northwest, at which were
| present representatives of the West End
Republican Club, Blaine Republican Club.
! Twentieth District Republican Club and
lie Droit Republican Club. Speeches
| were made by b. l.. Gaskins. Charles
| H. Hemans, Henry L. Thomas. Samue
T. Harris, Oscar d. Morris and Samuel
II. Lucas. The Bieber-W Wilder ticket
| At a conference at the Bieber-Nilder
headquarters today representatives from
twenty-five districts framed "A working
schedule.
moved into it's headquarters at JOS and
SO r street northwest and that address
| now constitutes the coming tower from
| which the administrations cruiser will be
| steered and commanded throughout the
| political battle of the week. Winfield
/ Scott Hancock is i'm charge of the Office.
| The NJ NJ. Parker Republican Club will
meet at the Bradshaw-Chase headquar-
| ters tonight and arrange for big re-
publican rally. 'tr
Other Meetings Planned.
Republicans of the twelfth and sixteenth
districts will meet at Rechabite Hall. 943
Louisiana avenue, tonight, and the air
will be rent with the impassioned oratory
of the Bradshaw Chase supporters. Some