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Show SIM ACCUSED OF PLANING DEI Democrats Declare Commissioner-elect Made Overtures Over-tures to Republicans CRABBE ADMITS TALK Asserts Meeting- Was Arranged Ar-ranged to Make a Dim sion of Offices Keports of negotiat ons between H Crabbe Republican county comm 8 8 oner and C 1 Stillinan Domoc at j commissioner elect looldng to a d ' s on of the off ce3 to ba f lied b the comm ssionerp are hold ng p the wor of the affihat on comm Itoos of the Domocrat e- and Progress e o gan za tions Half a dozen meeti gs of the atf 1 a tion comm ttees "were held yesterday a which the ma n top c of d sc as on was the reported negot at ons between Air I St llman and Mr Crabbe Mr St lman denied that he had gone to Mr Crabbe T-ith, a proposition lool in? to a d s on with the Republicans of the appo ntive off ces Mr Crabbe, howeve sa d last n ght that he and Mr St llman had d s cussed such a propos t on and that ne go at ons ve e pending The charge that Air Stillman is nego tiat ng with, the Keiubl cans and not playing fair witl Jesso H Wheeler Progressive conin iss oner elect over shadows the other d ff erences of the committees and yesterday s meetings were held pr manly to try to br ng Mr St llman and Mr Wnceler together Democ ats were greatly incensed .at the reported action of the r comm s s oner elect Some of them refused to bel eve the charge and ins stcd on an mmed ate denial by Mr bt llman The den al was made by the comm ss oner ' elect anil tiecrntiAt. ons with the Prncrrns s ves were res uned. May Settle Trouble Members of the jo nt committee sa d that despite-the unpleasantness between the two commias oners elect all d ffer ences were bo ng stra ghtened out and the prospects were good for a reconc 1 a t on of the all ed forces Another meet ng will bo held today an i the mem bers of the comm ttee are hopi g it w 11 I be the f nal one The d fferences between the two com n ss oners elect gre v out of the fact that eacl offi er e ect wanted c arge of the department of roads and bridges Th s depa tment has the greatest amo nt of patronage and is cone dered the most Im portant of the departments of t e county government. When Mr Wl eler refused to concede this department to Mr St 1 man the at ter Is reported to have opened negoraa tons nith Mr Crabbe Asked about he differences of the commissioners, Mr Wheeler said last night Some time affo Mr Sti lman came to mo and proposed Jiat th com missioners eect name all of tr ap pointees d rectly under the con m s s oners without reference to 4he comm ttees. We were working alcng this line when the report came to rhe that Stillman was negotia ing wit I Crabbe for ad s on of the offices I Commissioner Crabbe nonf rmed to report and I naturally ost confiden a in Sti lman Mr Stillman has no v 6e ed that he made any overtures to Crabbe or I went to him for a d scuss on of the proposed appointments Mr Crabbe I catd he did talk with Mr Stillman relative to the appo ntments. The question the comm tees are now con Sder ng la whether or not tillman I d d do what he is charged w th doing Crabbe Admits Talk On this point Mr Crabba said last night Soma of Mr Stillman a frlt-nda talked with some o n y f r ends and ' a meeting was arranged It s cer tain y true that negotiations are pending for a d -islon of the off ces. I also talked with Mr Sti man per sonal y relative to this subject We agreed not to d scuss publicly the terms for such a dlvis on In view of this latest controversy t Is understood the Democrats will make greater concess ons to the Progressives and will agree that Mr Wheeer have the department of oads and bidges wh le Mi Sti man will have charge of the poor and of the pub ic hea th leaving Sir Sti man to continue in charge of the pub c build ngs and grounds. Both Dr Haro d Van Cott and Dr T j J Howe s have practically been e ra . laated from the contest for county pby sician and a dark horse is 1 key to be chosen for the pace. The contests for the other places under the commiss oners are still go ng merrily forward The aft iatlon committees are leaving the naming of deputies largely to the officers e ect and it is understood that in each ofice fll ed by a Democrat there wl 1 be a few Pro ress ve appointees wo le there w 1 be Democrats named by Progressive off cers e ect T e on y vex ng phase of the situation now rema ning it seems is the frlct on between bt lman and Whee er CT STILLMAN Democrat c ic commissioner elect who is said to be conferring with A H Crabbe Republic an commissioner, regarding division of appointive offices J |