The national Republican. [volume] (Washington City [D.C.]) 1866-1870, 1868-05-07

ELECTION o. wApD Drtsoarrs TO Tn
Republicans OF the city met in their ,esn.ss,i,,
wards Tor the purpose of choosing nftcsn Al.
s,es each to attend the city Convention, a
nsmjn. n.gus ma,i, on TOMORROW evening, 4
we give below iho resui
r,,- FIRST WARD. a
and stteets met III ~ The corner Of Twenty
ennir and VIM. II. Lewis as secretary. ' INV
Mn.n.e,. i%3nowing names were nor,inated.-
John +. Cook, Alex, Hesdss 1sn vG Roh aSwp
thompson, Thos, Martin, Francis Tsverns
Garter A. stewart, Henry II. HRnber, j, Bols.
GSraeii Ssyc l shs' VIM n MMal: si., h.d
drew Freeman, and WIN. Lewis. The last M.
teen named were elected. = =,
COMMITTEES to report 10 The Genera wIre e ses,si
tee for duty, to serve until after the election
Messrs. John A. Gray, sam'i q. Scott, Alfred
rssS Iohp A. CLARK and VIM M Sloan q
A resolution was offered by Alex. Hendcr.
son, in,trgeting their delegates 70 support
On no S1T ,se s,S whsh wa, sSdopd
| SECOND WAND.
The Republicans OF this ward met AT Wood
w w,a AL, j.. B. Orocker In the chair, and Ed.
Whru ambush, secretary. Mr.. Pfsu entered
'he room soon Afterwards and took the oh air.
H. m ~, VA. made TO choose delegates,
H. taia. ~. w,.uest CONFUSION ensued. Finally,
| secretary reported the list Of Names wbIcb 4,
appeared, did not accord with the ehairmsn's
list, and some charged the secretary with tam.
immense. "
The secretary. list was finally adopted, and
as follows; z. n Peters, J. W. purrey, Gen
=, ?. Sroeker, sidney MeFarlahd, A. =. A
Hlnde, VIM. Rutherford, @. Il. Puryis, d. NJ .
Kelsey, Isaiah Stewart, Marshall Brown,
a * oontee, T. II. Hinc, r. II. Booker, T. E
Tsn
9 %.nah w, Goi: II: A. Hal, MAJ James Z,
MT. walker suggested that the delegates be
instructed for whom to vote, but It was voted
down, and members kept dropping out until
m, THIRD WARD.
me lhirl ward club met at Wisewell Bar
racks, N, u; Miller In the chair. Upon the
A. time, they were selected rird roee as fol-
i 10, INV, Wm; a. S zoe !; T. Johnson N. II; NIL
Bond, r: J. Bell, John O. Cieary, T. Ellis.
Archie Lewis, Alex. Hayes, Alex. Thomas
Alex moon, henry y: Sperrill, and Michael
Duny' MT. ". A, Cook moved that the cam.
Johnson, Thomas p Bell, Alex. Hayes, and
n. H. Miller) be continuedj carried. Ad.
lourned' ...
~, meeting q the Fourth Ward Republican
Club was held In the Council Chamber, City
HAN, lhst hiRht, 10 nominate fifteen delegates
TO the Republican Nominating Convention
!; IL: Crossman, president, was In the chair.
The regular order OF business was suspended
and the matter Of the election OF the delegates
Immediately taken up. A resolution was
offered BY W. Ii. Smith, and adopted, instruct
Ing the chair to appoint a commit tee of Ave to
nominate fifteen persons for delegates, and to
The CHAIR appointed Messrs. VIM. s. Morse,
Patrick Crowley, W. II. Smith, W. p. TurpIn
and Palmer Briscoe as the committee who
aft n hFi aE m a.. -
Ing names:
J. Saylcs Brown, W. II. Smith, Geo. Shank.
LIN, J. Il. Crane, W. ii. Edinboro, W. S. Morse,
John ii. Johnson, Lafayette Jefries, Martin
Cronin, Palmer Briscoe, Daniel Myers, Mar.
celles West, Robert Turl, George W. Hatton
The names were taken up separately and
voted upon, resulting in the election Of all the
persons nominated for delegates.
Mr.: Cronin offered q resolution, directing the
Fourth ward delegation TO vote for Saylcs j,
Bowen, and supported his resolution IN few
remarks, highly lndorsing Mr. Bowen as a true
Republican,
Mr.. Hatton opposed the resolution.
Mr.. Crane offered as an amendment, a reso.
luton to the effect, that the meeting recon.
Fourth ward Republicans for tho mayoraity,
The substitute WAS unanimously adopted.
After addresses by General Mckee, of Ken
tuky, and others, the meeting adjourned.
riYTm WARD.
The Republicans Of the Fifth ward assem-
bled at Israel Methodist church, corner OF
Fourth and ID streets east.
The meeting was called to order by the presi-
dent, Ananias Herbert; A. =. CLARK acting as
secretary.
The meeting proceeded to voting by ballot
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