The Evansville journal. [volume] (Evansville, Ind.) 1866-1870, 1870-03-22
THE 2 FAMLLY.
Democratic Nominations Isl tho Va
FiOus Wards.

force last night. True to their boast,
that Democrats are alike all over the
world, they came out last night. as
they always do. at the beck and nod
of their commanders.
FIRST WARD.
The meeting at Peter Moll's was
large and enthusiastic, in proportion
to the amount of beer imbibed.
Mr.. VIM. Pruitt presided and p.
Burke, Esq, acted as Secretary.
There was very little for the officers
of the meeting to do except to go
through the motions and nominate
Captain August Files, as the string
pullers had predetermined.
All citizens of the Ward were EN-
powered to act as delegates to the
convention, a majority to cast the vote
of the Ward for the various offices.
SECOND WARD.
Captain Rudd was Chairman of the
unterriied of the Second Ward.
They did not need e Secretary. Mr..
Menifee said that the object of the
meeting was to nominate 4. G. Van
ripper for Councilman. OF course
such high authority could not be con
tradicted, and Van was accordingly
dcclamated into the position of can
dijate, in opposition to Alvah John
son. Esq.
Van made a speech, in which he
stated that if the Democrats of the
Second Ward only worked one. fourth
as hard as he would from now until
tho day of election, he thought his
election would be secured; he wanted
it understood that he meant 10Ork.
The probability is that he will work
like a yeost botle-thc product will be
froth.
THIRD WARD.
John A. Haney presided, but pre-
suming that there were but few able
to write, they dispensed with a Sec
Rotary. DIR. Muhlhausen was nomi-
mated for Councilman, and the meet
ing resolved itself into a delegation
to the Convention. Having nothing
further to do, they forthwith ad-
journed.
FOURTH WARD.
Here was a high ovid time. Sam.
Jones called the meeting to order,
but it wouldn't come worth a cent.
He commanded order. Order came,
and Mr.. Sam. vas made Chairman.
and M. Lauenstein, Secretary. After
a little iuzzing and earwiggiDg, Henry
Richert was nominated for Council
man. No other name appearing,
/" Acclamation Stackhouse moved
he be nominated by reclamation. 1t
was done. On motion of MIR. Stack
house, ~rallyiDg and challenging COM
mittees were appointed, and the
Chairman moved that some one treat.
Amended by the bar-keeper that the
Chairman be appointed for this pur-
pose. Carried. The b~ar-keeper then
carried the beer.
The Ninth and Third Ward meet
ings having closed, the crowds ID
from these Wards came to swell the
thirty-fve persons Ia the Fourth to a
decent sized crowd.
FIFTH WARD.
John Gavisk, Esq, took the Chair,
and Al. w. Carpenter ofioiated as
Secretary.
The meeting proceeded 20 nominate
for Councilman. The candidates were
Willard Carpenter, Frank Behme and
William Klussman. Mr.. Carpenter
received 81 votes, Behme 10, and
Klussman 2. The Chair moved to
make the nomination unanimous,
which was accordingly done by a faint
response of Aye"
The nomination didn't seem to give
satisfaction, as Mr.. Carpenter had
been making neutral speeches. One
person asked for an explanation OF
his position, when the Secretary. who
il a son of the nominee, said that his
father being a large property owner
(I?l?) would serve the people and
himself.
The meeting adjourned.
SIXTH WARD.
The Democracy turned out in pretty
good numbers. and got to work at 6
little after eight o'clock. Mr.. Jos.
Schultz urged a gentleman to oper
the meeting, and meeting a refusal
he opened it himself, by calling Mr.
Theodore Richter to the chair, and
making Frank Busch Secretary.
The President explained the objee'
of the meeting to be to nominate 8
Councilman.
The Secretary said one Of the OBJ
jects was to get moro light, the only
laminary in the room being q kero-
sene lamp that shed a dim ray. He
also wanted some paper. The Jour
NAL reporter accommodated him,
and the meeting went on while a mes.
senger went out for lights.
Mr.. Schultz said, respectfully ad-
dressing the JOURNAL reporter,
When we had Mr.. John A. Reitz
for Councilman. we had more i'm
provements than for fourteen years
before or since. The boys were
catching fish in the ponds, and Mr..
Reitz was a big fish; we want to catch
him to stop the boys from catching
little fish," A messenger here ar
rived with two candles and a sheet of