The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1880-03-30
THE DEMOCRACY.
In Convention at Arbeit.
err Hall.
Fixing the Ticket for School Board
Aldermen and Comptroller.

The Democratic City Convention met
his morning shortly after 10 o'clock, al
though the hour of opening had been set
ior g. The boys seemed to have been
troubled too much over their last nights
work. and that is probably the cause OF
their not having been on hand in time.
The large hall in Workingmen's Hall
was secured for the convention and Rooms
I on the second floor and 10 and 20 on the
third floor for the special committee meet
ings.
The boys were all in good humor, and
before the meeting the delegates were OF
the~opinion that the subjoined ticket, as
published in the Volksfreund and En-
quirer, would go through with boom.
The ticket all asserted would 60 higher
than kite over the Republican one. The
ticket referred to is as follows:
DR.. W. w. Dawson, of the Fifth Ward,
Julius Freiberg, of Freiberg & Workum,
distillers. of the Nineteenth Ward; Dr.
Gustav Bruehl, Fifteenth Ward; Henry A.
Ratterman, leather dealer on Main near Fifth
streets, of the Fourteenth Ward; DR.. G. D.
Fishburn. Eleventh Ward; James M. Do
herty, President of the Mt. Auburn and
Main-street Railroad and Incline Plane,
Second Ward VIM. J. O'Neil, Ex-Presi-
dent of the School Board and member
of ]. R. Mills & Co., Of the Fourth Ward;
]. Herman Grueter, of the Twenty-frst
Ward. and Ex-Secretary of the Water
Works Department; Judge H. G. Whitman,
of the Seventeenth Ward: s. A. Blair, the
ice man, who ran the highest on his ticket
for the Legislature, of the Tenth Ward;
C. G. Archer, attorney and present
member of the Board, of the First Ward;
Emil Rothe, lawyer, once Judge in Wis
consin, aud recent candidate for Judge of
the Probate Court, of the Twelfth Ward.
Mr.. Chas. DannenhOwer called the Con-
vention to order, but there was considerable
difficulty in getting the delegates to their
seats, as no proper arrangements had been
made.
Messrs. Frank Ramsey, VIM. Hyde, G.
A. Zimmerman, James Bellew and Jere-
mlah Mulroy were appointed Sergeants-at-
Arms.
The-total number of delegates to the
Convention was announced to be 1873.
Contests were reported in the Eighth
and Twentieth Wards, and therefore those
delegations were not recognized until the
dispute was settled by the Committee on
Credentials. a
1t was evident that the boom 81. Hoff-
man for City Comptroller was big one. in
fact hardly any other name was mentioned
for the place.
The Bernard gang was fully represented
and was working teeth and toenails off for
their favorite.
TEMPORARY AND PERMANENT ORGANIZATION
Mr. Dannenhower stated the object of the meet
ing, and said the Convention would clean out the
Republican nominees.
Mr.. Hiram D. Peck was unanimously elected
Temporary Chairman.
Mr. Lewis G. Bernard was unanimously elected
Secretary. Messrs John Rice, Jacob Schaufert
and Larky McHugh were appointed his assistants
A resolution wa' made by M. Ryan to sppoint
committees on Resolutions, Credentials and Or.
the Convention was organized in full. He wanted
no platform. The candidates nominated would
show up the platform. He only wanted q Com
mittee on Credentials.
Mr. Ryan withdrew his resolutions and the
following Committee on credentials was elected
Jos Fl. Redmond, Mich. Ryan, wm H. Knapke,
P. T. Gleason. julius Beldng Richard Ennis,
Henry Rape eighth Ward contest). j. B. Menke,
Samuel Daum, Geo: Koehler: Ed. Neals, Charles
Sculiy, John Dunn eighteenth Ward contest),
Thos Ryan, JAS Whalen Louis Mentel John
Rothan, Thos. A. Callahan, A. schreibweiss, VIM.
Lynn
A motion to make a permanent organization
out Of the temporary one was carried unani-
mOusly
A motion was made to adjourn for,ifteen min.
utes Objected to by Mr.. Long. The motion was
Withdrawn.
Mr. Charles W. Baker, Ex- County Solicitor, was
sponsibility of the duty of the Convention in se-
lecting twelve members for the School Board; the
cause Of education was dear to all; education and
free institutions go hand in hand. If good
ticket would be nominated it would be success
full. He had nothing to say about special legisla-
tive business. except that petty and small paying
offices were abolished by the Legislature.
Calls were made ON and responded to by Messrs.
Long, Pugh and Others
Mr. Charles W. Baker was appointed commit
tee of one to inform the Committee on Creden-
tials that the Convention was waiting for their
report
The report was as follows and submitted by Mr..
Ryan:
In the Eighteenth Ward the ticket headed by
James Brown, Benjamin Waterman. Richard
Clark and John Ryan was elected.
edged which was. headed by E. J. Thompson,
ThOs Coleman, M. Garrigan, A. J. Cunningham,
Jack Maley and Alex. Mitchell.
In the Twentieth Ward the delegates recognized
were those on the ticket by H. vorhott. J. Toohey
Ex-Alderman John J. Kelly wanted the Eigh-
teenth Ward delegation put out, but as he was no
delegate he was unceremoniously Missed by the
majority of the Convention.
Mr. Pugh advocated Kelly's claim. and did not
want minority report sat down upon.
Two of the delegates then withdrew in favor Of
the Kelly crowd.
Mr.. Dodds then moved to proceed to nominate
twelve members for the
SCHOOL BOARD.
the nominations to be made from the stand. They
G. G. Archer and Gustav Bruehl, by Alex
Judge H. c. Whitman. by c. W. Baker.
Marcus Feehheimer by NJ. Ryan.
Henry A. Katterman and Emil Rothe, by Mr.
+. Grever. 7s. - l..
Joseph Fasig, by Mr.. Myers.
p. H. Dorsey, by W. Brown.
VIM. J. O'Neil, by Wm H. Pugh.
d., W. W. Dawson, by Irwin B. Wright.
Dr. VIM. Stark. by Joseph Setter.
julius Freiberg, by Vincent Schwab.
James Kane, by Jn0. Carr.
Harvey E. Randall, by Squire Wright.
B. G. Landman. by Thomas ]. Cogan.
James NJ. Doherty, by Milo Dodd; Jacob Wolf
by Thomas Davis and other names were presented
as follows Robert J. Bromley, C. u. Fishburn,
James J. Burke, ]. Herman Grueter, Samuel Blair
and J. B. Callahan.
Mr.. Pugh moved to proceed to ballot and that
the twelve candidates receiving the highest num-
ber OF votes be the nominees.
Motion lost.
The Convention then proceeded TO ballot and