Los Angeles daily herald., 1886-09-11
UNDER WHICH KINGg
The Festive Boyce Doesn't
Lose.
A cAT-seRATcHING FIGHT.
The "Times" Downed In Every
Ward Excepting in Walter
Moore's.

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II the old feeling Of sympathy for the
under dog in the fight prevails, the
Times will be 50 overwhelmed this
morning that Temple street will be in
danger Of IN overflow from the briny
tears shed by the admirers Of the old
lady.
Last night there were caucuses in the
several wards for the purpose Of nomi-
mating tickets 10 be voted for to-day at
the Republican primaries. As ia well
known, there are two factions of the q.
o. ?. in this county at the present time
--one led by Col. Boyce aud a large fol-
lowing, and the other by the Times with
not so large a following. Each party
has been stSsining every nerve for the
past two weeks 10 gain control of the
County Convention--ihe one thropgh o
newspaper and the other by dnt Of
smooth personal work.
The henchmen Of both factions have
secured the city for days, urging every
Republican to turn ont and attend the
primaries. Al resu {, there was q
large attendance In every Ward. The
accounts OF the meetings given below
will show that Boss Boyce did would.be
Boss Oils up in manner to make the
latter go off and hate himself, IL he did
not have nerve enough to hate tho
said Boyce. He has Just this
quality Of nerve and last night his adhe.
rents by the Great Horn Spoon that
to-day there would be two tickets In the
field, and they would appeal to the
people and see whether the corner of
First and Spring streets was TO control
the Republican party. The Boyce
party on the other hand were very sc.
rene and wanted TO treat everybody who
came along.
The whole thing was rather unsavory,
but most people stand aside and say let
them fight II out among themselves.
THE FIRST WARD.
The First Ward Republicans met in
the Southern Hotel. C. b. Woodhead
was elected Chairman and A. J. Hecht.
msn Secretary. The election passed of
qaietly, the following being the caucus
ticket. Il. q. Randall, H. T.. Mosher.
Martin Wentzell, W. w. Stockwell,
John MoGraw, 2. NJ. Darcy, G. Wick
man, G. Is. Woodhead, T. A. Carey, N.
Knickerbocker, T. s. Palmer, Allen
smith, s. II. Pituey, j. b. MeChesney,
Il. ii. Raglsnd, j. M. Onndo.
THE SECOND WARD.
The caucus Of the Second ward tool
pace III Judge Cheney's court room.
When the HERALD reporter got to tho
door at the appoiated hour, 1880, he was
nearly killed in the struggle through the
crowd to get to the front. AT 1885 |
o'clock G. e, Day called the meeting to
order and stated its object to be to
choose twenty.one delegates to be voted |
for at the primaries to-day. to 60 to the
Comfy Convention, which is to nomi-
nate a county ticket. Mr.. Day called |
attention to the crowded state of the
room, and asked those present to put
out their cigars. Mr.. Delas Casas nomi.
mated as chairhan of the meeting Mai.
Geo. II. Bonebrake. The motion pre-
vailed and the Major took tho chair.
He thanked the assembly for the honor
and promised to rule fairly. Mr.. Delas
Casas was made secretary and Mr.. l..
Osborne assistant.
Theo. Summerland moved to proceed
with the nominations, which was so Or
dered, and at the suggestion of Mr.. Day
Lester Osborne proceeded to write the
names set up on the blackboard. The
chair announced that when the nomnG.
cons closed recess OF ten minutes
would be in order to allow voters to pre-
pare a ticket. The nominations then
went on, calling out the following
names. Geo. IL. Bonebrake, G. II. Day,
Joe Manning, AL. Cobler, Frank Marsh,
Theo. Sumlnerland, Jake Soares, Il. L.
Wright. J, N. Gregory, G, 8. De Garmo,
James Warren, l.. Osborne. - Skin
ner. I. ]. Dupuy, l.. Lcdbetter, ~.
Baker, G. Lyons, r. D, Wade, Q. FL.
Howland' j. NJ. Meredith, l.. j. Lock-
wood. S. Altamirano,, ID. Nj. johnson,
NJ, IL. Mcnamara, - de las Cas-
as, Il. G. Otis. John Fischer,
DR.. McGowan, Il. Eimonds. The
nominations then closed. James
Warren and 5. G. Symonds were
appointed by the chair to act as tellsrs.
At the end OF the ten minutes recess the
voting was proceeded with very quietly.
When all had voted the ballots were
counted and total of 234 votes found
In the hat. The whips" had done
their work very effectively and got in
nearly all the voters in the ward. Then
began the work Of counting al times
e3i names and it was late before Jimmy
Warren, in his electric speed, with the
aid Of Col. Symonds, got to the end OF
the task. 1t was n work of suporeroga-
ton. for before the count proceeded far
a cut and dried ticket Fin clear type and
on fair white paper" as they used to say
in the early days Of the fart preserve
tiye," was foand to run pretty evenly
through the gauntlet, with hardly
q scratch. There were many. written
tickets poled also but The difference in
the names was not mentioned. Some OF
the voters not on the "inside" were
much surprised to discover the printed
ticket which had been given only to the
eeoteric, the exoterio voters OF weak
stomaehs being treated to an innocent
looking list Ia manuscript. ut got
there all the same" The likeness of the
nomina lions to the printed list was a
little revelation. This was interpreted
in the light of some noise aud haste 10
close the nominations ct the proper
point Some ten motions were made to
this effect in az many seconds. The
ticket printed and passed wasi \. j.
I.ockhart, C. Il. Day, Il. I. Wright, s.
Allamirano, l.. Ledbetter, l.. Osborne,
q. II. Bonebrake, Warren, NJ. II
Mcnamara, j Soares, ]. W. Gregory,
j. Grimaud, r, u. Wade, Theo. Sum.
merland, j. NJ. Frow, G. II. Rowland,
J. Manniog, J. NJ. Meredith, A. Cobler
G. s. DeGarmo, f. Ma'sh.
THE THIRD WARD,
This was considered the battle ground
and the cohorts turned out in great force.
The "Burlingame Brigade" was there
about twenty-five strong, and from The
character of the assemblage it was owl.
dent that efforts bad been made by both
factions to bring out as many supporters
as poss BILE. j. W. Mckinley called the
meeting to order aud Col. IL. II Boyce
nominated Major w. G. Fur,ey for chair
man. He was elected, and Mr.. II. }.
Fleischmau was made secretary and
George IL. Pike and A. l. Bath tel,
lers. The nomination Of twenty
three delegates being in order, Col,
Boyce said that the fairest way was
to allow the voters in the caucus to name
the gentlemen to represent them and that
twenty.lhree be elected by ballot out of
the number proposed. Tnis was agreed
to and great nun,ber OF gentlemen were
named, Tho following declined to let
their names go before the caucus' 4. f.
Spence, j. NJ. Guiun, W. s. Maxwell, $.
b. Caswell, A NJ. Thornton, i. 7.
Kelly, John Burns, Fred. Gilmore.
After the nominations were closed, 5. c.
Hubbell, Esq arose and said that he
understood there was printed ticket