The Portland daily press., 1886-02-23
THE REPUBLICAN cAucusEs.
a Large Attendance and Strong
Ticket Chosen.


Ticket Chosen.
All the Republicans were out last night
and attended the caucuses in their respective
wards Great interest was felt in the nomin-
ations to be made and the proceedings were
lively in all the wards. The result indicates
that Wards /, 5, 6 and nominated delegates
who will support Mr.. Chapman while the
delegates from Wards 2, 3 and will support
Mr. Barker although there is contest in
Ward .. Alderman Prince of Ward 3 and
Alderman Sawyer of Ward received re-
nominations and also a number OF the
councilmen. The delegates to the Mayoral-
ty convention will meet in Reception Hall at
o'clock this afternoon to nominate a can
didate for Mayor. The report in detail is as
follows:
WARD ONE.
The caucus in Ward was large and har-
monious. The meeting was called to order
by II. H. Shaw, Samuel Thurston was cleo
ted chairman, and VIM. H. Looney secretary
The alderman and councilmen were nomln-
ated by reclamation, as were the other
ward officers, except school committee.
W hNA cCiCCblOn VI OClC5upcS
Mayoralty convention was reached consider
able discussion was INDUCED in as 10 the
propriety of using the check llst' flhaly
it was decided to use the check list. Inc
Chapman delegates were selected by vote
of IS to AZ. Prior to the ballot Mr.. II. P.
Dewey. whose name appeared at the head of
the Barker delegation, announced that his
name was placed there without his consent.
The following is a list OF, the nominations:
Alderman-Geo. w. Beale.
Councilmen-G George Trefethen, Henry P.
Dewey, Richard Il. Gatley
School Committee-Charles r. Crandall.
Warden-Rensellaer Greeley.
CIerk-0sman Monroe
CITY Committee-D. B. Kicker VIM. GRAY f.
w. Cunningham, Wendell Leighton, Francis Hig-
gins
H. Sargent. George A. Hunt, Lewis w. Cleveland
Horace A. Halett, Charles L. Jack, Horace H.
Shaw, James E. Flanagan,
WARD TWO.
The caucus was called to order by Mr.. t.
II. E. Forrestal of the city committee and Mr..
James Cunningham was nominated for chair
man. Objection was made by Mr.. Jabez
True but the nomination was declared car
red and Mr.. Cunningham took the chair
NIT. III. E. Forrestal and Mr.. f. H. Plummer
were selected to count the votes. 1t was
moved and carried that the check list be
used and that none but Republicans be
allowed to- vote. The voting for delegates
was first in order and proceeded with con-
siderable confusion, frequent protests being
made that Democrats were voting. Before
the counting began Mr.. f. III. Plummer re-
tired from the desk on the ground that the
voting had not been fair. Franklin Simonds,
Charles Plummer and BENZ. Gribben were
nominated to succeed him but each declined
and finally Mr.. William A. Love accepted.
The committee proceeded to count the vote
and declared the whole number of votes
thrown 1872 of which the following gentle
men understood to be in favor of Mr.. Barker
received "a: Isaiah Daniels, William A.
Love, Edwin A. Gray, John d. Ross, D. h
Mccain, Franklin Simonds, Jr., T. Ell. E. For
restal.
The following nominations were made for
ward officers:
Aldermen-ISaiah Daniels.
Councmen- Nathaniel S. Heseltine, George M.
Eastman, William a. Golden.
Warden-H. L. Damon.
Clefk-ThomaS Macarthur
Constables-LutLer Sterliug, Benjamin Crib
ben.
City Committee-T. II. E. Forrestal William A.
Love, d. w. Heseltne, F. E. Haggett I'll. l..
Damon.
Subsequently meeting of gentlemen dis
satisfied with the caucus was held at which
Sc votes were thrown and the following
delegation elected to the Mayoralty conven-
ton:
Charles d. Skillngs, Frank H. Plummer, Geo
E. Andrews, Chas. H. Oldham, Jabez True, Benz
Gribben, John ID. Snowman.
f.JI
GERS were also made:
Alderman--O. W. Fullam.
COMPLEMENTARY. F. Haskell, Charles H.
Oldham. Geo. E. Andrews.
Warden-Chas. A. Plummer.
Clerk-Samuel Fl. Brown.
COnstables Luther A. Sterling, Israel Hicks.
City Committee-Frank III. Plummer, Thomas
Pencil, Jabez True, John E. Osborne, Charles H.
oldham
WARD THREE.
The ward room was packed to overlooking
and the proceedings were lively throughout.
Geo. e. Townshcnd presided, and Leroy S.
Sanborn was clerk 1t was voted to use the
check list, but when the balloting commence
ed the crush was so great that the list was
dispensed WITH the clerk remarking that he
could recognize those who voted and would
know if they were Republicans. The first
thing in order was selection of delegates to
the mayoralty convention, and Messrs. Her
bert II. Sargent, Milton Higgins and Angus
tus B. Brown acted as committee to sort
and count the votes. The two tickets, with
their choice for mayor, were as below:
For Clark H. Barker-John E. Burnham, John
A. Tompson, Geo. I'll. Irish, G. d. Clark, w. C. q.
Carney, w. W; Ruby L. S. Sanborn.
For Chas. j. Chapman-Lyman M. Cousens,
Win. W. Latham John c. Tukesbury Augustus
II Brown, Milton Higgins, VIM. ?. Hastings, John
L. Burnham.
The first named were declared elected amid
great excitement, receiying-the highest
155 to 70.
The ballot for alderman resulted as fol-
lows:
Whole Whole number Of ofv9d tes..-....,2227
Augustus H. Prince had. ...........f44
Horace ID. Kicker .................. 80
And Mr.. Prince was declared the nominee.
For councillnen, Messrs. Augustus B.
Brown and Peter S. Nickerson were nomin-
ated by reclamation, but it required two bal
lots to decide upon the third candidate.
FIRST BALLOT.
Whole number of votes. ..............135
Necessary to a choice ..,.............. 6S
Oman ADAMS nad...... ....6z
Geo. II. BuAton,. .'..................b 81
Albert II. Ferry. .-...................32
No choice
SECOND BALLOT
Whele number of votes....s. .........138
Necessary to choice ................- 20
Oman Adams had.
Geo..H. Buxton. ....................15
Albert 4. Perry. 35
Richard G. Berry ....................
And Mr.. Adams was declared the nominee.
The balance of the ticketwas completed as
below:
Warden-Edwin A. Leighton,
Clerk-Geo II. Townshend.
Constables-Edwin A. Leighton, Freeman T.
Merrill.
School Committee-A. B. Holden.
City Committee-A B. Brown, w. G. G. Carney,
w. w. Ruby, e. A. Leighton, l.. s. Sanborn.
WARD FOUR.
The ward room was well filled at half past
seven last evening when Mr.. Chas c.
Douglas called the meeting to order. Hon.