Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-14
rorRru WARD c1Rcrs.

FOURTH WARD CIRCUS.
At an early hour Turner Hall was well
filed by voters. c. II. Eldred, of the Cen
tral Committee. called TO order shortly after
o'clock, and stated that the meeting was
held pursuant to a call for a caucus of
Fourth Ward Republicans to nominate q
ticket for the primary Instantly con-
fusion arose Charles Cooley was nomi-
mated for Chairman, and Immediately
Clinton l.. White was placed in nomina-
ton also, and the usual wrangle began
over determining who were entitled u vote.
1t apparently had never suggested Itself to
any one that by admitting only epubii
cans in front Of the central barrier of the
ball, and keeping spectators back Of it, the
problem would have been solved, since
II would be easy to identify residents of
the ward. The Chair put the motion
! on the nomination of Mr.. Cooley, but after
the vote and before the declaration, d.
vision was called for by about three hun
! ired excited men at the tops of their voices.
| 1t was finally ordered, as the Chair put it,
greatly to the merriment Of the people, all
the White men were directed 10 stand
on the east side of the ball, and all the
Cooleys on the west side. When the
group3 were formed, that on the east was
I certainly larger than that on the west Bat
no count was taken the Chairman looked
| the two crowds over rs they yelled and
| shouted for recruits, and then declared Mr.
| Cooley elected. Then opened q storm of
protest shout. hurrah screech, and great
e excitement. The "White men declared
their man elected, and both he and Mr.
! Cooley reached the stage about the san c
time, and in the midst Of a perfect cy-
cionic state of the meeting and in a
roaring of voices SO great. that no
one could hear the speakers, as each
addressed the meeting, they put mo
| tons, took votes appointed committees,
! and received their repor 5. The scene at
this time was one that 6egears description.
1t was such pandemonium as it is sup
posed cannot readily be realized on ter
restial fields of action As the heat Cs the
excitement waxed hotter, Mr.. White got
| close 10 tie table behind which Mr.. Cooley
stood, and both beat the sugar pine end
waved stheir arms, and kept on with the
| work of securing the expression OF the
| free and untranlmeled Will OF the voters in
| the party. Just precisely what motions
were put and carried, it is impossible to
record. The White men got through
| first, and carried motion 10 adjourn. The
| Cooley men by this time had their leader
on chair, level with Mr.. White, and be-
| fore the latter left the stand Mr.. Cooley,
who is large man, armed.with the leg of a
| demoralized chair, was doing The
| Gladiator from the top of the table, and
| looking down on Mr. White with
contempt. After the White party
had concluded its business, which
was done in the midst of a
war that ceased for no instant of time until
| adjournment, the Cooley men Gained down
| and concluded the exercises in fairly
| quiet manner. 1t appeared to on-lookers
| that what saved the meeting from an actu
| ally riotoQs conclusion was the involuntary
and unprecedented humor of the original
| Chairs calls for Cooleys" and White
| men," for the roaring multitude had to
laugh despite all else, and a laughing
! crowd Is never combative. 1t was battle
! of lungs, and assumption, and cheek, and
halloo and hurrah from the outset, and the
men with the most wind were thereby the
most conspicuous.
The results of the double bsrreled meet
| ing and two-headed caucus was the choice
| oftwo sets of nominees, each of which are
claimed to be regular, simon-pure, straight
| chosen. and marked with an official stripe
down the back The White delegates are
supposed to represent the candidacy of Mr.
Drew for Sheriff. and the Cooley nominee:
the aspirations of Mr.. Fassett for that 20
sition.
Cooley delegates-Philip Herzog, Clay
Chapman, ]. L. McCord, Thomas Stevens
A. L. Shaw, Charles Cooley, Ed F. Roeder
]. F. Richardson, Benz. Johnson, f. E
Mitchell, N. F. Odell, W. r. Huntoon
! George Lighthart, A. c. Hornlein. Philip
echeld, Z. a. Rose, Al. Wolf, Hiram Gar