New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-03-26
The Caucuses at Turner Hall.

! The city caucus at Turner Hall last
Friday evening was alively and inter-
esting affair. In pursuance to the call
over half of the voters of the city gath
cred in the main room. crowded it to its
fullest capacity, and then commenced to
talk of matters political. Peter ocherer
of the City Committee, called the meet
ing to order and outlined the purposes
of the gathering. By aunanimous vote
he was continued i'll the chair, and
Ernst Brandt was selected as secretary.
A motion was made to the effect that all
nominations be made by ballotor by
acclamation in case only one name
should be put forward. This was car.
ried and the caucus proceeded at once
to business, Nominations for the Office
of mayor were first in order and the
names of S. D. Peterson, j. @. Rudolph,
Geo: Jacobs, o. G. Strickler, Peter
scherer and A. W. Bingham were pro.
posed. A couple Of these declined tbe
honor st first mention, and, after few
bitter remarks by one of the above, the
floor was left without a single candi-.
date except A, W. Bingham. who did
not happen to be present. According
to resolution therefore, he was pro-
nounced the nominee Of the caucus
without opposition. Selections for City
Clerk and Treasurer then followed and
Messrs. Schilling and Mueller were
again unanimously indorsed On the.
Offices of Justice of the Peace there was
quite fight. -Four candidates were.
put in the field a ballot was taken
great interest was manifested, and the
vote resulted as follows: Baasen, 265;5
Westphal, 124; Blanchard, 10l and
Fischer 81. Baasen and Westphal hay57'
ing received the highest numb Der of votes
each, were accordingly declared the.
nominees. After this the names of j. os.S
Gales and John Nun were suggested as
constables and went through with thel
consent Of all. The appointment Of
Nj. Mullen, Jacob Kjossner and885A
REIN AS city committee with full power
to fill all vacancies, that might occur
previous to the election, followed, and
the city caucus was at an end
8 After 5he adjournment OF the general
gathering and the disposition of general
city business, the voters of the separate
wards collected in the different rooms
and began to caucr.s for their own Off
cals. The first wardites organized by
selecting M. Mullen as chairman and
Ernst Brandt$sas secretary. Dispatth
was the feature of the meeting and
required but a few minutes to transae,5
all pending business. Vim. Frank Wsis
again urged as representative of t.
ward in the city council, on1the grouI1l
not only of efficient service but on thh
grounds as well of the necessity of I'll.
tanning the same body Of city fathers gsls
we have had during the. past year. Ie
mention of his name met with no apIeII-
rent opposition and after selecting s. III.
Peterson, E. Brandt, and E. g. Pahlaa is
ward committee the caucus adiourntI
In the lecture room, the memb bers if
the second ward in the way of excib-
ment had a little Democratic convention
all by themselves. f. Burg presidFd.
and Chas. .Stoll acted as secretary jos.
Schmucker, the present incumbent
Frank Schubert, and FIR. Keller we're
put forward for alderman aud a lively
vote ensued, resulting in the election OF
Schubert by a majority over Schmuck- n y \
er of eight. A ward COMMITTEES CON.
sisting of F. Burg. G. Brust, and H ~.
Beussman was appointed, and tbs voters
then retired to pass their final decision
at the polls. In the third, all was easy
going. M. Juenemann. with Wenzel
Eckstein as secretary. held the chair,
and e. G.. Koch was renominated with
acclamation. The committee was
changed SO as to contain A. J Ecks.ein
Robert Loheyde and Geo. P. Dietz, and, J,
there remaining no further business for
consideration. the caucus was declared
adjourned. S5.
The denomination of VIM. Frank and
E. G. Koch as councillors ID the first
and third wards was well taken for
reasons already stated in the ReYiew,
and we fail to see why the same courtesy
should not have been extended to Mr.,
Jos. Schmbcker, who has surely served
the people of his ward faithfully and
honestly, and who has never taken !
back seat whenever the cityis welfare
was at stake. This seems to be thY pre-.
vailing sentiment among i large hum.
Der Of voters in the second vars, and