The Portland daily press., 1893-02-18

has any pretensions to be called such,
was back of the desk where the officers
of the meeting and the reporters assem-
| bled.
Mr.. Joseph S. Gilliatt called the meet
ing to order and read the call for the
| caucus.
sYou will please, nominate a chair
man. said Mr.. Gil1iatt:
Then arose yell of 'Gilliatt! Gilliatt?'
that drowned out the chance of making
any other nomination heard even it any
one desired to make one, and it didn't
cease for a second until Mr.. Gilliatt
brought down his heavy blackwood cane.
which was big enough for club, with
an emphasis that could be heard amidst
the tempest.
"a secretary is next in ORDER said the
chairman.
Mark j. Sullivan" yelled one broad
shouldered lrishman, as he leaned way
over the chairman desk, but the general
crowd screamed out William H. Nc
Donald SO quickly on the heels of the
first nomination that the genial night
editor of the Argus was declared elected
before he had time to write his own
name.
Then came the fun. A round pleasant
voice, from some distance away in the
room, called out "many here would like
a check list used
Then arose perfect storm Of yells
and cat calls, interspered with 1--WE don't
want no check list" 'sto hi with your
check list" and the chairman did not
consider that the meeting wanted any
check list.
Then the chairman said the nomina-
! tions for aldermen were in order. I'm
mediately a storm of howls and yells
arose so that not3a voice could be heard.
It was great blur Of noise. One white
headed, rather fine looking man was
| bent partly over the. chairman's desk,
| and man standing on the ledge in the
wall, near by, was pounding him over
the head in lively manner. Hands
we're waving in the air all over the room,
in fact pandemonium reigned. Shouts OF
'swe don't want no O'Brion." and
'O'Brion's no good,'' seemed to occa-
sionally rise above the yells. Then Mr..
Z. B. Winslow stepped forward, and
with occasional Interruptions, managed
to say that he had never before spoken
in the ward although he had several
times been honored with the position of
alderman but hels would urge them to
proceed properly. 1T was always custom
airy to give an alderman two terms and
he would nominate John Z. Bracket.
Then pandemonium reigned again and
if any other man got any show for the
nomination, or was mentioned in any
way for the nomination, there wasn't
anybody heard his name and Bracket
was re-nominated. But when the vote
was called there were number of noes
shouted. For all that Bracket was de-
clared the nominee
Then came the council nominations
and they followed the same style as the
nominations for aldermen, Francis d.
Melaugh was re-nominated and the other
two nominations were given to Michael
j. Ney and Winslow E. Howell. The
whole ticket is as follows:
Alderman-John L. Bracket
.Councilmen-F Frank D. Melaugh, Winsl5w E.
School Committee.Wm. Fl. Mcdonald.
Delegates Francis .. Melaugh,. Jos: S.
Gilliatt Johns Braekett. Andrew j. Parker
u w. NOIau- X.
Robinson. III
After the committee to nominate dele
gates reported one fellow animated with
some strange purpose clambered up on
the walls and made motion to hit Mr..
Melaugh over the head with big pole.
But he was taken down with his pole be-
fore any damage was done. 1t was evil
dent however that there were number
of disappointed ones and they talked
pretty ugly because the check list was
not used.
There were loud complaints of unfair
treatment after the caucus was over, and
a protest was Immediately started, ask
ing for new caucus at which check
list shall be used, and fifty names were
at once put on, headed by w. Fl. Malone.
The Gilliat faction, supported by Sap
py'' Sullivan, tried to break up this petit
ton by putting out the lights, but they
were relighted and by the aid of the
police the petition was continued.
The protestants complain thata hocus
pocus game was played on them. The
ward room is at 223 Federal street, at a
''pant renovating'' shop kept by G. A.
Robinson. There is front room and
back room. The people gathered in the
front room while in the back room the
hncus pocus fellows gathered. Chair
man Gilliat kept up appearances on the
outside. On the inside Councilman
Melaugh and few others fixed up
slate. The plan was to pop this out into
the caucus, have the chairman declare it
carried while ''Sappy'' Sullivan and his
crowd were to do enough bowling to dis
courage all professionals. It was done
so slick that the other side didn't have
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