The Portland daily press., 1893-02-18


| strained to their utmost to do honor to
the man who bore that sonorous name.
The recipient of all this honor stood IN
the midst of the tremendous acclaim,
calm and impressive, though he could not
| quite conceal the swelling pride within
his breast that threatened at times to
| tear the buttons from his Prince Albert
coat Of course there was but one
| construction to put upon this
mighty chorus of voices. 1t meant
that Kehoe was wanted and
wanted bad to again bear aloft the BAN
ner of Ward in the next common coun-
Gil. Then James A. O'Neill was called
for and his nomination recommended
for third councilman. There
were discordant shouts, but
the chairman in accordance with his
previous Interpretation of reclamation as
meaning the shout of the biggest crowd
proceeded to declare Mr.. O'Neill noni-
mated.
@By this time the counting of the vote
for alderman had been concluded and
the chairman announced that Mr.. Nc
| Gowan had received 1873 votes, Mr.. Gal
| lagher 101, and Mr.. Edward buddy 1.
speech! speechv' shouted the crowd,
| and Mr.. MCGOWAN climbed upon the
desk and thanked the multitude. With
touching magnanlmity he referred to his
defeated opponent the ex-prince, and
moved vote of thanks to that gentleman
for the good things he had done for the
ward during the past year. This stroke
restored harmony. Mr.. Gallagher moved
that Mr.. McGowan's nomination be
made unanimous, and the bloody chasm
was closed.
The remainder Of the proceedings
were tame. Mr.. Patrick MCGOWAN was
nominated for school committee, several
remarking commendingly that Patrick
was good man. A committee was APP
pointed to select delegates to nominate a
mayor, not, however, without violent
protest from partially inebriated indi-
vidual who insisted that the proceeding
was irregular and showed contempt for
the people. This is the ticket:
Alderman-Jos A. MCGOWAN.
Couneilmen-Samuel j. Knowles, john B. Ke-
hoe, Jas. A. O'Neil.
Warden-John H. Cavanagh:
School Committee-P Patrick MCGOWAN.
Standardization os gIi t. Ross. John Gum.
Delegates-M. G. Mccain, Edward G. buddy,
John Gooding Jr., VIM. Kayanagh, Jas Quinn,
Daniel Gallagher, Thomas Hassett.
Ward Three.
The caucus was not held in the usual
ward room in the basement of the City
building, but in small room at the end
of the corridor on the first floor. Some
sixty of the faithful found their way to
this secluded apartment, and as soon as
the caucus was duly organized by choice
of chairman and secretary, the veteran
of SO many hundreds of Democratic
caucuses in that precinct, Capt. Chas. Ell.
Chase, lost not an instant of time in pro-
posing that the officer who had served
them SO well during the past year be re-
nominated by reclamation. This was
promptly seconded by the eloquent Ma
jor Murphy, and received the acquies-
cence of Mr.. Peter Bradley.
So the following ticket was declared
unanimously nominated:
Alderman George Tolman.
Councilmen-F. II. Verrill W. N. Howe. M.
Warden-Frank E. Chase.
Clerk-Charles Collins.
Constables-Hugh H. Lappin. Ariel G. Pit
Delegates-O. R. Wish. j. W. Low, George
T. Means, Peter Daly, j. A. Schmidt, T. j.
Feeney, Isaac Phillips.
So far all was pleasant as May morn
ing, and Mr.. Farnsworth, chairman of
the Democratic city committee, moved
that the seven delegates to nominate
candidate for Mayor be elected on one
ballot.
To this Captain Chase objected. He
wanted to see things done openly and
fair and above board. Not like packed
caucus with everything fixed up before
hand, and printed ballots to put things
through. He thought it would be bet
ter to take the good old fashioned way
and nominate these delegates from the
floor.
While Capt. Chase was speaking Mr..
Peter DAILY rose to point of order
and was sustained by the chair. This
friction oiled the proceedings moved on,
Capt. Chase offering his idea as to how
the thing should be done, as an amend
ment.
Mr.. Farnsworth then took the floor
and said that if any man had had more
experience in packing caucuses and fix
ing things up than the gentleman [Capt.
Chase] who was Directing to the ballot
he should like to know it. ''The fact of
the case isl said Mr.. Farnsworth, "this
ticket was selected without consulting
Capt. Chase and that's what's the mat
ter"
A vote was finally taken on the Chase
amendment to nominate from the floor
by raising hands. About dozen or fif-
teen hands went up in favor and two or
three times as many against, so the
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