The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1893-12-21
KING CAUCUS
DIDN'T RULE IN THE APPOINTMENT OF
kWoRKHoUss SUPERINTENDENT.

Jack Poutius Elected on the Sixth Ballot
| The Democrats Fail to Get Together in
! CGuouu-Cientry Gets Two Votes.
| The board of workbouse trustees met
MOLday iD one OF Ihe jury rooms. The
| DsmucrNtc members, Snields, Werner
\ aud Los fill Or held q caucus prior TO the
meeting. Elcn had separate candidate
! 10 present After short time Werner
agreed ihat he would vote with Lot I'll ~,
. for ". A. Gentry. Shields was for Jack
Ponius VITO had some strong endorse
| meats from the inflrmAry board. IL was
| tuen proposed, Hs there Oeemed To be a
J disposition to disagree on the candidates
| already voiyu for, that all of the ones
| mentioned be dropped aud that the Dem
| ocrStic members should unite on come
| other man. There was q long list of
! available men Tor the place ano IL was
| thought tnat one OF Ibs thsus could BE-
| agreed upon. After some talk without
ReIiug very close together on
| any candidate tbe caucus adj Iurned.
When the Democratic members went into
the meeting with the two Republican
| members, Love and Bennett, IL WAS not
! known just what would happen.
! The BOARD proceeded to elect a presi-
| dent. Robert S. Shields was chosen. L ,ef-
| fer was male secretary.
J Attsr the organic ltion had been eff sct-
ed, the list of ca 1didateE for superinIeh-
dent OF the workhouse was reed. The
list was as follows: M. Barr, J. Pontius,
W. A, Gentry, W. A. Zsigler. t. W.
Lrahy, B S. Brown, A: Lsininger, L Ley,
i W. ". Put, Henry Plero, and Henry
Bickioger, of Canton; II. ID. Brown, OF
Navarro; Ex'Mayor j. M. StiIIwell, of
Ali .uce, the latter two bsing Rspubli>
cans.
Before ballot Ta1 taken the salary OF
the superio tendeDt was fixed at 5000 a
year. The superiuIeudenps wife Will Of
course be the mR,ron, but no mstrQn WAS
selected at the meeting, nor was salary
fixed for that position,
The board proceeded to select O super
intendent. OI the first ballot the vote
stood: Pontius /; Gentry 2; Stillwell 1;
Brown, OF Navarro, l, Shields voted for
Psntius; L " fl ,r and Werner for Gentry
Love for S'illweil; b snnett for Brown.
There WAS no charge on the second
ballot.
On the third ballot Bennett deserted
Brown, and voted for StiliWeli, making
the vote Pontius l, Gentry 2, SsiIlwell 2.
the fourth btllot resulted the same as
the third.
The fifth ballot foretold what the ulti
mate result would be. Bennett, who had
been vacillatipg considerably made
another change, this time voting for Pom
nus, making Jne vote stand: Pontlus 2,
Gentry 2, Su'lwell l,
1nA SKIN DallOL setttCu tne cOntPAt
Lo, ffisr aud Werner, two of the Demo.
crsuc members, stood by Gentry, while
Shields, the other Democratic member,
clunR to POntius. Bennett, a Republican
member, had already voted once for Pom
tIus and he voted for him again. Love,
the other Republican member, Joined
Bennett and Shields and the ballot re-
suited: Poutius 3, Gsntry2
Mr. Pontius was declared elected and
the board proceeded to other business, IL
vas decided to meet again Tuesday and
visit the building for the purpose OF see
ing just what was needed and getting &C
qualnted with the building and grounds
and other matters pertaining to the insti>
tuition. The beard will visit other cities
where warehouses are located and see
how the Institutions are operated. Some
OF the plors 10 operation in other work
houses will he inRrAfted in the plans of
the Stark county werkhouse. Tine insti,
tuition will soon be ready for use. IL 10
badly needed.