The Portland daily press., 1893-02-18
TnE SHILLELAH.
It Carried the Caucus in Ward 4
Last Night.
MCGOWAN RETIRES THE AUTHOR
OF "THE BEST YET"

| A Barrel of Beer Horsed up at Gorham's
Corner in Honor of the "Sappy" suIli
| van Success in Ward 1T Was the
Cry of Caesarism that Downed Gala.
gher-A Man With a Long Pole Attacks
Councilman MeIaugh in Ward Four's
Deliberative Assembly.
The picturesque, the pathetic and the
tragic, characterized the Democratic
ward caucuses in this city last evening.
The picturesque was furnished by Ward
| 2, where the stalwart Daniel Gallagher
was overthrown on charges of Cesarism
! hepathetic in Ward 8, where the Ingra-
han-Swett Democracy drove their char
lots over the PROSTATE form of that ven
cradle Democratic war horse, Capt.
Charles Fl. Chase. The tragic was furn-
| ished by Ward 4, where "Sappy'' SuIli-
van led up body eff Gorham's Corner
Ironsides, for the slaughtering of Coun-
Gilman OBrion and Joseph W. Peters. A
warlike genius in this ward utilized a
| long pole as a shiIlelah and attacked
Councilman Melaugh. By hard work
| the police prevented a serious riot. In
| Ward Solomon Schwartzschild made a
fitful temperance, to have his aspira-
lions for the Council rudely stepped up
on. He shook the dust from his feet as
he went out of the ward room.
| The defeat of Alderman Gallagher, the
architect of the gerrymander, the one
who seemed likely to remain always on
the board Of aldermen, appeals most to
the imagination. AS he left the ward
room to the victorious McGowanites, he
seemed truly ''the mighty somnambulist
of vanishing dream"
The tickets and the story by wards, is
as follows:
the following result:
Alderman-C Charles f. Guptil.
Couneilmen-Charles Dunn, Jr., Frank j..
Simpson, Lincoln w. Tibbetts.
Warden-T. r.. Harper
Clerk-E. Z. Philbrook.
Gonstablss4F I sgylyestsr Nelson dSn WEIGH Msra
John Ii. Conneen, B. b. McDonough, S. E.
Soniers. John Reidy, M. A. WEIGH.
ward Two.
Itwas a great night for the MCGOWAN
family. They downed Prince Gallagher,
and downed him handsomely. The cry
of 'C@sarism, mo third term" proved
too much for the Prince. The ward
room was damned full long before the
hour of the caucus arrived with the re-
tanners of the two leaders. They were,
as rule, good natured though earnest
and both factions were full of conf
dence. The MCGOWAN ''whips' encoun-
tered the voter at the head Of India
street, and invited him to accept Nc
Gowan ticket. Prince Gallagher's lines
were less extended, but his workers were
exceedingly jealous Mr.. Daniel Carr,
head boss of the liquor agency, called
the caucus into condition remotely re-
embling order and, after reading the
call, announced that a chairman was ne
cessary. A tremendous shout of ''Low-
ery'' went up and, after a desperate
struggle, a gentleman who bore that
name managed to get into the box. Mr..
Lowery, whose front name is William H.,
raped for more order and then pro-
ceeded to say that the first business was
to nominate an alderman. He wanted
somebody named. Mr.. MCGOWAN, Joseph
A., was Immediately uamed by some
hundred persons all at once, and Daniel
Gallagher also got loud and enthusiastic
mention. Somebody wanted to know if
the check list was to be used. Mr..
Lowery answered that it was and bland
ly added that if the gentlemen present
would come up and lay their ballots on
top of the box he would see that they
were put into the box-indeed, he volun-
teered to put them in himself. This an
nouncement was greeted with shouts of
mo; no;'' and II object" many and
long continued from all parts of the
house. Mr.. Lowery's offer to put in the
ballots was evidently not accepted in the
kindly spirit that it was meant. Mr..
Lowery accordingly receded and
the voters proceeded to put
in the ballots themselves. At
the end of the desk, side by side, stood
the two statesmen whose fate was trem
bling in the balance. They tried to be
calm, but it was easy to see that there
was tremendous ebullition of feeling
within their bosoms. They preserved
apparently the most amicable relations
toward one another, so much SO that one
loud voiced son of the Emerald Isle evil
IDENTIFY deeply impressed with the touch
ing spectacle referred to them as the
Siamese Twins. The vote proceeded
quietly but slowly, owing to the use of
the check list, the monotony of the per-
Torrance being broken occasionally by
shouts of Here's your Gallagher tickets
and "McGowan tickets over here" It
took about an hour to poll the vote.
Then the ballots were emptied out on to
a table and the count began.
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