The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1895-02-19
LIVELY CAUCUSES.
Big Turnout of Republicans in All
the Wards.
MIR. BAXTER WILL UNDOUBTEDLY
BERENOMINATED UNANIMOUSLY.

Wards One and Three the Storm Centres
Ward One Districts for Baxter and
IT. Indorse the Street Commission-The
Anti-Baxter Ticket Knocked Out in
Three-Withdrawa1 of the Opposition
Ticket in Ward Seven.
The Republican cauouses last evening
were very largely attended and those in
Wards One and Three were decidedly excit-
ing. In the former ward. distinctively
Baxters ticket was instructed. and on
motion of Capt. H. II. Shaw, resolution
was adopted endorsing Mayor Baxter's
street commission bill. In Ward Three
there were ticxets unreasonable, but the
Baxter delegate list was elected. 1t is be-
lieved every delegate in every ward Is favor
able to the nomination of.Mayor Baxter.Th
delegates to nominate Mayor will meet at
Reception hall at O'Clock this afternoon.
The story of the caueuses in detail follows:
WARD ONE.
In this ward only two of the original
ticket for mayoralty delegates. Messrs.
Alpheus Griffin and Richard K. Galley were
elected.
Mr.. G. W. T. Goding called the meeting
to order. John Cousens was appointed chair
man--an Ozman Munroe, secretary.
Mr.. W. H. Looney then made motion to
instruct the mayoralty delegates to vote
for Mayor Baxter. This motion was carried.
Then Messrs. Benjamin Miles and Edward
H. Sargent refused to be instructed ana
said that if elected they would go to the
convention and do the best that they could
for the interestsof the Republican party.
Then the following delegates were ap-
pointed by nominations from the floor:
Alpheus Griffin, Richard K. Galley. g ge
Trefethen. John Coussns. l.. q. Fowler, J..
D. York and Arthur W. Beale. They were
instructed to cast their ballot for Mayor
Baxter.s The election was unanimous. They
were chosen by aeolamation from the fioor.s.
Then an effort was made to elect the re-
mainder of the ticket in the same way. but
this was voted down and they proceeded to
ballot. Mr.. Edward II. Sargent was ap-
pointed to help check the list. After the
voting was over Captain ii. II. Shaw
mounted the chair and said that he wished
to call the attention of the caucus to a
certain matter. The voters OF the ward
were all aware of the controversy that had
been going on in regard to the street CON-
mission. 81 refer to an effort to get our
street matters out of politics and into
practical business" he then referred to
the street commission and its work. ''It
was tried for the purpose to get some sort of
good. decent business into our street man.
| agement. Now may be very good sh hoe
maker but you know haven't had any
training as civil engineer or a street
builder. A man who has charge of the
cobo 1,o oira f,L
about it.
Now it has come to pass that the CITY
government, wisely as they think. no doubt.
and aided by our entire ward delegation,
have set on foot some measures. instituted
as believe, by the Portland Water COM
pany, to prevent the effort to give this com
mission the permanenoy of legislative
enactment. The delegates of this ward have
opposed the asking of the legislature to
establish this commission by law. though
that now it was a good time for the citizens
of this ward to express themselves in regard
to this matter. intend to go to Augusta
| and as a private individual do my best to
| have this commission esta hlished. and to
| take with me, the sentiment of this ward,
as you shall express them, therefore move
that it s the sense of Ward One that the
| legislature be asked to establish the CON-
| mission by law"
| The motion was seconded, but before the
question was put, Alderman Dam mounted
a chair and said that he thanked Mr.. Shaw
for giving him the opportunity to place the
wards delegation squarely before the ward.
as to their action in this matter. He had
given the street commission careful study
and had had embodied the results in a
letter to Mayor Baxter, which he era we'd
their indulgence to allow him to read. He
then read the following statement:
"YouI Honor:
| 81 nave watched with much interest tho
satisfied with the quantity and quality Of
the work done under their direction. but
fail to see that the same work could not
have been dona under the direction of our
very able civil engineer with the committee
on streets as an advisory board. attribute
the results of the year to the fact that our
city engineer has been permitted to carry
out for the first time a system which think
could be continued under the regular COM
mittee OF the city government. The power
| of the street commissioner and method OF
EMPLOYING workmen. am squarely opposed
| to-, as it does not take this branch from
political and personal preference as nuner-
ous instances Of the pas year will bear wit
ness.'
After reading the above Alderman Dam
| declared that he believed the present; street
| commission is over and above the oommis-
sion (cries of "amen." and olapping of