El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1897-04-03
REPUBLICAN PRIMARIES.
THE STRAIGHT REPUBLICANS CAR
RY THE CITY WITH A SWEEP.
All the Wards We're Harmonious Elk
cept the Fourth in Which There
Was a Split aud There Will Be
Contest From That Ward.

wrapplino except in the fourth ward.
The row IN the fourth ward was partly
due to the fact that Tony ezra appear
ed on San Francisco street with a con-
tingent of about twenty Mexicans,
whom he intended 70 vote at the ward
me sting, while many of the prominent
citizens objected to them voting as
there were only twenty-three Mexican
voters registered in the fourth ward
and the citizens saw no necessity for
} packing the primaries when there was
no fight on in the party ranks. An
other reason for a split in the fourth
was the fact that the parties controlling
the Mexican contingent wanted to hold
their meeting in tn, first ward and did
eventually do so and the other faction
went to the Schultz building on the
north side of San Francisco street
for which location the meeting was
called for. Each faction sent dele
cation to the city convention aud there
| the matter will be settled II com
promise is not arranged beforehand
satisfactory to all concerned.
| FIRST WARD.
There was q large gathering at the
city halt last night, called there by the
republican ward chairman, John
O Keeffe. Every body walked in and
quietly took seats and apparently there
| were no schemes on, at least none show
ed up on the surface as everything look
| ed quiet and no one was around with
blood in their eye or knife up their
sleeve. At eight O'Clock the meeting
| was called to order by J a. Smith, who
read the city chairman's call and also
| the call of the ward Chairman. Then
| there was quiet and the calm of the
meeting was like pond of creased wat
er. Then w II. Kitchen quietly arose and
moved that j. A. Smith be elected
chairman of the meeting. the motion
was seconded by John O'Keeffe and the
motion carried in jiffy. The lion and
| the lam b had laid down together, and
| first ward republicans were once more
together and ready to fight their old
| democratic enemy.
Mr.. Llew II. Davis was then made
secretary, and the meeting was ready
| for business.
| A motion was made to the effect that
| nominations for delegates to the city
convention be declared in order and
the following republicans were put in
| nom nation:
&c Scott, Fred Cutting, Chas. F.
Kennedy, j. A. Smith, Nj. JesSup, Ed
Kneezell, Thos. Kelly, PatricIo Virgil
and Phil Hague.
| After a recess of five minutes in
| which to prepare ba lots the meeting
was az al q cal d to order and Chas.
| Westbrook and Chas. Bahney, were ap-
| pointed telleIs. Ballots were then cast
and r suited N the first six of the above
| nam d gentlemen being elected dele
| ga rs and the second X al ernates
| there were fifty votes polled in all.
1t was moved ana carried that the
above named delegate s be empowered
| 10 nom nae an alderman for The first
ward and also that the permanent
ward Chairman be selected by them.
IL, L.
| tendauIs g lug TO ditfereLt parts of the
city to see what the result 10 the diff
fe rent primaries had been
| SECOND RUINED IT'S REPUTATION.
| A peaceful, unassuming and highly
| o derby co erie of ciLlzeus gathered in
| the county court room last night to
| nominate delegates to the city repub-
lican convention. @ M. hurry 'called
the meeting to order" which was en-
tirely unnecessary as every body was
alre dy IN order, inc iuding the ticket
| which thanks to the kindly and
thong htful supervision of Ed. Fink, H
| F. Bloom and other patriots had been
selected with u judicious add discrim-
mat ng care that was highly creditable
to them. On motion of Ed Fink, w.
S. McCutcheOn was chosen as chair
man. Mr.. McCutcheon in thanking
his constituency for the honor said
shape. 1t was united and ready to
meet the enemy with reasonable hopes
of success.
Mr.. hurry was chosen secretary.
He glided TO the center table to assume
b duties, and deity reached under
the table to shove out the draw to get
some paper. The drawer did not shove,
there was no drawer there, so the
secretary ami led over to the desk of
ha 1rf n
with some of his memoranda paper,
and the clerk is wondering today where
his court notes have gone to. The fol-
lowing delegates were Immediately
chosen without a dissent ng VOTE"
James Mari, G. NJ. hurry II. F. Bloom,
(the secretary had it spelled "Blum"),
w. S. McCutcheon, Frank Evans,
Hawkins, Bias Bejarana, Robert Nix.
There were ten delegates to be elected,
ard only ten nominations were made,
all ballOting was waived, and not a
solitary NIX was heard to MARI the
harmony of what SIACKED the pre-
viOusly made arrangements. Harmony
BLOOMED, democratic hopes were
BLASTED and business was done up
"slick as a WHISTLE, and all that was
necessary to put the finishing touches
of beauty on the scene was an array of
bowed heads with Ed Fink standing on
the platform and extended arms pro-
nouncing the benedict,on.
Frank Evans was chosen ward chair
man for two years, subject to ratifica-
ton by the convention. 1.-THE meeting
then adjourned"
THIRD WARD ENTHUSIASTIC. |
Some little confusion prevailed at
the start in the third ward, owing to the |
fact that the meeting was called for the ]
skating rink, at the corner of Stanton |
and Myrtle, which building could |
rot be obtained, and arrangement were
completed to hold the meeting in the |
Allen store rooms, on ST. Louis street. |
This delayed the NEE ting as the polls |
were kept open for an hour, so that all |
should have an opportunity to express
their preference. The meeting was
called to order by Chairman j. J. !
Stewart, who asked for nOmin a lions for !
chairman and secretary. s. II. Buchan- /
an and F. E. Morris were respectively
chosen for those offices. The call hav- ,
ing been made for the selection of eight .