The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1897-02-16

WARD FIVE.
EEsaIn Ward there was the biggest turn
out In years, but every thing progressed
tremendously. e. P. True was chosen
chairman of the caucus with MILFORD o..
Chapman as secretary and DIR. 6. A.
Pudor and Leroy S. Sanborn as checkers.
Very few votes were challenged in this
ward. The vote stood as follows
Mayoralty Deleaates-For Baxter.
B. Coyle, Charles F. Libby. Woodbury. s.
Dana. H. S. Higgins, Lyman NJ
Cousens, Jacob s. Winslow, Prentlss
Loring-19l. For Randall-Fred Q.
Conant, Charles A. Ring, Austin U.
Sullivan, Frederick D. Winslow. John W.
Dyer. Frank G. johnson, e. IL. u.
Tompson-145.
Alderman-John T. Pagan, 1886.
Councilmen-Harry r. Virgin, 1913;
George E. Smith, 251; VIM. n. Dow,
1871; Hertert +. Dyer, 70; John @. Small.
1O5.
Wardsp-G gorge A. Bynon.
Ward Clerk--Harry T. Josselyn.
UonstablesZEben y. Perry, Henry S.
Thrasher.
City Committee-W. g. Chapman, r.
". jackson, J. Frank Hovey, Fred B.
Kelsey, Fred Burnham.
WARD SIX
This ward seldom sees su oh a big
caucus as that of last evening. Ward six
was happy in one thought; whoever was
victorious she was reasonably sure to fur
nish the next mayor as Mayor Baxter
and Mr.. Randall are both residents of
this ward. AS early as seven o'clock
there was big outpouring of people.
and when the caucus was called to order
the ward room was packed. Edwin A.
Gray was chosen chairman and E. G.
Mitchell, secretary; ". Fl. Willard and
Elias Thomas, Jr., checkers. Both candi-
dates arrived early and voted and re-
m aimed at the polls nearly all the eve
ming. A large crowd waited for the vote
to be declared. The contest was hot
one but the mayor came out ahead.
The Baxter delegates received 203 votes.
The delegates elect are Elias Thomas,
W. b. MillikeD, L. C. Woodbury.. r. u.
Turner, E. B Dennison, ]. Henry
Rines, NJ. A. Kennard.
This Randall list received 1877. 1t con-
sisted of ]. L. Rackleff, Charles Ii.
Boyd, George W. Simonton, Charles d.
Clark, F. E. Allen, A. E. Knight, F.
H. Mari.
There was no contest in the rest of tn 9
ticket. It was completed rs follows:
Alderman-Chalres J. Mcdonald.
Councilmen John l.. Corey, Edward
II. York, Rufus Lamson
Warden ed win H. Gray.
Clerk-R. Fl. Ball.
School Committee-Robert L. White
house.
Constables-S. ". Joy. G. A. johnson.
WARD SEVEN.
There were 515 ballots cast in Ward Z,
three of the voters failing to vote for
either set of mayoraltY delegates. Of
the $40 votes for the may orally candi-
dates, Mr.. Baxter had 9S5 and MIR. Ran
dali 225, giving Mr.. Baxter plurality
of 10. The crowd came early and the
voting was lively. At one time the long
line of voters extended from the ballot
box around two sides of the big ward
room, through the entrance way, a pas
sage some IL feet in length. down the
steps and some distance along the side
walk outside. The long line moved slow
~ and the men who joined it out on the
sidewalk did not get q glimpse Of the
ballot box until Is OF 20 minutes later.
And this line did not lessen much in
length for a long time, new arrivals
joining it at the rear as those who had
voted left it at the other end. 1t was
obo ,x% no hot Word
has ever seen. Mr.. Herbert o. Phillips
was chosen chairman and James G.
Fox, Esq, secretary. Messrs. E. G. MILL
ken and Charles r. Lewis, presided at
the check list. The room was still crowd
ed when at o'clock, everybody who de-
clared closed. The crowd remained un-
til the vote for the mayoralty delegates
was declared. Then the crowd ad-
journed in body to find out how the
battle had gone in the other wards. The
caucus officers had the room pretty
the rest of the vote. There were no con-
tests for the city government and ward
tickets, fact which accounts for the
falling off in the vote as compared with
that for mayor, many who voted for
the nayoralty delegates neglecting to
mark the remainder of the ballots. This
is the way it resulted:
Baxter Delegates-S. W. Thaxter, W.
W. Thomas, Jr., Charles S. Fobes, Steph-
en- B. Winchester, James F. Hawkes.,
Lewis A. Goudy, Henry P. Cox.-2s5.
Randall Delegates-Henry p. Ward,
George E. Gould, VIM. Fl. Green, Charles
A. True, A. H. Moulton, George L. War
rem, Charles E. Snow.-225.
AI1erman-Adam z. Leighton, AS.
Councilmen-Fred N. May berry, 417;
Winfield L. Smith, 414; Theodore II.
johnson, Ais.
Warden-Lyman ". Hanson, 1878; John
C. Sherman, 30. sse
Ward Clerk-Herbert o. Phillips, 407.
School ommittee-Clarence W. Pea
body, 413.
Observation-Disclosures A. Jones, 405;
Charles E. Cousins, 404.
City Committee-Geo. H. Allan, 395;
James NJ Black, 800; Fred N. May berry,
1896; Josiah III. Drummond, Jr., 3S7;
Gsorge Fl. Owen, 394.
At an m. Wednesday the mayoralty