The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-18

nominated by Mr. McGowan the crowd
obeered him to the echo. Evidently Mr..
Driscoll is very popular young man In
Ward 2.
Then came the balloting for second
councilman. For this position there were
two candidates, Mr.. S. F. Wood, and
Samuel Resent berg. Both candidates went
to work with will. MIR. Rosenberg and
some of his Hebrew friends hustled
around the room distributing naliots.
Matters proceeded harmoniously while
Rosenberg's supporters yelled enthusi
astically, The vote was announced as
follows:
Samuel Rosenberg had o.
S. f. Wood had a.
And there were eight scattering votes.
Mr.. Rosenberg was declared to be nomt-
mated. There were yells for speech and
Mr.. Rosenberg was evidently willing to
resnond. He clambered upon table
while the crowd cheered him well. He
is a slightly built young fellow, bright
eyed and good looking. Mr.. Rosenberg
as soon as he could be heard, said: "Fel.
low citizens and Democrats, (Long and
loud applause), thank you Tor the honor
,o11 have done me in nominating me as
a candidate for the common council.
More applause. thank you for the hon
or YOU have done me in sending Inc to the
lower board where I shall have the honor
of serving as the first 1sraelite ever
eIected to any public office in this city. "
Then there were more yells for Rosen-
berg.
man. 1t resulted as follows:
Joseph mclaughlin, Jr., had &c
Terence P. MCGOWAN had Sc
S. f. Wood had
Mr.. Mclaughlin was declared elected.
By this time most of the crowd had gone
home and the rest of the ticket was
quickly chosen as follows:
Warden-Harry G. Wilson.
Clerk-Henry J. Conley.
Observation-Disclosures Corcoran, Ihom-
as Jordan.
City Committee-M. G. MCGOWAN, IT,
P. MCGOWAN, John P. Jones, d. j. Ma
honey, Charles d. Gallagher.
WARD THREE.
Robert L. Ahearn was unanimously
elected chairman and Thomas j. Wagner
secretary. The following list was elected
Alderman-Wm. N. Howe.
observation-disclosures S. Washburn
Thomas f. McGillicuddy, Miles Standish.
Ward Clerk Thomas j. Magner.
School Committee-Samuel l.. Bates.
Constables-Horat II. Verrill, William
P. Hersey.
VIM. 6. Davis, Samuel L. Bates, Charles
Collins, John Ahern, George I. Means,
Frank 81. Verrill, James W.. Healey.
City Conmittee-Samuel L. Bates,
Robert E. Ahern, George L. Means, Thos.
j. Magner, Charles Collins.
Delegates to the Mayoralty convention
were not instructed Delegates were
authorized to furnish their own proxies.
WARD FOUR.
A well-attended caucus was held in
Ward 4, which was called to order at 2. &C
D. M, by Joseph A. Connolly, and upon
motion, W. Fl. Mcdonald was chosen
chairman and Joseph Conley, secretary.
Mr.. Mcdonald in assuming the duties
of the chair, called attention to the fact
that the ballots prepared by the ward
committee contained over the names nj
delegates to the mayoralty convention the
words: "Pledged to Hon. Darius TT
Ingraham, and added, ''Shall the hal.
lots be- distributed as prepared, or shall
another name be substituted?'
81 move that Ingraham is the MAJ, ;,
The motion was seconded and adonted
whereupon the polls were declared ono,
and the balloting began and was con.
tinued up to $50 o'clock.
1t was all one way and the slate which