The Portland daily press., 1898-06-07

These are the delegates to the state con-
vention: Arthur W. Merrill Eredar;o r,
Boothby, Nathaniel W. Morse Orrin r
Written, Charles S. SWEET. Franz n
Marshall.
About dozen voters cast their ballots
under protest.
WARD FIVE.
The caucus organized with LEROY 6
Sanborn as chairman and Wilford r.
Chapman as secretary, and DR. Gustave
A. Pudor and Fred B. Kelsey as check
ers There was no unusual excitement.
though the contest was vigorous and the
vote large. The vote as dec Jared was 200
for the Despeaux delegates and 1873 for the
Dresser delegates. The delegates chosen
are as follows:
To the county convention-Wilford G.
Chapman, John +. Thompson. Fred.
erick O. Conant Edwin +. Vose, Lysan-
der A. Gould, Austin d. Sullivan. Frank
G. Johnston.
To the state OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES G.
Harmon, Owen P.Smith, VIM. II. Dugan.
Augustine d. Smith, Eben P. True.
David 7. Rines, Edwin G. Thorne.
WARD SIX.
1t was quiet as church meeting inward
6 until after ssthe vote was counted. The
voters dawdled in, transacted their BUSH
ness and, as rule, marched right out
again. There was at no time over 80 or
40 voters present in the engine house.
At p. M, the fcaucus organized by
the choice of G. J. Mcdonald as chair
man, F. A. Blossom, secretary; Clarence
A. johnson. teller. At O'Clock the polls
were declared closed and this return was
announced. There were 347 ballots cast,
of which the Dresser delegates and Des-
peaux delegates got 173 each, and there
was one ballot marked Dresser, none of
the delegates on 1t, belonging in Ward g.
A lively discussion arose as to whether
this ballot should be counted Capt.
Sawyer insisted that the delegates on the
ballot didn't belong in the ward and the
caucus had no right to count the ballot.
Mr.. Carey, the cigar maker, insisted that
the intent of the man who cast the ballot
should prevail and that the ballot should
be counted. Mr.. Alexander T. Laugnlin,
took the same view as Capt. Sawyer.
There was considerable expression of
opinion on both sides, but finally mo-
ton was made by Capt. Sawyer and it
was carried without opposition, that the
ballot be not counted, that the vote be
declared tie, and that when the caucus
adjourn it adjourn to Tuesday (today),
June 8th at O'Clock, and the polls to be
kept open from to 9 p. m. The motion
was seconded by Mr.. Laughlin.
These were the delegates elected to the
state convention: Fred N. Dow, F. A.
Blossom, Charles J. Mcdonald, Joseph
n. Locke, Clarence Hale, John Howard
Hill, Harry S. Payson.
WARD SEVEN.
The caucus in this ward was called to
order by Geo. FL. Allan of the Republican
city committee. and Mr.. Ardon w.
Coombs was elected chairman, Mr.Albert
G. Neal, clerk, and Maurice G. Rich and
Charles Eaton, checkers. The voting pro-
ceeded steadily and in an orderly manner
until the polls closed at O'Clock. The
vote was declared as 304 for the Despeaux
delegates and 276 for the Dresser dele
gates. The following is the lists Of the
delegates chosen:
To the county observation-disclosures S..
Melcher, Charles P. Mattooks, Charles
S. Fobes, Edward Tomlinson, John M.
Gooding, Fred N. Mayberry, Edw. G.
Milltken.
To the state convention-Gao. P. Yves.
colt, Geo. Fl. Allan, Fred V. Chase. Geo.
B. Gould, Charles A. True, Lyman W.
Hanson, James O. Fox.
THE PRESENT STANDING.
The revised table shows that Des
peaux leads with total of 79 delegates to
his credit, while Dresser has 6S, Buck
nam and remain in the "unpledgedp
column.
We have transferred the six votes OF
Gorham from the doubtful to the Des
peaux column because Of the public state
ment OF Chairman Millett of the Gorham
Republican committee, which has not
been controverted by anybody that those
votes will be thrown in the convention
for Despeaux.
Despeaux's friends claim that he car
control Bucknam's five votes and the
delegation of North Yarmouth, which
appears IN the table as unpledged. This
would give him one more vote than the 81
necessary for choice. But they are
none the less anxious to carry Ward
tonight, for its seven votes will also con
troll the five delegates at large, to be elect
ed by the general caucus Should Dresser
carry Ward 6, it would add IL votes te
his 6S, giving him total of so.
In case the six Gorham votes and the
four unpledged votes of North Yarmouth
and Raymond were given to Dresser, he
would still need to carry Ward 6 in order
to win.
THE PRESENT STANDING.
Dress Des- Buck I'm
er. peaux. nam. pledged
Baldwin,
Brldgton, g &C. K
Brunswick, y
Cape Elizabeth, 2
CaSco, 2