The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-02-19

This committee brought in a list of
mayoralty delegates OF whom in almost
every case five were McQuillan men or
supposed to be McQuillan men and two
were friends Of Darius 1ngraham. In
ward four the McQuillan faction met
with defeat. Mr. William O'Brlen, VINO
is said to be out OF politics, put VINO ta iae
a hand once in a while, just to snow that
he has not forgotten how to do the WORK,
is said to have placed ballot in the ueid
with the nayoralty delegates pleoged 10
Ingraham. There bring only one paiio6
at the caucus for mnyoralty delegates. 9nls
one went through without opposluloh.
| When Mr.. Ingraham' 8 friends read tne
morning papers they found that there
were about twenty mine men on the llsS
of mayoralty delegates whom they coulu
not count upon while only about twenty
were known to be all right Inc
mayoralty delegates who were uncertain
were sounded by MIR. Ingraham $ friends
and they found that their candidate was
| beaten unless something WAS done at
once The Ingraham supporters We're
startled at the strength developed by the
| opposition. They weakened and began 20
announce that they were fearful that their
man would be swamped in the conven-
ton. Then Mr.. Ingraham got in some
work or some one did for him. Some Mo
| Quillan delegates were found who were
willing to stay away from the convention
| last night, The McQuillan supporters
! thought that they were victorious before
the battle commenced and were confident
OF victory. Meanwhile the delegates who
were to be absent kept their own coun-
sci and the McQui1lan men did not
discover. that they were defeated until
| the convention was called to order.
THE MAYORALTY CONVENTION.
| All of the faithful were there. Some
were delegates to the convention and
some wanted to be. Mr.. j. Henry Brad
lev. better known as "Checker" Bradley,
the chairman Of the Democratic city
committee, but who was dropped from
the committee altogether in the Ward 5
caucus Thursday night, by his migrate
| full friends, called the convention TO order
at about half past seven O'Clock. Mr.
| Michael Mccain of Ward 2, an anti-lngra-
ham man. and one Of those who worked
hard for Mr.. McQuillan, counted noses
of the McQuillan delegates and smiled
serenely. He thought his candidate Tor
the nomination as mayor was oil right.
supporters, who was buncoed in the Ward
caucus Thursday night by the MoQuil-
Ian supporters and did not know 1t, ar
rived promptly on time with his lolns
! eirded up for battle. Having called the
convention toIorder, Mr.. Bradley suggest
ed that the nomination of a chairmanswas
| in order. MIR. McCann nominated Mr..
| Charles Mccarthy, Jr., for this position,
| and he WAS unanimously chosen. At first
Mr.. MCCARTHY declined to serve, but ar
| ter a few minutes consented to preside,
and walked out to the table in the CEN
tire of the council chamber and raped
the convention to order.
&ho nt,ni - n
said: ~ thank you for this honor you
have conferred upon me, for surely no
greater honor can be paid man than to
| be selected as the presiding officer OF
such representative Democratic gather
ing. I trust that our choice here tonight
will be wise one. for believe that If
we are wise in our choice and exercise
our best Judgment we can elect Demo
cratic mayor this spring. (Attempt at
applause which died away quickly This
| is o time to Danish all personal feeling
and select a man for mayor who will
command the most votes.
| At this statement the McQuillan sup
porters applauded little.
| Mr.. Fred Q. Cobb was chosen secretary
of the convention.
| Mr.. Mccarthy now read letter from
E. B. Winslow, in which he said:
"Having heard that my name with 9TH
ers had been mentioned as possible can
didate for the nomination AS mayor by
the Democratic party, desire to state
that could not accept the nomination II
| it were offered me-.
| Mr.. Winslow closed his somewhat briet
letter by expressing wish that the Dem
ocratic candidate might succeed at the
coming election. This letter was not
surprise to any of those present as no one
has spoken of Mr.. Winslow as possible
nominee at the hands Of the Democrats
for some weeks at least.
| The chair here stated that it awaited a
motion Of some sort, but none was made
| for some minutes. Finally Mr.. j. Henry
Bradley moved, and the motion was sec
onded, that the secretary read the list of
delegates to the mayoralty convention
| chosen at Thursdays caucuseS, and that
each delegate answer to his. name as he
was called. 1t was also moved that the
vacancies in the ward delegations be filled
| by the convention as the roll call pro-
ceeded This was foxy move on the
part of the Ingraham supporters, but none
Of the McQuillan men tumbled to the
scheme.
In Ward ], T. S. Somers was found to
be absent, and John FL. Conneen was
substituted in his place. In Ward 2
Thomas Hassett was found to be absent,
and Samuel Rosenberg was selected to
fill the vacancy. In Ward 3, VIM. g..
Davis was found to be among the absent.
/ u1dJOT OuhTlcS SO1iihS, OiAO VI AASNSoAA-
lan's supporters, saw that the absent
list was growing in an alarming manner
and that those substituted who had been
put on the delegations were nearly all In
graham men, Major Collins nominated
George s. Anderson to fill the vacancy,
but the nomination was not seconded.
Instead of Mr.. Anderson, Mr.. BARLEY
Flaherty was chosen to fill the Ward 8
delegation. The Ward delegation was
all present, there was only one absente
in Ward 6 and only one in Ward Z. Sup
porters of MIR. Ingraham were put in the
delegation to fill these vacancies.
The McQuillan supporters were by no
means disheartened at this, though they
saw there was d fight on their hands.
They hoped that all might yet be well.
The Ingraham men knew that they were
all solid for they realized that things had
been fixed.
Mr.. T. Fl. Flaherty finally moved that
the convention proceed to the nomina-
tion Of a candidate for mayor. M. 9. Nc
Cam moved that committee of seven,
one from each ward, be selected to re-
ceiye, sort and count the votes The fol-
lowing was appointed by the chair when
this motion was carried: Dennis Griffin,
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