The Portland daily press., 1899-11-16
COLLINS PROBABLY.
Result in Boston Yet
Undetermined.
Winner Will Lead by Only Three or
Four Votes.
An Immense Vote Was
Brought Out.
Number OF Exciting Scenes
Throughout City.

Boston. November I6 While the actual
result was not definitely known at Two
o. clock this morning, the returns from the
| Democratic oauouses seemed to Indicate
| that Gen. Patrick A. Collins would have
a sufficient number Of votss to be the
Democrat nominse for mayor. The vote,
however, was very close and his warmest
supporters at that time could not figure
lead more than three votes.
The Democratic oaucuses In all tins
wards Of the city tonight were the larg-
est ever held In Boston. the fierce con-
sest for the inayoralty convention between
1sn. Patrick A. Collins, formerly con-
sui general to London, and Hon. John X.
Murphy, water commissioner, being
sufficient to attract thousands to the
polls.
In nearly every one of the 25 wards the
vote far exceeded the total vote cast In
the wards at the state election for all can-
didates, while In q mum her OF Instances
almost the entire registered vote OF the
ward had been accounted for when the
caucus closed.
There were o number Of exciting scenes
throughout the city, the most noteworthy
being the arrest of the warden In Ward
s, William II. Spaine, for not recognising
a challenge. Spains was standing near
the rail. when q man, after giving his
pane, attempted to enter. A by-stander
Immediately shouted q challenge and. IL
is alleged, Spains refused to listen to the
call, and upon complaint being made
the warden was arrested and taken to
the station. He was afterwards released
on tail. Hon. Martin NJ. Lomasney,
representative to the legislature and
well-known politician, was appointed in
Spsine's place.
In Ward Q, there was serious distur-
bance, during which Michael W. Brick
and President Kiley Of the common ooun-
OIL were both assaulted. Alderman
Brick received number Of bruises,
while Kiley had his jaw broken.
There were also mum ber Of arrests in
different parts of the CITY for repeating,
but none Of those taken in custody was
recognized as coming from outside Of
Boston.
Early In the day, Candidate Murphy
notified the police that he had reason to
believe that persons from Lawrence, Cam
bridge, Scitaate and Hyde Park wouln
attempt to vote in the caucuses The po-
lice officials replied soon after that off,
GERS from those towns would be In the
city while the caucuses were being held
Iu nearly half the wards the cauouses
began ut O'Clock in the afternoon, but
so large was the attendance that the vot-
ing was not over until nearly midnight
and at that hour the actual result was
not definitely known In every ward In
the city there wers two sets OF delegates
to the different aldermanic conventions,
AS we'll rs candidates for the common
council.
Both sides made every effort to get out
q vote; In fact. there was much more
yigor put into the work than was shown
at the state election week ago.
1t was claimed by the Democrats t.
night that If the same vote is cast for
the Democratic oand idates at the muni-
cjpal eleotion next month, the party will
Garry the city by tho largest majority for
many years.
The returns from the voting came In
very slowly, the first half dozen wards
being entirely In favor of Collins. In
fact his supporters claimed eight wards
out Of 90, and 80 delegates out OF 2Sl be.
fore midnight
In many OF these wards the vote was
two to one in favcr of Collins. and In
Ward 20, the proportion was even greater
The Murphy wards, howevsr. tegan TO
put In aD appearance about l1.S0. and In
the first four wards his followers claimed
SO delegates Then three wards came In
which added 81 delegates more to the
Collins column, and brought the total
up to 1913, which was the standing inst
before midnight