The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1899-02-16
NOISE ENOUGH FOR ALL.
HERE THEY NEARLY RAISED ROOF
FROM ENGINE HOUSE.

Councilman Rosenberg Fails of a Nom-
instion-Mcssrs. Driscoll, Murphy
and Mclaughlin Comprise the
Council INSTRUMENTATION I'm
Other Wards.
The Democratic caucuses occurred last
night and the various tickets of the
minority party were made up in the
several wards with little difficulty and
without much TO disturb the harmony of
the gatherings with the exception OF
Ward Two. In all the wards but this the
ward tickets were made up by one OF
those committees Of prominent Democrats
who retired to a corner AS II to deliberate
and held their heads together for few
minutes while they conversed in low
tones. One member OF this eminent COM
mittee would then draw from an inner
pocket paper on which was written the
proposed ticket and this on being reported
to the caucus was invariably adopted. A
little departure from this course was
made in Ward Four where the candidates
were all nominated by reclamation with
out dissenting voice.
But it Was In Ward Two where the real
strength of the Democracy was exhibited
and where the fun occurred. Here there
was one of th use old fashioned Democratic
gatherings where lung power plays such
an important part In the proceedings and
the candidates who won in the contests
invariably had the support of the loudest
shouters in the party.
The contest In Ward Two occurred over
the council ticket There were many can
all Of them were out in force and deter
mined to win or die Perhaps there were
Us many as three hundred voters present
when the time for calling the caucus to
order came round. The caucus occurred
In the India street hook and ladder house
and the big Hayes truck on one side of
the room afforded u magnificent place for
city To see the fun. The crowd on this
ladder truck was particularly Doisy and
lent their voices without Partially 20
either party or faction In the crowd.
The room was packed to snffocation
when the hour of 730 o'clock came
around. Joseph Mclaughlin, Jr.,
mounted the rostrum and tried to call the
assemblage to order. He met with very
poor success for the crowd began yelling
anything and everything as soon as Mir.
Mclaughlin appeared above the heads of
the crowd. But MIR. Mclaughlin is &C
customed to this sort of business and
finally giving up the attempt TO restore
order began to read the call There were
very few people who heard what Mr. Nc
LauGhlin was reading and the yelling
and shouting went on all the time. When
he had finished his reading MIR. McLaugh'
lin asked that the caucus nominate a
chairman.
mike" Mccain, some one said.
you have nominated Michael McCann
as your chairman" announced MIR. Nc.
Laughlin.
Thereupon there occurred the most IN
ferual racket that was ever heard In
ward two caucus, which is saying a good
deal. Some one with voice Of giant
hereupon nominated John u. kehoe as
chairman of the caucus The crowd then
took I'D the cry of "Kehoe, kehoe,
kehoe" until 1t seemed as II the roof
wouli come of. In the meantime Mr..
McCann had mounted the rostrum by the
side of Mr.. Mclaughlin and endeayored
TO auell the disturbance by waving his
hands and begging the crowd TO keep
quiet until he told them something But
they wonld not keep quiet and the yelling
continued with redoubled energy. Evil
IDENTIFY the most of I'll crowd thought that
MIR. McCann had not been properly nomi-
mated for chairman and that he would
not be an acceptable chairman for them.
so the yelling went on until Mr.. Aeheo
puzzled his way through the crowd and
got up on the platform alongside the two
gentlemen already there. This yelling for
kshoe and for Mccain went ON for some
minutes with the Kehoe element seeming
ly in the majority. One enthusiastic sup
porter of MIR. McCann crawled under the
railing surrounding the voting table ard
grasping MIR. kehoe by the leg tried 10
null him of the desk on which he was
standing. Some bystanders put an end to
THIS proceeuihB anu hh"i'y ma
seeing that there was little hope OF hnr'
mony with two chairmen presiding yolun-
tarily withdrew and thereafter Mr.. kehoe
o ffioiated as chairman.
The first thing that Mr. kehoe did was
TO announce that he would not proceed
with the Caucus until some policemen
were sent for, and accordingly some one
had the good sense to telephone the police
station for the necessary guardians of the
peace. When they arrived soon after the