Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-03-22
DEnOCRATIC NOMINATIONS
n ". Orube for MayOr--Began, Wenck
and Gloger Re-nominated--War
Nominations

and GlOger Re- Re-nominated-Ward
Nominations.
The Democratic city convention
was called to order Saturday after
noon at o'clock by James w. Moore,
chairman of the city committee.
William F. Voss was chosen tempo
rary chairman. and Ferd Schmutzler
secretary.
f. A. Krueger, Ferd Schmutzler and
y. t. Holland were appointed com
mlttee on credentials.
After the report of the committee
on credentials the temporary organi-
zatlon was made permanent
The convention then proceeded to
nominate candidate for mayor, j. P.
Holland and Louis Schmidt having
been appointed tellers.
On the first ballot, which was infor-
NAL, Henry Mulburger received 13
votes and Alfred Meyer 1.
This was made a formal ballot, and
Mr.. Mulburger was declared the unan-
1mous choice of the convention.
The chair appointed Thomas Ke-
hoe, John Schatz and Gus Glazer a
committee to notify Mr.. Mulburger
of his nomination.
Mayor Mulberget appeared before
the convention and declined the hon
or, pleading that private interests
made it impossible for him to accept.
The next ballot resulted: H. G.
CRUDE 6, H. C. Mayer 5. scattering 3.
The next ballot stood CRUDE 6.
Mayer 5, scattering 8.
The final ballot gave CRUDE 8 and
Mayer 6.
The nomination was made unani-
nous, and Mr. CRUDE being brought
before the convention, accepted the
honor. He said he knew it was
difficult office to fill, but he would do
all in his power to serve the interests
of the city.
Only one vote was taken for treas
urer, of which Began received II,
Kessler 3 and Dobbratz l. Mr. Began
was declared the nominee.
Z. j. Wenck and G. Gloger had no
opposition for assessors.
James W. Moore, D. Blumenfeld
and John Davies were appointed
city committee for the ensuing year.
William T. Voss introduced a reso-
luton to change the representation in
future conventions. 1t provided that
each ward be entitled to one delegate
for every fifty Democratic votes, or
major fraction thereof, cast at the pre-
ceding state election
Ferd Schmutzler opposed the adop-
tlon OF the resolution, and as the
minority wards had a good thing the
resolution was defeated by a vote of
for to s against.
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
After the adjournment of the con-
vention the delegates from the Second
and Third wards came together and
renOminated w. d. Stacy for Justice
of the peace for the Second district.
julius Graunke was nominated for
justice of the peace for the Sixth ward.
WARD NOMINATIONS.
At the Democratic caucuses held
in the several wards last Friday even
ing the following candidates were
placed in nomination:
First Alderman, John Bru-
senbach; supervisor, VIM. F. Brandt
school commissioner, John Habhegger;
delegates, John Schatz, Emil Tanck.
Second ward-Alderman Charles
LutOvsky, supervisor, Gus Struck; del
egates, Louis Schmidt, r. H. Radtke.
Third ward-Alderman, VIM. Ed
wards; supervisor, James P. McGol
rick; school commissioner, James W.
Moore; delegates, Ferd Schmutzler. J.
P. Holland.
Fourth ward-Alderman, James M.
Malloy; supervisor. w. D. Stacy; del
egates, Gus Gloger, Charles Klemann.
Fifth ward-Alderman, Otto r.
Kruger; supervisor, Albert Jaeger;
school commissioner, w. S. Stein
mann; delegates, Louis Schulz, VIM.
Guetzlaff.
Sixth ward-Alderman, A. Wege-
mann; supervisor, Ulrich Habhegger;
delegates, W. F. Voss, F. A. Krueger
Seventh ward-Alderman, H. Fred
rich; supervisor, H. Breckenridge;
school commissioner, G. Vaughn; del
egates, Thomas Kehoe, Robert HASTEN.
FORT ATKINSON, Feb. 20, 1899
had been too sick and weak to do
any work for number of years, until
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