The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1900-02-10
Lively Contests in Wards Two and
Four.
Mr.. Driscoll Nominated
in Ward Two.
Mr.. j. L. +. Connolly Succeeds
i'm Ward Four.

The Democratic cauoues we're held last
night. They were Of the usual cut and
dried ordere excepting In two wards
where there are enough Democrats to
make a contest interesting. In ward
eight there are NO Democrats. II there
are any there they failed to put In an an
pearanos at the Democratic caucus and
90 no nominations were made. Evident
Iy ward eight has reached almost an ideal
condition as the people there seem to be
nearly all Of one mind In political mat
tiers as tar as party lines are concerned.
In wards two and four there were the
usual contests. In ward two Council
man Florence II. Drisooll was nominated
for alderman without opposition. while
Samuel Rosenberg was turned down and
Joseph NJ cLanuglhin, Jr., was no,ni-
mated for third term In the council. In
ward four Cour Gilman Tobias A. Burke's
services to his party and his ward In the
city council were recognized by bis con-
stituents who fsilsd to support him In
his effort to be nominated as alderman.
Had the weather been propifious Mr..
Burke would have given Mr.. Connolly
the successful candidate run for his
money, SO Mr.. Burke's friends claim but
Mr.. Burke could not control the weather
aud so was defeated.
WARD ONE.
The caucus chose Thomas II. Gateley,
Jr., chairman and Martin s. Burke, Sec
rotary.
Aldsrman-Edgar S. Fossett.
Councilmen-Milton ]. Lor'ng, John
II. Connesn, William F. Shaw.
Warden-Riohard /. Nelsy.
Ward Clsrk-Martin s. Burke.
School Commit tse-Oakley O. Curtis.
Constables-Wnlia,n Price, Edward
]. Logue.
Delegntes-John +. Blake. Charles Il.
Guptill, Hiram Pierce, Hezekiah Roberts.
Oakley g. Curtis, John b. kehos.
City Committee-T. ID. Gateley, JE,
Martin Il. Hogan, James h. Butler, j.
h. Conneen. Thomas u. Small.
WARD TWO.
The caucus In ward two was lively,
boisierous and In many ways most dis
graceful affair. wild, uposlled for scenes
pIedominating from tbs very minute that
the gathering was called to order until IL
had been adjourned after being in session
for an hour and half.
There was n good crowd In attendance
when Councilman Joseph Mclaughlin.
Jr, who is the chairman Of the ward
committee. jumped upon chair and read
the GALL. Just as soon as he had finished
reading the tumuit commenced, the row
Starting over the selection to tie made Of
chairman. Several men with good, lusty
voices hollered out the respective names
of Cornelius A. MsnDix and William II.
Doughtsry. This was kept up for some
ten minutes and the excitement became
intense. The champions If both gentle
men pushed their way through the crowd
and savagely pointed their fingers to the
pre-. iding officer and demanded that they
be listened to.
"Just keep quiet, or you won't have
any chairman tonixht," Mr.. Mclaughlin
managed to say between the outcries.
"Stop shaking your fingers at me-"
Then the presiding officer tried to
smooth matters over by suggesting that
the hall be divided, the Mannix sup
portsrs taking one side and the Dougherty
sympathizsrs taking the other side. But
this at oncs me. with opposition, for
several of the voters explained that there