The Portland daily press., 1900-06-06
VOTE BY WARDS.


The Republican caucuses held last even
ing to choose delegates to the county,
state and district conventions resulted in
a landslide. The contest was on the
county attorney delegates and the tickets
were made up in this way: Robert Il.
whitehouse will have SO Of the "a dele
gates to the county convention in this
city. His tickets were successful in every
ward In Portland excepting in ward
seven, where Mr.. George II. Allan, the
other candidate for this nomination,
resides. In ward three a most unusual
thing happened, and as unusual things
are expected to occur in ward three when
they do occur, what happened there last
night was not a great surprise. Herbert
II. Sargent, an Allan delegate, got one
more vote in the caucus than did Andrew
J. Rich, who was delegats for Mr.. White
house and thereby Mr.. Allan secured one
delegate out of the seven in this war d.
These delegates chosen last night meet
to choose a delegate at large this after
noon at four O'Clock As the Whitehouse
delegates will be In the majority at this
lHtttiuk IA VI tAiCAil 6berIu tuOEctttttU
probable that they will choose another
whitehouse delegate to fill out the list.
This will, as It has been said, give Mr..
Whitehouse SO of the "a delegates.
While the result of last nights caucuses
does not settle the county attorney con-
test 1t at least gives Mr.. Whitehouse u
great advantage. He claimed before yes
terday's caucuses to have q very large
percentage Of the county delegates and
these with the delegates favorable to him
from Portland will give him, so he
claims, very big majority in the county
convention.
As rule the caucuses were very orderly
and in some Of the wards 1t was so quiet
that 1t was hard to realize that a caucus
was in progress. In ward one, for sx-
ample, where the Whitehouse delegates
received two votes for almost every one
cast for the Allan delegates, 1t was the
quietest caucus In years. In ward two
there was large vote but it was all one
way. In ward three there was hot
contest. As the afternoon wore away and
the time for closing came near at hand
the excitement increased. First one side
was reported to be in the lead and the n
the other. Both of the candidates had
active workers in the field and they
worked hard. 1t was the liveliest caucus
in years but the Whitehouse ticket won
six out of the seven delegates by small
margin. Ward three was believed to be
an Allan stronghold. The Whitehouse
men We're prepared to fight but didn't
hope to win. The result was therefore
very gratifying to Mr.. Warehouses; sup
porters.
The caucus In ward four was very
quiet affair and the Whitehouse men !
won almost two to one. In ward five |
the vote was very close, the caucus hot |
one but Mr.. Whithouse's delegates had |
few votes to spare all the time and were |
eight ahead when the polls CLOSED
Ward six is Mr.. Warehouses; ward |
There his ticket was in great demand |
and Mr.. Allan's friends, though they |
made a warm fight, did not expect to |
carry it for their candidate. The White |
house ticket won here by a majority of 90. |
Ward seven is Mr.. Allan's ward. This |
was conceded to Mr.. Allan by the White |
house men before this polls opened but |
they put up stiff fight and the Allan
supporters worried not q little until the |
vote was counted. Mr.. Allan's majority |
here was 81. Ward eight was almost two
to one for Whitehouse but In ward nine
there was hot fight, the Whitehouse
ticket winning by only four votes.
How this list of delegates viii affect
the Senatorial contest only time can tell. |
The tickets We're made up on the county !
attorney fight with no combinations
Each candidate for county attorney con-
coded SO many Melcher delegates or so
many Virgin delegaes In each ward as 1t
best suited his own interests. 1t Ia
Thought that the delegates are about