Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1901-11-28

auditorium of the Acme opera house,
Tuesday evening, in response to call
for a convention to nominate city officers.
A noticeable, and pleasing, feature of
the gathering was the fact that the
business men of the city were we'll
represented.
The caucus was organized at s o'clock
by the selection of Clyde B. Weatherwax
for chairman and Fred A. Hart for sec
rotary. Chairman Weatherwax briefly
stated the object OF the meeting, and
rule of procedure was adopted.
The first nomination in order was that
of mayor. DR.. S. G. Maker placed the
name OF l.. l.. Maley before the conven-
ton for that position, which nomination
was warmly seconded by J. j. Carney.
The present mayor, VIM. Anstie, was
placed in nomination in eulogistic
speech by Judge Pearson, and, the
nominations being closed, a ballot showed
Maley to be the choice of the meeting
by a vote of 147 to 120, a total vote OF
269 being cast. AS will be seen the adj
herents of Maley and Anstie were closely
divided, and the announcements of tho
result was hailed with vociferous APP
plause by the winners. This vote, con-
sidering the representative caucus
present. was conceded upon all sides as
indicative of the voting strength of the
opposing candidates, and the opinion
was freely expressed that no attempt
would be made by the friends of Anstie
to run another ticket.
For city treasurer A. f. Coats present.
ed the name of Phil. $. Locke, and, in
opposition were named w. W. Weather.
wax and 0. j. Lawrence. The vote Of
the house was complimentary to Mr..
Locke, he receiving l6l votes to 81 for
Weatherwax and "a for Lawrence.
G. p. l.. Roberts, in a neat speech,
placed +. f. Shield in nomination for
city attorney, and j. G. Cross was warm
ly suggested for that position by j. j..
Carney Shields secured the nominal
ton by vote of 146 to Ill.
For city clerk, the present incumbent,
Geo. A. Black, received very handsome
approval of his services, by the unani-
NOUS nomination Of the caucus for re-
election. To the boquet thus thrown at
him, Mr.. Black responded by short
thankful speech.
DIR. G. w. Overmeyer was the unani-
nous choice of the caucus for the posi-
ton of health officer, and was named on
the ticket.
At this juncture Chairman Weather.
wax called attention to the necessity Of
naming the ticket, at whose birth we
were all officiating, to which, upon
motion, it was decided to name the in
Yant the "Citizens' Ticket
For councilman at large the names of
A. H. Farham, j. S. Gum and N. G..
kaufman were presented. ballot
showed Mr.. Gum to be the choice of the
house by vote of 115 to n for Farnam
and % for Kaufman.
THE WARD CAUCrsEs.
After the completion OF the general
ticket by the main caucus, meetings
were held in the First and Second wards,
to nominate councilmen from those
wards. The First ward caucus was held
in the Office of the West & Slade Mill
Co. and resulted in the nomination of
Conrad Knudson and j. II. Leitch for
councilman.
The Second ward caucus was held in
the city council room, and was organ
lied with N. W. Bush as chairman and
w. B. Mack secretary. But one coun-
Gilman was to be named by this ward,
and NJ. II. Sherwood received the nomi-
nation, and in so doing had the compl-
ment paid him OF getting II votes out OF
the 81 cast.
Without saying anything compliment
airy Of, or derogotary to, the ticket named,
it is but proper to throw a boquet or two
at the business men OF Aberdeen fol
their presence at the caucus. 1t was
noticed by all old-timers that the meet