The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-07
NO INTEREST
IN WARD FIVE
Hagberg's Victory Knocked All
Fight Out of Democrats and
They Fail to File Nominations
for CauCuSeS
CITY COMMITTEE WILL
NAME CANDIDATES

NAME CANDIDATES
No Contest in Any Ward Over the
Delegation to the Municipal
Convention Although Peter F
Sullivan Had to Be PaCified in
Ward Three
| The states to be submitted to the
Democratic voters at their caucuses,
Nov IS, were partially arranged by
the ward workers yesterday. but there
are few to be fixed up and these will
be attended to by the officials of the
city committee before Saturday when
the full lists of candidates to go on the
official ballots at the caucuses must
be submitted to the city clerk. The
most interest was centered in the lists
of delegates to the municipal conven-
ton and every ward was represented
in the list filed yesterday. Contrary to
the expectations of some, there is only
one list in every ward so the contests
that were looked for in this direction
will be missing The evening papers
yesterday printed stories that dire
things were to happen in some of the
wards where more than one list was
| to be filed, but it was all warm at
mosphere as only eight lists were in
when the time expired and no more
can be entered now.
The only unlocked for thing in con-
nection with the delegations to the
municipal convention happened to the
Ward three delegation. Here Represen-
tative Peter F. Sullivan got out his
battle axe and forced the removal Of
the names of William l. Mclaughlin
and Patrick j. Shea from the list I'M
der threat that he would file an OPP
position list and make things decided
ly warm for the list bearing the names
of the two men under his ban. MIR.
Sullivan is very warm under the col
lar and hereafter it is to be war to the
knife between him and ex-Representa-
tive Mclaughlin, who he claims did
all in his power to secure the election
of Daniel F. Shea, the Republican can
didate, to the General Court from
Ward three, Mr.. Sullivan's eyes were
swapping fire yesterday afternoon
when he told a reporter for The Spy
he is now out to do Mr.. Mclaughlin
and his crowd every time they show
their heads above the political horizon.
He claims the political control of the
ward and says that for his underhand
business Tuesday Mr.. Mclaughlin
will be special mark for the Sullivan
cohorts in the days to come.
He got to work as soon as he got
outside his breakfast yesterday morn
ioa orhar
who is seeking an aldermanit nominal
tion with the Ward three delegation to
back him. Mr.. Meagher's list that was
filed with Secretary Charles H. Writer
of the Democratic City Committee con-
tanned the names of Mr.. Mclaughlin
and Mr. Shea, and Mr.. Sullivan threat
ened that if these names were not re-
moved he would get a move on and
file another list of delegates that would
do things to the list in Mr. Meagher's
interests. In order to save trouble and
keep harmony as near the surface as
possible, Mr.. Meagher had a run-to-
gether with some of his supporters
and, as Mr.. Mclaughlin was also will
ing to save trouble for Mr.. Meagher,
the names were withdrawn and Mr..
Sullivan claims the honor of substitute
ing the names of two of his Italian
supporters in the ward.
On the other hand, the Mclaughlin
men claim his retirement was volun-
tary, and that he went to Mr.. Meagher
Saturday and asked to have his name
taken from the list, and in accordance
with that request his name was re-
moved However that may be, the list
that was filed yesterday from Ward
three had all the names typewriter ex-
cepting the last two, and they were
written by hand.
The Ward three delegation is the only
one pledged, and that for Mr.. Meagher
for alderman. None of the other lists
is pledged, either for mayor or alder
manic candidates, but the makeup of
all seems to indicate that the mayor
atty convention will renominate Mayor
Philip J. O'Connell.
The aldermanic possibilities all have
places in the delegations from their
own wards, including James F. Nc
Govern of Ward one, Wilhelm G. Lich-
tenfels from Ward two, John H.
Meagher from Ward three, Edward ].
Mcmahon from Ward four, and John B.
Ratigan from Ward six.
The Democrats of Ward five were so
disheartened by the beating they re-
ceived Tuesday they did not file any
nominations for the Common Council,
School Committee or ward committee.
The Democratic City Committee will
look after these details before Satur-
day, and indications are DIR. William
r. Langlois will be put on the ballot
for School Committee, and Charles A.
Orstrom and John E. Cashen for the
Common Council.
The city committee will also have to
perform similar duties for Wards one
as regards school committee, eight as
regards school committee and Common
Council and six as regards Common
Council
Nobody seems to be willing to act as
the guiding stars for the party next
year. and only three lists of candidates
for ward committee are filed. They
are Wards one, three and seven. All
the others are shy and will have to be
nominated by the city committee OFF,
Gals. The Ward one ward committee
I is short one name, that of Charles H.
/ Writer but Mr.. Writer will probably
consent to serve another year, and his
name will be put on the list before
Saturday. James F. McGovern and
John w. Sheehan are nominated in
place of Thomas ]. Kelleher and Ed
ward Gully.
/ Peter F. Sullivan has captured the
Ward three committee, the list filed
yesterday containing the names of
Frank ]. Heslin, Nicholas H. O'Connor
and James P. Higgins in place of John
H. Meagher, Emil Zaeder and Edward
T. Conley.
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