The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1902-09-26

The battle for control of the Democrat
ic party in this city between the regular
party leaders and the Economic league
was fought tooth and nail, the result be
ing victory for the regulars, they ca--
rying seven of the ten wards, the league
capturing the delegations in the Third,
Fifth and Tenth wards, and making a
great fight and losing by very small
margin in the Second.
The main feature OF the struggle was
the state convention ticket, the Fitzger-
aid and anti Fitzgerald forces working
tooth and nail for the places.
In the Second ward the closest fight OF
the evening WAS made, the regulars win
ming by about 20 votes. The regular ticket
was headed by Col Thomas IL. Donahue,
chairman of the city committee and he
had against him Lawrence Grace. bust
ness agent OF the Team Drivers union
In the Third ward the Economic league
had walk over and the same is true
OF the Evans. or regular. ticket In the
Fourth.
In the Fifth the fight was for ward con
troll and IL is understood that the cand:-
dacy OF Mr.. Irons will not be opposed by
p. j. Mccarthy, although Mr.. Mccarthy
Is the first choice of the delegates elected
TO the convention to nominate members
TO the general assembly.
In the Sixth ward the Economic leagle
accused the ward committee of double
dealing but the regulars beat the two OPP
posing tickets squarely. A thirds ticket
appeared In the Seventh and carried the
caucus, beating both the regular ticket
and the league ticket.
There was no contest In the Eighth
ward but i'm the Ninth there was hard
struggle, Downey coming out on top.
In the Tenth the west faction swept
the opposition out of sight.
The complexion Of the general assem-
bly ticket To be nominated will probably
be not far from that outlined below, ac-
cording to the wishes OF the leaders:
First Representa- tive-David j Barry.
Second Representative-E. Dew. OCon-
nor,
Third Representative--John c. Lyons.
Fourth Representative - Samuel f..
Daubney.
Fifth Representative--Charl +. Irops.
sixth Representatve-Thom +. Car
roll.
Seventh Representative - Albert II.
Olnev.
Eighth Representative Samuel f.
Groves.
Ninth Representative-Not selected
Tenth Representative-Peter c. Cannon.
For representatives at large the Third
ward has Thomas +. Gallgan I'm view,
he being the choice or the voters or me
ward. The other delegate at large has not
been named. but will probably be a
Tenth ward man. The result of the pri-
maries H. detail.
FIRST WARD.
A big vote was recorded In the First
ward, one OF the largest in the history OF
the ward The regular ticket was victo-
rious, with one exception John T.. Hurley
being beaten by 10 votes by Thomas II.
Small for delegate to the state and con-
gressional conventions.
when Warden Carroll opened the polls
at 7 o'clock there was n line OF voters
waiting TO deposit their ballots and from
then until 2 O'Clock Pioneer hall was a
busy place. A total Of 4e4 votes was cast.
The ticket elected was as follows: Dele
gates To state and congressional conven-
tion-David J. Barry. John T.. Hurley,
owen REYNOLDS: delegates IN city con-
vention 10 nominate senator and repre-
sentat tives- stephen r. Honan. James III.
Fleming Edward J. Sullivan. John j.
Finan. John j. Murphy for warden-Wil-
liam Carroll; for ward committec-at
large, John H. Dwyer First district. Ar
thur w Granfield: Second district.
Charles M. Burns. Third district. stephen
r. Honan: Fourth district James r..
Tormey: Fifth district. Jerssiah Muir
ply: Sixth district. r. ]. o'Connor. Dele
gates 10 city convention for nomination
OF city governmental. J Dwyer. Mau-
rice Gouding. John II. Loughlin. George
Kearns. Daniel s. Mahoney. School COM
mittee for three years-Dr. william VI.
McIaushiin. District cierk-First district.
p. Lovett: Second district. Robert Y z.
Doyle; Third district. Dennis J. Costello;