St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1902-06-11
THE ST. JOHNSBURY CAUCUS.
NC cCuIlough Delegates Elected ON the
Second Ballot,

McCullOuSh delegates Elected ON the
Second Ballot.
St. Johnsbury scored in the state cam
paign last Friday night at the largest
caucus ever held here There were over
1000 people on the floor of the Stanley
Opera House and the galleries were filled
with democratic spectators. The town
committee had made careful preparation
for handling the crowd and they were
aided in their efforts by number Of bal
lot Clerks and a special committee ap-
pointed by the chair The call for the
caucus was read by P. F. Hazen, chair
man of the town committee, and the
organization was perfected by the eIec-
tion of Judge Walter P. Smith as chair
man and G. c. Frye clerk.
A motion was introduced by Alexander
Dunnett that the check list prepared by the
republican own committee be adopted by
the caucus and that the town committee
with Elmore T. Ide, Albert Worcester
and H. A. Bartlett be the court of last
resort to determine the qualihcat ations of
voters. This was unanimous adopted.
CHARLES A. Calderwood introduced a
motion that the delegates to the state
convention be elected by plurality, as
recommended by the state committee,
and save the necessity of voting all night.
This motion was vigorously opposed
by Marshall Montgomery, Judge Ross
and D. Y. Comstock, while another
SPEAKER wanted the first ballot to be a
majority ballot, and the rest plurality
ballot. On viva voce vote upon this
motion there was so much confusion that
cries of ballot came up from all over the
hall. Tie chair ruled that tie motion
should be decided by taking poll of the
voters. Out of TAT votes cast 256 IA
vored the motion and 491 were opposed
to it. 1t was then moved to choose the
dele gates by a majority vote.
R. W. Smonds presented the following
names for the Mccullough ticket: Henry
6. Ely, John c. Clark, Henry M. Cheney,
George H. Morrill,, Edgar l.. Stiles, Ro-
manzo Balch, c. A. Provost, Emerson E.
Sargent, Walter S. Russell, George H.
Cross.
Alexander Dunuett rose to place in
nomination the Proctor delegates, con-
sisting of the following men: +. c.
Fletcher, Walter P. Smith, Walter w.
Husband, William S. Boynton, Frank A.
Hudson, John R. Summerville, William
A. Mclaughlin, Henry F. Griswold,
! George A. Burbank and Lambert H.
brief speech in the interests Of his candi.
date before cries of ballot filled the hall
and all efforts of the chairman to quiet
the house were fruitless.
After Mr.. Dunnett sat down order was
restored and Alfred Crocker, Jr., presented
the Clement ticket, consisting OF the fol-
lowing delegates: c. A. Calderwood,
Horace A. Kidder, George Spauldlng,
Erastus H. Halett, Frank Carr, James
H. Thompson, M. J. Hovey, H. A. Bart
lett, Fred Gilman, J. N. St. Germain.
1t took about an hour to take the bal
lot, which resulted as follows:
Whole number of votes cast, 917
Necessary for choice, 459
Mccullough delegates, 348
Clement delegates, 800
Proctor delegates, 260
The secoud and last ballot was finished
at l O'Clock and resulted as follows
Whole number OF votes cast, $50
Necessary tor choice, AL
Mccullough delegates, AL
Clement delegates, 322
Proctor delegates, III
The result OF the ballot was received
with prolonged applause and the caucus
was speedily adjourned.
Aside from the ungentlemanly attempt
to prevent Mr. Dunnett from speaking
the caucus was orderly and the chairman
deserves great credit for his management
of the crowd and the despatch with
which the business was transacted. The
Clement men expected their side would
lead on the first ballot and hoped to win
out on protracted contest. After the
first ballot was announced the bulk of
the Proctor men voted Tor the leading
candidate to prevent the Clement men
from winning, and thus claiming high
license victory.