The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1902-02-28

The city republican executive COM
ldit5Sse with r. T. Lowndes. Jr., as
chairman, met in Lowndes' store
sThursday night OF last week. The
call for the meeting was made that
y morning. The committee pursuant 70
The cali met that night, and, though
There was some objection, fixed last
saturday night as the date for hold
ling the municipal primaries IN the
various wards and Monday night as
the time for the ciay convention. The
: action of the committee was regarded
"a rather hasty, but the people mani
4 tested great interest and turned OUT
{ al the primaries in large NUMBERS.
they lined up on two sides one head
ed by Charles w. Moore and the other
sby I.C. Grille, both candidates for
iaa Scs In the First ward Mr.. Moore's
sifiei,is secured control Of the primary
and secured the delegates to the city
convention. In all other wards the
other side secured control and elected
4 its delegates by large majorities. The
contest was a lively one and great
deal df interest was shown. In the
Second ward there was practically no
effort by Mr.. Moore to secure the dele
gallon. In the Third ward fight was
made against Frank B. Moore for
council, @. b.. Outright being the
candidate OF the side led by Chas. W.
Moore, but Mr. Outright was defeated
.bya vote Of more than two to one, and
the list Of delegates for Mr.. Grille were
selected by similar vote. In the
Fourth ward Charles M. Hart was Sc
lected for councilman over Stephen
a. Lewis by a good sized majority and
mi. CRIES delegation went through
inithe same way. In the Fifth ward
Cbl. I. B. Seely was nominated for
council. Charles w. Lynch's name
was presented but he did not want the
( pIace. this ward Mr.. Grille also got
thedelegation by big majority.
AS soon as the results of the prima-
4 rles were learned, Mr.. Moore conceded
4 Iifs defeat for the mayoralty nomina-
ton and 1t was later decided by his
friends that he should withdraw from
therace.
The delegates to the convention
were as follows
First Ward Dan Liner, ] A Nc
Cloud, Henry Chakelford, Otis Nc
Cloud, Morgan Wood, Brent Mead, J
q. Cunningham, @ II Blake, Thomas
sullivan, p W Warner.
Second ward Edward Thompson, |
\ M Kelley, j u Denhaih, ] Z Rutfln, G
w Thomas, M B Gurkendall, $ II
GUS, q w Shuttleworth, f B Hay
maker, "A X Kessler.
Third ward-F R Moore, Ellsworth
Cork, j r Araiss, b F Robinson, w G
Morrison, WIG Showalter, Cecil B
Highland, Frank Shuttleworth, G w
Law, DR. Nelson Peck.
flourish ward-H d Boughner, B w
BoeFess, James N Hess, orie Nc
Gonkey, G Z Patton, 3 L Morrison,
IIlner Wells, w 4 Cole, 2 w r Wal
deck, Ed W Henry.
Fifth ward T B Seely, Br G w
II aitermau, H NJ Rapp, Aaron Wilson,
WLynch, G Il Mercer, Samuel Core,
N IS Fultz, George Isenhart. John
3igginbotham.
1t s clock Monday night Il. I.
owndes, Jr., as chairman Of the exec
,tive committee called the conven-
zion: ID order in the court house and
named G. w. Lynch and NJ B Curken
iali, al temporary chairman and sec
taty respectively. Mr.. Lowndes
ticket would be nominated
lAte, which he hoped would be elect.
The temporary organization was
fiAS e permanent and the Formally Of
~ nR committees was then dispens-
cd NTH by proceeding at once to the
nominal Ion of candidates.
Nv, Lynch in a few well chosen
emaSks nominated L, Q. Grille for
mayor, The name Of N. NJ. Thompson
as ptesented by Mr.. Warner, Of the
d4st Ward. The vote stood 81 for
lrile, 10 for Thompson and 3 scatter
5 5nc. Grille was declared the nominee.
ha first wards vote was solid for
Thompson.
Nj Thompson was not q candidate
y ~ mayor. and had repeatedly declin-
+ al "a hive anything 70 do With the 4
81 as his nominate would have
fSktefialIy effected his profess lOnai