Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-03-02
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means Of a committee appointed by the
chair, shouts of disapproval arose A
viva voce vote was taken and Chair
man Cheadle decided that the ayes
had it. Immediately the dissenting
forces started moving from the build
ing intending to hold rump meeting.
A compromise was suggested by mem
bers of the Phillips force and the out
ward movement stopped. However tho
progress of the meeting was not alter
ed and while those who had been dis
satisfied with the vote on the commit
tee were waiting for division of the
house. as had been suggested, the vot-
ing for the aldermanic candidate was
begun. Herman Bremhorst was elect
ed as the candidate for alderman over
G. Ostertag, G. r. Carlson and John F.
Rugg.
The committee appointed by Chair
man Cheadle to select the delegates
was composed Of w. B. Murray Peter
Gallagher and Clyde Algire. The del
egation reported by this committee
was selected to represent the fourth
ward at the city convention. The dele
gates were instructed for Phillips for
mayor. w. B. Murray was chosen as
committeeman for the ensuing two
years.
The following is the list of dele
gates:
w. B. Murray, j. T. Healy, v. Muir.
ray, S. R. Cheadle, ]. v. ,Curran, James
O'Malley, Peter Gallagher, 7. ]. Laney.
". B. Silvers, Charles Jones, j. f..
Carrothers, J. n. Conroy, P. H. Craw-
ley, ]. A. Lowenburg, ION Holland,
G. s. Algtre, J. G. Huffman, N. A. Ford
and John Bliley.
Alternates Mike WEIGH, Patrick
McGrath. Joe Marrinan and James
Quinlan.
Fifth Ward.
In the fifth ward the fight was hot
and the struggle continued for more
than two hours An attempt to in
struct the delegation to the city con-
vention to support r. ]. Phillips was
defeated after hard struggle in
which the wrangling was very marked
A motion to instruct for w. w. Rankin
for police Judge was lost The dele
gates were, however, instructed to sup
port Charles Deeds for city auditor
The delegation is mixed one
j. N. Weidenfeller was renominated
for ward alderman after fight. In
the first formal ballot he received 1877
votes as against 81 for L. F. Stark. It
was at first decided to select the de-
ed too slow after the first three mem
/. bers of the delegation had been chosen
and 1t was decided to allow the chair
to appoint committee Of five to Sc
lect the remaining delegates.
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meeting. j. A. Strader was selected
for committeeman for the coming
two years.
The following is the list of dele
gates:
L. F. Stark, H. Adcock, L. Schaub,
4 T. @. Wellman, William McGloyhen,
M. L. Reed, John Strader, W. F. Bly,
stone, P. j. Hess, Nels Nelson, Charles
Barrier, B. G. Coons, l. Brilliar, P. T,
Springer, P. Snyder, G. Richardson,
j. R. Baker, John Schockley, Frank
Hendricks, Benton Skinner, w. II.
Brady, John w. Alderdice, H. E.
/ Shreeves.
Alternates- John. Erbacher, John
Dummler. A. Cundiff, Dan styre,
Pete Schwartz.
Sixth Ward.
i BY one of the largest bodies Of men
that ever turned out at democratic
primary in the sixth ward Phillips
delegation was elected. Chairman P
3, Murphy had a hard time Of 1t
Everything got mixed up, and every.
body tried to run things but the meet,
ing was finally finished after three
hours of fighting and wrangling.
The nomination for ward alderman
was closely contested, two votes be
ing required to select Samuel Hawk
over Henry Williams. For the las,
ballot the Hawk men lined up on one
side and Williams men on the Other
and Hawk won out by two men. The
Phillips delegation easily won out
having a majority of 20 votes, ovel
the Reed delegation.
d Delegates from the sixth ward were
chosen as follows:
Z w. H. Stevens, H. G. Williams, e
G. French, j. NJ Peck, N. P. Byrne
I H. Howells, H.. Price, G. Llewellyn
j. Ryan, B. F. Biggs, T. H. Wells
George Chase, w. H. Farmer, FREQ
Hawk. Ed Erskine, P. B.. Murphy, ]
W. Ninemier, George Howard, Mike
Carr Pat Shuckrow, James Riley, H
l. McCarrel, Harry BisseI, George
]. Johnson, M. L. Byrne, Charlie;
Davis, A. McNichols.
Seventh Ward.
4 At 1890 O'clock this morning, afte
struggling since o'clock in the even
u ing the seventh ward primaries ad
journed, having nominated Ed Styr'
as ward alderman and fifteen dele
gates to the city convention.
The delegation Is regarded as beini
J mixed Phillips has small repre-
sentation and many of the fifteen dele
. gates were backward about declarin
themselves. S. P. Hartman and A. j
/, Stump were chairman and secretav
of the meeting.
: Three men were nominated for war
alderman, e. Styre, Dan Shea an
d William Parker. Vote was taken b
ballot There were 1876 votes cast a
9 follows: Styre, 10; Shea, 81; Parke,
9.
!. On motion Of J. w. Lewis the poll
were then open for fifteen minute
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