The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-10-28
SECOND WARD CAUCUS.
WAS HUGE Joke
DURING CAUCUS DEMOCRATS
ALLEGE BALLOT BOX WAS
SIMPLY STUFFED FULL,

Or, w, c. Logan last evening an,
nounced that he cannot possibly ac-
cept the nomination accorded him
for the Common Council Al the con-
vcntion of the so,called Citizens
convention Dr Logan had prev
iously fled his petition as 4 Demo
crat, for the four-year term from the
Second ward; while the nomination
! given him BY the convention was as
| a non-partisan for the two-year term.
Hence II would be impossible for
him To run On both,
Il fled as a Democrat said Or,
Logan 10 representative Of the
Astorian,s and It would not be pos
sible for me to accept the nomina.
ton for the two-year term given me
By the Citizens convention. Be
sides. the manner Of giving me that
nomination perhaps would not be
deemed entirely satisfactory"
That Is all that DR.. Logan would
say, His announcement means that
both he and George Kaboth, both
Democrats and both members Of the
present Council, will be active com
petitors for the same four-year term
| from the Second ward Bnt while
DR.. Logan would not say any more
about the matter, doubtless he could
tell much OF what he heard Of the
Second ward caucus that nominated
him.
Ii is charged that in the Second
ward caucus there were only %
voters present. BY actual count. II
is further charged that while there
were only 66 men present, that there
we're between l3O and l40 votes
cast Some say that one time there
were 205 votes cast.
This is so raw that it has Great
ed much merriment and outlaws Of
laughter all over town. One well
known citizen, a well known Demo
crat, too, is not backward in telling
a :
| how he saw one man put in 10 bal
lots at the one time, Another mar
is said to have put in 20 ballots. All
Of which is staggering, 50 egregious-
lly raw" that it almost ceases to be
unlawful and dishonorable and be-
comes merely a huge joke. One
| American citizen votes ten times; an.
other American citizen votes 2C
times; ont Of 66 voters actually pres
ent from 1870 TO 205 votes are cast.
| The funniest part Of it all-and the
worst part of it all-seems to be that
the whole matter is true. The au'
thority by which the Astorian states
this is all from the Democratic side
and it cannot be laid TO partisanship
Probably it viii be good many
years before Astoria forgets thi:
Second ward caucus.
| It is not hard to understand THE
reason for all this pernicious activity
lin Second ward politics.
Mr.. Kaboth and DR.. Logan are
both candidates for the same seat il
the Council, for the four-year term
Mr. Kaboth AYERS that DR.. Logan i
breaking his solemnly given promise
in running at all; Mr. Kaboth states
that in the presence Of three Others
Of the charter amendment committed
DR.. Logan stated positively and an
equivocaly that he would not run fol
Council; that he would be amply
content with place on the PROPOSED
Seawall Commission. With this un
derstanding, Mr.. Kaboth says tina
he went ahead and announced him
self as candidate for the four-yea
term believing that DR.. Logar
would not run at all
DR.. Logan denies all this. 1T i
not true" he said last evening. =
never made any such promise; MI
Kaboth is mistaken"
That Mr.. Kaboth had anything I,
do with the extraordinary ardor 0
the voters in the caucus at the con
vention may be doubted, but it evi
! IDENTIFY had occurred to some Of MI
Kaboth's friends that if DR.. Logai
were nominated for the two-yea
term this would either embarrass hin
or, perhaps, might even make hin
4 4 L.. rf AH.