Arizona republican., 1908-08-01
THE CAUCUSES
 FOR DWELL
A Close Contest In the
 Second Ward
Elsewhere the Smith Fol lowers Failed to Develop
 Any Noticeable Strength.

The democratic caucuses last night brought out a fight between the fol- | lowers of Mark Smith and Brady ! O'Nein which was won by the latter | in all of the wards though in the sec 1 ond they triumphed by the margin of a single vote. They had rather eX- pected defeat there. So close was the l contest regarded that there were pre- liminary proposals to divide the ticket That could not be agreed to and then there was an agreement between the | O'Neill and Smith men to stand by | the result of the caucus so that there should be no opposing ticket at the | primaries today.
 The vote for a chairman resulted in a tie and then Vernon Clark who had 1 called the meeting to order was per
 mitted to sit in the chair.
 It was a well defined and openly
 prearranged contest. The tickets were printed and it was stated at the head
 of them whom they were for so that
 in the count only the names of Smith and O'Neill were called. The count resulted, Smith. IA; O'Neill, 15. In the third ward there was not a visible contest in the selection of the ticket but the fight came on a motion to instruct the candidates for delegates to the county convention to vote as a
 unit for an O'NeiIl delegation to the territorial convention. This motion was carried and Seth Byers arose and remarked that that was no place for him and left the court room where the caucus was held. He was accompanied by three other members of the eau GUS
 There was some preliminary sllir- mishing Tn the first ward. The Smith people were not numerous but active and sought to make in adrOitness what they lacked in numerical strength. There was several rejected proposals for the placing of ticket before the house and finally the can didates were nominated from the floor with the result that a majority of the members of the caucus were put in nomination. The vote showed an O'Neill strength of "A to i.
 In the fourth ward there was very little anti-O'Neill sentiment.
 There will probably be contests to- day in some of the wards, more likely in the third but if the caucus tickets carry in Phoenix O'Neill, will undoubt- edly secure the Maricopa delegation Though Tempe and Mesa and the south side generally will be against him, he will have the Phoenix delega- tion, itself half Of the convention, the delegation from Osborn and probably majority of the outside delegations on the north side
 The Phoenix caucus tickets are as follows:
 First Ward-F. M. Mognett, Ollie Bellas, J. M. Shott, C. O. Case, Geo. | Lyall, Joe Balz, Theo. Olea, M. J. 1 Pettid, Luis Killeen, John Luke. w. c. | Dawes. w. B. Lount. Frank Martinez, l c. R. Price. O. l.. Mahoney.
 Second Ward-Jim McCarty, H. H | McNeil, Frank Lyman, J. w. Cren- shaw l.. D. Dameron, Robert Walker, | A. G. Austin. J. H. Langston. Lysander | Cassidy, George F. Merryman, R H | Smith, J. D. Marlar J. o. Toney, Rob- l ert Fridell.
 Third Ward-Frank DeSouza, Jeff | Adams, w. D. Bell, w. M F'ickas, J. | H. Baker. Charles Dunlap, J. J. Otero, | F. W. Spears, J. w. Ambrose, A. J. | Thoman.
 Fourth Ward-W T. Smith, Joe Bush, E. B. Rives. Ramon Savedra, | R. A. Bernal, Eugene Jackson, William |