The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-03-26
|THE DEMOCRATS
Held meetings
harrington Gave kenney Close Race
For the Nomination for Mar.
shall at Last Evenings
Primaries.
OFF WAS ENDORSED
IF WAS ENDORSED
wwo Of the Wards Instructed Their
delegates to Vote For Off For
Mayor at Tonisht's
Convention.

The Democrats held their ward pri-
maries last evening, naming candi-
dates for aldermen, selecting delegates
favorable to John M. Kenney for
marshal and endorsing Charles Off
for mayor In couple of wards.
The following are nominated for
aldermen:
First ward-J. A. Henneman.
Second ward--Patrick Tigue, Jr.
Third ward-F N. Publisky.
Fourth ward-Audrew j. McCor-
mick.
Fifth ward.-Joseph Lundgren.
Sixth ward-Albert Keifer.
Kenney delegations were named in
the first, third fifth and sixth wards,
while Harrington secured the delega-
tons from the second and fourth
wards, thus giving Kenney the ma
jority. SO that he will be named at
the city convention this evening for
marshal.
Four of the aldermanic candidates
were named by acclimation, but in the
fourth ward and sixth ward there
we're contests.
In the fourth ward Mccormick had
90 votes while Dunn received 90.
In the sixth ward Kiefer ran away
from his two opponents, receiving 167
votes while Haggerty lad 81 and
Mayer had but Is.
The fourth and sixth wards instruct
ed their delegates to vote for Charles
Off for mayor this evening at the city
convention.
How the Vote Stood.
The real noise of the evening was
the selection of delegates, Kennedy
and Harrington each having tickets in
the field. The vote on these delega-
tions were as follows:
First ward, Kenney AZ; Harrington
Second ward, Harrington, 1874; Ken
ney III.
Third ward, Kenney 70; Harrington
Fourth ward, Harrington rs; Ken
ney &C.
Fifth ward, Kenney SO, Harrington
49,
Sixth ward, Kenney 1874; Harring-
ton As.
The Democrats give the entire dele
cation to the winning man in a ward,
instead of pro-rating the vote, SO that
according to this. Kenney will have
y votes and Harrington IA in the
city convention this evening
The details of each ward primary
was as follows:
First Ward.
The first ward meeting was held in
the grand jury room Of the county
court house and was called to order
by Cortes Maxwell D. F. Miller was
made chairman and Cortes Maxwell
acted as secretary.
j. A. Henneman was nominated for
alderman by DR.. b. F. Bailey and the
nomination was made by reclamation.
The kenney delegation received AZ
votes and consisted of the names of
d. j. Ayres, John Erhart. John Cos
grove and John w. Carver.
The Harrington delegation received
> votes and consisted of J. B. Hutchin.
son, w. w. Gwinn, John Griffith and
Robert Scherer
T. P. Gray was named as committee
man for the ensuing year
Second Ward.
D. d. Harrington called the second
ward primary to order in the district
c-urt room. T. j. Hickey was made
chairman and T. E. O'Brien acted as
secretary.
Patrick Tigue. Jr.. was named by
acclimation as the candidate for alder
man, c. j. Haubert presented his
name before the convention.
The Harrington delegation received
lo4 votes and was elected. 1t consists
ol the following: VIM. Murphy, John
llgue, John C. Wellehan, Fred Erman,
oharles Prescott, VIM Vermazen, E.
strakweather, VIM. Morgan, Charles
Price.
E The kenney delegation received Ill