The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-02-16
Spirited Contest 2 Bane's
MayoraIty w. LION at the
Citizp, lcus Last Even
lhSS ..ere Being a Large At
tendance of Voters.
NAME OF EX-MAYOR ROBINS
WAS NOT PRESENTED
Shortly Before Caucus He Declined to
Enter the Contest--There Were Only
Two Other Ballots Required in
Naming Entire City Ticket.

Instead Of three-cornered fight, as
expected by many, the citizens mayoral-
1 ty nomination last night turned into a
contest between Mayor James Mutch
! and President l.. " Thurston OF the
i board of aldermen, the latter winning by
268 to POI votes. Ex-Mayor John Rob-
ins. who had been prominently mentioned
during the day, did not go before the
caucus
But it seems that the caucus was only
a skirmish, as Immediately after The
/ close of it the supporters of Mayor
Muteh went to the city clerks office and
| fled papers for Mutch as the trades.
union candidate for mayor, the papers
4 being signed last night BY twentv-thrce
names. So the battle will come on March
| 5 at the election. and then it viii be
three -cornered, as the Socialists have a
candidate up in the person of Robert
( Gordon.
The complete ticket named BY the
caucus last night was as follows:
For mayor i. Fl. Thurston.
For city clerk-James Mackav
For city treasurer-Iames Mackay
For first constable NJ. b. Nichols
For second constabIe-C. T. Southpate.
For directors of the French Barre H.
brary-Iohn w. Gordon, r. s. Currier
and f g. Rowland
For auditors flor one year)-0. ]. r.
Matthews. John L. Wallace and Charles
A. Lundgren.
For assessor-For three years. Martin
Riley; for two years, Frank B. Cate;
for one year, Augustus NJ Rossi.
With the exception of the mayoralty
and the two-year and the one-year term
candidates for assessor, this ticket Is
identical with the officers who were
elected last spring Aside from the first
place on the ticket. there was a contest
between O. ]. L. Matthews and A. I.
Moves for auditor. the former winning,
and between F. b. Cate and T. Could
More for assessor for two years, the
first-named winning.
The opera house apparently was well
filed when F. G. Howland called the
meeting to order, but the total vote caist
rather helied the appearance there be-
ing few less than 500 votes, albeit
that is good sized caucus for Barre.
At once the green. painted moderatori
tdnip caught Tue eve Ot -. II hldft anu
he took the occasion to "bless the green
when he nominated Mr.. Rowland for
moderator There being no opposition,
Mr. Howland was elected moderator, and
City Clerk Mackay was chosen secre-
tary, being named by Even Mckenzie.
Two Names Up for Mayor.
Nominations for candidates for mayor
being called for. Alexander Ironside in
a short speech named Mayor Mutch. de-
claring that the present mayor has done
his duty and filled the office as accept
ably as anyone in the city's history.
Next came j. Ward Carver, who pre-
sented the name of +. H. Thurston. as
serting that Mr.. Thurston's twelve years
on the board of aldermen, his chairman
ship of the street committee and his
service on most of the other committees
fitted him for the office of mayor call
ing attention also to Mr.. ThTston's
sobriquet of watchdog of the treasury
and not a dishonest watchdog, said the
speaker. and "old warhorse," and not a
dishonest warhorse, he added
The latter nomination was seconded
by f. L. Smith, N. d. Phelps and A. g.
Fay. and Mayor Mutch was seconded
by ]. p. Marr. The moderator asked if
there were further nominations. but
there was no response, it having become
known prior to the caucus that ex-Mayor
Robins had decided not TO allow his
name to be used.
with the two names before them, the
voters formed an Indian file around the
hall and trailed across the platform,
where they deposited their printed bal
lots, under the eyes of the following
tellers; Alexander Ironside, j. p Marr,
]. Ward Carver. n d. Phelps, A. G. Fay,
d. p. Town, II. w. Scott and B. w.
Hooker. The result of the voting was
declared as follows:
Whole number cast ....., 40
Necessary ................ ?3i
Mutch had ............. 201
Thurston had ............ 23s
md Alderman Thurston was declared ths
lominee of the caucus.
Nominations by Acclamation.
After S. Hollister Jackson had named
sity Clerk and Treasurer Mackay as u
andidate to succeed himself, the nomi-
lation was by unanimous acclamation,
here being no other nominee.
First Constable Mark B Nichols was