The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-05-17
NO INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN.
Barre Republicans and Democrats Left
Choice to Delegates Judgment.

The Republican and Democratic eau
euses in Barre last evening were yer,
harmonious gatherings and in neither on,
of them were instructions given to tn,
delegates elected to the state conyen
tions.
Some thirty Republicans gathered il
the city council chamber for their eau
Gus, being called to order by NJ. S.
Rounds of the city committee, who later
was elected secretary while F. G. How
land was elected chairman. Delegates tc
the state election were nominated from
the floor. and it was evident that no slate
had been prepared. The seven delegates
are Alexander Gordon, III. g. Woodruff
Il. r. Hutchinson, Thomas Nichols, vii.
liam Wishart, F. l.. Small and John Bish.
op. They were empowered to choose
their own alternates.
A new city committee was constituted
as follows Ward /, r. G. Rowland; 2,
NJ. S. Rounds; 3, T. H. Cave, jr. 4, w.
t. Calder; 5. A. NJ. Rossi; o, l.. c. Beck I;
at large, e. c. Glysson.
n. ID. Phelps inquired whether the del
egates to the state convention should be
requested to follow the presidential pref
erence as revealed by the primary, after
which w. II. Messer moved that the dele
gates be given no instructions whatever,
his motion being seconded by John W..
Gordon. The motion prevailed unani-
mously. Later William Wishart, a del
egate, asked if the caucus wished to give
instructions as to support Of possible To-
cal or county candidates for the national
convention; and that matter was left to
the discretion OF the delegation.
N. B. Ballard, speaking of the financial
standing Of the city committee, said that
the 1912 campaign ended with a deficit
OF Sll2, because of failure to receive ex-
pected subscriptions; the 1914 campaign
was self-supporting and. in addition, all
but SIS remaining from the 1912 cam
paign was wiped out, while a balance of
S4.70 remained in the treasury. That
left a present deficit of 5000. There
upon two hats were passed around the
caucus and Sl0.05 was dumped in. Chair
man Rowland again dipped into his pock-
ct, and the debt was entirely cleared
up, so that the new committee might be-
gin the 1916 campaign with clean slate.
The Democratic caucus was held in the
Pavilion theatre. The meeting was called
together by George W. German, mem
Der OF the Democratic city committee,
md Mr.. German was elected chairman
If the caucus. G. Herbert Pape was
elected to serve as secretary.
On the motion of A. G. Moore, the chair |
appointed three men to retire and pres
mt the names of eight men to serve as
delegates TO the Democratic state con-
-ention to be held at Burlington on May |
'5 A. c. Moore, A. j. Loranger and Jo-
eph Nelson were appointed and present
d the following list of names; G. Her
,ert Pape, Z. J. Owens, J. B. Reardon,
'atrick Brown. Arthur f. Campbell, John
Weary. Herman l.. Campbell and Har-
Id A. Tierney. These names were rati-
eld by the caucus and it was moved
hat each delegate have the power of
hoosing his own alternate in case of in
bility to serve.
George w. German was reelected to
erve for two years as committeeman
( large for the city committee; Angus
IcDonald was elected as committeeman
rom ward / T. J. Denning from ward
/; A. ]. Loranger from ward 3; j. j. Har- ,
gan from ward 4; NJ. ID. Keefe from
ard 5. and Joe w. Jackson from ward {
No instructions were given to the del In
rates. The attendance at the caucus
as 80. /