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Show CITIZENS' CAUCUS. Met Last Monday Nigtit and Nominted Non-Partisan School Ticket. About 40 Persons Took Part and En- tbuslastlc Expressions Were flade Favoring Alovemcnt. About forty voters took port iu tho cittious' caucus hold iu tho Wind hall Monday night, for tho purposo ' of nomlnutuig candidates for school trustees to bo voted for iu tho com ing oloctiou next mouth. The meeting was culld to ordor by Bishop Lunt nud tho object of tho meoteiug explained. Bp. Lunt wns olected chairman uud Chns. S. Wilkinson Wil-kinson secretary of tho meeting. Tho chairman usked for an expression expres-sion of tho views of those present iu relation to tho citizens' movement uud tho advisability of eliminating partisan politics from tho school election. Dr. Middletou was honrtlly iu accord with tho .citizens' niovomout nud boliovcd it was for tho best interests inter-ests of our schools, whioh uro among our vital interests. Pres. U. T. Jones coincided with tho opinions of tho previous spoakor and believed that school elections should bo kept ou n . littlo higher piano than ordinary politics. Hou. John Parry roforred to tbo action of tho legislature in providing for tho holding of Eobool elections separate uud apart from tho general elections, with tho apparent object of eliminating partisan parti-san politics from school mutters. Favored tho oitizon's movomont. Chairman Lunt said thnt his politics poli-tics woro woll known. Thnt mou of eovory party havo thoir ugoncy nud thnt ho blieved that tho best interests inter-ests of tho school would bo subserved by tho citizens' primary. William Leigh wished to placo himself him-self on record iu fuvor of tho nonpartisan nonpar-tisan citizens' movomont. Henry Leigh wished to ox press hli sentiments iu fuvor of eliminating politics from tho school oloctiou. It wub movod nud seoondod that tho caucus proccod to nominate two school trustees 011 strictly non-partisan linos nud that wo oliminuto partisan poll tics from tho oloctiou. Tho motion carried and tho following names woro proposed : ' Jos. H. Armstrong, William Mac-farlane, Mac-farlane, Charles Corry, E. 11. Byan, Sarah Ann Bullooh, James C. Parry, Henrietta Jones, M. H. Dalloy uud Moroni Corry. Nomination woro dossed uud tho caucus proceedod to ballot, under tho provision thnt tbo porsou recoiviug tho highest voto bo doolarod tbonom-iuco tbonom-iuco for tho long term nud tho person per-son roceiving tho noxt highest bo tho nominee for tho short trom. Ou tho first ballot Jos. H. Armstrong Arm-strong received tbo higost voto uud wub declared tho nominee for tho long term, while James C. Purry uud M. H. Dalley tied for tho short term. On a second ballot Mr. Dalley received re-ceived 19 votes and Mr. Parry 15. " Dr. Middletou expressed his nut is-action is-action with tho tloket nominated, uud n motion to adjourn wns duly onrricd. |
