It strikes me that the last speaker
is trying to give tit for tat because his candidate lost at the last
election; but I am one of those who believe that criminations and
recriminations avail nothing, and I move that we proceed to vote at
once."
"Second the motion!" screamed Abner Stiles from the settee on which he
had assumed a standing posture.
The vote was taken. Those in favor of Obadiah Strout being called upon
to stand up first, they numbered exactly one hundred and one. Then those
in favor of Wallace Stackpole were called upon to rise, and they
numbered two hundred and eighty-four; several citizens having put in an
appearance at one o'clock who had not attended the morning session.
The next matter was the election of the Board of Selectmen; and the old
board was elected by acclamation without a division. The meeting then
adjourned without day.
The five minutes past six train, express from Boston, arrived on time,
and at twenty minutes of eight, Mr. Quincy Adams Sawyer entered the
private dining-room in the Eagle Hotel. There he found gathered Mr.
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