Morning journal and courier., 1885-11-28
DEMOCRATIC TOWN CONVENTION.

| The old Ticket For Selectmep R.- | nominated-A Lively Fight Over Registrar of Vital Statfstics-Pat. TICK McGuInness Hears Away inc Eize-Mr. CIerkia's Friends Weak Kneed.
 me Democratic town convention was held
 last evening in Turn Hall, corner of Orange
 and Court streets. The delegates were rather slow In getting together and it was not until twenty minutes past o'clock that Eli Mix,
 chairman of the town committee, called the convention to order.
 On call for the nomination of A chair.
 man of the convention Henry S. Cooper was
 nominated and elected MT. Cooper took the chair and briefly returned thanks for Il @
 honor conferred and called for the nonina-
 ton of a secretary. George W Neal, Georce
 R. Cooley and Thomas F. McGrail were sue
 cessively nominated and declined. Captain
 Lawrence O'Brien was then nominated an
 accepted Business then proceeded with a
 call for committee on credentials and one
 from each ward was nominated The com
 mittee retired and after an absence of abont
 twenty minutes returned and reported A full
 delegation as previously printed
 The appointment of tellers was next in
 order and the chair appointed George R.
 Cooley, John Kern, P F. Kiernan and Thom
 as F. McGrail ..,
 The nomination for town agent beip, called for, George w. Neal placed James
 Reynolds in nomination. On ballot being taken MT. Reynolds received the vote of ey- cry delegate and was declared nominated unanimously.
 For first Selectman James Reynolds re- csived 76 votes and MT. Klenke l. The nomination was then made unanimous.
 For second Selectman Messrs. Klenke. Ty- Ter and Brown, the present incumbents, were each put in nomination. Mir. Tyler received 5o votes and MT. Klenke IS. Mr. Tyler's nomination was made unanimous and Mir Klenke and MT. Browns nominations fol lowed, they receiving the unanimous vote of the convention
 When the nomination of town clerk was reached Phillip Hugo was the only name the unanimous vote of the delegates as did also Theodore A. Futile for collector of tax es and Harmanus M. Welch for treasurer.
 Then came the great contest of the eve ming, the selection of registrar of vital sta tistics. Patrick McGuinness, Daniel Col well, John J. Clerkin, Dr. E. L. Bissell and l Thomas E. McGrail were each placed in | nomination in the order named. On the first | ballot 77 votes were cast divided as | follows: McGrail r, Colwen s, Bissell 13. McGuinness "A and Clerkin %. On the next ballot McGrail dropped to 4, Colwen to 7, ran up to 32. On the third ballot McGrail aiRa Gal afs}s azasas7 d so On che Curtin ballot the ballot stood: Bis Sell 5, Clerkin 35 and McGuinness 37. Fifth-Bissell 3, Clerkin 36 and Nc Guinness 3S. Sxth-Bissell 5, Clerkin 34. 38. Seventh-Bissell 2, Cler- kin 37, McGuinness 39. Eighth and last pr. Mailhouse 1, Rissell ?, Clerkin 36, Me Guinness 3S. Before the result of the bal tot was declared George R. Cooley, who vot- ed for Dr. Mailhouse, changed his vote to giving him 30 votes, bare ma jority of 1. MT. McGuinness was declared the nominee of the convention, and on mo- tion his nomination was made unanimous.
 For registrar of voters William O'Keefe re- eeived the unanimous vote of the conven- 5ion, as did James G. Brown for auditor of town accounts.
 For town constab1es the following nomi- nations were made in the order given: Will liam E. Higgins, Andrew J. Callahan, David K. Andrews, Michael R. Enscoe, William B. Catlin, Jonathan W. Pond and Jacob Mail- house.
 On motion it was voted that the chairman and secretary be a committee to select the officers on the ticket, consisting of weighers, gaugers, haywards, etc.
 The convention then adjourned.
 After the adjournment of the convention there was no little talk about the nomination of registrar Of vital statistics. It was as serted by the friends of MT. Clerkin that had | his friends been faithful to him he would have received the nomination without a doubt, and this was apparently true as two delegates who voted for him on the first two | ballots changed their votes to McGuinness, and continued so to vote to the end. The very handsome support that MT. Clerkin re- ceived in the face of the declarations made befors the convention that '.he stood no show" must have been 8 surprise to the | Knowing ones."