Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-04-10
THE POLITICAL SWIM.
Prominent gDemoorats Object: to u
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Prominent Democrats ObjVct,s to the
 Holding of Primaries.
 The adjourned meeting of the demo-, cratic town committee was held last night. Tn the absence of Chairman Manville Secretary Shanahan called the, meeting to order Committeeman Collins of the third ward was chosen chairman. Committee man Dugan offered the following resolu-. ton:
 To the Democratic Town Committee:
 GentIemen-As representing the mem bers of the democratic party of Waterbury who are opposed to n primary contest in relation to the office of postmaster on &C., count of the bitterness and bad feeling it will cause in the party's ranks, and in the interest of justice and to guard against charges of unfairness that might after wards be made, I demand
 That the opposition be represented in each ward by checker or moderator and also counter of the votes cast.
 That new check list be compiled from the voting lists of last October and that competent men be appointed in each ward to strike off the lists the names of all known republicans.
 The resolution was tabled.
 The following democrats appeared be- fore the meeting in opposition to the hold Ing or prluldIleS. UOHu MOIluItys SuIlS Strubel, Thomas H. Hayes, T. J. Fitz- gerald. Representative Linford F. Root, Deputy Sheriff NJ. F. Carmody, Fire Con- missioner McAulIff. Road Con missioner John H. Fruin, Philip Fitzgerald, Fire Com missioner Hines, T. F. Flynn and H. J. Flanagan. Street Inspector Kelley and M. F. Connolly. who were present, had noth- ing to say. It was agreed that the hold ing of primaries to decide the postmaster ship would tend to cause breach in the ranks of the party that would not be healed for long time. No one seemed to have any particular candid .te for the posi- tion, but all were agreed that the interests of the party Were paramount to that of any individual and that its interests should not be imperilled for the aggrandizement of any man. The committee decided to ad- | here to its former action.
 Speaking for the committee Mir Russell | said: II do not think that the holding of primary will stir up any bad feeling among the democrats of Waterbury, except some one works hard to stir up strife.'
 MT Moriarty said he believed it would be a positive injury to the party and that | those who were the authors of it could not be said to have consulted the interests of the party. The visitors then dispersed and the committee announced appoint ments as follows: First ward, Christopher Nolan, checker; second ward, John c. But Ter moderator, T. F. Lawlor, checker; 1 third ward, J. T. Boylan. moderator, Ed ward Begley, checker; fourth ward, James Fitzpatrick, moderator, John c. Altman, | checker.
 Sand F. J. Brown this afternoon: I am not candidate before the convention and I hope no democrat in favor of me will recognize the primaries or vote there. The democratic town committee acting in the interest of Mir Fitzpatrick broke the democratic rules of at least twenty years standing, which provided that all nomina- tions made by the democratic party should be made in convention to which delegates should be elected. They have also called a primary for to-day, when members of the committee informed me that it would not be called for at least a week. They insisted on appointing the moderator and checker in each ward, not allowing the minority of the committee any representa- ton. even going so far as to appoint MT Fitzpatrick's brother as moderator in the fourth ward. If they had given reason able amount of time there would have been plenty of other candidates besides myself"