The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-21
INHARMONIOUS DEMOCRATS.
LAST NIGHTS MEETING WAS DE-
 CIDEDLY ENTERTAINING.


 Expenses-Attorney Chase's R marks-
 Recommendations of tho Committee of
 Fifteen Adopted.
 The democrats had n regular old fash toned Monkey and Parrot" time at veru hall last evening, all owing to the fact that the committee recommended that the amount of money spent by
 democrats In conducting elections should be published. This recommen- dation met with considerable opposition at the hands of Attorney Prentice w.. Chase and Septlmus c. Fleetwood ard others, but after wrangling over the matter for nearly two hours the recom- mendations of the committee were final ly adopted in their entirety.
 The meeting had been called for the purpose of hearing the report of the committee appointed at the democratic conclave last Wednesday. IL was ex- pected that the meeting would be ver- itable love feast, but in this the mem- bers of the party were disappointed. United States Commissioner w. A.. Wright presided, and Attorney Philip Pond, 2d, acted as secretary, and both had their hands full before the meet ing finally adjourned. After the meet ing had been called to order Secretary Pond read the report of the committee as follows:
 This convention respectfully recom- mends to the town convention the fol- lowing amendment to the present rules governing democratic primaries Rule 4 to read as follows.
 Rule 4-There shall be town com mittee of fifteen. one from each ward, chosen annually at the primary preced- ing the local election, to hold office from the day of their election until their successors are chosen. The town com mittee shall, during the month of Jan uary in each year, elect chairman, who need not of necessity be one of their own number, and finance com mittee of five, to consist of the chair man of the town committee and four others not members of the town com mittee. The chairman of the town com mittee and the financescommittee shall hold until their successors are elected. Said finance committee shall collect all moneys needed for election purposes, and shall disburse the game as follows The finance committee shall turn over all moneys collected to It's treasurer. All moneys shall be paid out on writ ten order on the treasurer, For all moneys to be spent in each ward the finance committee shat give an. order for q credit with the treasurer forea sum for each ward to some suitable per son or persons. This credit shall be paid out by the treasurer on written orders signed by sudh suitable person or persons. Each of which orders shall specify the person to whom payable and for what paid. All orders not pre- scented on the treasurer within one week after election shall be void. Within two weeks after each electionrthe treas surer shall furnish for publication to the New Haven papers complete ac- count of the gross amount of all moneys received by him, and of all moneys paid out by him and to whom paid, tabulated, so far as may be, by wards.
 Rule to be amended by changing the words "the moderator shall give proper credentials" to "The moderator shall mail within twenty-four hours after closing of the primary proper creden- tials.". e
 Rule 5 to be amended by inserting "six'' in place of ''three," so that all primaries shall be advertised six days in advance.
 Rule 7-Insert after leach ward" the words "or voting district" Change five" to "ten," 50 that all calls by town chairman shall be at least ten days before the primary. Add to rule the following: The primary shall be held in that part of the ward most con- venient to the majority of democratic voters of the ward. Any ten demo- cratic voters of the ward who may be dissatisfied with the location of any primary may, within the two days suc- ceeding the first advertising of the call for the primary, appeal in writing to the finance committee, who shall forth with hear said appeal and may, by majority vote, designate some other place to hold the primary.
 This convention recommends the change in the method of spending the money at the election with the greatest confidence of its adoption.
 Corrupt use of money is not neces- sary to democratic success, and in the publication of the honest use of money we have nothing to fear. Such full publicity will insure to us honest elec- tions, honest service and honest candi- dates, and will mark departure of political methods of which 1t is hard to estimate the limit of benefit. At least we know 1t will tend to good gov ernment of our, city and to the pleasure of patriotic political work.
 The changes in rules and will speak for themselves.
 The addition to rule z is recommend ed because 1t has happened that loca- tion of a primary has at times given rise to considerable dissatisfaction among the voters. and it Is only right that an opportunity of appeal to an entirely unbiased committee should be had. f
 One other and very important mat ter. The growth of our city has been 50 great that a number of wards are too large either for election or prima- ries. We have wards with 2,60o voters on one list, all expected to vote in one ballot box, and of this 2,600 all the dem- ,ocrats must, in a primary, vote at one