The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-28
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS
R, B. FARREN TIRE UNANIMOUS
 CHOICE FOR T0WN AGENT.

OAOAO& H VII IOWN AGENIt Callahan, BretSfelder and Cunningham for Selectmen-Ths Convention Unexpectedly Harmonious-scholl Won Over Rudolph
 at Board of Relief Convention.
 The democratic town convention was held in Smiths hall, Chapel street, last evening and Roswell B. Farren was nominated for town agent and first se- leotman, the other nominees for select- men being Timothy F. Callahan, Hen- " c. Bretzfelder and Joseph B. Cum ningham. During the day and befors the convention 1t was apparent that considerable work had been done and as a result the session was most har- monlous, there not being the slightest semblance of contest over the most important office James Reynolds name was mentioned for the town agency. nut immediately withdrawn without the slightest objection.
 It was exactly S:25 o'clock when Cor nelius T. Driscoll, chairman of the dem- ocratlc town committee, called the con- vention to order and after a few re-. marks, during which he apologized for being obliged to call the convention in a hall so near the sky and expressing the hope that the deliberations would be harmonious and at the close all con- tests would be ended and the delegates all vote for the election of the candi- dates, he called for nominations for chairman.
 1 Robert A. Tracy Joseph R. Manning and William J. Mills were placed in nomination, but Tracy and Mills with- drew their names and Manning unani- mously elected chairman and John J. Hogan secretary. A committee on cre- dentials composed of the chairman of each ward delegation was next appoint ed and retired to consider the creden- tials of the delegates. William J. Mills. the chairman of the committee, soon returned. however, and said that he un- derstood there was contesting dele- gation from the Second ward and in viting them to present their claims be- fore the committee No one, however, appeared and the work of the commit. tee was soon completed.
 After the committee had made it's re- port Albert Wildman, Thomas K Dunn and Joseph Goebel were appointed tell- CTS and the work of nominating candi- | dates began. When nominations for town agent and first selectman were called for William J. Mills arose and in brief speech placed in nomination. Roswell B. Farren and the nominations was seconded by Daniel Colwel1 and Dr. Rollin McNeil. William E. Dunn of the Ninth ward placed In nomination James Reynolds of the Seventh ward, but Att | torney Frank H. Kelly immediately withdrew his name and on motion the secretary cast the ballot for Roswell B. Farren and he was declared the unan- imous choice of the convention for town agent and first selectman.
 For second, third and fourth select- men respectively the nominations of Timothy F. Callahan, Henry C. Bretz- fielder and Joseph B. Cunningham were made in a trice and in each instance the secretary cast the unanimous bal- lot of the convention for the nominees.
 Frederick H. Brethauer, James J. Carr and Francis G. Anthony were next unanimously renominated for town clerk, registrar of vital statistics and collector of taxes respectively and Ezekiel G. Stoddard placed in nomina- tion for town treasurer James P. Bres was unanimously nominated for town auditor and John F. Carney for regis- trar of voters, which nominations are equivalent to election.
 The only contest of the evening was over the nominations for town consta- bles. Jonathan w. Pond, Michael R. Enscoe, Patrick Bree, Louis Asher and James F. Donohue were placed in nom- ination, The ballot resulted in Pond securing 46 votes and the nomination. for first constable to 25 for Enscoe. Pat- rick Bree was then unanimously nomi- mated for second constable. For thir,f place the contest was between Enscoe. Asher and Donohue, but Enscoe finally won out, receiving AZ votes to 21 for Asher and for Donohue. For fourth constable Louis Asher was unani- mously nominated, the name of James F. Donohue being withdrawn.
 For grand jurors William A. Wright Michael Dillon and Philip Hugo were unanimously nominated and after the delegates had waited for some time for the purpose of hearing speeches from the several nominees, but without avail, as none put in an appearance, the con- vention adjourned.
 BOARD OF RELIEF.
 The delegates to the board of relief convention met in the Boardman build- 1 ing and this convention was also char acterized by an utter lack of contest. Matthew Reynolds was chosen chair man and Carl Rosenthal secretary, af- ter which David O'Donnell and George Mitchell were unanimously nominated i for first and second place place respec- lively on the ticket. For third place John Scholl and Henry Rudolph were the nominees, but Scholl won out, re- ceiving 46 votes to 23 for Rudolph. This completed the ticket and the convene tion adjourned.