The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-11-29
DEMOCRATIC NOMINATIONS
Made at the Town Convention Held SatuI
 day NIcht.

| Made atthe Town Convention Held Satur- | day Night.
 At the democratic town convention | held Saturday night in the Democratic 1 Association hall In the Insurance build ing, the following nominations were made: For selectmen, Charles s, Ham, ilton, Henry c. Bretzfelder and James J. Buchanan; for constables, Patrick Bree, Peter J. McNerney and Louis Asher EX-Judge David Callahan was | elected chairman of the convention af- ter 1t had been called to order at 9:30 by James B. Martin, chairman of the democratic town committee.
 The convention was about to proceed to the nomination of candidates for se- leetmen when Joseph R. Manning pre- sented the following resolutions and moved their adoption before nomina- tions were made:
 "The town committee is hereby au- 1 thorized to fill any vacancies or vacan- cy on the ticket nominated by this con- vention that may arise between now and election day.
 Resolved, That a committee of seven be appointed by the chairman of this I the rules governing conventions, pri- maries and the town committee as in their Judgment they may deem best, to an adjourned meeting of this conven- tion."
 On motion of Registrar John P. Car ney these resolutions were tabled until after the nominations were made. Jos R. Manning then nominated Henry c. Y t1f n Carney nominated Charles s. Hamilton for first selectman and asked MT. Man. ming to withdraw his nomination. AL derman Brennan nominated James J. l Buchanan. MT. Carney moved that the secretary be instructed to cast a ballot for Hamilton, Bretzfelder and Bu- chanan in the order named, but atten- tion was called to the fact that the rules required viva voce vote, and T. r. McGuinness and James E. McGann were appointed tellers. The roll call showed 69 votes cast, of which MT. Hamilton received 61 and Mr. Bretz- fielder 8. The rules were suspended and MT. Hamilton's nomination was made unanimous. MT Bretzfelder and MT. Buchanan were nominated unanimous ly.
 For constables Patrick Bree was nomi- mated by Patrick Kent, Peter J. Me Nerney by John J. Clerkin and Louis Asher by William Cronan. Alderman Corcoran named Newman Erlich, w. H. Mcdonald named J. H. Bailey, and John Griffin named William O'Brien. Messrs. Free, McNerney and Asher were finally nominated.
 The Fourteenth ward democrats have nominated for alderman, long term Jacob F'rahlick; short term, Willis H. Farren; councilmen, Edward H. Farren Henry M. Shannon and Edward S. Ryan. The Fifteenth ward democrats nominated for alderman, l.. s. Kelsey; short term, Frederick Van Sieckle; councilmen, Michael Dillon, Charles Hilton and William Bristol
 The democrats of the Ninth ward during Saturday night appointed a committee on permanent organization to be known as the Ninth Ward Demo- cratic association. Charles Lutz was chosen chairman, and the following on the committee: w. H. H. Hewitt Carleton E. Hoadley, John T. Pohlman, James B. Martin John F. Shanahan, James F. Donohue, August Weiss, Ed ward Daley, John Scholl, John J. A. Coleman, James Legg, Michael Cole man, Edward Fertnlan, James H Clark, Henry Donovan, Oscar Boetger, w. E. Dunn, Bernard Hedderson Joseph F. Bailey, Peter Lynch.
 The organization will probably estab- fish permanent quarters at GA Foote street. A meeting will be held at the call of the chairman in the near fu- ture.
 Saturday afternoon, preceding the convention, the democratic primaries were held in the various wards