Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-06
Notes.


 Not an arrest was made during the day.
 E. E. Kelley was fn charge of the carriages at the fifth ward and han dled them in such q ws;y- that the. own CTS of the vehicles lost no time fooling around the polls.
 Harry Durant's stock took quite . drop this afternoon. The betting was two to one on Kennedy and ther was no Durant money tr 6e had at that or even at bigger odtis.
 Sheriff Mcdonald never looked pret- tier than he did to-day in his regular blue shirt. He was in the pink of con dition for the fray and got in some tell ing thrusts at the enemy in the several districts.
 Mayor Kilduff City Clerk Ryan and an early hour this morning and ap- pcared to he in all parts of the city during the day wherever tLcir services were needed.
 Judge Cole get of the joke Of the day. Speaking about the election and the way it was going" he said that man who is mean enough to take q few dollars for his vote is mean
 
 William McGrath was one of the most conspicuous workers for the dem ocrats at the fifth ward. He wore q new sunfiower hat and drove tohe Of his own trotters. He was yefeAiSGl with bringing in more voters than any other man who lent a hand.
 In order to give employees an onpor- tunity to vote the New England N'arch CA .s,,, until 8 o'clock: the Rogers tS Bros con cern gave it's emD!oyes two hours fGr dinner. Other concerns in the city treated it's labOrers i'll q like manner and it was no fault of theirs if the , men did not vote.
 Michael Wallace one of Waterb11ry's veteran democrats. who has been i'll for the past few weeks. could not con tent himself in the house to-day. and started to walk to the polls. He was l giving out, when one of the hackmen | picked him up near St Ann's church l and took him to the polls. where he 1 deposited a clean democratic ticket. 1 He said he felt that this is the last time he will have an opportunity of voting at q national election, and he was bound not to miss it.
 There was a little row at the fifth | ward between Officer Noonan and Dr 1 Hayes, but it did not amount to much. 1 It all grew out of a difference about speaking to voters within sevent y-five | feet of the voting booth. This was 1 followed by demand on the part of the democrats for the removal of the ! big poster. placed on the booth. tell ing everyone to vote for George l.. Iilley and F. NJ. Peasley. the objectors claiming that this was a plain case of soliciting votes right at the entrance x to the -hsetil.z By order of the select men, Constable Carmody covered the posters with white paper. but ttIiS waa promptly torn down by II. J. Hurlock. who said that he had orders from other parties to do so. and that he had been informed that if anything came l of it they would stand behind him Then the story went around that the officers were favoring the republicans by permitting them to fiaunt their post CTS in the peoples faces at the booth while democrat ''dassant' sneak tt a man inside the lines. The neX1 move was another otder from the SC lectmen to remove all posters of the booth -snd then Constable CarmodS land John Brophy went at 'Lilley an6 PeasIey.' with q iackknife and q hrick bat and battered them up so badly that their best friends could not rec toenize them. This caused MT Hur flock to weep. but he was nowerless tt lpreyent the attack" and looked on il utter dismay.
 Il New Haven. Nov 6.-The mid-da, l reports from the state indicate tha one of the features of the election vii