Waterbury Democrat., 1901-10-07
RARE AUTUMN DAY
Battle of the Ballots Had Finest
 Kind of Weather.
DEMOCRATS FEEL CONFIDENT.

~ 4S&AA v 0Atx4 - 4 AA@A O04Nx D A|AN As The Majority for the Democratic
 Ticket Is Placed All the Way from 300 to 1 1,5OO-Dr J. F. Hayes Work
 ing Earnestly for the Ticket-Notes i Picked Up at the Various Voting Places.
 \ beautiful autumn day, with just enorgh crispness in the atmosphere to
 make hustling pleasant, served to bring out large vote today on the occasion of the first election of officers for Greater Waterbury. The most prominent workers of both political parties were astir early and used their best endeayors in behalf of their favor ite candidates. The bushels of past CTS that have been flooding the city for
 several days were now getting in their work and as a result there has been considerable pasting done on both sides. Nevertheless the best of order prevailed around the several voting
 booths, there being only the customary | entanglements incident to such an oc- l casion.
 The fight throughout the city has been Waged principally on behalf of 1 the candidates for the office of mayor.
 Everywhere were party leaders found keeping theIr men in party line, and the scene at headquarters was both animated and systematic. It is be 1 lieyed that a large conservative vote l was cast and it is safe to say that 1 Mayor Kilduff got the major portion l of it.
 l Perhaps the most earnest fight of the 1 day in the first and third wards, after 1 that for mayor, was over the aldermen. l The democrats in these wards made l determined effort to wrest the control
 of the board of aldermen from the re- pubiicans and it would not be surpris- 1 ing should the result show that the 1 effort was not in vain. William T. l Disley, the democratic standard bearer 1 in the third ward, was ubiquitous n l his fight to be elected alderman, so much so that his candidacy for the l office of second selectman was ten-
 porarily forgotten.
 l In the first ward the democratic can- didates for aldermen put up a united and systematic assault upon the large l ASfst b4iSdA AluJOllty III lAlS " dL d. sl1eL l if nune of them succeeds in being elected their opponents will certainly l receive a scare.
 Even the great excitement caused by the fight over city officers did not by any means dim the contest over the board of education. The battle went OF al. day, both sides straining every
 nerve to gain point. The democratic candidates, Messrs Chase, Russell,
 Kent and Carmody, had well organ
 ized plan of campaign, and the major l ity they will receive will no doubt be l a handsome endorsement of the judg- menr of the school convention in se- l lect;ng such an excellent set of men to ] administer school affairs
 Messrs Doran and Disley for select l men received the hearty support of l ther party and not a few republicans
 beartified their ballots by pasting their names over those of their opponents. l It i; very probable that the entire 1 town democratic ticket is elected. l At 8 o'clock sharp the polls were de- | clared open and the usual rush was soon disposed of. Affairs were quiet l for a while then, but not for ten con- Secutiye minutes were the officials in
 tue respective booths idle. In the first, second and third wards the voters 1 entered in a steady, if rather slow, stream. Every man appeared to have | made up his mind regarding his vote, I and the short time the average voter I spent in the privacy of his booth indi- cated that he voted the straight ticket.
 whatever it was or that he had fixed" l it beforehand. The latter was hardly l probable, for there were no tickets I given out before the polls opened, and
 thrle were no ticket pedlars in the e 41,su T., T IT., l was but one City Clerk Ryan, who l was given the glad hand by men Of all parties.
 Tie officials in the respective wards 1 were as follows:
 First d--Moderator. Frank 1 Marsh, checker, George Byrne; private 1 checkers, Pierce Corden and William l Thompson; ushers, Augustus Conyard l and NJ. Vogt; envelope booth, James I 1ierney and A. c. Griswold; ballots, Michael Peters and John D. Watson;
 ladies' booth, Martin Hapenny, who I acted both as moderator and checker. l Second ward-Moderator Frank J. l Kceley, checker. N. W. Heater; private l checkers. Michael Scully and H. G. I Hotchkiss; ushers. James J. Bahaln l ard Edward Johnson; ladies' booth,
 moderator. Harry Manders, checker, I Roger J. Walsh; booth tenders, enveI- l opes, David Dillane and Fred CamD-
 bell; ballots, P. J. Delaney and A. l Scoyill
 Third ward-NIoderato A. I. Good rich; checker, Florence Clohessey; la- dies booth, moderator, Joseph Begley; l checker, Joseph Darling; ushers, John Sullivan and Harry Green; private l checkers, F. F. Guilfoile and H. l.. l Slauson; booth tenders, envelopes, 1T. w H. Satchwell and T. Donahue: bal lots, William Johnson and George R. Abbott.
 Fourth ward-Moderator John F..
 Calvin; checker. George D. Tracy; dep uties, Thomas Magner and John Blair; slip writers. Nicholas J. McAvoy and s. H. Mccain; ballot booth tenders, M. J. Sullivan and J. B. Blakeslee; envel-
 ope booth tenders. Thomas Mitchell and A. H. Williams; ladies' voting booth, boxtender. B. F. Guilford;
 checker, Edward Shea; rushers, Mi
 chael Kelly and Jacob Dale.
 Fifth ward-Moderator Charles w. York; checker. Attorney D. J. Slavin;
 deputies, William A. Cullen and Rufus Smith; slip writers. John J. Howard and J. B. Emerson; ballot booth tend l CTS. Luke A. Cullen and Charles w.
 Hubbell; envelope booth tenders, John Walsh and l.. w. Latham; ladies' vot- I ing booth, boxtender, W. R. McVitte; I abnclypr Henry Comisky: rushers John