The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-10-04
Webster Leaders of the Party In
tend to Bring Forth Two Dark
Horses as Candidates for Of
flee of Representative
FOUR CANDIDATES NOW
IN FIELD MAY BE DROPPED
Dudley Delegates to County and
Councillor Conventions in Wor-
CeSter Wednesday Complain
That They Did Not Receive
Their Credentials in Time

Special to The Spy.
Webster, Oct. "a new plan is now
maturing among the leaders of the
Democratic party relative to the can
didates in the field for representative
honors. The change is a most radical
! one. and when made public through
the columns of The Spy will produce
a decided sensation.
1t has been mentioned in this paper
that there were four candidates in the
field for the nomination for represen-
tative. They were Samuel Magnant
of Webster, Selectman Frank McQuaid
of Dudley, F. x. Tetrault of South
bridge and John Stafford of Dudley.
According to the new slate, not one of
these gentlemen is to be mentioned at
the convention, it is said, which will
be held Oct. IA.
The Spy reporter talked today with
those who have the matter in hand,
and they admitted the truth of the
above statement. They are bound. by
verbal promise not to give away the
facts for couple of days. 1t is said
that they are well-known business
men, one resident of this town and
the other a resident of Southbridge
Those who are acquainted with the
facts are of the opinion that the two
new candidates are stronger thah
those who have been mentioned. 1t
is claimed by the Democrats that the
proposed new candidates are the
strongest pair that they ever placed
before the public for representative
honors. The leaders assure anxious
ones that the candidates are hard
workers.
There will be a meeting of the
chairmen of the various representative
committees of the district, at the JOS
lin House, Saturday afternoon, for the
purpose of choosing a date for the
representative convention, which will
then be officially called by Dr. Fred
A. Brown, chairman of the district.
The Democratic convention will be
either held in Webster or Dudley.
The Dudley Town Hall had been prac-
tically selected as a place of meeting,
but now it is thought that it will be
changed to Webster.
The delegates in Dudley to the
county and councillor conventions,
which were held in Worcester We'd
nesday, are on the warpath. They
claim they did not receive their Gre
dentials in time to have them duly
signed and to notify the delegates so
that they could attend the conven-
lions. The papers came late Tuesday.
There is some talk among the dele
gates, it is said, of protesting the con-
ventions as illegal, on the grounds
that they were not duly notified in
time to attend.
Charles H. Fake, the well-known
musical artist, his partner, Charles
Semon, and four other American
actors, now playing in London, met in
consultation upon hearing of the death
of President kuRCAE IN fl
Mckinley and drew up a set of reso-
lutions deploring the dastardly act and
presented the same to Ambassador
Choate at his London office.
The funeral of the late Lemuel Cud-
worth was held at the home in the
Foster district at l o'clock Thursday
afternoon, the Rev. Thomas T. Filmer
officiating. The burial was in the
East Webster Cemetery.
George S. Corbin, local contractor,
has been engaged to furnish Is horses
and SO men to assist in the grading of
the Worcester & Southbridge electric
road at Charlton.
Charles N. Shumway, for many years
butcher for Nicholas GILES, will open
meat and fish market in McQuaid's
block next week.
There is to be meeting of the pu-
pills of the high school Monday to take
steps to form a debating society and
elect officers.
The Misses Sarah and Nellie Rafter
are spending a couple of weeks in
Worcester.
The mission at the Sacred Heart
Church is being largely attended.
Henry Brandes, ]. F. Bacon and
George Purcell attended the senatorial
convention in Worcester Thursday as
local delegates.
| Joseph P. Love, John ]. Love and
Nadislaus Jonakowski attended the
state convention in Boston Thursday as
Webster delegates.