The weekly examiner., 1901-08-10
The Democratic Registrar.

thing when they see it.
 The Democratic Registrar. 1 Nhere has been the past week, in l Democratic city politics, an unusually
 severe squabble over the party registrar
 ship of voters. The law provides that of these two officials each party shall
 nominate one, and both nominees are l elected. Hence, nomination on either 1 side is equivalent to an election. The
 Democratic wire pullers as a result al-
 ways trot out 8 lot of candidates, most
 of them unknown, many of them pos
 sessing only such knowledge of the l party voters as the experience of several years as whiskey dealers can give them, and such ability to fill the position as mixing cocktails alone can produce.
 The Democratic registrar of voters is for the time being. Hence, as many of these office holders, if not all of them, hope for and expect reelection, the amount of wire-pulling by would-be registrars and their sspull'' makes ssthe pot boil' for fair.
 Well, in the scrimmage last week over this office, the division of votes for the different candidates went far towards showing the arrangement for support and hostility which the candi- dates in other city leading offices this fall may expect. Evidently there is now much friction existing in Demo- cratic ranks which, unless healed up in advance, will show in a marked degree in the October ballot boxes.
 But, as the outcome of last weeks local office holders of the party should be congratulated on their final choice. MT. Hynes, who is now the party regis trar, was renominated by fair major ity. About one third of the votes how ever, were cast for his chief opponent a corner whiskey-d -dealer-and these votes, headed by Collector of Taxes Thoms, are generally credited as be- longing to and representing the oppo- sition to the renomination of Mayor Kilduff. First Selectman Mortimer Doran, desirous of further establishing the fact that he had independent opin ions of his own on everp subject-a fact which he never omits a chance to i'm press upon the public-voted of course, as .slone fisherman," for some obscure fellow whom no one ever. dreamed of selecting for such important duties. It has been hinted that Doran so voted as a s.straddle" between the friends of Mayor Kilduff, for his renomination, and the opponents of Mayor Kilduf for another term, Doran's object being to place himself in such position asN to jump either way on the mayoralty question later on; or, in other words, to favor Mayor Kilduf as a candidate, if MT. Kilduf pledges in advance the office eff superintendent of public char ities to MT. Doran, but to oppose Mayor Kilduf and seek the mayoralty nomi- nation himself in case MT. Kilduff re- fuses to bind himself to give Doran this important and lucrative position.
 But, everything considered, the choice Of Hynes for registrar was as good as could be made, and if the party later on show as much good sense in selecting all it's candidates, their ticket for Oc. tober will surely be successful.
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