Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-12


 Hold Meeting in the Schoolhous
 September 17-Officials and Candi
 dates Asked to Be Present and Say
 Something Republicans are Beconl
 ing Very Active -Pow-Wow Hell
 Last Night Primaries Will Be Heh
 Week After Next.
 The residents of Town Plot organ ized what is to be known as the TOWI Plot Improvement club and propose tt show their hand at the October cleo tions. The club has large member ship, is non-partisan, and to prove thai the organization means what it sayi it has arranged for an open meeting to be held in the Town Plot school house on Tuesday evening, Septembel IT. All the candidates for the may orally, democrats and republicans have been invited to be present and make a few remarks upon local issues So far the only one who has notified the committee that he will be on hanc is Dr John F. Hayes, one of the as pirants for the mayoralty nomination on the democratic ticket.
 prominent member of the club told a Democrat reporter to-day that t:it people of that district have large in terests in the coming election and thai they intend to familiarze themselves with the merits of the several candi- dates and support whichever man or party in their judgment appears to be best qualified to deal with the mo- mentous questions which will arise in merging the town and city govern mentS into one body.
 In addition to extending an invita- ton to the mayoralty candidates, the club wishes to state that the invita- ton is general and that all who desire to attend will be welcome, so that it is probable that September 17 will be a red letter day on the heights of beau tiful Town Plot, which is rapidly emerging from a farming district into thickly settled village.
 The republicans are working over time these days and they intend to keep it up until after election. The town committee and the ward and dis trict committees held Gneeting in the city court room last night with a view to perfecting plans for the battle, and while there was not much said in open meeting as to what was expected of
 
 from the way the crowd stood around in tWos and threes and discussed the probable outcome of the situation that they are at work tooth and nail and arc leaving no stone unturned to fur ther their own ends. There is noth- ing wrong about this provided it is Dot carried to extremes, as some of ri1e republicans propose to do. No republi- can should vote at the democratic pri- maries unless he intends to support the ticket that will be nominated by the democrats, and it goes without say ing that the same rule holds for the other fellows. Let each party manage it's own primaries and then when their men come up for election any honest effort one can make to down the other will be fair and the side that comes out second best will have nothing to kick about.
 Two years ago, so the leaders of the republican party said at the time, and they are repeating it now, democrats attended republican caucuses in large numbers and by their votes succeeded in electing delegates to the conventions pledged to support candidates whom the rank and file of the party did not want. Of course all this was done at the instigation of a few designing re- publicans, but the party leaders claim that they lost on it all the same, for the element of republicans who did not approve of this way of doing busi- ness refused to swallow" the candi- dates and remained home or voted the democratic ticket, thus bringing about what they termed a landslide to the opposition. In other words. they bit at their noses to spite their faces, and after they realized what they had done they forthwith laid plans to prevent repetition of the same game by re- questing John F. Kellogg to prepare bill and have it passed by the general assembly providing against all such trickery i'll the future. The bill was passed and will be in effect in all the other towns i'll the state this fall, but for some reason it will not become Op- erative here until next year. Many wonder why we are not going to work under the provisions of the bill in Wa terbury at the coming primaries. and while there may he no truth ill it. there are those who claim that the republi- cans engineered things in that direc- tion in the hope of being able to give the democrats a dose of their own medicine before the new order of things goes into effect.
 The meetfn ted to hold the party caucuses during the week of Septem- Der s23. and also decided that all the candidates shall be nominated at the same convention.
 It is understood that Martin Keefe, Daniel Foley and Edward Pagan will be candidates for aldermen on one of the fifth ward democratic tickets. MT Keefe served q term as member of the court of common council Mir Pagan represented his district iii the aldermanic chamber for two years and Mir. Foley is member of the present board of aldermen. It is understood that there will be two other tickets also, but so far the public is not aware of the names of the men who will ap- pear on them as candidates for alder | manic honors.
 CRESSY NOT INDICTED.