Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-09-03
POLITICAL POINTERS
Charters Had a Walk-over in
Wallingford Last Night.

Wallingford Last Night.
Delegation is Solid for Him-Tomlin-
son Won West Haven Second
Time, and He Has Also Captured
East Haven-Judge Lowe Captured
the Local Delegation to Probate
Convention = Congressional Dele
: gates Met and Adjourned Until Next
Monday Night.
Wallingford, Sept 3,-The democrat
&c caucus for the nomination OF oele-
gates to the various conventions was
held last night in the town hall. 1t
was one of the largest caucuses held
in years and more interest was mani
tested than at any caucus held IN the
last ten years. The principal strife
was on the delegates to the county
convention The Tomlinson men and
Charters forces had been very active
preparing for this caucus and each
was positive of victory. The omar
ter forces had the backing of union
labor forces. After considerable dis
cussion 1t was voted to proceed to the
election OF county delegates the
county delegation is a solid Charters
delegation. The personnel is John j.
Houlihan, John d. McGovern, Oscar
Peterson, Thomas j. Sheehey and ~.
g. Cox.
The shrievalty and senatorial dele
gates elected on the democratic ticket
will meet tonight. the former IN the
city court room and the latter III the
City hall annex. The shrievalty dele
gates are as follows: =
First ward: James Nj. Lynch, VIII
liam P. Maloney, Daniel w. Sullivan,
Henry Walsh, John Crary; alternate
Dennis Cooney.
Second ward Hubert III. Rigney.
James f. DonnelIy, Charles b. Egan
WilliamyT, Walsh. Miles f. Connolly;
alternate, James e. Madigan.
Third ward George j. Mcdonald,
Thomas f. Garyey, James Wheelahan,
Edwin r. Cook. Edward ]. Roach; al
ternate, Henry B. Loucks.
Fourth ward. John f. Calvin, Her
man Stof1ier, John Carey, James Shan
nahan, Bernard Erwin, Thomas f.
Mitchell; alternate. Garrett Henebry.
Fifth ward. William Tobin, John w.
Leany, Patrick J. Sheehan, John Leary,
John Fl. Finley, Michael Coss, James
T..
The senatorial delegates are as fol-
lows:
First ward, Edward L. Maloney, Jer-
emiah Delaney, John Mcpherson,
Henry Deiss, John j. Coward; alter
nate, John j. Lynch.
Second ward, Timothy #, Conway.
Michael Hogan, Patrick f. Burns,
Henry II Lynch, Henry f. Cunning
ham; alternate, Frederick j. Hayes.
Third ward, Francis P. Guilfoile,
John p. Caffery Jr. Andrew J. Brod-
erick. Thomas TyrreH. Robert FL. Hene-
bry; alternate, John r. Corbett.
Fourth ward Thomas M. Hogan,
Frederick Lallier, John Smith, Fred
erfck Donahue Patrick Coogan,
Charles Bogart;; alternate, Patrick
Troy.
Fifth ward, Joseph Candy. Joseph T.
Degnan James Toole. David Sheelfy,
George ]. Smith. Martin Brophy, James
Hayes; alternate. James ]. Devoy.
Delegates elected at the democratic
primaries who have not received
their credentials can receive them to-
night at the city court room.
The delegates elected to choose del
egates to the congressional convention
met last night and adjourned until
next Monday night at 8 o'clock.
The name of George w. Beach. ex-
superintendent of the Naugatuck road,
is mentioned as probable candidate
for representative on the democratic
ticket
The democratic primary held in East
Haven last night, 40 voters present,
oIao%od dosonafianc II, eovora1 e0ruar1-
tons. The delegations are unpledged
but the county delegation Is supposed
to favor Tomlins0n for sheriff and the
state delegation Cary.
Thef West Haven machine demo-
8 Gratis. led by James III. Peck, secured
q victory in the primary last night,
q when, by a vote of 172 to SO the dele7
gate tickets selected by the committee
d Of 81 chosen by he primary held in
August were ratified. This is Tom
a Iinson victory.
The delegates chosen to nominate
81 delegates to the probate convention
met at the city court rooms last night
and elected the following delegates;
Peer B. Reeves, John III. Moran. John
T. Dawson, G. g. Russell, Florence
Clohessy, James Batters Terrence
Ell C0yte, James FIdHnefy, II. M. hlgley.
Timothy O'Rourke Martin Keefe aud
Patrick Brennan. The meeting was
called to order by John E. Holohan.
Florence Clohessy was chosen chair
s. man and John J. Geraghty clerk. 1t
is understood that the race was pretty
close between Judge Lowe and Attor-
ney SIavin the former winning the
delegation nv the hardest kind Of a
tight.
The democratic convention at saen-
gerbund hall last evening to elect dele
gates to the state, congressional, pro-
bate and county conventions was about
as far from a love feast as could well
be, says the Hartford Courant, which
no doubt makes it out worse than it
really was. 1t was a scrfmmage from
first to last and there was no harmony
in it. except what the majority had
in itself Mayor Sullivan, who was
supported by the Economic league.
was defeated ON every issue raised and
took his defeat hard. He fought to