Bennington banner and reformer. (Bennington, Vt.) 1903-19??, 1903-02-19
Plenty Of Variety for the Voters
to Select From.
FOUR TICKETS IN FIELD
Republicans Nominate Old Board Of SeleCtmen
With Exception of Remington, Who Is
Replaced by II. NJ. Bassett.

The local campaign is now fully un-
der way with four tickets, or parts of
tickets, in the field and all kinds of
combinations possible.
The ball started with the Democratic
caucus last Friday evening, of which
"A A Lyons was chairman and Richard
Hurley, secretary, which voted to
unite with the Republicans on a union
ticket, if the Republicans would do the
same. The caucus appointed: DR. E.
B. Daley, J. F. Gavin, w. P. Hogan,
II. S. Walbridge, f. J. Murphy, Will
liam Hicks and DIR b. c. Jenny com
mittee to meet with similar Republi-
can committee and name union ticket
while If the Republicans declined, the
committee was empowered to name a
complete ticket
The Republican caucus which was
called to order by H t Cushman and
elected C II Mason chairman and w
r Daley secretary, voted not to join
in forming union ticket, though the
plan was favored by w II Bradford,
c NJ Graves and Judge Mason. The
caucus then proceeded to nominate the
following ticket:
MODERATOR, c Il Mason; town clerk,
E A Booth; selectmen, A K Richie,
w r Worthington, Hugh NJ Bassett;
treasurer; C II Dewey; first constable,
Fred Godfrey; second constable, Pat
rick Meagher; overseer of the poor,
George r Mathers; listers, | E Glib
son, c d Phillips, NJ Graves, Ed
mund LaFrauchise, Otis Warren;
auditors, E D yelling, S Fl Black
mer, C B Wall, Jr; trustee of public
money, w H Berry; grand jurors,
Edward c Bennett, w r Daley, Harry
Chase, Harry N Dunham, Jonathan
T. Morse; fence viewers, Jay Peck
ham, r o Gore, Barker Vail; inspec-
tor OF leacher J n Williams; pound
keeper, Gabriel Monette; surveyor of
wood and inspector OF shingles, F c
Evans; town agent to prosecute and
defend suits, o NJ Barber. road com
missioners for the tV o districts outside
the village, Philip Jacobs, Edward
Denio.
The committee appointed at the Fri
day evening caucus to complete
ticket in case that the republican eau
Gus did not indorse the recommends
tions of the former one, met Saturday
evening after the republican caucus
adjourned and completed ticket
which was filed Monday as demo-
crat ticket. AS completed and filed,
the ticket Moderator, E. B. Daley;
selectmen, Frank NJ. Crawford, J. T.
Remington. Eli J. Tiffany; clerk, Il.
A. Booth; treasurer, c. II. Dewey;
oversesr of the poor, Geo r. Mathers;
listers, Edmund LaFranchise, c. II.
Houghton, f. B. Patterson, c. L.
Jewett, f. J. Murphy; grand jurors,
D. A. Gleason, E. B. Daley. F. B.
Carver, E. L. Sibley, j. b. Morse;
auditors, E. d. yelling, j. p Multi
gan, S. H. Blackmer; town agent to
defend suits, o. NJ. Barber; trustee of
public money, o. d. Adams; first con-
stable and collector, A. G. Sweet;
second constable, w, j. Meagher, jr.;
fence viewers, r. o. Gore, Geo H.
Elwell, E. NJ. Vail; inspector of
leather, Geo Schwab; pound keeper,
Morris Connelley; inspector of wood
and shingles, NJ. w. Stewart; trustee
of cemetery fund, c. H. Dewey.
Later the above ticket was filed with
the town clerk by certificate as the
Local Option-H -High-License ticket, the
proper number of names having been
secured. Yet later the same ticket
with the exception that the name of
Fred Tiff appeared for first constable
and collector in place of A. c. Sweet,
and C. A. Maurer for grand juror in
place of Harry Chase was filed. This
ticket is known as the regular Local
Option ticket.
An independent democratic ticket
for Edward Walbridge as school di-
rector has also been filed and an in
dependent ticket containing the name
of George Elwell for road commission
er has also been filed.