Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-30
TOWN OFFICERS NAMED.
Old Names Again Placed on the Tick
 ct Last Night.

ct Last Night.
 The democratic town convention was held In the city court room in the City haM building last night and was of Harmonious nature.
 John ]. Brophy, chairman of the town committee, called the convention to order. Every one of the 28 dele gates was present. Florence Keenan was elected chairman and Augustus Schmidt secretary. John J. Brophy then suggested bhat if the delegates were not agreed upon the candidates recess should be declared and a eau GUS of the delegates held. It was so voted.
 When the meeting reconvened, Jo- yeph Lawlor. third selectman for the past two years. was unanimously elect cd for the office of first selectman. [ouis Raffel, prominent merchant of 6his city, was the unanimous choice of the convention for second selectman.
 Frank P. Brett was renominated for town clerk, every delegate voting for him.
 To head the list of conStahles Thom- as Fl. Pryor was unanimously elected.
 
 upon in caucus at this point, which was as follows: For constables, T. Fl. Pryor, Walter Lannen, Patrick Kelly and Maurice F. Carmody. B,1t instead of Lannen being nominated for second place. Messrs Carmody and Kelly were nominated The former received 15 votes to Kelly's IS and was declared elected Constable Wal To IF 1lxx unanimously elected for third and fourth places. All are renominations with the exception of MT Kelly's. This Is his first experience in running for ofiice. He is resident of Dover street and Is we'll known throughout the city. He Is a prominent member of the St Thomas Cadets A. A.
 John Flanagan was the unanimous choice of the convention for registrar of voters.
 It was voted to leave the matter of Formulating and adopting rules and regulations for the democratic party until Friday night, October 3. The meeting then adjourned
 The men who headed off Alderman Blakeslee for the mayorality nomina. ton are now trying to pour oil on the troubled waters by assuring Ralph's friends that he will be the next sena. tor. This is not bad ointment, but will Blakeslee's supporters who have been handled without gloves accept it? aAH
 The delegates to the democratic school convention will meet tonight. A ticket was talked of this afternoon consisting of James J. Cassin, Timothy Conway and D H. Fitzpatrick. There are others and probably nothing dedin- tte w1il be known on the matter until the delegates get together.
 &%& M The republicans will have rally in City hall Friday night. It will be & combination of Citizens alliance-hard shell republican affair, but whether ad- mission he by ticket and workingmen barred . was the case when they declai e some time ago. has not yt lnounced. It is evident that u Y will be open to all who have votes on this occasion.
 There will be a meeting to-rrorfow night i'm the city court room of all who desire &o assist the democrats in next Mondays election contest. Friday night the boys will hold rallies at North square, corner of East Main and Dublin streets and at Baldwin and Bridge streets Saturday evening 8 rally will be held in each voting dis trict in the city.
 The race between Lynch and Elton will be interesting, but not any more 60 than the sprinting match with "Jack" Mcdonald on one side and Billy Rigney on the other, both head ing for the office of city sheriff. The men are in good trim and the betting on the result is brisk with the odds in favor of the blue-shirted warrior who has outdistnnced all competitors for the past twenty years.
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 The workingmen of this city, both republican and &aInocratic, cannot for get the Tracy bill. can they? Yet this same Cornelius Tracy was one of the men who Is said to have deserted Blakeslee and voted for Elton for the mAyoralty. Why did he do 1t? Was 1t because the republican state ma- chine whispered in his ear that it. would be wise to do so? A vote for Elbon means a vote for Tracy and you know what happened In Hartford only short time ago.
 Ralph Blakeslee had the promise of che delegates for the nomination for mayor, George Booth had the promise for the city. sheriffship, Lieutenant sandland had the promise for the city eIerkship-down and out went them all because the clique in control of the re- publican party said so. Do the friends of Blakeslee. Booth and Sand land feel elated? Many of their. friends are workingmen and you can just gam ble they want none of the party who fTeabed these three men wrongly.
 "Efton is all right, as far as l know" said republican last night, but l do not propose to let any man or set of men tell me what must do. I will not vote on election day for the very