Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-05
BATTLE OF BALLOTS WAGED STEADILY ALL DAY.

scrap at the fourth ward voting booth, this morning. The alderman asked the deputy question about someones and received what he : considered ana offensive answer. Thislroused the ires of the alderman and he asked the deputy if he knewTwho he was talkingl to. Then the two officials glared atl each other and. evidently recognizingl that each was, man of influenced calmed down and talked common sense. There wasn't much to it al-l though it was noised around thaG thed alderman had assaulted the deputy. Mayor Kilduff said, at 3. o'clock this afternoon that if the democrats in thei fourth and fifth wards didn't come in faster from that time on they couldl not win. At that time over 300 demo1 crats in the fourth had not shown up,l and the number to be heard from ini the fifth district was in neighborhood of 500. A big effort is being made to bring out the vote. If the democratsl go to the polls there can be no doubt of the result. If they have no inter est in the contest and remain away the outlook for democratic success is not bright, to say the least
 |. c. c. Commerford. one of the old line democrats, who nas been living in New Jersey for some time, came to- town yesterday to cast his vote for his party. He was early on deck and found an official envelope in one of the booths of the third ward. He regis tered a sound kick with the, moderator and told him the law on the mafter,l which provides a fine of $1,000 for anyone found with such an envelope in his possession on election day. It may be that this was the start of an old republican trick. The game is to get hold of an envelope, give the pJ11ss chased voter his ticket in this envelope and he must return the envelope he is given in the booth. Thus the tricki can be worked all day long. But owing to MT Commercials discovery 1t was nfpped in the bud thatetime
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 Whatever way the election goes ie is certain that Attorney Lynch conduct ed his campaign in a dignffied, cour- ageous and intelligent manner, so much so that many republicans who didn't think much of him at the open- ing of hostltties have since learned to look upon him as an able speaker and charming gentleman. It is seldom that man has been nominated for office against whom nobody, notseve the of4 fensive partisans of the opposftions could find nothing to say. More mud shnging and bil1ingsgate have been irl4 dulged in this year by the republicanse than ever before, but nothing was al- legged against MT Lynch. Whether he gets there or not, it is certain that 3 he will be better known and better liked in certain quarters after election& than he was when his name was aai.sss mentioned in connection with the may orally omination.
 Editor Evening Democat:
 Dear Sir:-In an article in this mornings Republican we find that a certain Hebrew club voted not to SUD- port our candidate, Louis Raffel. We wish to deny the existence of such club and emphatically deny that there is any truth in such statement. The fact being that our candidate is exceeding- ly popular among the Hebrew class and all other classes as we'll He is one of the largest tax payers of the Hebrews and no doubt will carry the support of all the Hebrew citizens.
 We repeat that any such statement as has been made is the fault of irre< sponsible parties. Signed,
 H. ALBERT
 M. OLANOFF,
 LOUIS JOHNSON,
 HARRIS FEINN.