Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-08

do better at that time. Electors can
 call at the registrars office In the mean
 time and comply with the law so that
 people who prefer to take this means
 of registering will be given their
 choice provided they drop in any time
 during the day or evening.
 The republicans are making a big
 bid for voters and in the hope of mak- ing respectable showing at their eau cuses they are allowing young men
 to put their names on the list who will
 not mature on time to vote on election day provided they come forward and say that they are republicans and in- tend to vote that ticket as soon as they are admitted to the franchise. Tn the opinion of some people this is simply a game on the part of a few henchmen in the party who are aiming to pack the coucuses in the inetrest of certain aspirants for pplaces on the ticket The party managers are said to be very much afraid of the Doherty forces and are resorting to all kinds of schemes to head them off. But the Doherty men are at work and there are many who take the ground that unless they can be called off the alliance and the local republican machine will be beaten to a standstill and Doherty will be the successful candidate. Be- sides Doherty others are coming into the race and the public needn't be sur prised if they hear of a Chesson boom being launched at any time from now on. It was said to-day that the local republican machine and the Citizens alliance have got together and are working with a view to capturing the caucuses, but from all accounts they are not receiving as much support as they looked for. The fact that many of the leaders in the movement are looked upon as agents of the trolley company is having a bad effect upon the rank and file of the party and for this reason shrewd politicians claim that in order to win the nominee must be man<who cannot be charged with having had anything to do with the labor troubles that have caused so much inconvenience in Waterbury Chesson or Doherty would sweep the field, but for some reason not known to the public there is g strong feeling against Doherty in certain influential quarters and others are saying that OAC6cOA WOQAd AOL uCCCpL LAC AOullla- ton. So far everything looks like Blakeslee on the republican side of the house.
 The democrats don't appear to be making much noise, but they are at work just the same and unless all signs of the times fail the primaries will be quite interesting. The packers of W. E. Thoms speak with the utmost confidence of their ability to carry three wards, the first, second and third and they are not sure but they will come out ahead in all of the voting districts. On the other hand the men who are engineering MT Lynch's campaign can- not see where Thoms is going to come come in and claim that in making their canvas they meet but few who want him. and there you are. Whatever way the primaries go 1t is certain that a whole lot of Waterbury men who have votes have not yet decided what they will do with them this, fall and it is not likely that they will make up their minds until they see both the tickets. One of the Economic leaguers told reporter today that this talk about the league and other labor ele- ments wanting to capture everything was all bosh and he declared that it was being pushed around by republi- cans for political reasons. He said that they are all democrats and are io- ing their level best to nominate ticket that will command the confidence and support of all good democrats and many others who never before voted that ticket. Judging from what he said there can be no doubt but that the working people are determined to stand behind Mir Lynch and also those candidates for the board of aldermen who will add strength to the ticket and by this means change the makeup not only of the appointive boards but eae aldermen as we'll. This would be novelty in Waterbury. We have seen the working forces of the city government controlled by republicans, but the younger generation cannot re- member when the opposition had things it's own way. It is a great fight and at this time there is no man in town far seeing enough to tell with any show of accuracy which side will be in the ascendancy when the battle IS over The leagner referred to also stated that there was absolutely no truth in the rumor to the effect that eaC ACoS uC WOulu HUC SuDDOTC any man unless he belongs to that organization. He wanted to make it plain that the league is not going4to nominate any body. They will allbe trotted out as democrats and when the nominations are made he hoped that no man would ask whether or not this candidate or that was or was not member of any particular society. All the nominees will be democrats and good ones, too, and he thought that after people saw thesticket they would have their eyes opened and be convinced that the talk about the Economic league seeking to clean out every democrat now in of nee was the work of the opposition.
 Ben Kelsey and the Citizens aIli- ance will not have such easy sailing in controlling the caucuses in the dif- ferent wards in this city as they did last year. Last year they had a cinch In winning out at the caucuses in two or three wards because there was practically no opposition to them, but this year there will be strong nartv