Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-27

dered several selections, after which the Hon George l.. Lilley delivered short address and introduced Joseph 6. Cannon, speaker of the national house of representativ who enter tained the meeting for nearly two hours. Mir Cannon is an interesting talker and kept the audience in the best of humor from the opening to the close of his remarks, not by the logic of his reasonings, but rather through his happy faculty of getting off joke His grim humor cropped out so suddenly at times many scarce ly caught on before the speaker had proceeded with his jugglery of figures or something else, which went to show that this is the greatest country in the world MT Cannon has no patience with the man who does not vote, and would have no hesitation, if he had the power, to compel by writ of man. damus every eligible person in the land to become an elector and deposit his ballot for either of the two great political parties. He had no time to waste talking to the man who refuses to vote for the candidates of either and says he knows more than both. He came here to talk to republicans and democrats. MT Cannon devoted mostsUf his time to a defense of the tariff as maintained by the republican party and an arraignment of the posi- ton of. the democrats on the samA question. He dwelt at great length on the protection given labor in the United States and promised that if continued in power they will remedy such defects as may exist in the tariff. as D01 O or falsifier but he thought he knew nothing about national issues else he would not have said some things which have been credited to him since hia nominat ton. es@s ssRs
 With reference to education and re- upfon. Mir Cannon sang the same old song nearly all the other republican spellbinders that have visited Water bury gave their hearers There is lote of room in this country in the north and the south for our children to go, and take with them our religion and customs. He, cited Russia as a sample of European civilization where the czar is pope. If the latter says go, the people go; if he says come, they come. If the man at the helm hap pens to be a good man the country is we'll governed otherwise the people are nnisgoverned. In any case there was no need of the masses to be edu' cated because all the thinking waA done by one man.
 Adam Bede didn't come, and the Hon MT Sherman was put forward as the second speaker. He told few { good stories and got out of saying much hy intinating that Mir Cannon had told them the whole story.
 The republican rally was responsible for big row among the members of the board of registration which may furnish a little work for the7superfCr court. For the past few days an ef- fort has been made to get the board to remain in session until 8 o'clock evenings for the accommodation of people who work In the factories and cannot get of very we'll in the day> time. but the board never saw things that way until yesterday, when 1t was announced that they worlid: sit until o'clock, and a notice to that effect hung on the out side of the door all the afternoon. A big crowd took advantage of the op- portunity to be made, but at o'clock Town Clerk Blair recollecteds that he . was one Of the vice presidents at the republican rally in Polls theater, and left, followed by Mir Atwood. Before leaving Selectman Nell moved that the board continue in session until 5 o'clock, but MT Blair and MT Atwood refused to vote on such proposition and disappeared as fast as their heels could carry them.
 SeIectman Wagner and Nell and the registrars carried out the original in tenfion of the board and made forty seven electors between and 8 o'clock. Attorney Minor acting as clerk pro tenn. It has been stated that Mir Blair took the official records with him, but there must be some mistake about this, for according to the statutes the records are not official until they have been approved by the board and turned over to the clerk. The matter is covered by section 1894 of the gen. eraI statutes, which reads as follows:
 'The said board shall deliver to. the town clerk of the town certified list In writing of all persons admitted as electors at either of said meetings, which shall be prima facie evidence that each person named therein pos- sesses the requisite qualifications for an elector, and the names of all per sons so admitted on the date preceding election shall deliver to the registrars a certificate of admission, and the reg istrars shall write the word admitted opposite the name before the applicant shall vote"
 selectman Niell said that the board reconyened yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock and didn't adjourn until in the evening, and added that it would do business until 8 o'clock this even tng.s too. whether the full board re- mafned .or not 'sThe time Is short now" continued the selectman, land if all who are on the list to be made come in it will be quite hustle to put them through. To stop at ' o'clock while a crowd of applicants was filing in is not right, and don't think a court would stand for such Eactics.''
 Mir Atwood appeared to be innocent of any wrong doing. He had no ob- iectien to remaining an hour later, but be understood they were going to stop at and he quit at that time.
 It seems the republicans have prac- tfcallyy all their own men in now and fFav dn1asf care a Dicayune whether the