Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-01

Ing waged unceasingly. Both sides elaim victory. The Lowe supporters elaim IT pledged delegates while the
 5uilfoile men assert that at least 16 pf the delegates will vote for him. 2D'Connor's nomination for registrar hppears certain.
 DURANT DOWNED AGAIN.
 The second ward republican caucus,
 he climax to one of the hottest fac ionaI fights which has ever been Taged within the confines of this Ptronghold of the party of trusts and kombina ations, was held last night in khe City hall, and resulted in a crush Ing defeat for anti-machine forces, better known as the Durant-Cole fac-s don Of a total of 45S votes cast the Regulars, under the leadership of 5eorge L. Lilley, pol1ed BPS votes, while the antis cast 130 ballots, a ma- prity of POO less two for the LilIey- 4ellogg- Peasley- Kelsey combination. The caucus was called to order by Captain Henry B. Carter. Warren l.. Hall was appointed chairman and Seorge E. Judd secretary. The tellers were Robert Walker and Tracy Man
 dlle. The balloting began about 7:45 Ahd continued for about two hours. Sergeant Pagan and Patrolman Tehan
 tood near the ballot box and kept order. Everybody whose name was Sn the list was allowed to vote and
 there was no trouble. Much interest was shown in the result of the eau bus and during the evening many ward heelers from other wards visited the hall to see how the battle was waging While the votes were being counted Cohgressman Lilley and Harry Durant
 Eet greeted each other pleasantly and
 hen went off to one side of the hall and had little chat Judge Peasley and Ben Kelsey came into the hal later in the evening, after they had repaired the fences in the third ward. & The third and fourth ward republi- cans hold caucuses in the City han building at 7:80 o'clock tonight ;'a9 "
 Attorney James M. Lynch has lot of valuable democratic campaign lit- erature which he will be pleased to bass out to all who call upon him at bis office on North Main street.
 x The victory of the regular republi can forces in the second ward means the nomination of Henry H. Peck for senator in the fifteenth district. He has captured two of the three wards.
 The delegates to the democratic sen atorial convention will meet in the SCity hall at 8 o'clock tonight and the delegates to elect delegates to the dem- 0crattc state convention will get to- &gether in the same place an hour or leo later.
 The faces of several well known democrats in the past were seen at the republican caucus last night. X democratic member of the board of publtc safety under Mayor D. e: Kill dum voted and so did walking dele gate of one of the local unions, who was delegate to the democratic state co4vention two years ago
 James Callan. a worker for the ma chine, had wordy argument with At torney Durant at the second ward eau GUS last night and threatened to punch .hfm. It was all on account of a col .Ored voter. DTTant gave him an anti .rkgular ticket, stating that Mark &$in1pSOn's name was on it. while Gal han gave him a regular ticket at the AHame time stating that Mark Simpson H4td not want him to vote the other Ht$cket as he did not know his name svRns going to be used on it. How do lyfou know" asked the former prose |Qsuting attorney. Mark didn't want lhis name on it," was the reply. Don't &nind him, he doesn't know anything, y 2saif Harry, and he walked away smil- q ingly and took seat by George Lil- < ley. This made Callan mad and he walked over to Durant and asked hiEl to walk outside and he would show him whether he knew anything Or not Harry was too busy, however, to com ply with his request.
 There seems to be a prevailing sen chance here in Connecticut to give the republicans a run for their money this year and to make them hustle as they have not for over ten years. It depends upon the result of the state convention to be held in New Haven week after next If man of state
 and national reputation is nominated
 a man who can stump the state and is thoroughly conversant with the live issues of the day, a man who has the confidence of the solid men of Connecticut regardless of party, the outlook for the victory would be very
 bright. The party in this state has
 many such men, but one in particular beems to especially fill the bill. He /is the Hon Lewis Sperry of Hartford We know that MT Sperry has decared
 that he is out of politics, but he is a
 true democrat and we believe would
 heed the call of his party.-LitchheHd