Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-26
POLITICAL POINTERS.
Democrats Expect to Swing Banner
 to the Breeze Thursday.


 Unless another unexpected mishap
 occurs the democratic banner will be swung to the breeze Thursday even
 ing. Mir Ockels has touched up the
 one slightly damaged by fire last week
 and has got 1t In better shape than ! before the accident, and the commit ! tee preferring to deal with a local man, concluded to accept it. 1t has not yet been decided who the speakers
 will be, but it is safe to state that
 they will be good ones. The speakers
 listed. to appear in Waterbury dulMg
 the campaign are the Hon F. A. Col s lins of Boston; Senator Culbertson of
 Texas; John k. Finerty of Chicago; Governor Garyin of Rhode Island; M. E. Ingalls,, Charles Towne, J. Mam1l- ton Lewis, O. w. Underwood, Bourke ] Cochran, James H. Head, MT Bar
 tholomew and w. H. Russell. Cock
 ran will not come into Connecticut ut ! til after October s and then he will
 make two speeches in this state, one ] in Hartford and another in Water
 bury.
 A man who claims to be on the tn- side with reference to registration
 says that two-thirds of the new voters to be made this fall are republicans If this be true there must be some
 thing wrong. The democrats ought 10 be holding their own in Waterbury.
 But it is pretty hard to be sure about these things. People don't always vote for the party that rushes them
 through.
 The delegates to the republican town convention will meet tonight in the re-
 publican headquarters in Meigs blocK. Besides nominating a town ticket the question of changing the primary rules will be considered. For some time past the business of stuff1ng bal- z tot boxes 0has occasioned much annoy hnce at republican primaries and the
 few honest fellows in the party have
 been trying to do away with the old
 plan of nominating candidates and use
 the check list and ballot box instead,
 Just as the democrats do. Several
 new men are making try to be nom-
 lnated for conStables but it Is doubt Afi1l if there will be any changes, al- J though friends of Thomas Quinn of Brooklyn expect to be able to show why their candidate would add strength to the ticket. 1t is under stood that Charles l.. Blake will be nominated as candidate for first select man to succeed w. F. Jarrett. There Is no money in the position now and
 nobody is breaking his neck about get ting there.
 The republicans will not nominate
 representatives for a few weeks more
 and by that time they wdll have got a
 ine upon the best sprinters in the par, y who want to enter the lists. Con
 Siderable bad feeling has been stirred np in the party over the way the ma- chine is kicking Ralph Blakeslee from
 pillar to post to please men who are said to have bigger pulls than the al Herman. MT Blakeslee was slated for the party's candidate last fall, but they hhrew him aside at the eleventh hour inl very unceremonious way, and when his friends came around to in- rudre the cause of such treatment they were placated by promise that Ralph would be the next senator from Water bury. This calmed the turbulent Blakeslee cohorts and they fell into kline aftd never doubted the sincerity of
 he political wire pullers until they
 earned that Blakeslee was about to ,get another toss towards the rear to make room for H. Fl. Peck, who wished to make another trip to Hart ] ford as a lawmaker. This was the limit and opened a breach that has not yet been bridged. The heelers are try lng to get around 1t by offering MT Blakeslee a place on the ticket as can hidate for representative, but the bait does not appear to be working very satisfactorily and as a result the man.
 agement is very much worried over
 bhe outlook.