Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-08

At an adjourned meeting of the deniocratic town committee, held at the democratic headquarters on Bank street last night. the report of the committee appointed to revise the party rules was read. Chairman Mag ner called the meeting to order and O.. w. Messer acted as secretary. The principal changes include the direct primary for the nomination of sana- tors. The town committee, to consist of fifteen persons, shall have general supervision of the party and will be empowered to name ward committees. The term of office shall be two years instead of one. The committee to be chosen by the present town conven- ton shall serve until January l, 1907, and thereafter the committee elected shah take office on the first day in January for the term for which it is to serve. The rules will be submitted to the democratic electors for ratifica. ton at primary to be held in the C1ty hall next Thursday from o'clock m the afternoon to in the evening. The convention will hold another meeting on Friday evening, October IA.
 The nominees for the state officers in Massachusetts are as follows: Gov ernor, William l.. Douglass. Brockton; lieutenant governor, John 0. Crosby, Pittsfield; secretary of state, Henry n. Schaeffer, Winchester; treasurer and receiver general, Edmund 0. Cod man, Boston; auditor, Francois K, Tetrault, Southbridge; attorney gener- al, John P. Leahy, Boston.
 The republicans will have a rally in Poli's theater tonight. Mayor El- ton will preside and Attorney General w. Fl. Moody will deliver the oration. Tickets are being distributed in the factories, but ticket or no ticket, if you want to hear MT Moody whoop Ter up for the g. O. D. you may walk right in and take seat and nobody will stop you
 Democratic campaign plans con tenlpate a concentration of heaviest cannona6ing in the last ten days of the canvass. Practically all of the sshurrah" work VIII be confined to the Inst three days in October and the first week in November. All plans are being laid for this whirlwind fin. ish. All the force the national cOnl- mittees can bring to bear will be dis played in the states of New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Delaware, Mary land, West Virginia, Indiana and Col orado.
 The following is the ticket nominated by the republicans at Boston yester- day:
 q Governor, John l.. Bates Of Boston.
 Lieutenant governor, Curtis Guild, Jr, of Boston.
 Secretary, William H. olin of Bos, ton.
 Treasurer and receiver general, Ar thur D. Ohapin of Holyoke
 Auditor-Henry E. Turner of Mall den.
 Attorney-general. Herbert Parker of Lancaster.
 A contest for state treasurer enliv- ened the proceedings, Mr Chapin win ming overAJ. J. Whipple of Brockton by S21 to 6SS. The rest of the ticket was cut and dried, being renominations made by exclamation.
 Herbert J. Bessetto of South Main street. who was nominated by the re- publicans for senator in the sixteenth district, has notified the machine that he will not enter the race. MT Bes- sette is a bright man and does not care to be jolIied by the leaders of the republican party, who used his name knowing that he stood no show of winning out and with no end in view but simply to catch the French vote. They tried hard to convince him that he could beat the democratic nomi- nee, but MT Bessette refused to be converted and showed his- good judg- mert by refusing to make a run in a district where it is almost out of the question to elect a republican. Many of the French people feel pleased at MT Bessette's declination and state that they think 1t about time the busi- ness of dragging the religion of the French Canadians into politics was dropped i've vote as American citizens and not as French Canadians or Roman Catholics" said one of MT Bessette's personal friends to-day, and if you could get at the facts you would see that people who bring in the religious issue among the Canadians does not make much out of it."
 John T. Daly has been quoted as stating that he has decided to work against the democratic party, but he still wants to remain in that organiza- ton. If MT Daly meant this he leaves