Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-10-14
DEMOCRATIC RULES
City Committee Discussed Old and
 Proposed New Ones

The delegates to the democratic town convention held an adjourned meeting in the city court room last night, J. H. Freney presiding and W. c. Moore acting as clerk. A new set of rules to govern local primaries were submitted and with the exception of the section relative to the method Of nominating senator, the whole draft was adopted With reference to the senatorship it was said that under ex- isting conditions ward lines in the six teenth district caused lot of ieal- ousy, the fifth district having one more delegate than the fourth, thus putting the former in a position to name the candidate for senator right along. Af- ter good deal of discussion the sec tion as recommended was rejected and one offered by Mir Holohan passed in stead, which batters down ward lines op the senatorship by providing that the candidates for senator in the if. teenth and sixteenth districts be nom- mated by fifteen delegates to be voted for on separate ticket at the primar- les. This will not be ward ticket, but district ticket. and it will be in order to put delegates on it from any part of the district. For example, in the sixteenth senatorial district, which comprises the fourth and fifth wards. 1t will be all right to make ups the if teen delegates on any one ticket iron, electors in the two wards and this ticket will be voted for at both polling places. There may be as many sena- torial tickets in the field as people want to trot out. but of course only one can win, and inasmuch as the tick ct will be voted for in both wards neither can claim any right to the del egates over and above the other. The same rule applies to the fifteenth sena- torial district. Of course there was some opposition to the passage of the section as finally adopted, but when it came to vote 1t went through by a vote of 10 to 4.
 Another slight change is the opening of the polls at 4 o'clock instead of 4:3O. thus giving half an hour more to tht combat.
 Heretofore there has been practl- cally no system with reference to re- porting regarding who contributed funds to help out elections and what disposition was made of them. This is met by a clause which obliges the chairman. of the town committee to file statement of the money turned over to him for election expenses, the names of the contributors and how it was disposed of, at a meeting of the town committee to be held one month after election. At this same meeting the registrar of voters will be obliged to make an annual statement of the work performed by him, during tho year.
 The town committee chosen Is sub. the same as the former one It is as follows:
 First ward-Daniel Murphy, F. Lawlor and William Houghton.
 Second ward-T. ]. Brennan, Harry W. Minor and H. M. Rigney.
 Third ward-J. H. Frene,y c. Gar rity and William Johnson.
 Fourth ward-Thomas Wagner, T. Fitzgerald and J. r. Morris.
 Fifth ward--J. F. Holohan. r. w. Halpin and John Duggan of Wolcott street.
 The committee has taken no step towards electing a chairman and oth- er officers, butt understood that no change will be made in the chairman ship for the present.