Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-24
POLITICAL POINTERS
Candidate Hugo h Town To-DW-
 first Rllly Next Week.

< ss~e sssssJ ssSs~S " S'V Y Philip Hugo of New Haven, the
 democratic nominee for county sher-
 iff, was in Waterbury to-day and
 called upon several prominent nnem-
 bers of that party. MT Hugo takes
 hopeful view of the situation and
 is confident that Connecticut will do
 it's full duty at the coming election
 and put Connecticut back among the
 democratic states once more. He
 was amused at an article that ap-
 peared in one of the Waterbury pa
 pers during the past week in which
 1t stated that his competitor, Mr-Wal-
 ter, Is German. Of course this Is
 not so and MT Walter believes that 1t
 was used as joke upon him simply
 because he happens to be of that na-
 tionality. He is not running as the
 representative of any particular ele-
 ment, but as the candidate of the
 democratic party, and he is confident
 that the people feel that the time is
 ripe for change and intend to give
 the republicans a long leave of ab- sence from their fat berths. Local
 men who met MT Hugo were very fa-
 vorably impressed by his earnestness
 and say that a little of his courage
 and confidence would do some of our
 Waterbury democrats no harm.
 There will be meeting of the 5th
 Ward Democratic club. at democratic
 Headquarters this evening at o'clock.
 The democrats in order to fill the place on their ticket made vacant by the refusal of Ambrose H.. Wells to run may not have to call another convention, as the members of the town committee may name the man. Attorney John F. Holohan, who was chairman of the last convention, may call another meeting, but it seems to be the concensus of opinion that he will meet the members of the town committee and decide to select the candidate in that way.
 The first democratic rally will take place next Tuesday night. The place has not yet been decided upon, but that makes no matter, it will be mere ly question of capacity, for there Ia great interest in the party this fall and everything bodes for big vic- tory. The speakers will be Mayor Thayer of Norwich. nominee for gov ernof; the Hon Charles Donahue, nominee for ngressman-at-large; yn1 Hx.,. gressman from the second district, and one or two others yet to be se- lected.
 The address delivered by the Hon George l.. Lilley in the lecture room of the Second Congregational church | has stirred up heap of trouble | among some members of that de- nomination and 1t Is likely that the | church committee will be given a | broad hint to see that no such thing | happens again. Although the num- Der of democrats connected with the | Second church is small compared with those who kneel at the, altar of republicanism, still even members | who hold the republican creed feel that the invitation extended to Mir Lilley to speak in the edifice was a | serious mistake and hope that 1t will not be repeated. One of the older members told reporter that his fam fly are regular attendants at the Sec Ond church and he goes once in a whlie himself, but he thinks he will | be rather slow to call there now since the lecture room has been converted into a political rostrum. "I know" he continued. "that great many claim the churches don't pay with the attendance they have and that 1t f would be good business proposition to use them for lecture rooms and concert halls when not otherwise oc- cupied. but don't think we've opt to that In Waterbury yet. don't blame he was over in Brooklyn Sunday- but I do find fault with the people who invited him there and who should have known better. don't think he ever was there before and everybody knows that Lilley wouldn't waste his time talking to the mems league of any church if he wasn't fin politics and looking for votes. My wife swears by everything that hap pens in church. but this was too much for her and she doesn't want it men, toned in the house."
 Members of the society before whom Mir Lilley lectured claim that there was no politics in it and that during his remarks very little if any thing at all was said tending to show that it was the duty of every elector to rally around the standard of the republican party at the coming cleo ton. but the objectors claim that they don't care what Mir Liliey said: it is the principle of the thing they find fault with. But 1t will blow over and after a day or two you will not hear | word about it, although in all prob ability 1t may be some time before another candidate for office will. be permitted to make political capital by speaking in one of the churches. MURPHY FAILS TO MAKE GOOD.
 New York. Oct 24.-At the conclu- sion of an investigation by the grand fury of charges made by Charles F. the Tammany leader. that Tammany Hall candidates had been 'held up" for cash considerations by the managers of the Independence league. it was announced that the charges had fallen through complete ly. The oflicial announcement to this effect declared the charges were merely campaign gossip. and the grand jury will not dignify the pro-