The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-10-02
LITTLE TOWN ELECTIONS.
DELIGHTFUL WEATHER BRINGS
 OUT 4 BIG VOTE.

No Particular Issues at Stake Other
 Than the Adoption or Rejection by
 the Individual Towns of Constitu-
 tionaI Amendment Permitting of
 Change From Annual to Biennial
 Meetings-Eust Haven, Milford and
 Cheshire for License
 Town meeting day in Connecticut proved just as popular to the freemen yesterday as 1t ever did, although this year there were no particular issues at stake other than the adoption or rejec- tion by the individual towns of the constitutional amendment permitting of a change from annual to biennial meet ings. In about half the towns the vot- CTS acted upon the question of license or no license, and changes from one column to the other appear to have been few. Each town chose it's officers, In many cases for a two-year term by adopting the biennial meeting plan, and transacted other business which had been included in the warrant for the meeting.
 A more delightful day has not been experienced for many years, and this, in measure, accounted for the unusu- ally large turnout of voters and for the big vote cast in many towns. Until quite recently the little town elections, as they are called, were looked upon as indicative, to some extent, of. the re- suits to be reached in the November election for state officers, but that day has passed apparently, owing to the growing independence of the voters In selecting town officers. It has become a matter of common occurrence to have the democrats and republicans endorse one or more town officers, or to have a strongly republican town honor dem ocrat chiefly on personal merits rather than on political partisanship. Towns which are consistently democratic i'll both town and state elections are not many, while those which go republican In state elections are overwhelmingly in the majority in November, but less so in October
 In the city election in South Norwalk Charles E. Dow, republican mayoralty candidate, won out over James A. Lock- wood, democratic, by large majority, the vote being for Dow 527 and for Lockwood 3Sf.
 Wallace Damn, democrat, was chosen mayor of Norwalk, defeating Gould s. Hoyt, republican, by majority of 126.
 Winsted went republican and voted for license.
 Following the election at the business meeting of the town of Winchester it was announced that W. H. Batcheller, a prominent citizen of the town of Win chester, had donated $25,O0O to the town on condition that the money be used to establish a sinking fund or to pay off the towns indebtedness, and also that 2 per cent. interest be paid to the donor during his lifetime.
 The republican ticket won out in Guilford.
 An unusual feature of the election in Plainville was the appearance of two regular republican ballots in the field. The first bore the names of H. M. Clay ton for grand juror and Harold Tomp- kins and Louis Higgins for constables, When the second ballot made it's ap- pearance these names had been replac- ed by others. The last ticket won out, making the election republican with the exception of the office of first select man. No protest was made, but it was claimed that, under strict rendering of the law, the whole republican ticket could have been thrown out.