Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-09-17
POLITICAL POINTERS
Maay Psnsls AIs Asking For Hstlrll-
 Eidoa Papers at Present.

AVsO ASs0 SSSA 0sS0s ASAA0NN SNe
 first papers of naturalization the
 past week. but only about twenty were admitted to full citizenship. They were given full papers Saturday and 1t was g peculiar thing that al-
 most all of those who were of non- English speaking nationality paid a
 new $2 bill. Each man had 1t in
 the right hand vest pocket and there seemed to be the same fold in each bill.
 Clerk Root of the district court
 has set aside next Thursday for out of-town applicants for papers of citi-
 zenship. either first or final. A big
 crowd Is expected to come from the
 surrounding towns.
 The members of the Third Ward Republican club are elated this
 morning over the results of the con.
 vention Saturday evening, while the
 followers of Judge Peasley and Ben
 Kelsey are not saying word over
 the trouncing they received. The
 new secretary, Joe" Reid, is fairly
 we'll known in Brooklyn and seems to be popular with the republicans The members of the Third Ward clut say with the help of Billy" Sand.
 lands clique in the fourth they will
 have clean sailing from now on.
 The republican town committed
 members and their friends went wild
 Saturday evening and made the wei
 kin in many a tavern about the cen
 ter ring with their loud jollity. Peo pie thought band of wild men had
 broken loose from Hargreave's cir. GUS which has been playing in these
 parts the past week. But nothing oi the kind was the cause. It wal
 merely an aftermath of a meeting oi the republican town committee, al which the resignation of Chairman
 John P. Kellogg was accepted. his term having expired, and Attorney U. c. Church was elected to the place. It is said to have been the
 most uproarious meeting the com mittee ever held and that William
 Mansfield Gillette, member from the fifth ward, spoke as long as there
 were words in the dictionary to fit hii flamboyant and pyrotechnical re- marks on the condition of republi- canism in the fifth ward. It was the first speech Mir Gillette Is said to have ever made and his auditors
 hoped it will not be the last one The meeting vas full one. There were two proxies, Attorney Abnei
 Pierce Hayes represented Attorney
 Church and Judge F. M. Peasley held
 Miller 0. Haynor's credentials
 James H. Filling presided.
 The candidates for Mir Kellogg's official shoes were MT Church, Ben. jamin R. Kelsey and Henry B. Car. ter. The latter was nominated fol secretary pro tenn and he declined ir
 words loud enough to be heard on the green. The meeting was held ir Judge Peasley's iofilce on Leaven'
 worth street. The committee though, that Captain Carter thought he wal
 issuing a command to his company A volunteer then took the job and nominations for chairman of the
 committee were made. An informal vote gave MT Church ten and Mi
 Kelsey five. On the formal vote fol lowing, MT Church got the same ten but some one of MT Kelsey's five slipped away from him, leaving him four and one blank. This made Mi Church chairman and thus one oi the great ambitions of his political career was realized.
 For secretary, Attorney Joseph H Reid got seven. Attorney P. J. Nc, Mahon two, Judge Peasley (the judge was hot after this job) four
 There were two blanks. Attorney McMahon withdrew and on the next
 ballot Attorney Reid got ten and the remaining i've were for anybody This made Mir Reid secretary. None of the elections was made unanimous which showed there was a good deal of feeling behind the votes. w. w Holmes was reelected treasurer. The victors then invited the van. Quished out to wash down the dus, of battle. but the vanquished felt 60
 sore about their defeat that they did not accept the invitation. but took the dark ways home.
 Chairman Kellogg handed over tc his successor . we'll disciplined and
 organised party and if MT Church 1. only one-half as successful as Mi
 Kellogg has been in the management of his party affairs he will surely bs
 a good one. No one expects that hs
 will be. for Mir Kellogg had at hand
 sources that made him the best chair