Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-08-11
POLITICAL POINTERS.
Democratic Primaries Friday. August
 31-Republicans Are Thinking.

The democratic town committee met last night and agreed upon Aug ust 31 as the date for holding the primaries. The matter of fixing the location of the booth was left in the hands of the ward committees. Con- siderable dissatisfaction exists with the voting places in the fourth and fifth districts and an effort is being made to change them, the fifth to some place in the neighborhood of Union square and the fourth to the Auditorium building, the same places where the booths are located on cleo tion day. On the other hand, Scovill street suits. some all right and many fourth warders don't care to do busi- ness at the Auditorium. Just what view the ward committee will take of the matter Is not yet known. In- asmuch as some difference of opinion exists regarding the method of vot- ing for senators it was decided to publish a statement covering this point so that there may be no am- biguity in the public mind as to the proper Interpretation of the rules re- garding that question. This state ment will appear with the call for the primaries. There will be fifteen delegates on each ticket and the ward lines will be obliterated In the fourth and fifth districts, but of course as matter of convenience every elector will vote in his own ward.
 Mayor Daniel P. Dunn of Willi- mantle, who Is being mentioned as a probable candidate for the nomina- tion of secretary of the state on the democratic ticket this fall, to-day made public his stand as to the nomi- nation of governor. Mayor Dunn declared himself Thayer man. He said that he had been for Thayer from the start, and did not believe ex-Senator Archibald McNeil was looking for the nomination.
 The republicans are not saying much about the race for senatorial honors in the sixteenth district. but from all accounts they are doing a lot of thinking. They expect to see things get snarled up in the demo- cratic camp so that there will be a fighting chance for them to elect a man, but the democrats don't look at 1t that way and say that there will not be the slightest bad feeling after the primaries are over and the result announced. The republicans of the fourth and fifth are talking of nominating City Clerk Sandland for senator in that district and they appear to feel confident that he would win out. The only drawback to this Is that the city charter states that the clerk shall devote all his time to the duties of his office. but 1t is thought that this could be overcome. One of the fifth ward republican ma chine operators. who Is talking Sand land, wanted to know last night why the city charter does not oblige the city attorney. the city engineer, the mayor and some of the other high salaried offices to devote all their time to their jobs and declared that he didn't think that this provision amounted to a row of pins. When asked about the matter to-day Mir Sandland refused to affirm or deny the truth of the story and dismissed the reporter with the remark that in case he should be sent to the senate he would have to invest in tall hat. adding that he never could think of going there wearing his regulation cap.