The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-09-30
BEDDING NEWS OF GENERAL INTEREST
 TO OUR READERS

Bedding. Sept. 30-The chief sur
 prise of the Republican caucus last Saturday night was the turning down | of George S. Banks whose claims TOT | a. renomination as first selectman failed wholly of recognition. Being | chairman of his party's town commit l tee and a political worker whose plans 1 seldom miscarried his defeat pe-
 comes the more unaccountable Tn VleW of the absence of any known adequate cause Had he been able to attend the
 caucus and look after his interests the story might have been different, put a sudden and serious illness kept hlm
 at home and his candidacy did not get even a complimentary bouquet, despite | the fact that his record for efficiency | as seIectman has been in shining con- | trast to that of some of his recent Re- publican predecessors. It was guessed l that he might have aroused some en- nitv on the west side by pressing the towns bills for damages against parties whose dogs had killed George Hazen' S pigs, but no one expected this 10 1 amount to much and it may not really have been a factor in the case The west side however, furnished aD0ut | half the voters at the caucus and they were unit ln supporting E. A. Pink ney for the nomination, MT. Plnkney, by the way, owned one of the maraud- ing dogs and after a long delay settled | when a lawsuit was impending. About the first thing the caucus did was to | adopt a motion that the nominee TOT 1 first selectman be chosen from the | second voting district. This smut out George $. Banks who lives in the first district The motion was offered by l. B. B. Banks, a former first selectman
 and member of the last legislature put l it's authorship is credited to ToWn | Clerk Nickerson. The nomination Of | Ex1 a
 nous vote quickly followed the pas l sage of this motion and then with equal unaninity Aaron H. Sanford | was placed on the ticked for second | Selectman.
 The lesser surprise of the evening
 was the failure of the alleged opposi- 1 tion to John N. Nickerson for town ! clerk to rnaterialize. Expressions or 1pronounced hostility to MT. N1ckerson bv members of his party are frequent
 Iv heard but on caucus night and cleo tion day the sentiment they indicate
 seems to have vanished into thin air. J. Henry Duncan had been groomed to | enter the race against him Saturday l night but did not even take the I track, Mr. Nickersons nomination by | exclamation being unanimous except | for one lone voice in dissent The nominee made a little speech Tn Whlcn he said that owing to his age and pre- I carious health he would like to have | competent assistant and asked the | caucus to indicate it's choice of some l one they thought fitted for the posi- | tion This invitation evoked no res i ponse, those present doubtless peihg | aware that the town clerk had full power in the matter of naming an 1 assistant and also wondering doubt less why in the long period he has held the office he failed to ind the flgnl l kind of a person to put III trdlnlAs | as his successor.
 | When it came to asseSsorship nom T nations the caucus evidently blunder- ed as it ignored the new law Whlch I provides that three shall be named for l.terms respectively of three years, two
 wears and one year. MT. Nickerson
 said he thought the laws did not go into effect until next fall and B. 5. Banks, who helped make the laws, 1 agreed with him. Consequently only ing Henry S. Osborn and John Hoh- l man. It is a question if this irregu- larity does not render these nomina- I tions fatally defective and even inval- idate the whole ticket, provided the
 ballot appears with this defective feature.
 'i / The views of MT. Nickerson as to the proper number of candidates for
 town school committee also prevailed
 being founded, as he explained, upon % l nominees were E. A. Pinkney, w. E. Hagen, Arthur J. Todd, Henry s. Os- born and A. G. Barnett. The nomlna-
 tion for tax collector went to J. Hen ry Duncan as sort of a consolation
 prize, B. M. Sanford declining a re-
 nomination. The rest of the ticket is
 as follows: Board of Relief, Randolph
 Bradley, B. B. Banks. Constables, D.
 R. Warner, Charles Anderson. Howard
 c. Platt; Grand Jurors, B. s. Parker
 ton, Elbert M. Sanford, Charles F Bronson: Auditor, H. Sanford Osborn
 Reeistrars Milo l.. Osborn, S. D. Bar
 rett: Treasurer, w. H. Hill.
 Il On Monday morning George s T Banks sent in his resignation as chair I man of the Republican town commit. tee position~ he has held for the last q five orr six years. This was his sig nificant comment on the doings of the caucus and it is not the only circum. Istance which indicates that the ticket