Norwich bulletin., 1910-10-08
Tenure of Office for Men Who Were Elk
pecting a Reappointment Uncertain
A SURPRISE FOR THE COUNCIL
Robert A. Woodwork will Decline to Continue Seaer
of Weights and Measures-George Goss is Named
His Successor-Dr Appleton Gives Dinner to the
Poor-The Result Of the City Election Surprise to
Both Parties.

Goss, but to him there will be .opposi-
ton, as he is like David Hill, once
was, a democrat. If this is to be
made a political office for the first
time, why not include the etluger.
tythingmen fence viewers, pound
stated, the office of sealer of weights
and measures is just where it has been
for the past century, in the list of
minor Offices.
The delegate to the Eighteenth SEN
atoriaI District convention which viii
be held at noon today Saturday,
! have already decided upon a candi-
date, and Daniel NJ. Cronin will be
nominated without opposition, there
fore the convention is merely an es-
sential formality, and, from present in
dications Mr.. Cronin'-s election will
be almost as unanimous. Mr.. Cronn
| was born in New London. represented
| his native town two terms in the legis
/ lature, and has been prosecuting at
r., torney in the New London police
| court for several years and has filed
| that position in way that has made
| for him the least possible political
enimies. Ever since he attained his
| majority, he has been active in re-
| publican party work in New London.
| He is most certainly entitled to pro-
| motion from the lower to- the higher
! branch of the legislature.
DR.. William Appleton who for many
| years has been the most popular man
| in the Pequot colony, added to his
| popularity on Wednesday Of the
present week, when. in honor, of the
| birthday of his daughter Susan, he
| gave a big dinner to the e fifty three
inmates of the almshouse. 1t was an
act characteristic of the gentleman ard
! Commissioner Prehtis was justified in
not complying with the Doctors re-
quest to keep the little matter from
the papers and the public. Doctor APP
! pleton is decidedly democratic In his
mays. and no matter where he is, or
in what company, he has a generous
salute and a familiar salutation for
every acquaintance no matter how
humble. He is known not only 20
about every adult resident, but also
by the newsboys, the street urchins,
| and by the swell boys who 1oitered
| about the entrance to the baseball
| field until Doctor Appleton came in
1 his automobile and paid for che boys
| entrance to the grounds 49,,
/ : Although having resided in Boston,
! Doctor Appleton has spent most of the
past. thirty years and more at his
! handsome residence in Pequot- colony,
and leader, in good cheer and sociabi-
/ lity. On the ocea sion of his own
| birthday he celebrated by visiting. thu
sick in the hospital and almsllolse
and the poor in the almshouse and out
! side poor, and by his liberality, added
! to their comfort and brought to them
! pleasure and realization that life, after
| all, was really worth the living.
| The result of the city and town cleo
| tion was a surprise to the managers
Of both parties, and the fact that one
i of the democratic candidates for
! seectman led his republican opponents,
| and received 294 republican votes in
| the face OF the returns has. caused
| the aforesaid managers to do Just a
| little figuring and exa ANIMATION. At this
victory the tally sheets of four OF the
! five wards have been examined and II
was found that 1S4 democrats had
voted for all the republican candidates
| one selectman on the democratic
| ticket If these 1S4 votes We're taken
from the republican totals and added
| to the democratic figures almost IN =
entire democratic ticket would have
| been elected. nt-
marked identically, coupled with the
| actual strength of the republican
| party vote. indicate that the result
was achieved through organized effort
! to elect the seiectman even at the cost
| of defeat of every other candidate
! on the democratic ticket Suspicion
was aroused by the abnormal number
| of republican votes credited to a. dem
| ocratic candidate of only ordinary
prominence, and the investigation fol
| lowed.
| This is an old political trick played
| in a new way with the Australian
| ballot it's object being to impress that
| the party is working in harmony and
| for success of the whole ticket, which
| would nor obtain SO web by scratching
or by voting the opposite ticket with
the exception of a single candidate.