The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-27

animous. Lynn w Wilson seconded
 the nomination
 Matthew l.. Lynders of the Second
 l district delegation nominated Alder
 | man James P. Garrity of the Second
 | district, who was seated as delegate,
 l for the collectorship Michael Clabby l of the Fifth seconded the nomination.
 I There was no speechmaking, nor was | there any opposition and Alderman
 1 Garrity's nomination was made unan-
 | imous.
 MT. Clabby nominated F. W. Hall
 | for city treasurer, which post he has 1 filled with credit for Is years and his
 1 nomination too was unanimous. l A committee was chosen to bring in
 names for the remaining offices. The l first to be reported were the two can | didates for board of education. A. F.. 1 Veness and William Lieberum, both members of the board, were renomi- | mated
 1 A lively contest developed for the city sher5ffship. There are three can | dfdates named by each party and the nomination is equivalent to election.
 The contest was between Max Cohen and Charles B. Mara. Both are city l sheriffs at present. along with James l IF. Beck, the third Democratic sher- if, But, the committee selected to bring in names reported the names | of Cohen. Carl Rising and John J. Doyle. Rising is a we'll known Swed- | lSll-AIil or the u1SITlCL, l who has been a candidate On Demo- 1 cratic tickets for selectman. Doyle is employed with the Frank Miller Lum- | ber Co
 Mara's name came in from the floor l Q3 the convention and on motion of | William F. Russell roll call vote was taken to choose between Cohen and Mara. The vote was B to 26. There was no contest for the offices of selectmen. The candidates are
 Frederick E. Eichel, of the Fourth.
 Thomas Lovely of the Seventh and l Thomas w. Hungerford of the Twelfth The platform, prepared by Attorney Joshua MeltZer, representative in the | last Legislature was then introduced, and another contest took place. Lynn W. Wilson fought for the introduction of municipal ownership plank in keeping with those of former years in the platform of the party, but his amendment was defeated by a vote of 3S to 20.
 The platform was introduced by AL derman DeForest and read by the moved its adoption Mir. Wilson intro- duced his amendment.
 "I believe" said MT. Wilson, s'that | the question of an election as be- tween candidates is not half so seri- ous as the question of principle, And when we make a declaration of prin- ciples from year to year, it either squares up with what we have said before, or it does not. It is to make l the platform presented here measure up to those of former years that have offered this amendment
 Alderman DeForest wouldn't accept | the amendment. He said he did not believe the plank was needed. we have in the platform the declaration that we are in favor of municipal Il nx hi nf r,r1h couple with that the statement that at this time in the cfty's financial condition it is utterly impossible to even think of it. It is a fair infer ence from the mere statement of our platform, that when the time is ripe | we shall proceed. We don't need the plank any more than we need free silver plank. For us to propose that the City of Bridgeport in it's present state of finances and with it's present tax rate should buy the water works. the gas works or any other works, would be absolute insanity" N l Delegate George w. Finn opposed 1 the amr adment of Mr. Wilson because | he did not think the city had a legal right to start in municipal ownership and compel the towns of. Stratford, and Fairfield and Southport to buy theft light from Bridgeport. 6 "Mr. Wilson said he couldn't doubt the sincerity of the two gentlemen ! but added that they were not very we'll informed on the, subject. MT. Finn's argument as to the legality of the proposition was not well taken, he said because the law provides for just such a contingency, giving to Bridgeport either the power to estab- fish lighting plant of it's own or to take over the present plant when certain conditions had been compiled with. He had already declared that the purchase of these utilities did not l mean the plunging of the city reck- less1y into debt, but rather it meant a good Investment, and he said the argument that the cfty's financial the5 question of immediate municipal ownership was ridiculous. The things are so profitable that the present | owners are fighting desperately to keep them. Those who supported the amendmentI offered by MT. Wilson were Delegates Hurley, Somers, Welch, Clifford, War
 go Ratzenberger, Near, Flynn, Eagan, Fahey. O'Rourke. Nagel, Hirschberg.
 Lovely. Coughlin, Toomey, Wilson. Weller Reilly. The platform as presented, without the Wilson amendment was then adopted without a dissenting vote. The following were named for two years terms on the DemOcratic execu- tive committee: First district William
 
 M. J. Clabby to succeed Robert flaw 1 kins; Seventh, Henry shannon to suc- ceed J. J. Conlin; Ninth, Martin. Quin- Ian; Eleventh. Archibald Cameron to succeed Matthew Luby.
 It was about 10:30 when the busi- | ness had been completed and the can-
 didates were ushered into the crowd l ed hall. Candidate Donnelly was given a |
 hearty reception. He said he hadn't
 come to the convention with a we'll | prepared speech. He said the people 1 of Bridgeport did not want a man of | words but man of action. q can
 assure the delegates to this conven, tion'i said he, that if elected, shall | be mayor of the city of Bridgeport, | and I will not be dictated to by any boss or any politician in either party I appreciate" said he, stthat stories have been circulated during the day that the candidates selected were not selected because the sentiment of the people was for them but because a few political leaders in the Democratic party wanted them selected. Now I am very highly complimented," he said, ito have received 50 votes in this convention. I can assure you that I stand upon my record as a city official. I submit my record as an alderman for four years, my record in the tax collectors office and my | record in the Senate. I am satisfied | if I am elected mayor of the City