The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-27

the astIte leadership of William F
 Russell, and Alderman Daniel Walker
 by an overwhelming vote. last night
 nominated Tax Collector John M
 Donnelly for mayor, nominating ir
 his place Alderman James F. Garrity @of the Second district.
 The ballot on the mayoral nom1-
 nation was by roll call under the new
 state law The vote was 50 to 10 for
 MT. Donnelly, Mayor Buckingham re- ceiving the support of the delegates
 in the First and. Ninth districts only. Other places on the ticket were
 filled by Stephen F. Boucher for city ! CT, and William Thomas for town
 The only contests in the conven- ton were over the mayoral nomina- tion, over the municipal ownership plank in the platform, and over a | sherMf Charles F. Mara being can :. iidate against City Sheriff Cohn, the vote being 36 to 2s in favor of the The platform as adopted contains a
 pan as aha sv S nat p ] ancially able to go into it
 LHnn w. Wilson offered a plank | geubstantially like those in. previous | platforms, declaring for immediate
 ewnsrship Of electric light under the against the Wilson plank.
 T desire to present to this conven- tion," said MT. Wilson, ''the name of cur present Mayor, Edward T. Buck 1ngham. It was like a. match to a powder mfll The hall was rent with cheers that burst from hundreds of there was no mistaking where lay the sympathies of the great majority of the on1ookers. ,Roars of applause. stamping of feet. and even the tossing of hats marked the mention of Buck dnghAm's name Cheer after cheer .anokher, and finally the whole mas, ried one with another in the demon sstratton of enthusiasm over the cdn- didacy of the present Mayor It was several minutes before MT. Ni1son could epealx He waited pa- tiently. finally raised his hand, and with the help of the chairman suc- Buckingham adherents Then he pleaded for an opportunity to make his whole speech uninterrupted.
 MT. Chairman, gentlemen of the convention, fellow Democrats not seat cd h the convention. but present here tonieht" said he, T shall take the liberty of asking you while I am talk ing to have perfect silence. IT I should say anything that meets with
 the approval of any of you I beg that you will not express approval at least until I am done. If should say anything that meets with the disap- prova1 of any of you-for shall speak quite plainly here tonight-I beg that none of you will give expression of disapproval at least till I am done.
 T am confronted, Mr. Chairman, tonight in speaking to this nomina- tion with a difficult and delicate task, and one that I approach with great reluctance and one that would pre- fer not to be called upon to perform. If I may have the indulgence of the chair and this convention desire to make a few remarks pertaining to the position of myself and the delegates from my district upon this question of the Mayoralty nomination.
 These remarks, MT. Chairman and gentlemen, are rendered necessary by the fact that neither the delegates from the First district nor the dele gates from the Ninth district have ever been admitted into any confer once nor the chairman of these dis fricts called into any caucus where there might have been free exchange of opinion among us for the purpose of seeing that we may be upon some common ground. Because that is so because the position of the delegates from the Ninth and the delegates from the First, and I think perhaps of other delegates has never been pre- )sented to all the delegates, we want to tell you where we stand, and we want to tell you here tonight upon this convention f1oor''
 Mr. Wilson went on to say that as lone in an especial manner familiar with public sentiment and public de- mand. and particularly Democratic <1> he t,<a1f f1-k ling of the party and the well being |of the people of Bridgeport required 5the renomination of Mayor Bucking- .ham.
 Tn the first place." he continued, .&7t has been the custom of the Demo |cratic party for long years to give an .honegt and successful candidate hold Eng the office of Mayor, one to whom .huo b1emish attaches nor who has done any wrong, the honor of renomfnation, land my friends, the failure to do that, |khe violation of that custom, I tell 'vou, will stand before the voters of
 Bridgeport in my opinion as a confes- bion that the Democratic party itself tn this administration has been a fail
 ue Now, my friends. before we re- Iuse, we are going to refuse and
 don't believe we are, the renomi- hation to the man who has held the bf1ce of Mayor for only one term. we
 
 what reasons he asked, "can be Irged2 Has any scandal attached to
 Ills administration? Has there been
 Eny 70 year water contract signed by
 his administration? Has his admin Xstration not been straightforward,
 irst, last and all the time for the people of Bridgeport? Has not the
 Democratic party been four years in
 avor of breaking the 20 year water konfract, and didn't our good Demo-
 ratic convention two years ago say,
 If you elect Buckingham he will
 nake these gentlemen let go of that
 |nho1y thing they have got and my
 blends. as result of that thing, and |nder his administration is it not true
 hat the Mayor, you nominated two |ears ago took from the makers of
 hat contract and gave to this city in
 he form of free water what amounts
 over a quarter of a million dollars
 br the duration of the contract? Is