The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-09-14
DEMOCRATS OF, BEDDING CHOOSE
 BIG CANDIDATE
Multi-Miliionaire Runs For Job of Town Treasurer, Pay
 ing SIS a Year

Bedding, Sept 14-This towns Dem ocratic candidate for treasurer is Wal th1r Luttgen, partner and active man. ager in the great banking house of August Belmont & Co.,, and by com mon report, ten times millionaire. The town treasurer's annual salary is $75, a sum which represents about an hours worth of Commodore Luttgen's s time. Bedding with it's capital stock of $1, 500 900 according to the grand list showing, is by far the smallest of the corporations with which he is identi- fled, some of the others being the H. hnois Central railroad, of which he is a director and another the New York Subway. The construction of the lat ter $15, 100000 enterprise, was financ- ed by Belmont & Go. It is pretty cer- tain that no town in the country com pairing in size with Bedding has treasurer or a candidate for that of flee anywhere approaching the Com modore in financial heftiness. His willingess to take the position is in- spired by the most commendable or virtues that of placing its administra- ton as regards bookkeeping and other details on the very best basis He is
 
 service at no little personal sacrifice as one of his duties, in case of his elec- tion, will be attendance upon the meetings of the board of selectmen. Apart from his distfnctively conspien- ous fitness many will feel inclined to vote for him as a recognition in some degree of what he has already done for sthe town in the way of road build ing. His outlay for highway improve ments on 5 the public thoroughfare across Sunset hill amounts to about S7,00O and he has spent an even larger sum in constructing through the terri tory east of the hill entirely new roads which are open to public use.
 The Commodore's name was present. ed to Monday evenings caucus by ID. S. Sanfofd in some very felicitous re- marks in which he diLa.ted upon MT. Luttgen's distinction in the financial world and his qualities as a public spirited citizen. Mr. Sanford also said that the Republicans had an excep- tionally strong candidate in A. G. Bar nett so that whichever man won the town was sure of having an incum- bent of the highest class for the of flee The nomination of MT. Luttgen by a unanimous vote was greeted by a hearty olrtburst of applause and the candidate returned his thanks in neat little speech.
 The caucus which 42r voters attended and which was enthusiastic and entire fy harmonious, renominated for se- Iectmen the present incumbents, Chas. Sanford and Walter F. Rowland. They could not well be improved upon. Af- ter several had declined to go on the ticket as candidates for tax collector the caucus selected for the place Ed ward M. Bradley, who was not pres ent MT. Bradley does not want the r. @Ix rlov> which has always given him high ma jorities, towards securing the election of J. Henry Duncan. his nominal op ponent. The rest of the ticket is as follows: Town clerk, J. B. Sanford; assessor Hugh c. McCollami board of relief, w.. c. Sanford, Robert H. Rider; constables. James Delaney, Arthur Stowe, Seth Rider; auditor R. A. Lyon; member school committee, J. Robert Beecher;g registrars of voters, Edward M Bradley, Nicholas Santinelli; tree warden. grand jurors Michael Connery, M. Joseph Sullivan, John H. Jennings.
 The Republican caucus was held on Saturday evening with an attendance of 36. Despite the rude emphasis with which the voters threw down B. B. Banks when he ran for representative last faM MT. Banks came blithely for ward as seeker for the first select man nomination. He ran close to E. A. Pinkney on the first ballot but the latter finally won out by a wide mar gin, Last fall when Banks was lo- cal agent for John T. King of Bridge port he was caucus and general dic- tator but went into a deep hole on election day. For second selectman Ebert M. Sanford, member of the present board was named. Outside the Banks contest the only interesting feature of the caucus was that relative to the choice of a candidate for treas urer. w. H. Hill who has held the office continuously for more than quarter of century, sought a renom- ination. On the first ballot he had 13 votes to 15 for A. G. Barnett. A sub sequent ballot landed the latter. The other nominations were: Town clerk, Frank H. Nickerson; tax collector, J. Henry Duncan; assessor Albert A. Gorham: board of relief, Marshall D. Sanford, John H. Homan; school com mittee, w. E. Hagen; constables, D. R. Warner, w. s. Downs, Albert An derson; grand jurors, J. H. Duncan, James Griffin. J. Milton Taylor; audi tor, s. H. Osborn. registrars of voters, L. s. Warner, George Jones. tree war den. H. s. Osborn.
 The Republican candidate for town clerk is evidently ineligible. The law requires that the town clerk, in send ing the list of nomina tions to the sec retary of state, should certify that the names of the candidates are on the last voting list. MT. Nickerson is not upon that list. Furthermore, 1t would seem that he is not qualified to be made a voter here this fall as he did not move to this town from New York until October of last year and during that month took out a nonresident hunters license Nevertheless he re- gently made oath before Justice S. c. Shaw that he possessed the residential qualifications to be made voter here this fall. If he should be admitted as voter his vote will probably be challenged and the supposition is that the secretary of state will not place his name on the ballot. MT. Kicker son holds a large salaried clerical posi- ton in New York and says that if elected town clerk he will turn over the main work of the office to a. dep-l uty
 In conformity to an exhaustive opin-I ion on the subject from Attorney Shaw the selectmen will turn down the pe- tition to- open a polling place in Georgetown on election day. MT. Shaw finds that the law plainly makes a distinction between electors meet ings and annual town meetings and that at the latter the statute pre- scribes that in this and most other towns in the State all the voting must be done in the first district
 The board of registration, consisting of the selectmen, registrars and town clerk, will be in session at the town house on Saturday. Sept. 23, for the D1lrpQSe of making yOterS