The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-09
FOR SENATOR FROM
 23RD DISTRICT
Socialist Alderman's Referendum Nomination to be Ratified
 Tomorrow
George c. Waldo IT,, Declines Nomination For Senator
 From 22nd District

The Socialist primaries will be held in the Socialist headquarters, Park theatre building tomorrow night at which delegates to the city and town convention will be elected. The city and town convention will be held Thursday night and at that time the party candidates for the coming cleo tion, who have been chosen in the district caucuses, will be formally nominated and officially stated.
 Under the rules of the Socialist party candidates are first selected fat district caucuses Then their names are circulated on a ballot similar to the referendum ballot, among the party mem bership. The primaries are then Tsld and the aIdermani nomi- nees are ratified and then at the city making up the whole ticket are ra1i- fled or officially selected. This city and town convention procedure Is re Quired by the state laws.
 To the city and town convention five delegates from each district will be elected tomorrow night, making convention of so delegates
 The party has nominated as candi- date for the state. senate from the 21st district, Alfred s. O'Brien, MT. O'Brien is 9. reporter on The Bridge port Herald and has been affiliated with the other papers in the city so that he has many friends and is wide Waldo, Jr, who led his ticket last year has been nominated sena- torial candidate from the 22nd dis trict but because of business reasons declines to accept the nomination. The vacancy will be filled at the city and town convention, but as yet no; one has been mentioned in connec-, ton with this nomination.
 Alderman Frederick Cederholnd has been nominated as senatorial candi-- date from the 23rd district The big fight will be centered in this district as it is conceded by the Socialists to be their best field for results, inas- much as this district contains the Eth aldermanic district in which Mir. Ced- erhoIm was elected to the Common Council last fall. <
 J. F. Cuddy@and Jasper McLevy have been nominated as candidates to the legislature, and Ernest Berger bas been nominated as candidate for Probate court.
 the matter of most importance will be the adoption of the party plat form.
 The Socialist party is beginning ac- tive work in it's fall campaign. The party paper, The Socialist. which was to have appeared for the first tim this week Sunday. was delayed in get ting to the printer and will not ap-s pear until next Sunday. It will be edited by Alfred, s. O'Brien.
 Plans are being made to secure two of the prominent labor leaders of the country to speak here. Adolph Ger mer, chairman of the executive board of the United Mine Workers union of the United States and Frank Hayer, first vice president of the same. or ganization are in communication with local party leaders and it is expected that they will appear in the city dur in the campaign. This will be the only place in the state in which they will speak. a.
 There is some possibility of the presence of Robert Hunter, candidate for Congress from this district, who has just returRed from Europe, at the convention Thursday night. De- finite word is expected from him witlI- in the next 24 hours. Congressman Berger will come to Bridgeport to speak this fall.