New Britain herald., 1914-08-20
Plafnville News. CALL ISSUED FOR
 SENATORIAL CAUCUS Fifth District Delegates to Meet in
 Town Hal| on Sept. 4.h. INTEREST IN LOCAL POLITICS

Candidates For First Selectman Have
 Little to say.-Deputy Sheriff Hart
 Defends Working Out of Horses on
 sunday.-New Sidewalks Laid. l Senator Claude w. Stevens of Ber-
 lin, member of the republican state
 central committee for the fifth sena-
 torial district, has completed arrange 1 ments with H. c. Thompson, chair
 man of the local republican town 1 committee, for the holding of the fifth
 senatorial district convention in the 1 town hall on Friday afternoon, Sep> 1 tember 4, at 3 o'clock.
 l On this date delegates to the re- 1 publican state convention elected l from Avon, Burlington, West Hart l ford, Pennington, Plainville, Bristol, l Southington and Berlin will meet to 1 select two additional delegates to rep 1 resent the fifth senatorial district. l They will also nominate vice presi- ] dent of the convention and name can- l didates for places on the committees | on permanent orga nization credentia1~. resolutions and rules. In all twenty 1 two delegates will attend the district l convention.
 In accordance with the party rule adopted by the state convention April l 17, 1912, town caucuses for the ap- | pointment of delegates to the state convention, also delegates to the con- gressional, county, senatorial and pro- bate conventions must be held on Monday, August 31, at an hour fixed 1 by the chairman of the town commit | tee.
 l In all towns in which candidates 1 for representative are nominated In l town caucus, such nominations will l be made at another caucus, the date l for which will be designated by the state central committee.
 Local Politics Quiet. With the approach of the date for l the town caucuses all activity along political lines seems to be of verbal character. There is plenty of talk about politics and various candidates but it appears that little actual cam-
 paigning is being carried on. Republicans seem to take it for granted that there will be a contest between Selectman William J. John- son and George s. Babcock, clerk of
 
 tnation to head the local ticket. Neither of these gentlemen, however, has declared himself candidate for office.
 Close friends of se1ectman Johnson say that he will be a candidate for re- election They claim that his ad- ministration of the towns affairs dur ing the past fiscal year has reflected credit upon himself and upon the town. The only announcement that MT. Johnson has made came several weeks ago when he casually remarked that he might run again if he thought the people wanted him to continue in office. George S. Babcock is also inclined to leave the nomination of first se- lcctman entirely in the hands of the re publican voters. He declined to make any statement about his can dicacy today. His views on several of the issues of the campaign have already been published in the Herald and his friends say that he stands be- fore the voters as an avowed candi- date for first selectman. MT. Babcock has been familiar with the official affairs of the town for years. As clerk of the board of selectmen dur 1BS lue past year Ilc IldS Ildu dIl Op- rortunity to4become intimate with the finances of the town and various other matters of general interest and inn portance.
 More activity on the part of the candidates is looked for within the
 next few weeks.
 No Racing on Sunday.
 Deputy Sheriff William c. Hart,
 owner of one of the fastest horses in town, and prominent in local trotting circles, expressed his views in unmis- takable terms today on the current in situation that Sunday horse trotting at the new Allen track constituted an argument for Sunday baseball at Elec- tric field.
 "If there is an attempt to stop us working out our horses on Sunday morning." said the sheriff, why we will stop the Connecticut company running trolley cars through the cen- ter of this town on Sunday. The only law that can be applied to working out horses on Sunday is the old blue law and that makes it a crime for anyone to hitch up a horse on Sum- day" ...
 Sheriff Hart further. said that as far as he knew there had been no real horse racing on Sunday in the town of Plainville. I've take our horses down l to the track on the old Tomlinson l place and we are on private prop | of S,1field are the guests of Mir and |