The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1915-03-01
ARE 80 CANDIDATES
FOR II OFFICES
Barres Municipal Election to Be Held
Tomorrow and One of the Chief
Contests Will Be Local OPP
tion on Liquor Selling,
Tomorrow is March meeting day and

Tomorrow is March meeting day and
exactly 1000 voters Of Barre, according
to the revised checklists to be used
the several polling places, are eligibl, /. I
exercise the suffrage in matters pertain
ing to the administration of the city gov.
ernment and on the legalized saloon IS
sue Through tax delinquencies, 66 yot'
ers have been disfranchised and for other
reasons an additional detection of O.
from the checklist of last fall has been
noted, but in spite OF these circumstances
large vote is anticipated The ques,
ton OF whether Barre will vote to license
the sale Of Intoxicating liquor looms up
as the largest single issue to be decided
by the electorate. Forces for and against
the question are known to have put in
some effective work and the outcome To-
eally is as much in doubt as ever.
For II city offices to be filled there are
80 candidates, thus insuring a large field
from which to choose At the head OF
the ticket is the mayoralty and neither
Robert Gordon, the Socialist candidate
nor Frank E. Langley the citizens eau
Gus nominee, is predicting the issue OF
zens' candidate for the offices of city
clerk and treasurer, is opposed by Fred
w. Suitor, the Socialist nominee. George
L. Morris, who is seeking reelection as
first constable, will be returned to office
as he is alone in the field. For the same
reason. George w. Parks win be elected
second constable. John r. Callaghan, So
cialist and Martin Riley, the latter on
the citizens ticket, are the candidates
for the assessorship. Socialists have
nominated Luigi Caporaletti, Paul He'd
wall and Alex. W. Ritchie to oppose II.
s. Currier, John w. Gordon and Frank g.
Howland as trustees of French's Barre
library. J. A. Healy, w. B. Marion and
d. i. Sullivan. nominees of the citizens
caucus. are candidates for the board OF
auditors against James E. Carroll. Rocco
Polidoro and James Tassie, the Socialist
nominees.
There win be one spirited fight for al
dermanic honors, if only one. In ward
five, ex Alderman Antonio NJ. Rossi, the
caucus nominee, is opposed by Alderman
Michael u. Keefe, who filed papers after
his defeat in the caucus, and Richard
Ciardi. the Socialist candidate. r. g.
Glyss0n. the caucus nominee, is opposing
James b. Gall, the Socialist candidate
for the office Of alderman in ward one.
In ward three, o. D. Shurtletf, the regu-
lar nominee, is a candidate for alderman
against Antonio F. Broggi. Harvey e.
Averill, the citizens candidate, will have
no opposition in running for the school
commission in the second ward. Ex-Al-
derman W. T. Calder, the citizens nom
inee, will run against Alex g. Cordiner,
the Socialist candidate, for the school
commission in ward four.
Polls open at o'clock tomorrow
morning and the ballot boxes are all
turned at 3 o'clock in the afternoon.
Ward officers appointed at recent meet
ing of the board Of civil authority are
urged to be at the polls early enough to-
morrow morning to take the oath before
the polls open. The ward polling places
are NJ follows; Ward one, Church street;
ward two, Spaulding school; ward three,
Summer street schools ward four, Brook
street school; ward five. Woodchuck
Knoll school ward six, city court room.