New Britain herald., 1915-01-20
NO CHOICE AFTER
 SIXTy-0Nf BALLOTS
Fight for NtW Haven County Com.
 missioner WaXeS Strong.

Hartford, Jan. 2O.-The repu blican legislative members from New Haven county after casting sixty-one ballots choose a county commissioner to suc- ceed James F. Cloonan, failed to reg ister a choice and adjourned until next Tuesday evening at 7:30 o'clock when the battle will be resumed.
 John Wilkinson of Orange, entered the race in the lead and retained it till the end. Mayor Donovan of Mer- iden entered third and finished sec ond. Postmas aster Gaylord of An sonia started second but ended third. D. Walter Patten of North Haven and C. M. Covert of Branford entered fourth and fifth and retained their respective places
 After the fifty-eighth ballot n- cluding the three thrown out, Repre- sentative Bronson of Waterbury sug- gested that the caucus had better ad- journ until another day as it was not getting results. There was some dis sent as to this and his motion was finally withdrawn and one for re- cess of half an hour was made and carried. This was about o'clock and the recess was until 5:30.
 The Last Struggle.
 The fifty-ninth ballot was taken when the caucus was called to order and resulted as follows:
 DOnOVan
 Wllk1nSOn Il
 Patten
 covert
 Gaylord
 After the siXty-first ballot and while some of the members were as- serting in song that it is a consid- erable distance to Tipperary, MT. Bronson renewed his motion for ad- journment until another day. It was finally agreed to adjourn until next Tuesday evening at 730 o'clock and adjournment was made at $50 until the date set.
 htchfieId County
 The Litchfield county meeting was called to order by Senator Wadhams of Goshen and he was chosen per manent. chairman. on the motion of John N. Brooks of Torrington. Mr. Brooks was then chosen clerk, after which the convention adjourned LII of Watertown until Tuesday after noon, February 16, at 1:3O o'clock
 A caucus of the republican mem bers was held immediately afterwards, resulting in the following nominations for county commissioners: John H. Lancaster of Litchfield, J. Sedgwick Tracy of Falls Village and Asahel w. of Woodbury. Senator Wadhams presided at the caucus and James R. Harrison of Salisbury, was clerk. On the motion of w. S. Rogers of Litchtield it was voted to make the nominations by senatorial districts, one from each of the three districts of the county. Nominations for the Thirtieth district were then called for.
 MT. Rogers nominated John H. Lancaster of Litchfeld, Senator Wad- hams John P. Porter of Goshen and Egbert A. Norton of Colebrook, Frank Roberts of New Hartford. John J. G. Dave of Harwinton and Thomas W. Griswold, 2d, of Goshen were ap- pointed tellers.
 The first ballot resulted as follows: Whole numb of votes 31; neces- sary for a choice, 16; Roberts g, Por- ter ', Lancaster 13, scattering 2. The second ballot also showed no choice. being as follows: Whole number of votes cast, 30; necessary for a choice 16; Roberts s, Porter 5, Lancaster 15, scattering ?. On the third ballot MT. Lancaster was named, the vote be- ing: Roberts z Porter 2, Lancaster 22. MT. Lancaster's nomination is to fill out the unexpired term of Will liam J. Bissell, an appointee of Gov ernor Simeon E. Baldwin.
 Nominations from the Thirty first District to fill the vacancy caused by the murder of County Commissioner Hubert B. Case of Barkhamsted