Norwich bulletin., 1921-11-17
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This city will hold biennial city cleo
Etion tine first Monday in December for
the purpose of eleeting tax-celseetor.
This lis gather a bread statement. but
embodies the viewpoint Of many after
they had inspected the aeings of the DEM
ocratic city cauals Wednesday morning. II
OF course there is nominee fer may
or, city treasurer and all other import
t ant city officers, but the election is all
over insofar as any contest is concerned
excepting for city tax collector. II
Senator Archibald Macdonald is the II
republican. nominee for mayor and that
nomination has been endorsed by The
democrats likewise the nomination by II
| the republicans of Victor Chapdelaine Il
| for alderman Large and Of Charles H.
Brown for city treasurer. This disposes
| of three important city ofiices
| Each of the four republican and four
| democratic nominees for the common
/ council are assured of election, as eight I
candidates Will be required to fill the |
/ piss}as, and the same is true of the nom
| inees for registrar of voters and auditors. |
This leaves. the city tax collectorship I
as offering the only basis for contest |
| at the biennial city election.
Neither republican nor democratic i
| leaders had any long statements to make |
Wednesday regarding the lineup, which |
represents the results Of conferences and |
agreements made soma time since.
Party politics, insofar as alignments |
on that basis are concerned, Will not
Ineap much after January 1, when the
new city government Will be in power.
There is a volcanic shakeup coming, in
l7sefar as distribution of patronage is con-
learned as many citizens read the nand-
Writing on the wall, This shakeup Will
lchiefiy concern the police and fire depart
Inents and will come about, 1t is predict
ed, not because of any charges OF Inefn-
cheney, but to crafty a desire for
changes and to heal some sore spots
that have irritated for two years past,
the result in large sense of previous po-
t-litical manoeuvering.
Unless. the unlikely injection OF an in
dependent ticket into the field starts
something unusual and unexpected the
election is all over but the shouting,
This is taken for granted among the
rank and file OF at least the male vot-
. ers Of both parties.
> But the women electors may have to be
reckoned with One who spoke for them
Wednesday morning was up In arms
, over the doings Of both republicans and
democrats ana reundiy denounced both
party lea6erships for the situation as
now set for the voters who are TO par
t ticipate in the biennial city election. Her
> SA4ttS4SiA WAS cduSllO ana WITHOUT re-
t serve as to denouncing the present situa-
n tion, as she sees it, in city politics and
s she was anxiously seeking some means
). OF offsetting the success Of the nomina-
t tons nlan as it Is now offered to the vot-
t ers of tina city.
n Incidentally, no time was being lost
Wednesday by those who would Ike ap-
a pointments from the new city council
!! mat VIII be organized in January. At
d Least three candidates for appointment
as captain Of police were said 70 be in
y the field. There are candidates for chief
- engineer and assistant engineers of The
,s nre department and for this and that ap-
J. pointive office. Who will get the pIums
in no one Is prepared to say. though Il
!, seems that many believe tina ia genera
- shakeup is just ahead
ut For alderman the democrats have
err named Eugene ( %liaume from Ward 1
he Eugene Dumas from Ward 2, Hcnoriu
ed Masnan from Ward and Alfred J. Pi
n geon from Ward q. Uric Beausonel /
he the democratic nominee for tax coIlec
ed tor against Archibald Macdonald. Jr.
the republican nomineH For auditor tn
democrats have named j. Harry Nam
'r- and for registrar George Potvin.
~ An interesting sideMght on the can
- euses and much that preceded them Wi
he De found in the following statement is
Nv sued Wednesday afternoon by Alderma
,ev George H. Padgett who. as a democra
inf IS at present representing the first war
~, ~, IN the common council:
10 Personally, it seems timely and fit
.s ting that should make statement re
w lative to the recent matter Of nominatin
sre democratic candidate for alderman fc
,les the frs ward. For nearly eight years
nave been member of the city council
Several times during the past fe,
lay months I have stated that 1 would n,
IS De candidate for recollection
Nc On Thursday OF the past week VIZ
,ne asked by a number of large taxpayer
~. to reconsider my decision that 1t wa
81, Tor the interest Of the city that some {
~ Inc experienced members Of the counc
- should remain as members OF that bod,
. that il l agree again to be a cand
b1v date Aldermen Johnson, WheeloeK, Dea
,at and Fox would also consent to be can6
,ad dates. otherwise they would not To h
iii declaration / could make but one answt
fo, and that was an affirmative ope-that
an would be candidate again.
the added. however, that there was a
gs, announced candidate for the nominatie
N my ward. Eugene Berthiaunle. ar
led that he probably lad already pledged
ks su1iclent number of voters to assn,
will him the nomination.
st These are the reasons why myself al
the above named aldermeH were mo-
Or less passive candidates 9or renonin
ton after having publicly declared tn,