The Waterbury Democrat., 1931-03-27

Spirited contests hllb the SplTit or harmony prevailing marked all three caucuses of the democratic party | held in the three wards of the bor- ough last night to nominate bur gess from each ward and delegates 1 to the two and borough convention, who in turn will nominate the can | didates for office to be voted upon at the annual borough election in May.
 As a result of the baliOting two of the present democratic board mem bers, Maurice AncnbcrG of the sec ond ward and John Sheridan of the third will again be members of the board. The third burgess will be new conner, John Burke. of the first ward. He will replace Burgess Will liam Erodel who did not seek re- nomination.
 Mr Burke defeated Wilson r. Clark, .Jr, his opponent in the first ward by 15 votes, the count being Burke 130. Clark 17o. MT Burke was backed by the supporters of Mrs Annie E. Calvin, chairman of the democratic town committee, while Mir Clark had the backing of the followers of D. J. Carroll. This eau GUS was attended by 3G5 party mem
 
 The borough court room, where the gathering was held, proved entirely too small to hold the gathering and the overflow found it necessary to crowd into the long corridor of the hall. On the naming of delegates to the town convention the ward voters reversed themselves and elected the ticket of delegates sponsored by D. J. Carroll over the Burke ticket.
 The caucus was called to order by Ward Committeeman Richard Dur kin. He was nominated for chair man of the meeting and the name of Judge D. Emmett Shea was also proposed. Committeeman Durkin announced that q ballot would be taken but Judge Shea addressed the meeting and stated that in order to avoid contest and in the interest of harmony he would withdraw. The naming of Durkn was confirmed. Christopher Moroney was named clerk.
 Both the candidate for burgess and the delegates 10 the party com vcntion were voted upon with ono roll call Joseph Hearns, Coleman Decgan, Kilton Calvin and John Bickerdi]te were named checkers and Charles r. Daly and James Cuddy were named judges. It took the voters close to an hour and half to cast their ballots.
 The delegates elected to the town convention are Harold Murtha, James Brennan, D. I. Carroll, Jos cph Dinneny. Martin r.. Gormley, Hugh W. Burns and Mrs Della John son. The defeated delegates were John Burke. Edward Calvin, James Sullivan, Daniel Fitzgerald, Sr. John Bickcrdike. John Biederman and Mortimer Quirk, Sr.
 Alternates named to the conven- ton are Edmund Ryan and Charles Daly. The defeated candidates for alternate delegates were John Me- Keon. Sr. and Herman Licbrlch. Richard Durkin was renamed ward committeeman for the coming year.
 Mixup In second Ward
 Due to Il mixup in the ballots in the second ward on the vote for burgess between Maurice Anenberg, the present encumbent and Frank Madden, this caucus was the most lengthy one of the evening. When the ballots were checked it was dis covered that they did not tally with the check list of Clerk Henry smith.
 The total number of ballots counted by the tellcrs was 233; 121 for Burgess AneDberg and 112 for Mr Madden while only 229 were checked AS voting. This resulted in a protest being entered by MT Mad den, who expressed the opinion that the ballot be declared Illegal and that another ballot be taken. Bur gess Anenberg and his packers stren- uously objected 10 any such pro- ccdure. They suggested that the four ballots be thrown out. but MT Madden would not listen to any such suggestion. Various suggestions were made to Chairman Jackson as 10 the best way 10 handle the situa- tion. one being that both candidates throw off two ballots, but this sug- gestion was not needed. Hackers of Burgess Ancnberg seemed satisfied to have the four votes thrown off of his count, which would still leave him margin of five votes
 The matter could not be adjusted SO Chairman Jackson suggested that the teller count the ballots cast for the delegates to the convention. The count revealed 231 ballot4 cast; two less than the number cast for bur- gess. the Anenbcrg slate receiving 122 and the Madden slate 10g. Ef- forts to come to some decision be- tween the candidates for burgess as to the disposition of the extra votes were of no avail. After considerable discussion, Chairman Jackson stated that 1t put the chairman in a rather difficult position. but that lie could sec no way out of 1t but to declare Mir Anepberg and the list of his delegates elected. At this announce msnt Mr Madden stated that he would contest the ballot. Pierce F.. Freeman was named ward commit tcenian for the ensuing year. Mir Jackson was first named and after Ina AMHtafsaA ANA tans.stWa fstAanA