The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-04
Political Gossip


 Shades of last February's blizzard! The Connecticut Fcd- eratiOn of Democratic Womeil's clubs has announced that the meeting scheduled for Fehru- ary 22fd, last in Norwich and postponed because of the i'm. passablc conditions of the roads will be held in that city on October 18th, . week from to- morrow. Governor Wilbur l.. Cross and other members of the state ticket, as well as State Chairman J. Francis Smith of this city, will be among the speakers. Water- bury's WOmen's Democratic club will be represented at the gathering.
 With the various town elec- tions of the state over with, heads of office holders in many communities will begin to fly shortly as the new Of- ficers, put into practice the slogan that "tO sthe victor be- long the spoils." Mayor Leo B. Santangelo, republican, of Middletown took the oath of Of- flee yesterday and within few days will announce many changes in the makeup of the official family of that city. The retiring democratic chief ex-, ecutivc, Mayor Bielefield, took occasion yesterday before re. linQuisliing his authority tO name several new police of- ficers.
 Up Winsted way the demo. crats are protesting against the recent appointment of Ralph V. Tiffany to the board of sel- ectmen to fill a vacancy. They are also investigating to sec if republicans are being favored for EZRA jobs. According to William F. Doyle, republi- cans are getting on most of the EZRA jobs. Charles Rob. inson, a EZRA supervisor and q democrat, disagrees with Doyle, however.
 Incidentally, the Winsted democrats met last night to nominate candidates for local offices and the state assembly. Ralph J. Poole and John J. DO- herty were nominated for the house of representatives. Rob. ert F. A. DOherty was nomin. ated for registrar of voters and number of candidates for justices of the peace were picked. c. c. MiddlebrOOks and Arthur B. Ferry, the for mer we'll known in this city, was dropped from the list of justices of the peace because they have gone beyond the age limit. At their probate convention last night the Win sted democrats endorsed Frank w. Seymour for the judge of probate post. He is the re- publican nominee. Ralph V. Tiffany, the new selectman. has announced that he will not he a candidate on the rcpub. lican ticket to succeed him. self as a member of the house of representatives. John E. Lynch, a member of the house will be a candidate to succeed himself on the 2. o. P. ticket. The z. 0. n. caucus will be held next Wednesday.
 Tn KfilingwOrth a tie vote was cast on Monday for two candidates for the office of as- sessOr. Chris Plettcnburg was the democratic candidate while John B. SagliO ran on the republican ticket. They each received 1O3 votes. There fore, a special election will he Held next Monday to decide the Eattle. KillingwOrth went democratic in the election last Monday.
 Late returns disclose that the town of Mansfield voted dry in Mondays election. This makes six out of the t60 towns in tho state in which no per. mits may be obtained for the sale of alcoholic liquor. The town has been dry for half Q century. The vote was 256 to S3 in favor of the drys.
 Two candidates for the house and three senatorial candidates were chosen last night by the New Haven dcm- Ocrats, State Representative Philip R. Pastore was rcnom- mated. The other house nom-