Local Elections, Chenango Co., NY, 1915

Preparing For Primaries

Utica Saturday Globe, September 1915

 

Candidates Filing Their Petitions for Various Political Offices in

Norwich and Chenango County -- Designations Made by the Different Parties

 

 

Harry B. Smith

Candidate for County Clerk on the Democratic Ticket*

 

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Candidates of the various political parties are filing their petitions in preparation for the primaries to be held in the latter part of September.  Conspicuous among the designations of the Democrats is that of Harry B. Smith for county clerk.  Mr. Smith was supervisor of the town of Norwich prior to the adoption of a city charter, and was defeated by a very small margin for supervisor in the second district of the city.  Other Democratic county candidates are Frank Van Etten, of Bainbridge, for member of Assembly; Hobart A. Matterson, of New Berlin, for sheriff, and Fred D. Beckwith, of Pharsalia, for superintendent of the poor.

 

The Republicans have designated two candidates for county clerk, Frank A. Kelley, of Coventry, and Irving J. Tillman, of Norwich, and two candidates for sheriff, Richard C. Quinn, of North Norwich, and Neil D. Lewis, of Norwich.  Bert Lord of Afton, has been named for renomination for member of Assembly; Frank J. Quinn, of Preston, for superintendent of the poor and J. Mott Crumb, of Otselic, for coroner.

 

In the city William F. Wilbur has been designated by the Republicans for assessor; Harmon A Walworth for alderman in the First, and Guy L. Marsters for alderman in the Third. There is no designation in the Fifth Ward. The Democrats have made no designations for assessor or for aldermen in the First or Third Wards, but there are two designations in the Fifth, C.R. Hayes and Frank M. Lyon.

 

The Progressives have designated a county committeeman in several of the towns and in the city of Norwich F. Joe Schorn has been designated in the First Ward:  William Howell in the Second; Clarence L. Parker in the Third: W.F. Stenhauser in the Fourth, and CW. Lanpher in the Fifth. The Prohibitionists named no county committee, but have designated George H. Cummins, of Greene, for member of Assembly; Herbert J. Burdick, of Norwich, for county clerk; Christopher Zoerb, of Norwich for sheriff; Charles H. O'Dell, of Bainbridge, for superintendent of the poor, and Dr. D.V. Gould ,of Sherburne, for coroner.  In the city of Norwich they named Nes Peterson for assessor; W.A. Lewis for alderman in the First ward; Reuben D. Murray in the third and Joseph B. Wilson in the Fifth.

 

*In 1915, contest for County Clerk was won by Irving J. Tillman