Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-09-14
GOOD MEN TO THE FORE.

AlCAADcIo VI 1AC party diO DCShhhiiA6 " show lively interest in the selection of candidates. for the various places on the city, town and school tickets. Indeed, a number of private ward caucuses have already been held, and the ward poll- ticians at least have shaped out the pro- gramme which they intend to pursue in l regard to candidates. In so far as these caucuses have had an eye single to the best interests of the party and the com munity the DEMOCRAT hopes that their plans may succeed, and that the demo- crats who have found favor in their sight will be chosen to the places on the tickets for which they are proposed. Per contra, to that extent that the interests of individuals and the ambitions of ward bosses and petty politicians have been placed before the interests of the party and the welfare of the community the DEMOCRAT is sincerely hopeful that their schemes will fail.
 It is necessary, in fact it is indispen- sable, in the party economy that these preliminary caucuses be held, i'll order that details may be shaped looking to the choice of men who will represent the sentiment of the party to stand for the various offices in the gift of the voters. But it is not necessary, nor as a general thing is it advisable, that these caucuses be secret and confined to those bosses and aspirants for office whose restless ambition and unsatisfed greed for power invest with an air of suspi- cion anything to which they turn their fine Italian hands. There is about such secret caucuses and star chamber con- ferences suspicion that they are de- signed not so much ill the interests of the party and the people as for certain schemes and purposes that their engineers and manipulators have in view If there is any one thing that tends to make the aver age party man careless and lukewarn concerning the success of his party, par ticularly when it Is matter of munich pal elections, it is to discover the hand of our political Pooh Bans in the pre- 1 l1I1llllIy CdlCuSeS lilstt al . oO influential in determining who shall or shall not go on the party ticket. With many voters, and happily so with the democratic voters of Waterbury, the i'm terests of the municipality are above and beyond the interests of the party. It is with them a question chiefly of good, efficient, economical and capable government. of careful administration of the city's finances and a religiously close attention to the best expenditure
 of the taxpayers money. They know that the tax rate of Waterbury is ex- ceedingly high and that something ought to appear in return in the line of municipal progress and improvement. To insure this they want good men for the various executive offices of the mum 1 lclpal government, and If these men are reIuSeu them on Jne1r own IIcKeU through the manipulation of the bosses they are not slow to seek them on the ticket of their opponents. It becomes, therefore, a matter of vital importance l to put none but the best men forward, and by the best men we do not mean those who may be regarded ''solid with the boys" or who may be pliable when questions of individual or public interest are at stake in the administration of municipal affairs. Unless the caucuses and those who engineer them keep this point carefully in view, they are very likely to see their best laid plans gang aglee."
 As we remarked recently, the DEMO- GRAF has positively and absolutely no candidate for any office in the gift of the voters of Waterbury. It is only anxious, and most supremely so, that the best and strongest men be named for the various places, men who will have the conf dence of the party and the people, who will poll the full party strength and who will have the respect at least of their political opponents. The demo- cratic party of Waterbury has plenty of such men it is it's duty to bring them forward. Then, indeed, can the party look to complete victory at the polls next month, the retention of the offices now in the holding of democrats and the redemption of those that are now filled by republicans. This is democratic town and city it should be governed by democratic officials.
 l Put only the best men to the fore and the democrats of Waterbury will repeat the brilliant victory they achieved last November when they rolled up the big gest majority for Grover Cleveland that was given in the state outside of New Haven.
 I Photographic tolls in Cuba have been reduced fifty per cent.
 ! The attendance at tho Paris EXpos1- tion now averages 150, 900 daily.
 1 The eleven bells in the Catholic church in Danbury, Conn.,, arc to be 1 dedicated tomorrow.
 l The record made by Guy, at Cincin- nati. trotting against Maud Ss time was: First quarter :S3 half 1.O5M