Waterbury evening Democrat., 1890-09-20
AN OPEN LETTER.

AN OPEN LETTER. What the JefTersonian Democratic
 Club Is and Is Not. To the Editor of the DEMoCRAT:-
 We the undersigned have been ap- pointed by the Jeffersonian Democratic club Uf Waterbury committee to deny certain statements made in news papers and on the street in relation to the object and character of our organiza- ton and to inform the people of this city just what our purpose is.
 The Waterbury DEMOCRAT in its issue of September 15, stated that Chairman Sedgwick explained that it was the object of the club ito show the majority that they have rights which must be respected and | if their demands are not acceded to the members are pledged to remain away
 from the polls on election day" This report is entirely untrue. No such eN- plantation was made and that is not the object of the club. We are in every sense of the word a democratic organl- zation and if any democratic leaders, as alleged in said issue of the DEMOCRAT, declared that republican money was backing the new club and that 1t was a
 Connolly scheme inaugurated by men
 who have failed to get office, they did
 not know what they were talking about
 and we doubt whether any democratic leaders made any such statement. Similar paragraphs appeared i'll the Wa terbury Republican and American and whoever caused the publication of such reports did so knowing them to be un- true. Of course their are certain so called democrats who are bitterly opposed to our club. Why? We have
 been and always will be democrats.
 We endorsed the democratic state ticket
 with rousing cheers and hope to see 1t
 elected. We shall vote and work for the democratic nominee for sheriff, ana
 our profeSsed purpose from the begin
 ming has been to promote the democratic
 party. What then is the reason why
 any so.called democrats oppose us or spread false reports concerning us? The only purpoSe we can conceive Is to give
 assistance to republican candidates.
 We do not want office or nominations.
 We want fit democrats nominated and
 elected. There are certain so'called
 democrats who affiliate with republl-
 cans and try to receive the nomination and election of certain friends in the re-
 publican party, whom they can control and manipulate to their mutual advan- tage. When there Is an appointment to be made these so-called democrats select
 one of thesa republicans, social
 good fellows, whom they are hand
 in glove with, at tisa expense of democratic candidates for the same lappointment and who are equally fit for the office. And we heard of one of these o.called democrats who boasts to-day that he will vote for the republican candi-
 date for a certain important ottice and
 this same democrat is one of the most : active ill opposing our club. Has he got republican money? Is be disappointed otfice-seeker, or Is he owned by these so- called democratic leaders, who are put } ting up republicans for office so they } can control both the democratic and re publican parties? Probably the truth Is B that he belongs to this set of so-called democratic leaders who are trying tC , place republican candidates m the field to the demoralization of the democratic party, These are the ones whose prlncl ples we oppose and because we oppose
 them we have their enmity. We say l nominate democrats who can be elected Do not nominate weak men or , the democratic ticket so that $ these so-called leaders can nom r mate their social friends on the op $ posite ticket and elect them by using al t their forces against the democratic can didates--this Is demorallzing to the party The candidates must look out for it, Il these so called party leaders favor youl = nomination look and see who your op ponent is on the republican ticket. 4 . prominent member of this club last 5 | fall accused one of their so . called leaders of making scheme. r then, similar to the ones they
 are making now, and he was answered - that their deals and bargains should no ! extend beyond election day; that aftel , the result of the election was declared f all appointments should be democratic - and everything would be conducted in { I,.. h fS . worth? After the election the sam, e plotting and scheming was visible, party allegiance was nothing, social good fel 3 lowship everything.
 Q This member of our club presented nC & candidate for any office and had no ax, 2 to grind. but he did write to this so O called leader setting forth the bad effec e of his policy. This leader is, so far W,
 can observe, continuing his impoliti
 methods and the democratic party j
 being injured. This club is condemne,
 through the newspapers, democratic
 newspapers at that, talked about on tn K street as machine to place persons il
 office. and in every other way oppose, e by these so-called leaders, because WI Il announce our opposition to this the re j. publican-democratic combination.
 l. Will the voters who have the welfar
 and success of the democratic party a il heart uphold us or will they allow thi Q combination of ring rule to continue? HENRY E. HowE,
 PATRICK H. REAL,
 HENRY N. DIKEMAN.
 I Committee. r We have no comments to make or
 the above at the present time, preferrinl t to let each one read between the line ,. for himself and make out of it what h, can. We will say, however, that tn
 news items in this paper concerning tn
 club, came from sources believed to b reliable. The opinions of prominen democrats in relation to the organiza l tion, published in the DEMOCRAT, wer, 1 bona fide and not faked, as our cores pondents insinuate.l
 III Dr Richards on Trial.
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