Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1894-05-05
NAUeATucK POLITICS.
A Hard Slap at What - Called til
ROrOu0h Ring.

Borough Ring.
The annual borough election of Nauga-
tuck will be held on Monday and the fight
promises to be fierce one. The follow
ing communication outlines the platform
upon which the democrats expect to win:
Editor of the DEMOCRAT:
The borough election for the borough of
Naugatuck takes place nextj Monday, and
the two candidates for warden are, William
J. Moore on the democratic ticket, and
Frederick F. Schaffer, the ring candidate,
on the republican ticket. William j Moore
has lived in Naugatuck for about thirty
five years, is one of the present selectmen
and is considered one of the leading citi-
zens of the borough. IF elected he goes
into Office without any promises to fill and
it is believed by the voters will perform
the duties of the office of warden faithfully
and honestly and for the best interests of
the citizens Of the whole borough.
The Blanderous attack made on Mr.
Moore in the Citizen of to-day will gain
votes for him for warden. Such attacks
made upon an honorable citizen, who has
made his way up from poor boy in the
old country. coming here and engaging in
the knife business, accommodating some
real estate; a member of several societies
in this town. and always willing to give
helping hand to the needy, and in every
manner considered one of Naugatucks
best citizens, is unwarranted, a shame and
a disgrace to any community, and if that
is the manner in which Mr. Schatfer ex-
poets to be elected warden he will find
that reaction will set in and will do
more to cause his defeat on Monday than
anything else.
The democratic party is united in the
4 Al II,
disaffection there is, is in the third ward.
1t is rumored that Thomas McKiernan, a
politician in the third ward, will vote and
work for Mr. Schaffer. This is piece of
ingratitude on the part of McKiernan.
Every office that he has held in Naugatuck
for the last twelve years he has held by
the votes of democrats and it is poor re-
ward for him to desert his party now. Mr.
McKiernan's only reason for this action
can be that he is afraid that he will not be
appointed by the democrats, policeman
for the coming year. A political office is
not life position for any man. A man
who has been drawing $500 a year for ten
years and 5000 for the past year from the
democratic party ought to consider that he
has received part of his share of the pro-
ceeds of the offices in small town. Mr.
McKiernan's chances for policeman are
just as good from the democrats to-day as
they have been for the past twelve years.
The democratic party has never failed to
honor him with Office since he first be-
came an office seeker, and he at least
ought to wait and let the democrats desert
him before he would play a jumping jack
act from democrat to Hosford republi-
can.
John B. Smith, superintendent of roads,
is reported to be in the same boat with
McKiernan. A few plain words to his
friends ought to answer on this occasion.
When Mr. Smith worked in the shoe shop
he hurt his hand and was unable to follow
his ordinary vocation in the factory. The
democrats took him up, nominated him
for selectman for three years and elected
him. 1t was the democrats who elected
him superintendent of roads. Every Office
that he has ever held and every dollar that
he has earned since he left the shoe shop
has been through the kindness of demo-
Gratis.
A word to the voters in general. The
conduct of the policemen in Naugatuck
during the past year warrants every sensi-
BILE thinking man in voting for William j
Moore against Frederick Schaffer. Men
have been ordered off the streets, off the
sidewalks, just as if they were so many
dogs. Think of policeman coming up to
a citizen and real estate owner, who was
standing talking to a friend about some
accident that happened in his family, and
saying, with the latest slang of the season:
| Are you goin' to grow there. How long
are you goin' to hold that pole up. Get a
move on you. Shut yourself up in some
cellar" Citizens in the evening coming
from their work, looking in the store win
dows, have been ordered away.
For the first time a citizen of the bor-
ough tells the writer of this article that he
has lived in Naugatuck for forty years and
that never until the present park was
opened did it make any difference whether
| a man was q democrat or republican in OBJ
tanning labor on the highways or in any
other part of the town where public work
was to be performed. The scheme to en-
ploy Jonn Breen as foreman and not to
give him the power of hiring any help, but
to give the power to Charles F. Hunger
ford, the borough clerk, is a new method
| of politics for the taxpayers of Naugatuck.
Men have been told if they would vote the
republican ticket they could have employ
ment and the only redress that the citi-
zens of this borough can have is to turn
out on next Monday, vote for William J.
Moore for warden and GUST the present
ring.
Frederick +. Schaffer would never be
thought of for warden and would not be a
candidate at the present time if he were
not superintendent of a factory. 1t is
easy to guess why Hosford, 'and Hungerford
want Schaffer elected.