The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-11-01
GOOD GOVERNMENT CLUB
THE OFFICERS AND COMMITTEES
 ERECTED LAST NIGHT.

Interesting Remarks Made by Rev. New
 man smyth, John W. filling and Samuel 4 F. Thrasher-other Business of Impor- tanoe T, ansacted.
 A largely attended, considering the ln- clemency of the weather, meeting of the aGood Government club was held in. the 8chapel of Center church last evening and officers elected and the work of the club mapped out for the ensuing year. $ Rev. Dr. smyth presided and made the principal address of the evening. His remarks in full will be found below.
 Samuel P. Thrasher also spoke upon the importance of using care in select ing law enforcement committee, At X torney John w. Alling also made an eX- cellent address during the course of which he stated that the present gov A. ernment was not government of the 4 people, for the people or by the pople,
 but was in reality government by two 4 parties. In support of this claim he
 cited the fact that the office of superin-
 tendent of streets had been vacant for
 six or eight months and no successor to
 the late Superintendent Doyle had been "A appointed, because the road commission ~ was composed of three democrats and
 three republicans, and there were not N sufficient offices at stake to warrant a v deal being made.
 '"The principal function of the super- & intendent of streets" continued MT. Ar # vine, ''has been to divide up the politi- cal favors fairly, that is, to put dem- w ocrat to work to-day, republican, to- N morrow, and so on. In the meantime,
 am told, that a committee composed of ss one republican and one democrat has 'A been appointed to do this work, and
 understand has done it satisfactorily. 8s At the same time the city is saving sH the salary of a superintendent of streets A and this committee does without pay
 all the work the superintendent of
 streets used to do
 Tn my opinion it would be much bet # ter to have the majority rule, for then
 we could have some one on whom to
 place the responsibility, which we do
 not now have. The time has come when
 the citizens tired of being humbugged So
 to change, as I believe the present ad-
 ministration is as wasteful ridiculous
 and absurd as anything that can be l% conceived"
 ~ The following officers were elected to # serve during the ensuing year: Presi- @ dent, Rev. Newman Smyth; first vice # president, John w. Alling; second vice @ president, Charles L. Baldwin; secre-
 tary, l.. A. Babcock: treasurer, Benja-
 min R. English; advisory board, Pro- # lessor Henry W. Farnam, Rev. New z man Smyth, D. D., Dr. Francis Bacon
 Professor John c. Schwab, Eli Whitney, iA jr., Joseph Porter, Rev. E. s. Lines
 Rev. D. M. James, Charles l.. Baldwin,
 John W. filling, Earlliss P. Arvine, < Louis A. Babcock, Arthur H. Smith, Hon. Henry F. Peck, George D. Wat 8 rous, General B. E. Bradley, Professor N Gustave F. Gruener, L. Wheeler 2 Beecher, John T, Manson, Patrick
 Maher, B. R. English, H. W. Crawford, E Professor William Beebe, R. A. Belden
 and F. S. Bishop
 # At the conclusion of the meeting the members of the advisory board held a
 meeting and elected the sub-committees x of the club. The members of these < committees are substantially the same @ as they are at present. The club has
 now about 400 members.
 PRESIDENT SMYTI'S ADDRESS.
 The president of the Good Government Y club at its future meetings, may ad- ' dress the club in review of work accom- # plished; tonight as the club takes on formal and permanent organization for municipal work having acted as presi-
 dent through it's temporary process of 8 organization, I may be expected to ad- s dress you with reference to certain is- sues of good local government which # lie immediately before us.
 By the grace of the last legislature 4 two issues have been put before the peo- # pie of this city; and it is of importance that people generally should understand exactly what new privileges of govern ment by party have been secured for us by our political conservat tors, and also how little care the city of New Haven is left by their kind provision to take 2 for itself
 In presenting these issues to the at- tention of this Good Government club, I speak of course from my own observa- tion and judgment the voice of the club can be uttered only through it's
 committees, and by it's resolutions.
 The first of these two issues is pre- scented by the act of consolidation. Sometime in November--the day to be determined by the selectmen-with as
 much or as little notice as it may please
 them to give-all the legal voters who
 are fortunate enough to live within the
 town, but without the city of New Ha-
 ven, are to vote and to decide for all
 the rest of us whether all powers, du-
 ties, and liabilities of said town res
 pecting highways, private ways, and
 bridges, and respecting paupers, shall
 on the first day of May, 1896, be trans
 ferred to and imposed upon said city,
 Furthermore, these privileged inhabi-
 tants of Westville and the annex are
 to determine by their votes for the city
 of New Haven whether an entirely new
 department-a board of charities to be
 appointed by the aldermen on nomina-
 tion of the mayor-shall be created in
 the city of New Haven. The act does
 not merely provide reasonably and
 equitably, that certain precincts of the
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