The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-11-27
CHAIRMAN PARDEE'S REPLY
uESSRS. LYONS IND BROWN'S DEC
LINATIONS ACCEPTED.

LINIIIONS ACCEPJED.
National Democrats Place John w. Hunt
and Professor E. v. Raynolds in Their
Stead-Pardee's Letter Recalls Prece-
dents-Leaders Not Disposed to Talk
Republican Candidates. Course.
The national democrats have accept
ed the declinations of City Clerk Lyon
and City Auditor Brown to remain up
on their ticket as candidates for re-
election to the offices which they now
hold. When asked if they had any
thing to say upon the subject, the lead
ers of the local branch of the national
democracy referred to the open letter
which Chairman Pardee of the town
committee had prepared for publica-
ton, and which is given below,
Further than this the leaders declined
to discuss the matter. In lieu of the
gentlemen referred to, the committee,
in accordance with the resolutions
passed at the convention, has selected
John w. HUT of the Eighth ward for
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nolds for city auditor.
The letter of Chairman Pardee is as
follows:
NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
TOWN COMMlTTEE OF NEW HAVEN.
November 26, 1896
Richard f. Lyon and BENZ Il. Brown, Esqs.
Gentlemen-Your designations of the NOM
nations for city clerk and auditor are re-
ceived and accepted and your names have
cen removed from our ticket and the names
of John W. HUT and Edward V. Reynolds
respectively, have been substituted.
We regret exceedingly that you have tax
en- this course. Your unsolicited and unani
nous nomination was made by body of
men actuated solely by love Of the best in
| terests of this city. 1t seemed that the es-
sentially non-partisan and clerical offices of
city clerk and auditor should be continued
| in experienced hands, provided the incumb-
ents We're ready to divorce their offices from
party politics. Our convention believed that
this time, when so many of us had sacrificed
strong party ties and party hopes to a sense
| of duty, was opportune to ask members of
other parties to lay aside their partisanship
| 1t seemed as if a beginning might be made
| by lovers of good government in freeing the
municipality from machine domination.
| 1t seemed to us that the spirit which act
uated so many of us In the late campaign
might find a response in the hearts of many
| republicans. We still believe so. We be-
| lieve that many of your party desire the
| best men, even though they do not have GER
| tain endorsements.
| You have declined to take part in this
| movement for good government Your rea-
/ son is that Justice and courtesy to your
colleagues prevent your acceptance You
| think that fealty to the party machine de-
| mands that if New Haven cannot have un-
| tried men for mayor and commissioners it
should not have tried men for city clerk
| and auditor.
Your sense Of ''justiee and courtesy stops
at your party. 1t does not reach to the wei
| fare of the city you serve.
This is not the rule nor the spirit by
which cities win good government. 1t is
not the spirit which has helped New Haven
| in the past. For it was not then thought
necessary to force the Hon. H. NJ; Welch to
decline the nomination so many times given
him by your party Nor was it applied
when your party nominated the late John G.
| Lake for auditor, or when you nominated
Judge York, or Judge Robertson, or Mr..
New Haven in officially setting out the rule
that party shall precede city. You, and the
machine behind you, are the first in New
Haven to officially declare that efficiency in
office is inconsistent with an endorsement
| by another party. You and the machine
behind you are the first to declare that
subserviency to party alone shalrbe the test
| for office here.
Very respectfully,
| WILLIAM s. PARDE-
Prominent republicans said last even
| ing that Messrs. Lyon and Brown could
not have done otherwise than they did.
The letters were couched in respectful,
ever grateful, appreciation. They met
the issue upon the ground of regard
for the interests of the gentlemen asso-
| ciated with them upon the republican
| ticket,
The republicans say that the cry of
machine will fall fat and they point
to the fact that in almost every in
stance where the slightest ground ex-
listed for alleging that the convention
was dominated by the machine, the al
legged slate was broken.
The city ticket and the town ticket
were from the mass of votes selected
by themselves and no mans hand was
upon the convention, they declare. They
are not unmindful, they assert, of the
service done in the national election by
the gold democrats, but also recall the
fact that the gold democrats met to
confer with the silver men before the
convention which nominated Messrs
Lyon and Brown was held.
I'VE do not, neither does any man,
said a party leader, 'know what might
have been the result had there been an
agreement. But there was none, and
we do not know the result of disa-
greement. We are still of the opinion
that Messrs. Lyon and Brown have
| done what was fair and honorable to
themselves and their party"
The silver democrats will hold their
city and town conventions this evening.
The city convention will be held in st.
Aloysius hall on Meadow street, the
town convention in Turn Hall on Court
street, corner of Orange.
Who they will nominate for mayor is
still problem, but it Is pretty well un-
derstood that w. H. H. Hewitt will be
the man. The only other place there is
a controversy over is that of police
commissioner. The present incumbent,
John E. Doolittle, J. B. Cunningham
selectman, and ex-Selectman John It.
Pohlman. There is likely to be some
lively times in both conventions.
PANIC STRICKEN P4SSENGERS.