Waterbury Democrat., 1900-10-26
POLITICAL POINTERS
Waterbury Democrats Getting o1
 Their Armor for Election.


 The democrats should learn a lesson from the conduct of their warning neighbors and stand together to a man on the 9th of November. so that when the battle is over we will be able to say that we sent Bryan and every other man on the ticket out of town ahead of the game. At the last na- tional election our neighbor down the road, Naugatuck, was about the only |. town in the state that held Bryan and democracy on top of the pile, and it is expected that they will do better than ever before this year. The dem- ocrats of Waterbury should not be outdone by Naugatuck or any other town in the state. We are much bet ter equipped for the fray than the op- position, not only because we have right on our side, but also on account of the fact that we have a normal democratic majority of at least 1900. There is nothing to defeat us, unless we want to trip up ourselves. But, no matter how great our strength may be, 1t will not amount to much unless We pull together as one man, and if this policy should be pursued there can be no doubt about the result. Let no man Sulk in the traces because he does not like this or that candidate, for it would be impossible to name men for the different positions to be filled at the November election who would please everybody. Let every man bury his likes and dislikes so far as the candidates are concerned, and think of nothing but the principle in volved and all will be well. The working people have been doing con- siderable fault-fnding the past few years about the trusts and combines. the contract labor system and other laws enacted by the republicans that have driven them into involuntary idleness while the money they pay in- to the treasury under the name of tax es is furnishing lots of labor for men who are here just while all this work is going on, and when the different jobs on hand are completed, they will be away to their homes in the differ ent towns of the state and many of them will have to travel as far as New York and Pennsylvania in order to reach where they have a permanent residence. The. republicans of Wa terbury, through their representatives at Hartford are responsible for this condition of affairs and if the labor ing classes do not desire a continu- ance of 1t they should see that Nu- liam Kennedy goes to the senate in stead of Harry Durant and that At torney Byrne and Attorney Guilfoile will speak for the people in the legis- lature and not George l.. Lllley or any other man, who, no matter how good his intentions, cannot oppose laws that meet the approval of his own pai- ty. The contract labor system is the biggest imposition that ever was fOisted upon any community. It made things all right for the contract 11l men who want to learn to be civil en- gineers at the city's expense, but it practically beggared the men who had been in the habit of making living at outdoor work. The republican Wire-pullers are said to be smart, but they must have more craft than some of us ever gave them credit for if they can talk the working people into the belief that it would be for their inter- est to elect republicans to represent Wa+a:oury in the general assembly aft.r what they have witnessed them selves since the contract labor system became operative here. It is true that the people elect a mayor and that the mayor appoints members of boards whose duties. in the minds of many are far-reaching. but when you get down to the facts, the mayor and his boards are nothing more than mere ing ureheads when it gets down to the employment of labor. They can spend the peoples, money in awarding con tracts, but they can't get man { days work on these jobs. These -art plain facts and there is not a work ingman in town but knows them, sc that just why the laborer, above all others, should be expected to helI out the republicans, is something that does not appear quite clear to the ay craze citizen.
 At noon to-day the total number whC had registered amounted to 1,4o1 Fifty of these went through this morn ing There are about half as many as the total who are yet to register The board will be in session this even ing until o'clock, likewise the distric court, for the purpose of issuing nat uralization papers. The democrats arr so far in the majority.
 The Italian democrats of Waterbur. and vicinity will hold rally in c A. R. hall Sunday night. The speak CTS will include Gfulio Marinone 0 New Haven and William KennedyaR R A. Lowe, NJ. J. Byrne and F. F. Guil foile, the four last named candidate for office on the democratic ticket. Tn Italians are very enthusiastic oyerstf election and hope to turn out bi vote for the whole ticket.
 D. J. Rafferty presided at the gran rally held by the Tammany Hall asst ciatio1f at their headquarters on Ban street last night and made a hit in hi Introductory remarks, stating that tI
 meeting was called not alone for men bers of the association, but for all wh desired the election of William Bryan, the candidate of the masse
 Dr Ward and Patrick Hayes delivere short addresses on the issues of tf day and handled the subject in a mal ner. that evoked great applause.
 The republicans are rolling poodle. They appear to have so mut that they do not know what to ( with it. Yesterday Attorney Baul was throwing $500 gold certificate around the lobby of the court. Son of the spectators never saw so mut 70 de stuff" in one little piece paper before. and others never saw
 much money in any form, and st
 there were more. who wished tn,