Waterbury Democrat., 1901-01-31
TO THE .vICT0RS!
In the Words of a Well Known
 Statesman,
WHAT ARE WE HERE FOR?

Republicans Shedding Crocodile Tears
 Because Democrats Look for Even
 Policeman's Berth = And Also
 Fighting Tooth and Nail Among
 Themselves for Sure Thing Legisla-
 tive Ofices-No County Commis-
 sionerships or Judgeships Being
 Handed Out to Democrats.
 Some of our neighbors who kept their tongue in their cheek while the republican policy of gobble everything Tn sight was being carried on all over the state, are now out featuring the board of public safety fest it should dare to follow suit and elect five po- fcemen without making sure that the republicans are remembered. That's consistent and in full accord with re- publican logic, and of course anyone who does not accept that doctrine is sure to be placed on the long list of distinguished Americans who within the brief space of twelve-month have made asses of themselves" q sentence pronounced upon Pa rick Egan because he happened to riffer from somebody else. At the beginning and until very recently, this was right accorded to every American, but that day Is now but q memory and at the present time if a man does not want7to be lampooned and black guarded he must wait until the dfvinely commissioned opponents of Americanism have been heard from and then govern himself accordingly. Whats the matter with introducing a little of this broadmindedness we hear so much about into the republican camp? Why not come out flatfoOted and request our distinguished friend, Mir Lilley, who is now monarch of all he surveys in New Haven county, to do the square thing by getting dem- ocrat elected on the board of county commissioners to succeed Hart D.. Munson? The two holdovers are, re- publicans and it would seem nothing more than fair to give minority rep
 resentation to the other fellows. But that wouldn't do, and the republican who would advocate such a course would be railroaded out of the party and never again permitted to put q hand on the machine. But this is all bosh. Who in thunder would think that republicans would dream of hand ing out pie to democrats while their own kith and kin. were breaking their necks in a mad scramble to grab crumbs and all. The democrats tried this game on the board of county com missioners several years ago, but their successors never were chumps enough l to be misled by the example.
 The question is often asked as to | !, :; {, thnf oil hn l judges of the Waterbury courts belong to the same political party. Is this the result of a we'll regulated plan or 1 merely coincidence? Of course there 1 is no politics in it. Banish the thought 1 and confound the rascal who would l dare to even think such a thought, l though he never alliwed it to escape from his lips! Do you want to know, you n1ncompoops. why all our judges, l clerks. messengers, prosecutors, depu- l ty sheriffs and holders of I every other berth not filled | by q vote of the people that there is q dollar in. are republicans? The l object is to keep politics out of such places. Some people will say that this looks like a game of 'gobble," but to 1 those who look at it in that light we l say, you're way off, That kind of
 logic would be all right if the boot 1 were on the other foot. You fellows | have been taught to believe in the l theory, what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander," but that doe 1 Urine is now as dead as q smoked her. l ring so far as the republican party is l concerned, if it ever had any real eX- 1 istence there, though. to be sure. it still holds when we get down to deal With l democrats.
 What a howl would go up from re- publican threats If the republican coun- 1 ty caucus had named John O'Nein for | judge of the district court and Attor- 1 ney Carmody or some other democrat l as associate judge! What would hap
 ben, in case Judge Burpee were sue
 ceeded by James E. Russell or Charles G, Root, and H. R. Durant turned uoWn
 and 1T. F. Lawlor installed in ms stead? -Whew! We must stop. We,o
 want paper that would cover the
 oreen to 90 into this subject, and then
 we wouldn't have room enough 10 tel
 half the story of republican greed
 They take everything that comes te
 them in the matter of appointive and
 elective positions and then, unless the
 democrats divide the trifles at thei1
 disnosal. we hear the shout: Politics
 
 Politics.
 But away with this nonsense. Le'
 us talk about the man of the hour
 perhaps we should have said. the mar | of an hour-Representat George H
 Lilley, who Is said to be lobbying il 1 Hartford with a. view to convincini
 the lawmakers that it would not b' ! wise to refer the matter of consonda ] lion of the town and city government
 of Waterbury to vote of the people
 Why? The answer must be plain tt
 all. There can be no reasonable ex
 planation put forward in defense O
 such a contention, except that the peo
 ple are not competent to decide wha
 is for their own good and that in orde X to save them from themselves tnl
 question must be settled by men wh'
 have no special interest in the anair
 of the community. Just how the cleo tors of Waterbury will take to this something that would be impossible 2 . | determine just now. but it is safe [ l r,ra1a3t.t thai. the taxpayers of th1SstoWl