Waterbury Democrat., 1901-09-23
.PLATTSPAMPH HL.ET
He Threatens to Make Things
 Warm for Registrar Blair.
DOUBTS LEGALITY OF ELECTION

MT PlaItS Attorney Advocates Side
 Tracking the Little Rumpus Until
 After Elecdon-No Good Can Come
 of It at This Time, and It May Do
 Whole Lot of Harm.
 TO all appearance q serious falling out has taken place between .'Ed" Platt and the republican party. Bar ring the place men, there are few men so prominent in the republican party as MT Platt and there have been none
 so active. MT Platt could not help
 pelh2 q republican any more than tlte north pole can help being where if is.
 lie IS one by heritage; it runs in his
 Iamlly blood. Therefore. he is not to
 De blamed. A few months ago. when
 IL was first reported that Mr Platt was
 out Tor the place of registrar of voters
 Tor his party there were many that
 would not believe the story The bare
 ldea was prepoSterous. they said John
 Blair was the republican party and the
 registrar of voters to boot, and to sep-
 arate one from the other would mean
 the erasure of both from off the sur
 Iace Of politics. Nevertheless the re-
 port was true, and is true now. md
 MT Platt has in the inside pocket of
 N-1@ AstA1 oNNINOtiI. lIle OIlp He wore SHJ-
 urday afternoon, a bombsheIl of most
 destructive aspect. This bombshell is
 Tn the form of several hundred pamDh- lets he had printed, containing excerpts
 from the general statutes which he
 says, will prove that there has not
 been legal election in this city since
 1883, and when he is asked what does
 that amount to now, seeing the cleo
 tlons are over and the salaries have
 been paid, he replies that what in the
 name of politics are the general stat
 |ltes good for. MT Platt's pamphlet is
 an interesting paper. Tn further proof
 that there has not been a legal election
 M this city or town since the above mentioned date, it pretends to show that the registrars of voters have it. legally drawn their salaries and, so far
 as one of them is concerned. the repub- llcan, he has not paid to his deputies what he signed for with the board of Selectmen
 The statutes provide that the regis
 trars shall notify the selectmen of
 their being selected for the posts of registrars: shall leave with them written certificate. and do one thing and another which are not entirely
 relevant to this article, and which they
 have not done. But the matter in this | respect which apparently initiates Mir Platt is this, which is framed in his own words: ''If I draw 8 for you s,s my deputy registrar. I should pay you l it of course; but if you get only s and know that the town has drawn s for | you you are liable to ask what hap pened to the $2 you did not get" This 1 Is practically an accusation, neverthe- | less Mir Platt claims to be able to | prove it.
 Tbnrn ic no limit fo fha h; | ing to Mir Platt, the registrars may put in to the town. The bills for their work, so far as Mir Platt is aware. have never been questioned, for the simple reason apparently that no one is in authority or in way to question | them. They simply put in their bills for so much and it is paid them. To this MT Platt has no objection. He has no grounds for supposing that aI1 they were paid was not earned by them and their deputies but he returns to l the statement that the deputies ought l to have been paid what was paid the
 registrar to pay them.
 Mir Platt has taken his fight. for that is what he calls his falling out with 1 the republican party, to law. And inc lawyer to whom he took if asked ninl what he could gain by making such q
 TOW at this time. Had he gone back
 on his party, and was it his object to throw the election to the democrats? No. said Mir Platt, that was not his purpose. but he would like to know by what authority Mir Blair was paid
 a certain number of 8 for q certain
 MT Cady legal resident of the Do- minion of Canada and a subject of his
 majesty King Edward VII and leave old-time residents and honest citizens out of work.
 The lawyer referred to is said to he one of the prominent ones in the city, and it is evident he fears serious eruption in his party if MT Platt's pamphlet is ever circulated. He, has tried to-prevail upon MT Platt the party wisdom of subduing his temper for some time at all events. It will do him no good. he says, nor will his party profit by it, but on the contrary
 may be seriously hurt While he has admitted that every word culled from the law books and transferred to the | pamphlet is correct, it is not MT Platt's place as a good republican to make l them known. The lawyer is evidently afraid of the pamphlet and MT Platt closes his argument thus:
 By Jupiter. when I get through with | this matter the town may have to | jump in and bury some of them that are pretty high just now"