Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-14
DOWN WITH FRAUD
Republicans of Waterbury Frye
 ing to Clarify the Air.
scHEMERs ARE TOO SMART.

And Under Present System Are De
 feating the Mainstays of the Party
 The Republican Caucus Room Must
 Be Kept q Sacred Place. and Demo.
 crats and Ringers Are to Be Barred.
 me article headed "pure politics. Ill the Democrat few evenings since. mas occasioned whole lot of talk in political circles. Some claim that if Is good thing and others contend that It Is sure to lead to much pickering
 winch in the end will be a serious blow 10 people who want to belong to boil, parties. But if it does not iniure any otHef class of voters it will not work hardship in the community. and in any case We will not be obliged to come under the law unless we think
 Well Of it. Of course it is not to bp
 expected that the bill was framed il,
 the. interest of democrats. but if both parties have q fair show to do business
 inuef1t there cannot be any cause for
 iauIt hndlng. John F. Kellogg and his
 neutenantS have not been very sun-
 cesstul the past few years in controll-
 Ing republican caucuses and it is only
 natural that they should seek to head
 oH the rebellioNs element in their
 ranks through legislative enactment,
 seeing that all other efforts in that di-
 rection amounted to naught Our re
 publican neighbors have been coaxed,
 then threatened and coaxed agai1. but
 all to no use. They still persisted in
 packing caucuses by people who had. no right to vote at such
 places as well as those who
 had no votes At all, and after putting
 up with this kind of tactics until the
 thing became Unbearable and got to be
 menace to the machine politicians in
 the republican camp. they decided to
 take the bull by the horns and coerce
 men into line in spite of themselves. MT Kellogg and his advisers are men of peace and if the draft Of the bill printed in the Democrat looks trifle
 arbitrary, it is hard to see how any
 one can blame the authors of it. It is an open secret that owing to the way
 republican primaries have been han dled in Waterbury during the past four or five years delegates were elected who nominated candidates whom the party didn't want to vote for. and as a result there was q stampede from the republican party to the opposition. l Something had to be done to put a stop to this, and if MT keilogg'S bill passes, and no doubt it Will. TOT Rep- l resentative Lilley is said to be behind 1 it, there ought to be sufficient num- l Der of electors in town in favor of ''pure politics. to give it trial here. 1 It may do some good, but somehow | or other voters who have habit of kicking over the traces invariably find | way to ply their game. and 1t is 1 doub tful if MT kellogg's bill will be l able to to restrain them.
 One man, a dyed in the wool re- 1 publican at that, said to-day that it | reminded him of little story he heard l when the factorizing law was intro duced in this state. A merchant who l had been beaten out of considerable 1 money told former customer who 1 owed him a bill that he was pleased 1 10 see such q law put on the statute books. adding as he eyed his debtor..If you don't square up with me now I'll take you into court and make an hon- est man of you"
 "You can't do it." replied the man who was behind in his accounts. ana the history of that law and every sim liar enactment proves that the man was not wide of the mark.