Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-03
WHY WALLACE GOT LIFT.
Delegate Hitchcock says League
 Delegates Left Him.

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 gressional Convention Local Repub-
 licans Fishing for Candidates for
 Representatives That Will Catch the
 Labor Vote-Rumors . of Third
 Ticket Backed by Economic League
 Gaining Ground.
 John A. Hitchcock. who was dele gate from this city to the congression- al convention, says the statement in yesterdays paper that none of the dele gates from this city attended, is not so. He says that five were present from this city when the first ballot was taken and that they all voted for MT Wallace, who was the candidate of the Economic league. On the second Dallot, he says, two voted for MT Wal lace, two were absent and the fifth man, Who was present, voted but for whom, he cannot say. s.And to the Dest or my belief" concluded MT Hitch cock, they were all league men. too j, MT Hitchcock further says that if the Icononlc league men had stuck to the convention and voted for their man ne would have been elected. : So Tar as can be learned the Eco- homie Ieaguers of Waterbury are not .ahilg Kindly to the republican sc1elne Yof running third ticket and uliless all signs of the time fail they are noI going to be a party to the hum pug. Many prominent democrats aoout town who stood by the league Ill It's light for Mayor Charters are wondering what part if any, the man rom Ansonia will play in the drama. and while they will give him credit Tor the kind of man he was painted uhtN they see proof of something to the contrary, still there are those who even now seriously regret that the democracy of Waterbury stood behind hlln They say it was his duty as a uemocrat to be where he could be round after the shrieya1ty convention had named it's choice and come for ward and do for him what it is ad- mitted his competitor would have done had things gone the other way. Mayor Charters was here when the committee went out after him. but probably he had reasons of his owIi Tor not coming forward. But it would be unfair to charge him with having anything to do with the third ticket side-show until we see proof of it. The republicans are in. bad mess. just now, and if they fail to enlist the support of the third ticket men it is easy to see their finish. It seems almost incredible that the working people could be eajeled into swallow ing their own words and coming out for Dunham and the rest of the push that they have been clamoring to get a whack at for the past couple of cir have happened and it is possible that some of the men who have been the loudest in denouncing government by injunction may be it's stauncheSt al- lies in the coming election contest. Whatever course certain leaguerS may decide to take in the matter it is hoped that the man who has been singled out as special object of attack from the machine politicians and who has been so frequently referred to as a martyr to the cause of labor will not show the cloyen hoof at the eleventh hour and force his friends to admit that they rallied round an unworthy standard bearer.
 Here's a little composition composed by well known republican official and sung for the first time by that official in the mayors presence, a day or two ago:
 Here's to Edward O., .
 Drink Ter down. drink Ger down;
 Here's to Edward C.,
 Drink 'er down, drink Ter down;
 Here's to Edward G..
 We will all vote for thee,
 Comptroller you shall be,
 Drink Ter down, drink Ter down.
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 The Economic .leaguers of New Haven county are going to hold a con vention in a few days to nominate a candidate for sheriff to run against both Dunham. republican, and Tom linson, democrat Probably MT Dun- ham can read the announcement with out shivering ng-Hartford Courant.
 Don't be to sure of it. When the sober second thought strikes the Char ters forces and when the Ansonia mayor has whispered word or two of advice, perhaps they will hesitate before putting back in office the man whom they are now endeavoring to defeat by placing Charters on third ticket.
 The local republican party is very hard up for candidates this year. They are making mighty efforts to procure candidates who are in daily contact with the working people, in order to offset the influence of the trusts on the public mind. They are endeavor ing to induce John Lines, superintend- ent of the Scovill Manufacturing Go to run for one of their representatives They count upon Mir Lines as a great and popular man who would make rousing run. Another man they are after is Henry E. Carter, captain of Go A. It is not, however, upon his association as military man that they would embark him upon his campaign. It is not even as fore man of a department in the clock fac tory that he would be presented as q candidate. It is as a workingman who earns his bread as every other workingman does. This is the way fhey would endeayor to pull wool over fhe peoples eyes. They are well aware that every little amounts to something in the making up of their tickets. And so it does but will it go with the voters?