Waterbury Democrat., 1902-09-19
GOOD FELLOWSHIP.
Should Cut No Figure in the
 Coming Election.
REPUBLICAN METHODS ARE BAD

And Candidates of That Party Must Obey the Party Lash No Matter How Good Their Intentions-If La- boring Men Want Their Rights
 and Want to Get Out of the Power
 of Trusts and Combinations the
 Democratic Party is Where They
 Must Look-Now On the Eve of An
 Important Campaign Is the Time to
 Think Over These Things.
 The republicans are making great effort to smooth things over for their party's nominees on the state ticket, put they are experiencing a whole lot of trouble ill certain quarters and if the hostility to the ticket is kept np until election day the result will not be very satisfactory to the machine ln Waterbury. The papers are saying nice things about MT Lilley, but the voters are taking it all with biz grain of salt 1t is evident that the people know how to distinguish be- tween Lilley as private man and Lilley as creature of the party thar has brought about the conditions ev- erybody appears to be railing at They are not likely to forget that he is the same MT Lilley who as representative from this town at Hartford was frank enough to state that he didn't think the people of Waterbury should be given an opportunity to decide by bal lot whether or not they wanted con- solidation. If he dared say so prob ably his own sense of justice would have pfompted him to submit the question to the people, but he knew too much for that. The machine had decided that electors of Waterbury should not be treated to that much courtesy and MT Lilley answered amen" It is this that should be up- permost in the minds of the people when they go to the polls on election day. They should push aside their likes and dislikes of men and vote for principles. Of course the fowery speakers will be along by and by and will draw rosy pictures of what the future will be il we only continue the republican party in power. They have been telling us that for many years and the conditions that confront us to-day show how well they have kept their word. We have strikes galore among men who are engaged in q struggle to wiring a miserable pittance out of it in return for their labor to Emaintain themselves and their fam flies and the government. as it is ill duty bound to do. maintaining troops on the ground at the expense 0f the people so that the fellows with A. !. xTxlG rnr their game Every good citizen wants to see the law upheld whether it is good or bad until it has been changed by .due process of legislation. but if the republican party was not commit ted to combinations of capital, laws never would have been passed which give a few men the right to corner breadstuffs and other things that en- ter into the cost of living. The coal barons that have made millions out of the strike which is still on, can well afford to pay the best talent In the country to state the case for the party that has put them ill a position where they can fix things so that the whole nation is compelled to bow down to them. We'll have more coal after the consumers have been robbed and the miners shot down and subdued. If n change should take place at this time in national politics it might re- suit in giving those who are crushing the people a taste of the anxiety that is felt in the homes of the working people all over the country at the present time. We hear a good deal of fault finding about officials enforc- ing law and order in places where la~ Dor and capital are at war, but 70 some folks it does not appear qllte plain why this should be so. Inc men who are carrying these orders into effect have no chance in the ram inc of these laws. They were made by men whom many who are cna1ing under them assisted in booming into office. If the people want contin- nance of the conditions they are 1Hce to face with to-day they can nave lL and it is in their power to bring apour change if they so desire. Tnls chh be done by a judicious use or lpc franchise and if the electors fail to ex- ercise if to their own advantage they can place the responsibility on them eoIves and not on the lawmakers. Ine idea of supporting man simply pe- couse he is your neighbor and decent sort of fellow is about as foolish aS tbino as q person could do with his vote TO make proper use of the franchise people often feel called upon +o axercise it against members or their own families So that no elector need need fear that he can be hranded as an outcast because he cannot see his srav an to shouting for candidate of , D party representing principles mimi i-' a aai p, to the public good, even though The M candidate might be his next door naiphbor rni and one of his warm personal friends.