The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-07-24

that he had had some experience in politics in several parts of the state and that he considered politicians the equal of any voter and that there was a ne- cessity for them. The wOrkingman cannot be converted. He will remain as he is and there is need of some one to instruct him. He also said that he was hopelessly in the dark, after hear ing the discussions of the evening, as to the exact purpose or plan of the league. His statement that the politi- clans were a necessary evil brought sev- eral of the members to their feet and they claimed that the spells politicians were necessary evil brought several of the members to their feet and they claimed that the spells politicians were a menace to the workingnen by reason of their being the tools of great corpora tions and systems.
 EX-Alderman Donovan brought up the matter which he attempted some time ago to have the board of aldermen consider with reference to the taxation of trolley systems to help support the municipal offices. He desired charge of $100 on every car used by the com pany and that the company be com pelled to furnish the electric lights on all streets which they traversed This was objected to by William Gay, who thought that causing the company to light one-third of the streets which they traversed would be a heavy enough burden. Attorney George M. Wallace said that a reduction of fares was wanted, not an addition to the tax ation of the companies. The entire matter was left to committee on leg islation yet to be appointed.
 William J. O'Brien introduced a set of resolutions restricting the time of de- bate on various topics and one of the resolutions seemed to be exceedingly obnoxious to a majority of the mem- bers. It referred to spells politicians and if passed would have empowered the executive committee to privately notify suspected politicians that their presence in the organization was not desirable and to invite them to with draw from the league. This matter was referred to the executive committee. A committee of five is to be appointed by the chairman, r. H. Horan, to confer with the committee recently appointed by the democrats with reference to se- curing the necessary legislation for the reformation of the primary system. This committee will be named in a few days.
 Another matter presented by one of the members was the charge that del- egate from the Waterbury branch of the league had been convicted by the Trades Council of the state of defalca- tion in his accounts. It was voted that the Waterbury branch be asked to withdraw this man as one of their rep resentatives to the convention which is to be held in this city in few days.
 Attorney George Wallace stated that if the purposes of the league were to be accomplished rapidly and surely it was necessary first to secure control of the public offices and the work could then be readily done. He particularly referred to the office of mayor, saying that the man in that position had con- siderably more power than the majority of people realized and that an effort should be made to elect a man to that office who had the cardinal principles Of the league as one of his fundamental business motives.
 Adjournment was taken until the first Wednesday night in August. 1.N4