Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-04
AN OLD SCORE.
Mayor Studley of New Haven
 May Want to Settle It.
LILLEY HELPED UNSEAT HIM.

He Was Warner Man Two Years Ago and After Election He Lost His Place on the Bench of the Court of Common Pleas-If This Thing Com tinues Our Friend Lilley win Be Sorry He Put Himself in the Hands of the Harmony" Party. The word harmony" seems to be the republican slogan throughout the Nut
 meg state at the present time. Wher- ever a dissatisfied head bobs up in
 the family this melodious word is shot, at 1t. If anybody stops to question contemplated move of the powerful
 machine now in operation, he is coun- seled to say nothing but fall into line as this is q campaign wherein every
 body must agree on everything in the interest of harmony"
 And If it were not for the pesky naggiTfg of the democrats and the democratic press, the republican pha- lanx might get by with their Thar mony" bluff. As 1t is, however, dem ocrats themselves see bright signs on all sides for a victory this year, provided there are no party splits, and the Jeffersonian slogan now is, Pull together"
 Ex-Chief of Police Devery of New
 York Is credited with the frequent use of the expression, "Touchin' op an appertainin' to- "Bill.v as the newspaper jokers in New York call him, is made to appear daily in the role of an illiterate bully. However. man who can fill the office of head of the New York police department az well as he did; who can accumulate an immense fortune in choice real es- tate and who, incidentally, can enter tain 10000 women and children on an excursion given at his own expense well, he can't be much of numbSkull.
 But to use "Bilrs" expression, sTouehin' on am appertainin' to" the boom of our friend George l.. Lilley, will George be able to pull through behind the screen of "harmonyyv Tn other words, are members of his party built differently from other human be- ings in that they will take an unwar- ranted rapping once, twice or more times and then take out their hymn books and sing harmony in prefer ence to accepting an opportunity to give the other fellow n kick in re- turn? George has some pretty good press agents heralding his advance, but even the noise of their shouting cannot smother the little peals of dis content that are sure to thunder out shortly against the man whose vote is not in record in Hartford as in sympathy with the laboring man
 Down in New Haven lives a man of countless friends and considerable power, who is liable to give trouble to our local representa- lives of the beef trust. And speaking of tho beef trust, brief interruptlon is in order. Tn speaking at Briuge- port recently the Hon William J. Bryan told of meeting q republican who was incensed at the creation or the beef trust. To question from NIT Bryan, the republican admitted 1t was the first time he had heard of q trust. MT Bryan then gave him the history of the Standard oil. match, steel, coal and other trusts which were fostered and made gigantic powers under re-
  amazed and converted. The fact is" said MT Bryan, many people never heard of the trusts until the beef trust snatched the meat from their tables. And I think that the beef trust may have been good thing af- ter all, for 1t made some people think with their stomachs where before they would not with their brains"
 But to go back to that New Haven man, Mayor Studley is his name, he was judge of the court of common pleas in New Haven. He was friend 1y to the Warner faction and to Sher- if .sAb'' Dunham. History tells of the defeat of the Warner faction and the victory of the Mclean crowd. What is also history. Judge Stud ley's head had to come off as penalty for being on the wrong side of the fence and off it came. Why our friend Lilley should get mixed up in the de- is not apparent but the excuse is offered that he was carried away with Mclean enthusiasm and didn't think he would ever have poII- tical aspirations or be heard of again.
 How did the people In New Haven take to the treatment accorded Judge Studley and the placing of Judge Ca- bles la his berth? They resented it In vigorous manner. New Haven is democratic by big pile. but no difficulty was had in landing Judge Studley in the mayors chair by great majority. Thus the people vim dicated him.
 And now MT Lilley stalks from his lair at Quassapaug (his cottage has been styled by wag "Joshpaug"} and declares himself out for the office of He will ask nll the members of his own political family and anybody else he meets to support him in his effort to get to Washington.
 Will the shouting of harmony" blot out past indlscretions and heal up old and painful wounds?
 Will former Judge (now Mayor} Studlev of New Haven tell his friends that Iillev was only joking and that they ought to "boost" him along?
 Or will the judge--we mean mayor
 -get for George different kind of a 'sboost2"