Waterbury Democrat., 1902-10-07
THE FIRST GUNS
Republicans and Democrats To
 Start the Ball This Week.
HOT SHOT IN STORE FOR LMLEy

Every Candidate on the Democratid
 State Ticket Will Make An Address
 Candidate Cary Will Pay His
 Respects to Secretary Shaw Who
 Will Address the Republicans Thurs
 day Evening-Ca Candidate Cummines
 Will Direct His Guns Mainly at
 the Man from Waterbury Who
 "Trusts'' in His Friends to Elect
 Him.
 New Haven Oct 1.-The batteries of both the great parties will open their first fire in the state campaign in this city this week and the electors of New Haven will be afforded m ex- cellent opportunity of judging the merits of the arguments which each side will use to win their votes oli election day. The republicans will lead off on Thursday evening 10 the Hyperion theater with Secretary Shaw of the treasury department as the star attraction. The nominees on the state ticket with George l.. Lli- ley of Waterbury, candidate for con gressman at large, and N. D. Sperry, candidate for congress from the sec~ ond district, will also be on exhibition and no doubt will say a few words each There is not good speaker among them except King of Williman- tic, candidate for attorney-general so the entertainment so far as the state contingent is concerned, even though accompanied with music and tom toms, is likely to be a state affair. MT Shaw, no doubt, will strongly ad- vocate a continuance of the republi- can policy which has been so fruitful to the trust magnates and has nurtur- ed the trusts with such paternal solici- tude that now they are greater than the government itself. He may have satisfactory explanation to make as to how it has been brought about that the coal operators are able to defy the president of the United States and an adequate excuse for the humiliat- ing powerlessness of the head of the nation to compel these bloated mag mates to let coal be mined. MT Shaw to be effective with Connecticut voters must also tell why the government has permitted the coal trust to create what is now certain to be a fuel famine. which must necessarily be at tended during the coming winter with much suffering among the poorer classes. And while on the subject of 1 trusts, his explanation as to why the l beef barons have been permitted by 1 the government to force up the price of that prime necessity to prohibitive 1 figures will be attentively listened to l by New Haven workingmen.
 ! On the following evening, Friday, | in the same auditorium the democrats l will hold the boards. Every nominee on the state ticket, from Honorable l Melbert B. Gary, the candidate for governor, down the entire list, is ex- pected to make an address. which must necessarily be brief and every one of them will be pointed. Unlike the republican state nominees, their. democratic opponents are nearly all trained platform orators. The only one without experience in this line is perhaps Philip Hugo of this city, cam didate for the office of state treasurer, and MT Hugo can be depended upon to acquit himself creditably.
 MT Cary is well pleased at the pros pect of replying to some of MT Shaw's arguments and of elucidating the l blessings which have come from trust government. He will probably tell l the citizen of New Haven how they have been persistently denied an equal part in state government with citizen residing i'll other portions of the commonwealth, that republican rule may be perpetIated in Hartford and that republican United Statea senators may continue to be sent to 1 Washington from Connecticut.
 There is little doubt that Homer s. | Cummings, candidate for congressman at large will pour some hot shot into | the republican ranks-shot which his opponent George IL. Lilley, can scarce- ly escape.
 1 The democratic situation in New Haven is brightening every day and l even republican begin to admit that ] this is a democratic year. To illas- l trate the hopelessness of the reprbli- can situation locally 1t needs cnly to be pointed out that the party has up I to this time been unable to get any candidates willing to stand for senator and representatives.
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