Waterbury Democrat., 1902-08-23
POLITICS BOILING IN CITY
Stories Detrimental to Mayor
 Charters Being Circulated.

Promptly Contradicted by Charters :
 Lieutenants- Polls Open at 4:5O
 on Afonday-List of the Voting
 Places-Politicai Notes Picked Up
 on the Eve of the Big Battle Aon-
 day.
 The democratic primaries Will pc held Monday from 80 in the aItel- noon until 9:30 in the evening dt tuo following places: so,,th
 First ward, Phoenix avenue, souln
 Second ward, north side of Green opposite Prospect street.
 Third ward, in front of City hall'
 Fonrth ward, South Main street, opposite Scovill street.
 Fifth ward, on Scoyill street, nortn of Wakes building.
 Sixth voting district. Carters nali' Waterville.
 The first. second and third wards will elect five delegates, the fourth SIX delegates. and the fifth seven dele gates to the respective conventions. There shall also be elected to each con- vention in the several wards one per son to each convention who shall be known and designated as alternate at large"
 Rule 8, governing democratic pri. maries, says that all tickets presented at primaries shall be uniform in size, 9x4 inches, and shall be printed on plain white forty pound machine book paper. No celored, tinted or tissue ballot. nor any other that has any dis tinguishing cut, design or any other mark upon it, nor any double ballot. shall be counted for any person upon said ticket.
 We have heard a good deal lately regarding what the working people of Waterbury are capable of doing and many will watch their conduct at the primaries Monday with more than or dinary interest The knowing ones claim that it is folly to talk about a united movement on the part of oi- dinary mortals, especially when sharp politicians are abroad in the in- terest of men with money. One of the old war horses of democracy said this morning that while it was to be regretted still he felt sure that after the primaries are over there will not be as many advocates of the labor mans cause in Waterbury as there are to-day, because he knew that by that time it would have been made plain to all that the working people cannot affiliate for mutual advance ment There may be something in this, but most people will wait for the proof before taking much stock in it. Of course, it is true that in every ward in the city men who owe much to labor, united and divided as it hap pens to be, are out to do it's standard bearer, and the worst thing about it is that they tell you they can do this and then rally the men they are kick ing to their cause again whenever they want them Tn Mayor Charters the working people have an ideal can didate for the shrjeyalty nomination and if they allow him to be swamped at their own doors they had better shut up shop and stop talking reform.
 The silliest argument offered in sup port of Mir Strobel and against Mayor Charters is that Waterbury should stand for MT Strobel because he is a local man. If that be so, how can democrats oppose George Lilley in case the congressman at large on the democratic ticket should be chosen from some town outside Waterbury and the republicans run Lilley, who, by the way, is a Waterbury man and just as good a fellow as Mir Strobel2 If that kind of rot stands, why, we'll have to swallow the meat man as we'll as the jeweler. provided they get nom- mated, no matter what party trots them out One may say in reply to this that Lilley is not democrat and that while Strobe1 may have been out against the party at times he is a democrat at heart. This is all bosh. Mir Strobel belongs to that class of men who are wiser than parties and who stand prepared to kick in the traces unless he is in the swim. He is q rule or ruin democrat and if the. democratic electors of Waterbury wish to honor man of that calibre they will have an opportunity next Monday. He is one of dozen or more men who claim the right to op- pose party candidates without losing prestige in the organization and if he can do this then people who belong to the democratic party and want promo ton should adopt Strobel tactics by getting out and organizing clubs to defeat their party candidates. Mir Strobel is said to have denied this in New Haven, but he nor nobody repre- senting him hiss attempted such. a feat at home, but they may do so be- tween now and Monday when bluffs cannot be called
 All men entitled to give out genuine { Charters tickets at the polls Monday will wear a badge.
 The jubilation among the Strobel forces over the capture of Wolcott may be trffe premature. One of the delegates-elect was in Waterbury to-day and said 1t was a mistake to credit him as having pledged himself to vote for Strobel. He Is out for another man
 The Bristol correspondent of the Hartford Times thinks that the Bris- tol delegates to the democratic state convention will favor the nomination of Mayor Thayer for governor. The correspondent writes: Unless there is a change in the situation the delegates to the state convention to be held in