The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1902-11-15

mistake made by the Democrats in
caucus resulting in squabble on cleo
ton day, or refer 1t to that Providence
which mysteriously shapes our end.
The duty of the hour then for the Re-
publicans is to cement these forces
and to resolve to keep down to the
best of their ability the usual Demo-
cratic majority, majority that oscil-
lates between two and three hundred,
not to hope to win for some time till
there is a break in the enemy's fore
line or the new voters are educated to
begin their citizenship with the better
party.
This inclination among a few Repub-
licans to empty their walls of hate on
each other at the polls fortunately has
been confined to local contests-Con-
gressional and State tickets not suffer-
ing. Whatever pique has been dis
played among Republicans and others
who don't occupy the same tent, it is
not the chief cause of the poor showing
of the Republicans in their recent trial
of ballots with the Democrats. 1t may
have cost them a few votes, possibly
twenty-five. but surely the majority
against them of over two hundred is
only explained by the adhesive charac-
ter of the Democratic vote. Seldom
have the Democrats been more in love
with each other than last Tuesday. 1t
mattered not to them If the candidate
leading their ticket was not agreeable
to all or was not an attractive, capa-
BILE influential representative OF their
file. They were bound to elect any one
who headed their ticket and they did
and had an angel from the skies mar
shalled the Republicans into line the
result would have not been different.
The earlier the Republicans read the
logical rationale of their sadness-that
fate was against them, that 1t was to
Bette earlier will any and every sore
be healed and the greater the sympa-
thy will their real friends accord them
Just what the mayor-elect will do,
is the topic of the hour. He will do
something, else his anti-election
pledges will miscarry. His statements
since election allow us to understand
that there will be lot of what he
calls reform. Already over the portals
of the City Hall the mayor-elect has
written that none but labor men need
apply for any office. There are eight
appointments, the rewards he can be-
stow on his followers or lieutenants
But all on his staff must be union
men, This, at heart, he assures us
will be the complexion of his staff.
Again it is his expectation to introduce
change in the listing of property
whereby the wealthy or those who own
property will pay more for the priv
ilege of living in Derby. He hopes to
raise the taxes of the owners of real
estate to such an extent that the labor
ing man of small means will not have
to pay as much as. in previous years
has been required of him. The city
must have more money, he claims and
it must come out of the pockets of
those who have built big blocks and
run large factories. This Is. the return
he apparently believes7is due the in
vested capital in Derby, and the steady
employment of labor. Surely If he
proceeds as he says he will there will
be many Innovations to the municipal
programme his predecessors have fol-
lowed. Not till tho first Of January
does his term Of Office commence.