Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury [Connecticut]) 1900-1903, 1902-08-14
POLITICAL POINTERS
The Boom For Mayor Charters
for Sheriff is Gathering For ee

Down New Haven Way It Is Said
That Charters Has Good Chance
of Getting the Elm City Delegates
Now That the Ansonia Man Has De-
clared Himself, Waterbury, 1t Is
Said, Is Going to Push His Cause.
It looks now as il the democrats of
Waterbury and labor men will unite
on Mayor Charters as candidate Ior
high sheriff. Up to the time Mayor
kilduff made known his determination
not to run certain elements were ql-
vlded between him and Charters, but
now that Kilduff is out Of the way,
democrats and labor men are asking
what better can they do than rally
around the Charters standard. Char
tiers is a man who has always support
ed his party nominees and II he should
capture the nomination he can mount
the rostrum and call upon democrats
to give him the same support he had
cheerfully yielded to every man the
party put forward since he became an
elector. This is something Mr. Strobel
cannot claim for himself, and no one
has referred to this oftener or in strong
er terms Of denunciation than the Hon
Mr. Kennedy, who is now said to be
back of the Strobel boom, so you see
politics as well as poverty makes
strange bed fellows.
Mayor Charters is an ideal candidate.
OF course it cannot be said that he has
a barrel" but even so there ought to
be enough honest men in New Haven
county to elect him to the Office Of high
sheriff If for no reason other than what
ne has done for labor and the enemies
he made in his fight with men who do
not believe that working people should
have anything to say regarding what
they shall receive in return for their
labor or how many hours shall consti-
tute a days toll. If thousands of la
boring people throughout the Manga
tuck valley are enjoying a Saturday
half holiday this summer. 1t is due
mainly to the efforts of Mr. Charters
and his associates. In support of this
statement one need but mention the
fact that Charters is blacklisted in
every factory in the country and out
of 276 employees that went out in An
sonia he was the only one denied the
right to return. His neighbors who
had watched the tussle made him chief
magistrate of the town, and now the
word is being passed along that he is
sheriff Just what part Waterbury
will play in Mayer Charters's canvass
is something that cannot be stated at
this time, but some people will be very
much surprised if his friends do not
give him a big boost.
The committee of 100 members of
he Young Mems Republican club of
Xew Haven, appointed by President
Donald G.. Carmichael to support the
candidacy of Mayor Studley for the re-
publican nomination for governor, will
meet at the club house tomorrow even
ing. The club will hold a regular
meeting at the same time and large
attendance is, looked for. Quite a num-
Der of prominent speakers will be on
hand including several from out of the
city.
The Economic league at a meeting
in NJ taven last evening. decided to
put ticket for senator and represen-
tative into the field. It was voted that
the president should call convention
of the members OF the league for that
purpose. The members will be notified
by card and through the newspapers
The call will be issued for Wednesday
night. The president was instructed to
correspond with the leagues of the
county to get a county convention
called which will either nominate or in
dorse a candidate for high sheriff
Mayor Stephen Charters Of Ansonia is
the man favored. The secretary of the.
league was instructed to open cor ?
respondence with the leagues of the
state to secure the calling of a state
convention, which may nominate can
dfdates for state offices, or endorse can
didates nominated by the other par
tieg
"Dang it ali, y said ward heeler this
morning, doesn't it beat the deuce the
way we get snarled up here when there
is a good Office in sight? The demo-
Gratis can elect a high sheriff this fall
If they nominate the right man. Per
sonally, / have nothing against Chris
Strobel, but politically I have no use
for him, and 1 think the rank and file
of the party think as / do. You don't
see republicans nominating men for
Office that have been active in opposi-
ton to their party candidates, and why
in hill democrats should is something
I can't understand. IF we put a pre-
MUM on treachery by honoring de-
serters with nominations, the first thing
you'll know we'll have no party I
hear Billy Kennedy is out for Strobel,
but don't believe it, even though the
Democrat has said SO. I'll believe it
when I hear Kennedy swallow his own
words, that no man who had turned
his back on his party or one of his can
didates and went over to the opposition
was entitled to recognition from a dem
ocratic constituency When Kennedy
was stumping the state for democrats
the men he is now said to be training
with were working tooth and nail to
defeat the same candidates. But I
shall refuse to credit the Naugatuck
war horse Of democracy with conduct
unbecoming a democrat until j hear
from himself.
Speaking of the race for shrievalty
honors, the New Haven Palladium
says: Charters is the choice of the
labor element because he is pre-emi-
nently labor man. He went into the
office of mayor of Ansonia on the wave
that followed the strike at the Farrell