The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-03-13
The Ersren,h and rws...h Wards.

truth about a contention made yester- day by residents of the eleventh and twelfth wards before the committee on cities and bOroughs meeting at Hart ford at anent the Chatfield bill.
 There are four wards in the city con- taining over 2,200 vOters-The third, fourth. nineth and twelfth. Mir. Chat field has divided the first three of these so as to bring their voting strength on an equality with the smaller wards. He has not divided the twelfth.
 The eleventh ward is crowded in be- tween the twelfth and the water front and is Of small area, thickly populated, and containing 800 less voters than the twelfth. On the other hand the twelfth has by far the largest area, one-third of which is practically without population and therefore ample room to grow. If no change is made in its present ward lines the disparity between this ward and its neighbor will constantly in- crease.
 Every republican resident of these wards appearing advocated a change and presented a plan by which two wards of almost equal voting strength could be substituted for the present conditions, by dividing both wards as they now stand by a line running from Willow street bridge to Ferry, to Grand avenue, to Lloyd, thence south to Quin- nipiac river.
 In addition to the equality of vote thus obtained it was shown that the eastern ot the two new wards would contain nearly all of the old settlers, and people who had lived there for 8 number O: years. owned their homes and were permanently established there, whereas in the western ward large transient community existed, which, as the wards now stand. outnumber the others and choose representatives to the city government. It was therefore urged that under the new plan this minority in the eastern part of the pres ent wards might be so united as to all low of their being represented fin the city government more in accord with their wishes, and as this might be ob- tained with an even distribution of voters. it was a fair proposition. and should be considered.
 Behold the result of this request: Col l OIICl CtilllctIl liIG S6ll-COlllG Gp pOIiSOE of the ChatfieId' plan. after admitting | that the fifth and sixth wards had been | made larger and the third. fourth and ninth smaller, to equalize voting strength, when asked by Captain Isbell why the twelfth, with it's immense area and voting list, had not been divided, l after casting around for a reason which | would hold water. launched into a | tfrada upon the evils of arraying the ] classes against the masses, attempting 1 to draw the attention of his hearers
 from the weakness of his position. by l his old. old appeal to prejudice in the | hope of binding reason and justice. The
 one thus given was eagerly grasped by certain of his followers who supported 1 the Chatield plan in its entirety, but who, together with Colonel Ullman, must have forgotten that the reasons
 so strenuously criticised in their rela-
 tion to the eleventh and twelfth were l analogous and similar to the reasons given by MT. Chatfield for not including
 some of the third and more of the ninth l wards in the first ward and for not add 1 ing more of the tenth to the new ward
 in the ninth. If the proposition of the
 eleventh and twelfth is tainted with
 class legislation, what about Mir Chat
 fields plan as it stands?
 l The responsibility of this classes
 and masses proposition having been 1 placed on me, I must be pardoned in | defending myself to the extent of say 1 ing that I have as close a communion with the masses" as any of the gen.
 tiemen criticising my proposition Ger tainly if manual labor is badge of the l masses I can proudly say that ] ! have pretty intimate acquaintance
 with the same. I might further add l that by a reference to my position in 1 the board Of aldermen on that recent ] burning question of ''class" and mass | the Water contract, and to the position
 of the gentlemen differing from me yes l terday on the same question, it can easily be ascertained who is of the 1 "2lasses" and who of the masses" as well as of that large and flourishing
 class whose designation may easily be
 obtained by judicious omission of cer- l tain consonants from those evil and un-
 American words Glasses" and masses, '' | Further let me say that the statement 1 that Alderman Moyle said that his de-
 sire was that "the masses be separated 1 from the classes'' is untrue.
 To sum up: The question still re-
 mains, why doesn't Colonel Ullman
 want the eleventh and twelfth wards
 divided as suggested?
 The Democrats object because the
 eastern ward would be Republican;
 such is not the fact at present, but l might become possibility.
 Does the colonel object on this ] ground?
 fear that there is gentleman in the
 WoodpIe. Perhaps the interests of the
 citizens and the interests of the party
 conflict with the private interests of the
 colonel Wallace s. Moyle. !
 l THE CANAL AND YELLOW FEVER