Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-10-03
MONDAYS CONTEST.
A Democratic Victory Will Be An Endorsement of Democratic
 Methods in City Affairs.


 out upon issues which will in no way enter into the duties of the successful candidates. The taxpayers of Wa terbury must have noticed that since things commenced to get warm among the politicians and the papers got to telling what they know and what others know about the relative merits of the different nominees of both parties, not a solitary word has been uttered regarding the actual du- ties that come to a man. who holds an office in the city government The re- publicans are making an issue of John T Daily and William Barrett, two men who never have been even remotely connected with the democratic party so far as shaping the policy of the or ganization is concerned. They try to make good their contention by inform ing the people that we had strike in
 Waterbury this year and that the democrats were responsible for it, al- though 43 of the 80 striking trolley men were and still are as far as any body knows, Simon pure republicans and five of the eight men charged with assauIting strike breakers and acquitted by a jury, belonged to the same party. From all accounts this statement is not carrying as much weight as the republican town com
 mittee expected it would and now they have switched off from that and pretend that they know even to a man the names of different men who will act on the several boards in case the democrats win the election. It does not seem as if it would be necessary to waste time showing the nonsense of this kind of reasoning. A discriminat- ing public will take that for what 1t is worth.
 Have you noticed during this cam paign that no special reason is alleged for removing democrats and filling their places with republicans except that the other fellows want the of fees? They tell you that we have the most prosperous city in New England and while they don't say it, it is a matter of record that it now is and all ways has been the most democratic town of its size in the state. Is it not true that some of our prominent republicans when not talking politics cheePfully admit that many of the towns in the valley envy Waterbury's prosperity and cannot account for its phenomenal growth except that its manufacturers builded better than their neighbors and that the affairs of the municipality have been conducted in proper manner and in no way al- lowed to stunt the development of the town. Waterbury has been city for half hundred years and during that time it has had but two or three re- publican administra tions and yet it has outstripped the hard shell repub- lican centers of New England so that its reputation is world wide and this was as true before the strike as it has been at any time since. Usually we hear 8 lot of talk about bad manage ment in city affairs by the democrats but you have not heard a word of that kind this year, although7th the pres ent administration has had the reins of government for the past four years Why? Because there is, nothing dis creditable to be alleged against the administration as a whole, nor hurled at any individual connected with it. If there were it would be the issue in stead of the rot the opposition is try ing to make capital out of. It is probably one of the best arguments the supporters of Mir Lynch and his associates can point to that their par ty has stood the test o. criticism for the past four years and conducted the affairs of the city in such satisfac- tory manner that republican board of aldermen with a representative of one of our largest industries as it's failed to find even one op- to make a grand stand play for their party at the expense of the democratic administrator. And yet with all these facts before us we are told that this same democratic party is aiming at the root of local prosper ity and that it is the bounden duty of every good citizen to raise his hand against the organization whose his- tory is so closely interwoven with that of the progress of the town that the story of one is necessarily 8 part of the other. If the democratic party had proved recreant to the trust con- fded to it there would be ground for rallying to the opposition and making a change, but there appears to be no reason in the world that the unbiased citizen can see why the people should rise up en masse and smite the party that has grappled successfully with every project that came before it, es- pecially at the bidding of half dozen pIOI eSSlOudI pOllClClduS WHO dIIor good deal of effort succeeded in coax ing a prominent manufacturer to act as their standard bearer and guide their barque safely over the turbulent sea and laQd them in the City hall building This may sound rather friv- olous, but it tells the whole story. The motive back of this campaign of islander is the elevation of men who have no particular occupation and want to live on the public.
 Will Lynch be elected? That de- bends upon the intelligence of the av- craze" voter. If he can be fooled, coaxed or coerced Lynch won't be in it, but if he knows his business as some folks believe, does his own and does not allow himself to be influenced by the Daly-Barrett scare, then there can be no doubt about the triumph of the democratic nominee. In other words the people have the whole matter in their hands and if they let calamity howlers and heeIers of the republican party pull