Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-09-30

the v1leSt kind Of abuse of the nominee for mayor on the democratic ticket. A republican stated last night that the gang which. Is running the republican party fin Waterbury at the present time Is having printed in pamphlet form the insulting and bitter editor ials which have been published in the republican organ for the past few days. This republican, like many others, op- posed such method of campaign, but as In the convention, they were whip ped outside the ring which Is running things to suit themselves
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 Vaccination and characterization has entered into the political contest on the republican side and there is general feeling of distrust of ths school ticket. There are about POO anti-vaccinat tionists on the voting lists and 1t is said that they are opposed to the best man on the republican school ticket, Commissioner Charles Chap man, who is on record as favor1ng compulsory vaccination. MT Woos- ter. one of the nominees on the ticket, is the alleged leader of the antis and his ostensible purpose in being there Is to have vacated the rules and regula- tions Of the school department which make vaccination compulsory in wa terbury and the suburban schools. But there are other weak features ln the ticket and 1t is said that had the city republican convention been look ing for weak candidates they could not have hit upon any weaker ones than there are on the ticket. It is credited as being the weakest ticket the repub- ,licans have put up in great many years.
 "How do you like your candidate for mayor?' inquired reporter of prom ine1t republican to-day. II like the man." he said. ''but the idea of bring ing him out at this time strikes me as rather poor politics I'm afraid some people will look at 1t as an indication on our part to make class fight out of it and to keep alive in the public mind the trouble of last winter, some thing which in the opinion of very many good citizens Che trolley com pany was as much to blame for as the men who went out. Now, l don't think 1t good for Waterbury to keep stirring up these things. It is much the same with communities as with men; they don't care to have the un- pleasant features of their past record constantly haunted in their faces. A man who would make business Of such work would be called distlrber and probably something worse. For this reason I think some of our friends are not helping our cause when they seek to make an issue out of the strike. I also believe that the delegates should have nominated the candidate and not the Citizens alliance or the Waterbury club. I can't say that I want to see the Waterbury club dictate the policy of the republican party, still I'm glad they got the upper hand of the Citi- zens' alliance and that the Kelseys and Peasleys got kicked out, even though Dan Davis came to the front"
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 Nobody claims that the republican nominee for mayor has any more fit- ness for the office of mayor than his opponent. It is admitted that both are inexperienced so far as municipal affairs go, but the claim Is being made by the supporters of MT Dlton that people will rally to his standard be cause he is at the head of the brass trust and has money to burn. The same parties are forced to the conclu- sion that AAr Lynch is an excellent candidate, but think he should not be elected because John T. Daily and w. J. Barrett are said to be among those who intend to vote for him. This is the rankest kind of nonsense. Wonder what the people who are dishing out this kind of campaign stuff are think ing of. Do they want to have the public believe that they wouldn't ac- cept the support of John Daly and Will liam Barrett if they could enlist them in their cause? It looks that way, but such talk must provoke broad smile upon the faces of those who know something about republican methods of securing votes on election day. They tell us that they are who'll " unselfish in this fight and have noth- ing in view but the good of the com munity. That sounds well enough, but back of it all is the itch for office on the part of men who have always put party fealty before everything else. Just what influence this on- slaught upon the working people will have upon the average citizen is some thing which cannot be stated with any degree of accuracy until after the re- suit of next Mondays election.