Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-05

oNCI. SNO lACA WG1l6 LOI tuo positions for which they have been nominated, should go to Hartford, this year especially, when an effort is to
 be made to convince the legislature
 that more than half the property own- CTS of Waterbury are crazy and stanl
 in great need of conservatOrs. The re-
 publican candidates, even if they
 wanted to, dare not open their mouths ill opposition to anything which their party might introduce. so that
 whatever possible show Waterbury
 has of being fairly represented at
 Hartford by men who are free it has
 absolutely nothing to expect from off 'cials whose hands are tied and from
 when a dfscordant note would mean
 their dt:ith knell tro .a Il po.itical
 sTalcl 0int. There is no use denying
 the "a I that every nla.l is more 2tr
 less Seliish and pauses before doing
 anything which he tn. KS is likely "a
 bfitl.s harm to hiI.saif. so that any
 baly who says that tic republican ca:,.l;dsles to the senate and house, If
 eleo'cd will take sides against tue
 pa"ty which is using them han1so::.ely- is Gceeiving himself. Deia0t rats and
 republican who want to Tear l,ntil sides of public questions should get
 lOSCLACl nCAI 4uCSudy dllu SCC tuuL
 Waterbury sends senators and repre- sentatives to Hartford who will not feel in duty bound to aeQuiesce in any by the majority.
 The republicans feel that they are losing their grip and as a last resort the management have trotted out the president in defense of himself and the party. Parker hit the whole of them hard, but they kept in the back ground long enough so that there is not much chance to refute what they say between now and election day. What thoughtful people want to know is why the allegations with reference to the trusts furnishing money to con- duct the republican campaign was not denied until the eleventh hour aI- though it was about the first missile aimed at the adninistra ton by the democratic campaign speakers. Talk ing on this question to-day one of the local business men said that he has a very vivid recollection of campaigns in Waterbury since '56 and that dur ing all these years no such contest as this ever took place. because the poli- ticians in the republican party are do ing all the talking. He mentioned the names of active campaigners in the in terest of Roosevelt from Cortelyou down and showed that in every one of them is an office holder or an em- ploye of some of the big trust com panies, in some instances both, like Dalzell, for example, who is in con- gress and is also counsel for the steel trust. Now he continued, seeing that they are being driven to the wall. the president comes forward and ~ suppose others will fall into line from now on. 1t is simply a fight by an army of office holders for their own special benefit and I'm surprised dhis phase of the campaign has not receiv- ed some attention from the demo- crats. 7 The same thing is true in the local field. The politicians are un- usually active, but the rest of the peo- pie are not doing much. A large num- Der of conservative republicans have made up their minds to- vote for Par ker Republicans know this, but claim that they will make up for the falling off among the. native stock by endorsements from the foreign ele- ment, but this is matter of conject- ure. and as result there is a great deal of uneasiness in the republican camp.