Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-15

enthusiasm In waterbury over the
approaching elections and this Is just
as noticeable on one side as the other.
While few republicans are endeay-
Ortng to enthuse the masses, the rank
and file Of the party have not yet got
to the hurrahing point and there are
many who claim it will be an uphill
Job to make them do any shouting
this year. People interpret this In
various ways, republicans regarding
it as sign of q very large silent
vote for their candidates., and demo-
Gratis considering it an unmfstakable
evidence of weakening in the repub-
lican ranks which is sure to work to
their advantage. Whatever 1t means,
\ it is certain that things are unusually
quiet for this seasbn and the know
!. ing ones make nosbones Of stating
that there will not be much excite
iment this fall, anyway. The repub-
jlicans find it difficult to get desirable
candidates for the legislature, and
viewed from the road democrats are
not breaking their necks over places
on the ticket, either. One of the re-
N publicans told representative of
y this paper to-day that the bad feeling
stirred up by republicans In the
third ward is having a bad effect in
all quarters Of the city and that he
y feared ct would &nyentuate in mis-
4 chief at the polls, although he was
y hopeful that republicans would
bury the axe and line up with their
\ party for the national candidates.
He said 1t was not true that the par
ty had failed to secure first class
4 man to run against Mr. Phelan for
4 the senate, but added that this was
\ largely due to the fact that the re-
\ publicans knew that they will not
n have look in in that district.
a To mix things up all the more and
n discourage the common folks, though
4 1t is not likely that that is the end in
+ view, Thomas Kelly, one of the best
known republicans In the Naugatuck
valley, the man who did more than
i any other agency to popularize Nc
i kinley in the New England states,
4 comes along and reiterates his state
ment that the high price Of flour,
and this applies to almost everything
else people use, is directly traceable
\ to the conduct OF the party in pow
err. Mr. Kelly never made profess
sion of politics and as his business as
q banker, baker and owner of several
large farms brings him in contact
with men of all sorts and conditions
and fits him to express an opinion on
4 such questions that is worth listen
+ ing to, naturally what he has to say
! is weighed by people who put good
government above politics, and as
result the working people of Water
4 bury and the employing classes, too,
are doing whole lot of thinking,
and probably this explains why so
\ few are throwing their hats In the air
s for the candidates of the party that
Z LIS open to this charge from it's own
followers It Is true that large num-
bers of citizens are so welded to
4 their own politics that they would al
most prefer to starve than make a
change, but fortunately for the good
4 of society this is not generally true Of
4 the American people, great MAJOR
ity of whom are blessed with the me-
\ cessary amount Of horse sense to
4 look at public questions from bus
mess standpoint and never hesitate
3 about what they believe for the
! common good Of ALL regardless Of
4 what the spellbinders who come
Z around at stated intervals to lecture
4 them on how and for whom they
4 should vote. Nobody will try to
deny that the price of everything
that enters into the cost Of living is
! high and without corresponding adj
vance in the wage scale, something
81 which everybody knows is not In
sight. ne need not be q great public
speaker to see for himself that If this
y order Of things continues much
longer, the great mass Of laboring
people all over the country will find 1t
actually impossible to make both ends
meet. With this prospect before
them, it is not wonderful to hear
men on all sides asking each other If
they are doing justice to themselves
and their families by assisting In
giving another lease Of power to the
party that stands convicted Of re-
gponsibility for this very unsatisfac-
tory condition of affairs.
"They are In" said man this
morning who has not voted q demo
cratic ticket at national elections for
the past eight years, land so strongly
intrenched that it is well nigh impos
sible to dislodge them. I'm afrafd
that the country has not yet woke uT
to a full realization of what we are
coming to and that things will have
q to become worse than they are be
s. fore the remedy Is applied. The
81 American people are slow to make
radical changes, but when they get tt
It they act promptly and when they
get through nobody can be In doub1
as to what they meant. There. Ii
something wrong at the head and
where this is so the body is bound tt
suffer. But the platform orators
will be along by and by and 1t vii
not take them long to convince sons
& OF us that these minor defects are II
the repair shop and well believe
them, just the same as If the,
hadn't told us the selfsame story
four years ago"
This is the way many conservative
citizens size up the political situation
so that while you meet democra
horo md there who claims that he in