Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-01-14

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 "I was born again. civically speak ing, with my first election as mayor of Toledo o." said Samuel M. Jones re- gently to correspondent of the New York Post. "Prior to that I had been a Republican Pharisee. thanked God every day that he had made me mem Der of the party of high moral ideas. One day I was induced to let my name be used at convention for nominat- ing a mayor That was in 1S97 There were three tickets up in that conven- ton, the regular machine ticket and two representing different efforts to break the machine. My friends got after me and had me nominated before I was fairly aware what was going on. was royalty supported and elected and became the Republican mayor of Toledo Then the fun began.
 l.. l WAS ALly y GdISsEOiU, UlS enough to know better, you will think, I was as ignorant as child of the me- chanical side of politics in public office. I didn't know the meaning of the word machine I had never attended a caucus in my life. I still cherished the old fashioned idea that when a man became mayor of a city he accepted the office and administered it with a view to the benefit of the whole pub lie and that alone. l soon had my eyes opened My Republican friends crowded around me to tell me to ap- point So-and-so to one place because he had swung so many votes in his ward and to approve such and such 3 measure passed in council because the party managers were pledged to it, and this and that and the other thing of the same sort were pressed upon me till was made half dizzy.
 Well, rejected advice and refused favors right and left and got all the party managers down on me as a mat ter of course. When my term ended, I had nothing to show for it on the par tvs account except record for duty as we'll as I could see it. I attended the Republican convention called to nominate my successor. My own re- nomination was not thought of for a moment by the machine. Some of my old friends came to me and said: Jones, I wish we could nominate you. Will you stand and make fight hereT answered: No; I've had enough Others said: See here, Jones, they've put up a big fight on you because you haven't stood by the party during your term, but if you'll promise to be more tractable next term we can nominate you now out of hand Said I: My friends, you know from what I have done in the past just what I should do In the future. I couldn't do anything else if tried. It isn't in me-
 Well, they went on and made their nomination. Some Democrats came to me and talked about my going over to their party, but I said: No. If you want to vote for me you may, but 1 am not going to tie myself like tail to any party kite A lot of independ- tent citizens nominated me that year, and when the votes were counted was away ahead of the candidates of both the old parties The third time-in 19O1-I was nominated again as an in dependent, though the Democrats final ly indorsed me, and l won once more. Then there was a big combination to prevent my getting a nomination again from any source; that was last spring.
 "A good many people said, Well, this D,.4 !, o1u doubts When I found that the party oligarchies were getting all ready to di- vide the spells after the old fashion be- cause they thought I was dead and buried politically and that the, great mass of the people, who did not care for parties, but did care for free popu- lar government in the city, were not going to have anybody to vote for, said to my wife, I think I shall have to run again She said: Now don't be so foolish. You know you didn't want the office either time, and it's been nothing but an expense and worry to you. You re getting old enough to set tie down and enjoy your home and have little peace That's all true,' said I. I didn't want the office, and l have had lot of hard work. But when they say I'm dead and buried I want to see whether that is fact. I believe there are more people in this city who want mo and need me than there are politicians who want to see the last of me- e~r ,s
 So I wrote short address to the people and carried it to the newspapers. We have three dailies in Toledo--Re- publican, Democratic and independent. All refused to print it. They differed in every other respect, but they were a unit on the anti-Jones proposition. They had agreed among themselves that they would not notice me in any way. l tried to get my address into one of them by paying for it as an advertise ment at space rates, but it was no use. There was only one thing left for me to do. I called my son Paul, who plays the saxophone in our band. Son, said I, get your instrument and come down the street this evening with me. We'll ind the largest open space we can at corner where men are passing to and