The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-04-14
CITIZENS LEAGUE SENDS
 CIRCULAR TO VOTERS
REASONS FOR FAVoRING PAR-
 DEE AS AGAINST STUDLEY.
Mayor Accused of subordlnatins the rn- terests of the City to Those of po- IiticaI Faction-His Power Gained by Methods Which Sooner or Later VIII Bring the worst Forms of Political Corruption to City Government.
Orruptiou to City Government.

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 The Citizens league of this city has issued the following circular: New Haven, Conn. April 1l, 1905.
 To the Voters of New Haven: The Citizens league favors the elec- tion as mayor of New Haven of W.T. liam s. Pardee, and is opposed to the
 reelection of John F. Studley for the following reasons:
 After careful investigation we arc satisfied that. while many of the sp- lpointments of Mayor Studley have been tof high order, he has nevertheless, iduring his two administratio srbor- dinated the interests of the city to thoss of a political faction, end that his pow CT has been gained by methods which sooner or later will bring Into our city government the worst forms of poiftiral corruption.
 F1rst-The police department, forvtha ] efficiency of which the mayor is. through his appointees on the board o}
 police commissioners, largely responsi- ble, has during Mayor StudIey.s adrninx listrations been the subject of scandal land public investigation. The fnvestts gation of this department was nads last summer by committee of citizoala selected by the mayor himself, and al- though this committee of the nlaYor'n own choice recommended a dozen rajdi< lcal changes in the department he and his appointees on the board of police. commissioners have ignored all with the exception of 6 few minor changes in the department, which changes were convenient to make and did not inter- fere with politics
 This investigation was preceded by
 the raid of a poolroom which had four ished almost within the shadow of the
 police headquarters. This poolroorn Twas closed by the state police forcc
 after the New Haven force had failed
 to make the raid on the pretence that
 sufficient evidence could not be pro-
 cured
 l While the investigation of the depart.
 ment was being carried on Mayor Studt
 ley reappointed to the board of police
 commissioners (which position he still Eholds} a commissioner whose term ex- pired July 1, 19O4 who, according to his
 own evidence before the investigating IcomInittee. had been furnishing cigars
 to saloons in the city, and whose bust.
 ness interests, therefore, would be an- ltagonistic to the strict enforcement of lths law against such saloons. The in-
 Vestigating committee, in view of these
 facts, recommended that no person So
 Interested In furnishing materials to
 saloons be permitted to act as commits
 sioner.
 I We are satisfied that during Mayor Studley's administrations appointments
 to the police force have been made as Ipolitical rewards, and that this prac-
 tice, although it was denounced in the report of the Investigating committed. l still continues.
 The majority report of the fnvestfs
 gating committee states that s'the testis Imony showed it to be an indisputable fact that during the very time this i1- Ivestigating of the department was pn~
 der way the houses of ill-fanna in this lefty were running wide open,n and that
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