Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-08-17
POLITICAL POINTERS.
Rseistfars' Rooms Will bs Open Ua.
 til After Election.


 til After Election.
 The primary voting lists are now ready to be posted in the town clerk $ office and anybody who cares to have a peep at them will find them there tomorrow.
 Democrats of the firth wari wi' hold meeting at headquarters ln tho Platt block tonight. It is expected that the meeting will be largely at, tended. This is q proper place for residents of the district 10 go and say few words regarding municipal af- fairs. A session of this kind means a great dear to property owners, but it is an uphill job to make enough of them think so to amount to anything.
 There will be one day for making new voters this year and those who are eligible should lose no time in re- porting at the registrars office, room :, Platt building, East Main sf'~rt. The rooms will be opened days nd evenings from now on until after cleo ton and Mir OConnor, the democratic registrar, will be on hand to take your name and give aSy information yu'l may need. This is important and deni- ocrats who know of any eligibles should see that they call upon the reg istrar This applies to adherents of both parties. although, to be sure, some of us are not looking up recruits for the enemy. Anyway, everybody who is entitled to the franchise should take advantage of it and if he puts it to no better use than voting tn contin' ue republicans in power that's nis own business
 It is now pretty generally admit ted that John P. Elton will not be a candidate to succeed himself as mayor of Waterbury and that Ralph Blakes- lee will have an opportunity to see whether the electors of Waterbury want him to act in that capacity or not. It is admitted that MT Blakes- Ice is good fellow but whether this means that the public consider good fellows the best kind of officials is something remains to be seen later on. His friends claim that he can be elected provided the factory organi- zations stand behind him with the same determination they went into the fray for MT Elton, but somehow this is not expected. In the first place the same conditions do not exist and besides the business administration has been pronounced a failure and democrats as well as republicans de sire change Too much was expect ed of the present city administration and no matter how well affairs might have been handled those who thought things were going wrong under the democrats and looked for wonders with an unhampered republican city government couldn't help being dis appointed. for no administration could have come up to their expecta- tfons. In many respects it was a good thing that the business adminis- tration was given control of the mu- nicipality for time. It proved to themselves and 10 the public that in a general way the affairs of the city were taken good care of by their pre- decessors. The Elton administration was boosted into office to unearth al- legged wrong doings of long standing which many honestly believed to cx- ist. This was dinned into the public ear so steadily that even democrats feared there was something to it. and those who had not an opportunity to know the facts dreaded the expose" The administration did this part of it's work in a thorough manner. going to the bottom of everything. but when it got through 1t had discovered nothing to find fault with. with the exception of a slight mlxup on its own side of the house, and to give Mayor Elton his just due. when the end was reach the department of finance that he was pleased to be able to say that every thing had been found in most satis factory condition. This didn't receive much publicity In certain quarters. but it was said just the same. and more than one republican considered it an ill-advised statement on the part of Mayor Elton. After this the ad- ministration started in to see if it could improve on the work of it's pre- decessors. but 1t had not gone far when it became evident even t0 the mayor and his commissioners that to fully understand the difficulties that beset men who act in public places one has to get Into the harness and after he has been there for a season he soon becomes wiser than he ever would be if he hadn't had chance to assist in manning the ship. There are men connected with the present city government who never filled pub- He positions before and they are ready to admit that it is much easier to find fault with public officials than to improve on their work. The admin istration had large appropriations for all kinds of work and yet we have it on the evidence of republican mem- bers of the board of aldermen that they have not used it to the hest ad- vantage. Probably they did the best they knew how. but it appears that this was far from what the public looked for. Tn any case republicans themselves are not satisfied with the results of the business administration snd as consequence there are n0t many aspirants for the office of mayor. because there is a feeling abroad that the people have decided upon change.