Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-10-27
POLITICAL POINTERS
machinSt Do Not All Think Congress-
 man LiI|ey Should Be Elected.

If George l.. Lilley is under the impression that he will get the ma chinist vote in this city ne will find himself greatly mistaken on election
 night. From conversations with a
 number of craft 1t Is evident that they are wideawake to the fact that
 by voting for MT Lilley as against Ml Donahue they would not help them selves a bit. MT Lilley is not of the party that breaches good things for
 working people and even attempts to help anybody but the trusts except around election time. They seem to
 be aware of the fact that any repre- sentative in congress is better for them nowadays than representative of the party of dishonest trusts. MT Lilley's record in congress is not to lis credit, no matter what the Con- gressional Record may show, fo" that document is doctored to suit the ideas and the political aspirations of those
 who figure in it. The Congressional
 Record was never taken to be true
 reflection of the doings in congress and MT Lilley puts eupa weak arsu- ment when he asks for votes on the strength of what that journal shows.
 In his speeches throughout the state he lays great stress on his voting for the New England Central railroad company in the Montague farm mat ter, while he says, MT Donahue voted for the Consolidated Railroad com pany because the latter was the larg- CT of the two. It is true that Mir Lil- ley and MT Donahue voted as Mir Lil- ley says, but when MT Lilley under takes to show that he voted for the under dog he again advances a de- cidedly weak and frivolous argument. As matter of fact the New England Central is the larger and most pow erful of the two. railroad companies, for 1t is a branch of the great New York Central & Hudson River Rail- road company which is controlled by the Vanderbilt millions. Therefore it Is evident that if any corporate in fluence were used in getting votes MT Lilley threw his with the larger and most powerful of the two corpor- ations.
 MT Lilley has not invited the pub lie to look at the Congressional Rec ord for his own record on the bill to establish an eight-hour day Tn all government contracts. Probably on that matter the record Is a blank so far as it concerns MT Lilley's vote It is said, however, that he voted the same way on that measure as he did when an eight-hour work day was proposed in the state legislature. Just before the roll was called to vote on that bill Mir Lilley found he had business in the lobby, but the bust ness was merely to read letter or two. Reading letters in ones seat in the house is a common practice and had Mir Lilley cared to show his hand on that bill to establish an eight hour work day he would have read hts letters in his seat. But Mir Lilley did not go to the legislature for the benefit of those whom he now asks to vote for him. He went there for his own benefit and he did bene- fit by 1t, and before he went he vowed and swore that he would be elected even if he had to buy his way there. His opening wedge in politics was difference of opinion between him and the board of selectmen at that time concerning the develop ment of a wilderness of brush and rock now popularly known as "Klon- dike." Because the selectmen. Perry c. Morris and Mortimer Doran. de- clined to expend the towns funds in clearing up "Klondike" Mir Lilley vowed he would go to the legislature and make them do it. He went, even, as he said himself if he had to buy his way and by having consolidation of the city and town governments he handed the burden of clearing up "Klondike" over to the city. The same selfish interests that moved h' through the state Legislature are still with him as his guiding star in con- gress. and point him out as a most improper nerson to represent this state in Washington.
 Ex-Nfayor Stpphen Charters was