Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-16
POLITICAL POINTERS
We'll Known Democrat Endorses Mayor Thoms' Administration.
Editor Evening Democrat:

Editor Evening Democrat:
 Dear Sir:-Owing to the fact that
 many of my friends wish to hear some
 information regarding my views of
 the coming election I take this means
 to let those whom I cannot reach ver-
 bally know that Mir Thoms is lay )choice, for good and valid reasons.
 It is quite obvious to me that he could
 not be duplicated for the office 6f
 mayor by any other belonging to
 either party. And I have no hesita-
 tion in asserting for the information
 of the manual laborers of Waterbury
 that he is firm believer i'll that
 phase in the constitution of the United
 States which says, According to a certain inalienable right all men are ljborn equal" conseuuentlv, l assure
 you that under his administration we
 will have no czar in Waterbury. His
 ideas are broad in endeay0ring Dy
 public improvements to make Water
 bury at least equal to our sister cities
 of Hartford, or New Haven, and that
 in our own time by his shrewd deai-
 ings with the railroad company we
 will see, and enjoy a landscape
 scenery, which under less intelligent
 leader would remain for another gen
 eration, and if this opportunity which
 he embraced was let go by at th!s
 opportune time it is doubtful if the
 same chance would present itself at any time in the future, and the cost to the taxpayers is only like drop II in the bucket. It is very desirable now that the few democrats who have
 been disgruntled over some trivial af-
 fair or another will now unite in the
 long pull, the strong pull and all pull
 together; to give MT Thoms the
 largest majority that was ever before
 seen in this city. The republicans claim a majority of the young, or newly made voters, but from what can learn, the shoe is on the other foot; nevertheless to those it is well / to suggest:
 Be not the first by whom the new is
 tried, ,
 But be the last to lay the old aside.
 Nowfellow laborers, I ask you in all sincerity, could you support MT N Sewell, a man who at the time of the trolley strike said $1.25was pay enough per day for men of our class, and the
 same gentleman, and at the same
 time, when told that his actions were a great inconvenience to the public,
 answered, '"The public be damned:" yet he has the effrontery to ask this same public to support him for the
 highest office in our municipal affairs.
 He must think that we are like the
 spaniel dog that will lick tho hand
 that is raised to strike him. He ao- serts that his platform shall consist of three blanks, viz: good roads, good schools and trolley extension; these three blanks are already in operation ' without any sign of rot, so that in point of fact he left himself nothing lto do-our schools are the best in the state, and our roads are the best ever seen before in or around Waterbury; if you doubt this statement take q spin out towards Middlebury, or have look at Baldwin street or any of our other roads or streets, are they not in good repair, and scrupulously clean? The other, or trolley plank, he can sit on one end end of it, and play see-saw with Farley at the other end. Now, Mir Editor, tell you honestly and in all earnestness and in general way to the public that there are going to be two blanks iu this issue, which will consist of two Ms: namely, merit and money: the former on the democratic side, and the latter on the republican side. It was well concocted scheme between Mir Sewell and the Consolidated rail- road company to haGe him (Mr SewelD retire from their active em- ploy for the time being. so that he could be at perfect liberty to attain the highest position within our gift. Tn case this scheme worked to suit their views it is easier for you to
 conceive the rest than for me to ex-
 press in written words what would
 take place in our streets without any remuneration whatever to our city, treasury Knowing these facts land I defy logical contradiction I think we can take steps to counteract them. Respectfully,
 B. c REILLY. September 14th, 1907.