The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-15
MAY UNITE ON LEWIS E. STODDARD Strong Cadidate of the Dem ocrats for the May
 oralty. BELIEF HE WILL BE
 BACKED TO A MAN On the Republican Side Are TilSon, Homan, Orr and
 Whitney.

The Hartford Times correspondent in New Haven, reviewing the political sit uation in this city, says:
 There is considerable talk of an in formal character in political circles in New Haven in both parties, hot as the weather is. For instance, on the demo- cratic side the talk now is in favor of nominating Louis E. Stoddard for mayor, although the election is some months distant. Those democrats who want to see the party win this time be- lieve that young MT. stoddard would be the right individual to head their city ticket. They think the young demo- crats of New Haven would rally round him; they think that it is time that a young democrat had a chance to test his strength in the municipal camp for this high office and they are satisfied that Mr Stoddard is the man..
 Up to the present time no other name than that of MT. Stoddard has been mentioned for the office of mayor to any great extent. The Democratic club of New Haven, which came into ex- istence about six months ago, would, in the Judgment of those who have been talking of Stoddard for mayor, back him to a man. The membership of this club comprises a good many of the leading democrats of New Haven, who want to see the democratic party once more in power in the city government, 1nd 41,o o t,nIiax,o +1,ot +I,e no +4, ncs,, e,n+ into power with the right kind of a campaign, and with honest, unselfsh leadership,
 Can the Democrats Wins
 But can the democratic party win with MT. Stoddard carrying the mayor nlty banner? is the great question be- fore the thinking and practical demo- crats of this city. To make him win ner, to make the party successful here, in the next municipal campaign, there is one thing that Is absolutely neees- sary and that is a united democracy. No matter how great Mr Stoddards S popularity may be, no matter how ag gressive his friends may become in the campaign in his behalf, no matter what practical efforts are put forth by lead CTS in behalf of Mr. Stoddard or any candidate for mayor, there can be no victory without every democrat in town and every democratic leader talk t,4g off his coat and going right into the battle to land the entire ticket from top to bottom
 In looking over the past democratic municipal campaigns in New Haven there has been very little in the his- tory of these campaigns to support the claim that the element of treachery was entirely absent in the conduct of those political battles.
 In support of the charge that politi- cal treachery was large stock-in- trade in these mayoralty contests, it is only necessary to point to the fact that City hall in New Haven today Is large ly filled up with democrats who were elected on the city ticket while the chief office in the administration of af- fairs, the leading man so to speak in City hall, is a republican True, Mayor Studley, the republican occupant of the mayors chair today, is one of the most popular men that ever filled the office in New Haven, and there isn't any question that if he were to be the can- didate of the republican party for mayor in the coming city fight he would be elected. Democrats as well as republicans like Mayor Studley. Tn his ways, iii his treatment of the people of New Haven, in his handling of pub lie questions generally that have no political element in them, he is every in a democrat In word, he is a plain, everyday sort of citizen and the plain, every day citizen will be re- ceived in City hall during office hours with just as much courtesy, with just as much consideration as the banker, preacher or individual from the most exclusive circles in town. It is this democratic disposition that has made Mayor Studley so popular with all classes.
 StudIey Not in Race.
 But Mayor Studley will not be in the mayoralty race next time. He is judge of probate and that takes up his time. Besides that he has no desire to run for mayor again, no matter how anx- ious might be the republican party to give him another nomination.
 But it makes no difference, with Mayor Studley out of the way, whom the republicans nominate for mayor there can be no doubt that such re- publican would be very sure to be defeated if the democratic party was united on its candidate and treachery no longer in evidence in municipal campaigns. There will be a deter mined effort made by democratic leaders to reunite the party for a democratic victory in the coming cam paign There are some cloucs on the democratic horizon at the present time in shape of possible opposition to MT. Stoddard for mayor There is movement to banish those clouds and to have all the democrats united for MT Stoddard's candidacy. Of course it may happen that the nom- inatien will not go to MT Stoddard < and that it will fall to the lot of some equally prominent democrat to lead the party in the next election. But one thing, the leaders of the demo- cratic party are determined to accom- plish if possible and that is to bring all the clements of discontent, all the contending factions that have hereto fore demoralized and disrupted the democratic party, into one harmoni- ous crowd that will go to the polls and vote a straight democratic ticket from mayor down to the lowest office on -.f.-