Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-30

does not expire until January. MT Porter's friends fear his expecta- tions will turn out like they did last fall when Hugo was elected over Walter. Had the latter won Porter was to be, acording to general re- port, keeper in the county jail.
 Selectman Curtiss of Woodbury neglected to file a petition calling for vote on the license question at the coming election, consequently it is not mentioned in the call and Wood- bury will continue to be a license town for another season. A
 The popularity of Mayor William E. Thoms was shown at Polls mst evening when the moving pictures or the laying of St Mary's cornerstone last Sunday were given. When they showed Mayor Thoms making his speech, the audience made the theater ring with applause. Talk about re- ceiving the glad hand, and it was no political meeting either.
 It is to be regretted that our old friend, Charlie" Colley, is not in sympathy with the views of the American. Evidently the Republi- can is also a trif1e worried as to where it's Grand street contemporary is standing. Looks as though the American, if it falls off the fence, will land in Thoms's garden.
 Congressman Lilley and others prominent in the republican camp spoke at meeting of Hebrews in Speedwell hall last night. The prin- cipal part of MT Lilley's tirade cen tered around the old falsehood re- garding foremanships on the street department, the congressman still persisting that Thoms has thirteen where Elton had but two. Every body knows that this is not true, but it is evident that MT Lilley does not care so long as he thinks it helps. It is hard to expect that a pubic man who would make such a rash statement about neighbor in his own town would set much value upon truth where the danger Of ex- pose would be much more remote than it is in this case. And yet the bunch is behind candidate marked "Square Deal" But that's nothing, A gang of footpads once worked under the leadership of fellow named Justice. All the candidates for office on the republican ticket made short addresses, including All derman Larkin of the second ward, who created a sort of sensation by stating that if one cared to do it all the city boards could be ar rested on a charge of malfeasance. The meeting was not much of a suc- cess and the management of the g. o. D. is now convinced that it will have to look some place else for sup porters of the so called square deal campaign.
 The Hebrew Democratic club held a rousing rally in the big building at the corner of Kingsbury and North Elm streets yesterday afternoon. The place was packed and over a hundred persons walked up and down the sidewalks while the meet ing was in session and talked about the good and bad points of the two candidates for mayor. Bernat Holczer called the meeting to order. Addresses were made by Mayor Thoms, Collector Reeves, Comptrol- Ter Russell, City Treasurer Futile, Francis P. Guilfoile, Charles Fine, Max Scholter, Joseph Brooks and others. The meeting was full of en- thusiasm and judging by what was said by those who spoke in the He brew tongue the mud slingers will not get much support from the Jews of Waterbury, because they know that Square Deal John and his CO., horts have no use for them.