Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-16
POLITICAL POINTERS
Swedish end CeleTsd Voters Get
 ling Ready For Campaign.

The COlOred hepuDlchH cluD VI
 this city will meet Friday evening
 to see what can be done to keep the
 men in line to vote for the g. o. p
 candidates the coming election. The
 negroes In this city as well as in
 all parts of the country are highly
 indignant over the deal they received
 from the president and the party
 will show their displeasure at the
 polls in November. The Browns.
 vile affair showed the colored vot.
 CTS pretty forcibly what the republl.
 can nabobs really thought of them
 and many of them will cast then
 votes this year for the democratic
 nominees. The colored "heelers
 are worrying about the votes which
 they think are going to the demo-
 cratic party.
 Attornew Thomas F. Devine, who Is giving some attention to politics these days was ask
 ed to-day the old question con cerning the of year and the on year
 and he said this is to be year of democratic victories. "The people have problem before them to-day that they never had before, that Is the high price of living. The costs of the necessities of life," he said, "are higher to-day than ever in com parison with the earnings of the av- craze bread winner. This Is mat ter that should be drummed into the minds of the people, whether they are voters or not, for the price of liv- ing is a serious matter and concerns us all. That was what reduced the republican majority in Maine from 60,000 to a paltry 5000 the other day and what brought down the re- publican majority in Vermont so low that the white house must have shaken on its foundation and Oyster Bay got into furry. These events are indications of the trend of the times. for events they are in politi- cal sense and mighty serious ones for the republican party. If the people of the country can only be made to realize the consequences of the high price of living the honest man and the intelligent voter will sweep the country. Why people should be afraid of republican victory in the face of what they have been through the past year or more is more than I can conceive. If they will only remember the price they have paid for electing MT Roosevelt four years ago they will vote the democratic ticket this year and win, and afterward readjust eco homie conditions so that the burden of all will no longer be borne by the wage earner."
 A report current to-day among the lawyers was that Emil Hummel Is being pushed for the nomination for representative on the republican ticket and that he has the support of many of the party with the expectation that if he got the nom- ination he would swing the German vote into the republican column. The precedent for this Is the pres ence of Christian Laun on the board of education, but it appears to be forgotten that MT Laun is in the minority on that board and that he received the lowest number of votes on the school ticket. However, MT HUmmel is a young man with lots of room for improvement and would make stronger candidate than some of those others who aspire to the nomination. He has an individ- ual backing which none of the oth- CTS have.
 The chairman of the republican town committee, U. s. Church, to- day said he would call the local con ventions of his party in the first week of October for, according to {. new rule of his party all nomina- tions must be made not later than three weeks before the election. He had nothing to say about the chances of the aspirants of the nominations on the local ticket, senators and representatives, only that the combat deepens every day.
 At meeting of the Swedish Re- publican club held last evening at the rooms of the Republican club on Dduh SlTtct J. A. OuuuIu, FlCIOI "A. Hedberg and c. H. Swenson, dele gates to the Swedish Republican con vention held at South Manchester few days ago, made their report. It was voted to hold rally early in October, the last effort to stir up little enthusiasm for standard bear CTS in the coming campaign. The arranging of the rally was left in the hands of the executive com mittee.
 The delegates to the republican state convention at New Haven last week have filed at the town clerks office, in accordance with the law, statements of what they expended. Lucien C. Burpee paid 70 cents for and $3.50 for-meals and room; Frank Pagan expended $6, w. H. Sandland $9.50, U. c. Church s3.50 and NJ. J. Byrne $350. MT Byrne's transportation cost him only 50 cents; some one must have paid his trolley fare part way.
 WELCOME TO VISITORS.