Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-09-25
POLITICAL POINTERS
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stump the west. IT Dy any chance the party should come east wonder if they would be asked tc visit Waterbury. Of course every,
 body remembers Representative
 Boutell. He is the gentleman that
 had word or two to say about Con
 gressman Lilley during the sub
 marine investigation. The repubii. can managers must evidently think
 well of MT Boutell when they invite
 him to take the stump. It certainly
 must make George l.. Lilley feel . trife blue. In speaking about Bou- tell and the near death" of Con. gressman Lilley-that is the sub marine case---it Is amusing to hear that the candidate for the vice, presidency on the republican ticket MT Sherman, signed the famous re- port without reading 1t carefully. Oh, yes, quite likely. The other statements which he made in con- necti0n with the case were without doubt uttered while he was excited. Poor Bill Taft has an awful load to carry in Connecticut. If he could only throw some of the dead weight overboard
 Democrats of the first ward have organized and will be known as the First Ward Athletic club, the alleg- ed end in view being to push repub- lican candidates for office.
 This seems to be year for bring ing out political ambitions. The lat est in this respect is that Colonel L.. F. Burpee Is anxious to represent the fifteenth senatorial district. Rumor has 1t that back of this wish lies the ambition of the colonel to be ap- pointed judge of the superior court. Being republican, the colonel nat urally calculates upon the next gen. eral assembly being of that political complexion. If elected senator, the next step would be to get on the Judiciary committee and once there 1t would be only 8 matter of form to be appointed judge of the su- perior court. Men of the colonel's own political stamp, however, say he has no such ambition, at least not just yet, and that if he wished to go to the senate he would have to wait for another term. It is said the next senator from the fifteenth will be Senator I. H. Chase and a glance at the makeup of the senatorial del egates will at once remove any doubt on that point. Good author- ity says he has already eight of the twenty delegates with three more, which make the majority, to be had for the asking.
 If the republican machine is bank ing on getting number of votes in the democratic strongholds in this city, they are doomed to an awful disappointment. In all probability 1t will be a repetition of the last city election. At that time John E. Sewell, candidate for the mayoralty on the republican ticket thought he would receive raft of votes in the fifth ward by making the rounds of the various saloons. But he was slaugflt- cred on election day, the killing be- Ing such that many believed the sur prising majority was because the people wanted to show their dislike Tor George L. Lilley. Now comes he rumor that the republicans will make an effort to win over a lot of 1emocratic votes to offset the num- srous republican votes which will | je cast for the democratic candi- late. It is becoming more evident every day that the republicans of his city do not want George L. Lil- ey for governor. Even his own club men-are said to be lnxious to see him defeated. There s no getting away from the. fact hat Lilley will have to do a tre- nendous amount of work If he ex- ,ects to make half way decent howing in this city where there are o many waiting to "cut the heart ut of him. The voting machines nay help little but not much.
 The Hon o. W. Stewart of Chi ago, prohibition speaker, deliv- red an address to a fair sized audi nee under the shade of the umbra- eous elm at Grand and Bank treets this afternoon. The orator ; large, pleasant appearing man nd made a good appearance from ehfnd the wire railing of the mall park at the junction of the wo streets. He is good talker and Jade favorable impression upon nose who got near enough to hear i'm. He didn't rail at the liquor callers and he was not unreason- bly, severe in condemnation of the ian who takes drink now and len. What he objected to most was le spending of money for liquor hen a man knows he needs 1t for ( read, throwing money over the ar when women and children who lould get that money are almost [ aked. He wanted everybody to S Ike business view of the question [ nd say to himself If I can't do as i ell as I should like to by my fam S y, I'll do the best 1 possibly can | nd trust to God to help supply s ants as l may not be able to meet. i Discussion of politics is forbidden |
 the clerks office in the district c urt since Mayor Thoms did the a inch up there Wednesday. To-day erk Gillette hung out a sign hich reads thus: Politics i ust not be discussed inI h Is office" The notice does not tell e hy the discussion of politics is cut c t but everybody who has business | the court house knows 1t we'll. V
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