Waterbury evening Democrat., 1908-04-09
WILL MEET TONIGHT
Democratic Town Committee Will
 Arrange For Primaries.

The democratic town committee will meet tonight to arrange for the primaries which 1t is understood VIII be held next week to elect delegates to choose delegates to the state con vention which will be held in New Haven on the twenty-eighth ana twenty-ninth of the present month the question is now being asked whether Waterbury will send Bryan Or anti-Bryan delegates to the con vention. This is important lnasmuch as the delegates assembled at New Haven will elect delegates to the na- tional convention. Just how water bury feels on this particular question 1t would be difficult to say, but It Is certain some of the warmest support CTS Bryan had in Waterbury during the two last national campaigns dc not want to see him nominated this time, for the reason that they be- lieve he cannot be elected. and that his nomination would mean the turn ing over to the other fellows the relns of government for four years more.
 Everywhere you go good democrats make no bones of stating that they voted for Bryan twice and that they will do so again in case he gets the nomination, but they hope he vii. not be in it. With Douglas, Johnson Gray or some other man besides Bry' an, the feeling appears almost gener- al among democrats and many re- publicans lean to that opinion, too the democrats can win the coming presidential election. Of course the republican managers will do all in their power to bring about the nomi- nation of a standard bearer on the democrat ticket which would helE the chances of their own man. This is legitimate politics. but the demo- crats should be on the alert and sec that the republican party has nothing to do in making up the democratic slate. If the democrats play theil cards right they can win. The coun' try demands change, but whether people would be willing to try their luck with Bryan as leader is some thing which should receive due con sideration not only in Waterbury, but all over the United States.
 Everybody is at sea regarding the democratic nominees for governor and a congressman from this district. It is said that Mayor Thomas Reilly of Meriden will be the nominee for congressman. and many say that Mayor Thoms of this city can have the nomination for governor if he so desires. Both are strong men and with a candidate for president who would meet with the approval of all clements of the democratic party and command the confidence of oth- CTS, there is good reason to believe that the electors of Connecticut would grasp the opportunity to give the republicans a leave If absence without pay for few years. In any case the people of this town should decide before going to the primaries whether they want Bryan or not, be- cause 1t is fair to conclude that the delegates from Waterbury will have something to say about the men who will go to the national convention from Connecticut, and it would moi 1 be fair to the people tC be represented at the convention by n Bryan man provided they do not deem it for the best interest of the party to enter him in the race this trip. On the other hand if major ity of the democrats of Waterbury
 want Bryan and say so at the polls
 then it would he perfectly proper fol
 them to go to New Haven and put III
 a stiff fight to have others look al
 things from their standpoint. If they
 win all right and if they get licked
 everybody hopes that all will fall into
 line. There is no other road to vic
 tory. An army divided against itself never made much headway on the
 field and it never will, so that If tn,
 democrats mean business and want to
 win they will have to get together or
 somebody. and the primary is tn,
 place to make start in that direc
 ton.