Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-08-14
Waller For United Political Action
Charles H Klinck for Mayor There is No Like
lihood that New London will Harmonize.
THE BANQUET DEFICIT.
The New London Firemen Maintained Their Reputation
and Will Themselves Wipe the Dificit Out.

If Ex-Governor Thomas M. Waller
has his say-so there will be no dem
ocratic candidate for mayor, and
Charles II. Klinck will be the unani-
nous choice of both political parties.
1t has been the custom of the gov
ernor to furnish copy of matter re-
lating to his political action to the To-
cal newspapers, and therefore what is
seen in public print relating to him
can be considered official. He has as
sumed that he is the master of the
situation and that it is up Ito him to
settle the much-mooted mayoralty
question.
He would not only brush ex-Mayor
Bryan F. Mahan,. his closest political
friend, aside, but would also put a
damper upon the laudable ambition of
Thomas A. Scott, P. Leroy Harwood,
Stephen j. Downey, ex-Mayor Dart,
and other republicans of equal promi
hence who have been announced as
possible candidates for the mayoralty,
and apparently without their knowl-
edge and consent.
There was once time when the
ex-governor could do such a political
turn, but it is now believed that time
has gone to return no more. There
seems to- be general call from the
republican party to Mr.. Klinck to
become mayor of the city, in which
he has been so successful in business,
and he would undoubtedly fill the Of
flee fully as well as many who have
served as chief magistrate = and chief
of the city police. He is, perhaps, as
fully entitled to the nomination, by
reason of his political party service,
as some of the others named, and all
that, but i seems to those on the OUT
side that the republican party is COM
petent to select candidates of their
own party, without the direct assist
ance of democrats, even of as high
rank as Governor Waller.
1t has been intimated by some of
the few democrats left in New Lon
don that the ex-governor could have
the nomination himself for the may
orally. but that did not carry with it
the power to delegate the wish of the
democratic party to republican can
didate.
The governors action, which, If eff
feeted, would make the nomination
unanimous, would be practically an ac-
acknowledgement from an old time lead
er that the party that brought him
into office and prominence had per-
formed it's mission and gone where
the woodbine twineth. All of which
may in "a sense be true, locally; still
there are a few old shellback demos
who will insist on a regular party
nominee, or irregular, for that mat
ter, SO long as the candidate is nomi-
mated as democrat in a democratic
caucus, and his name is on the ticket
headed Democrat This is a privilege
that is urged against the manifesto
of Governor Waller.
Governor Waller is considered one
of the leaders, not "the" leader, of
perhaps the strongest wing of the local
democratic party and his public an
nouncement is therefore surprising to
his closest political friends, and he
has eertainly--aa.feW who have stood
by him during the greater part of his
extensive political career. To some it
would indicate that he has pursued
the same course as that other once
prominent democrat, ex-Mayor Cyrus
q. Beckwith, only the time has not
yet come for the gentleman to state
in the open: Il am a republican"
MIR. Beckwith held the same relative
position in one wing of the party as
Mr.. Waller did in the other So with
both wings crippled of the democratic
bird (Which used to be pictured in the
newspapers the. day after democratic
defeat. with big tears dropping and
the head and throat bandaged), the
few that persist in voting the demo-
cratic ticket begin to wonder what will
become of the old bird when they
cease voting.
AS said before, the time was when
Governor Waller could turn almost any
kind of a political trick, not only in
New London but almost anywhere in
the state. Some think that time has
passed, others do not, and among the
latter are some who have been Waller
voters for nearly half a century. Gov
ernor Waller, easily the first citizen of
New London, and among the fore
most of the state, and who has some
thing of a nataional reputation, is now
seventy years of age, but is as lively
and active as he was twenty-five and
more years ago. He is the same per-
suasive, eloquent, -forceful, yet witty
Waller, and has the respect of his
fellow men even if they do differ with
him in some of his political views and
political methods.
His present critic has for years been
! among his closest friends and that
friendship has not been in the least
changed, but the governor has been a
public man and would feel sighted,
perhaps, if his views made public went
by without comment, favorable or 9TH
erwise.
The members of the New London
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