The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-08-19
MEYER TO
 MAYOR LEE Alderman Sorry that Execu tive's Official Actions Make Him Impossible DEFINITION OF FINE REPUBIIcAN Lee Was "Fine'' When He Worked Against Gar
 Barn Grab Ceased to Be So When He Signed Car Barn Res
 o1ution

 terviewed by a representative Of th< Farmer, today regarding the raker- ences made to him by Mayor Leo n an interview given to the prees y@l- terday. Alderman Meyer xecee1<1x E made stat ement in which atouf1inSd the plan Of the new RepubEcan uld5o- ment to rid the Repubncan 1arty of 5. leaders dominated by thes New H&4Sn railroad and other public serv1ce cor porations <
 The mayor referred to fh1s af&f6 ment as worthless z said it wo<Id BS forgotten in week, and calico 1- E derman Meyer ssa fine repub1Ic s' meaning that. in the mayor s orif116n he was not a fine Republican af II
 Alderman Meyer said: t11rfIX E shall not criticize Mayor Lee &6r <1l<. pressing his views upon any Cite -z5 tion even though he does ms Gca1 Justice. Harm is done in our syUf2u1 of politics not when po1ff III frankly what they think. but b4 fhe deals that are done in secret and co1z- E E summated out of sight of the 8o<1z6
 T have never thought of mU11If IF a fine Republican, or. as any EI{ifE 0[ Republican, except that [ Gu1 66e member of a great party. ana <H6< have been elected to an ofE1ee 1n have been compelled to see 664 U5 lie business is conducted. ana [ often the servants of the public
 are supposed to be free aRaufS the merest puppets who are 1rc
 by invisible wires that run 1nfz
 office of this, or that manager
 or lobbyist for some corpoFate
 when I was elected an s1<Isfss1 . learned that there waa au f6sli6 z: tween tlae scitss sE1 osae o{'
 haxbor adyanf6EeH t z{1 -
 some of the other cand1d4teS IT
 the the thing was sass bad 5o6.s Ii 7s5| a bad job, and voted ax&znat 6 not once, but all the time. # zs
 tI still believe that my vote va Tor the best interest Of the people and Inc Republican party. believe thak 1n so far as the Mayor used the Dxa1t1Ee of his office and his official po&ef to induce aldermen to change their con riction and in so far a6 he contf1buk3d
 to cause aldermen to break <ha1x pledges that he was not a inc Bsn11b- lican. that he was not servink the Republican party, nor the peop1e 0z
 Bridgeport. E
 .eThe car barn proposition was ol 5 the same nature What is plain uau
 to think, what must the ordinary f4eu
 of the Republican party think w6ex one daysthey find their chief o1EI cex
 warning them against somethIuE
 which he declares is in the Id dEh1SE degree wrong and harmful to the c7tJ and find him on another day a1Eu1Hu his official name to sexecutes the Vex[ project he has before denounced sI declare that when Mayor Leo represented the city before the x1{l road commissioners, to Sprotect enc city against spur tracks at GouGfe89s street and in Stratford aveuues 6u was a fine Republican. s< I 1T declare that when he signed <he resolution of the council perm1iftinx the tracks to be laid, that hes ceascd in my mind forever to be "a inc Re- publican. E g s: .sWhether am, or am not s dna Republican is of little conseqaence The extent of my offending is fhaE whatever kind Of a Repub1fc1za [ may be. am not the kind Of HeDub Hcan that, at any leaders behest. can be marched up the hill and then, by promise, threat or cajolenent xuafch- ed down again zz=< sI have no quarrel with tho uGX X0r@ am sorry that there is the leasf ezz- ference of opinion between ua. AZ g Republican would be glad to 1oI- low. him. did follow him as lar. and as long, as could in justice 60 the city. But as a Republicau have the same right to my view of What 1 I am one of thousands of other Re l publicans who believe that W11en 11z' policies are measured with those of
 Roosevelt and the late Governor I.il- 1 ley, they are found to be not Repub- lican, but far otherwise
 l q assure Mayor Lee, without per sonal feeling against him, and with
 no purpose except the best good Of welfare of the citye and the welfare of the Republican party will best be served if he does not a second time receive the Republican noznina-
 tion for mayor shall do my best to l convince other Republicans that their
 votes should not be cast for him in the primaries of the Republican party soon to be held'' <