The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-03-01
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 Stratford, March 1.-When the "o1d guard'' is licked it sur renders. And the "o1d guard,'' which has dominated StratfoFd so many years, certainly was sound ly whipped last night, in an in dignant uprising of electors who were determined to rebuke that sort of political greed which would stTangle the growth of the town, limit it's population, and the legitimate increase in the value of the property of the citi- zens of the town.
 The uprising was marsha11ed by Rev. M. H. O'Connor, who had been selected as spokesman for all the people who favored Greater Stratford.
 So far as the selectmen, or the champions of a little Stratford, made any argument, it was by the. voice of Stiles Judson, whom the town has long nourished on admiration and applause, with the view of making him some day governor.
 NGC0SSaThy MT WHO was casually alluded to several times as a gubernatoria1 possi- bility, did not appear in the role of a defender of little Stratford.
 An, no. He bore an olive branch. With honeyed words he defended the selectmen from the charge of having u1terior mo- tives, denounced the. credulity which could believe those town fathers guilty of desiring to check in any degree the growth of their own, their native town, and, having properly elevated them to a pedestal of patriotism of the life size, bronze statue type, proceeded with the real business in hand.
 MT. Judson offered resolu- ton, which, after an amendment, limiting the time that shall pass before the town meeting is called to two weeks, had been inserted, was accepted by Rev. Father O'Connor, as tpledging the good faith of the town, and indicating the graceful surrender of the selectmen.'' The resolution fol- lows:
 Resolved, That it is the voice of this meeting that public con- venience requires the extension of the trolley over Barnum ave- nue.
 Resolved:-Tha it is the sense of this meeting that the road be constructed 12 feet in width out side the outer rails.
 Resolved: d:-That the se1ectmen be instructed if necessary to se- cure such extension to com promise the cost of the added four feet with the railway com pany-
 ResoIved:-That if such nego- tiations fail that the se1ectmen be requested to call a town meeting within two weeks to make the necessary appropriation from the town treasury for the construc- ton of the additional four feet of roadway.
 The resolution was adopted with 1t dissent.
 Nevertheless the surrender wasn' articuIarly graceful. It didn't occu 1tiI Judge Charles H. Peck, the "oit 1ard's'' unbeaten candidate for mod 'ator, had been taken, like tn tcher of the fable, once too ofte1 the well. When the ballot wa oiled Judge Peck had received bu votes out of a total of 199. Samuel w. Beardslee, candidate o Ie greater Stratfordites, boiled tn her 119.
 To those who live in other com 11pifies than this such figures brins ) special information, but to towns en they mean that in the rain c st night the New England tow eeting indicated itself as the bes rm of government ever devised by for, men, and that the elector. we thrown off the grip of a ma line'' once no doubt useful, bu ng since degenerated into mel sire for public pap.
 Not only did the electors at this ont eeting settle the future of Stratford