Connecticut western news., 1910-05-12
THIS WRITER IS
 DECIDEDLY HOT
ABOUT LAST SATURDAYS MEETING
Accuses Those Who Were Responsible for the Second Vote of ChiCanery and of Beating the Submerged Ma jority Behind Their Backs.


 and of Beating the Submerged Ma
 jority Behind Their Backs. EDITOR NEWS:
 We, the subm rged majority of this : town, wish to express through the medium of THE. NEWS our righteous in- dignation over the insulting treatment we received at the town meeting Satur- day last. We hear great deal about the submerged tenth in cities. We. the undersigned, are the submerged majority of Canaan. We have been submerged more or less for good while. There is a limit however to patient endurance and we, the submerged, wish to notify the public that when our votes are cast into our faces as of no account and our manhood publicly insulted, and we, re- sponsible, law-abiding citizens, are treated as if we were children or fools, we think the limit of endurance has been reached.
 We wish further to state that although the removal of the Canaan library from it's present quarters to the Lime office are not now considering that at all; but we hereby publicly declare that the methods taken to trick us into leaving the hall so that another vote could be taken to defeat us, was piece of dirty chicanery which was unworthy the supposed manhood of our townsmen and we do not intend tU stand for it without a vigorous protest.
 There is no necessity for explaining i'll detail what took place at the hall. We. the submerged, have submitted to a good deal of late years that was ethically wrong and most unfair. The time for a stand for tho square deal has now come. We will never have better time to insist that we have it than now, while these shameful and all too obvious tricks to defeat our honest majority vote so that they who have no other interest but their own in view might carry the day. We call for and emphatically. de- mand another meeting. We care nothing for defeat, we can stand that; but we want to be defeated Gf we are defeated) honorably as man to man and not after our backs are turned, by trick so childish and obvious as to be almost ludicrous. We, the submerged, are not to be the sport and dupes of the shyster methods any longer. We are sorry to know that they whose integrity and honor has stood the test of years of hard fighting for fair play against the political chiggers with which this town has been so long infested, did not raise a protest against the manifestIy chicane proceed ings of Saturday last.
 But to come to the point. Are we to have our votes tossed back in our faces by skin game and thereby made to understand definitely and for all time that under certain conditions the majority vote is held as worthless? We know not what iniquitous technical quibbles the lawless law uses to condone or support the tricks5er but we hereby state definitely that we are appealing to the public honor of this, our town eff it has any), and to that moral law of God which is, we believe, though we are not at all certain, still regarded as infinitely higher than the lawyers law. We have reason to think that the only law that is respected or feared by the turner of tricks is the mob law. We haven't had any of that yet, but there is time enough for it.
 We members of the submerged ma- joritv of law abiding. honorable, upright citizens have been made the dupes of 2 carefully planned and childishly executed trick We were beaten after our back, were turned! The Canaan library is black listed! Won over our honest ma jority by trickery!
 As matters now stand the affair is a public disgrace and all the children now in the town shall understand how it was done, and the children that shall come after. Just so long as there are one of the submerged and insulted voters left to tell of the towns disgrace. Satur- days proceedings shall be published in the newspapers also. Moreover, we, un- less we are given square deal, shall withdraw all future support by our vote, on the future license question. We feel that of two evils it is better to choose the least. and between shyster lawyers and their tools and three or more saloons we think the latter the lesser evil Let it be understood also that we shall kick, | and make no bones about it, against every move for the future betterment of | the town. We believe in the law of re- tributive justice. If the town goes to the devil it shall not concern us. We