Norwich bulletin., 1913-04-05
NEW LONDON WANTS ANTIQUES
Making Efforts Retain Its Old Fire EnginesSenator Me- Neills Grafton = Many Are Looking For Spols From the Political Plum Tree.

ratus. This with a brass band, would be quite a parade in itself and novelty Tor any big procession-one that could not be duplicated anywhere as there is but one first in the United States" self propelled apparatus of that type.
 Senator Archibald McNeiIi, Jr's fun eraI oration at the burial of his repeal bill, which Was constructed for the purpose of recalling the million dol lars appropriated by the legislature of 1911 for the purpose of making New London a state port and the terminal for steamships. developed plainly the an1rnuS Of the originator of the bill to repeal against Mayor Congressman Mahan. Before the appeal bill was finally tucked away never to be resur- rected, the little senator from Bridge port made a vicious attack on Mr.
 Mahan by direct name and by the plagarized name of the Little Corsican which originated filth the big senator from Norris. Peck by name, he who made the minorit report of the com mittee on roads, bridges and rivers and made the repeal bill possible. Sena- tor McNeill accused MT. Mahan of doing many things, that were not to the liking of the senator from Bridge port, going so far as to intimate that by ways that are dark and myster- ious he not only captivated the house of representatives but the governor of the state, as well. in combination with his actions in the session of 1911. Mir McNeilI in his carefully prepared and well read speech did actually say that MT. Mahan as senator was the leader of that august body and that his in f1uence with legislators had not waned.
 Still Senator McNeill declared that he had aninlus in his repeal bill had not presented it with view of getting even with any man, but for the sole purpose of saving the state of Connecticut from going into bank ruDtcy, or words to that effect With the nam Mahan omitted from his read ing the document would have been a skeleton of nothingness, for that was all there was to it. The senate con siderately gave Senator McNeill from Thursday to the following Monday to prepare his little speech and that body was entitled to something better especially from a senator of the state of Connecticut
 There are many willing Barkuses and waiting Mieswbers here and there about New London ready and with greediness to reach out and catch and of the plums that may be loosed from the political tree before the fruit is damaged by fall to the barren ground promises. It is a fact that so far as the general public knows there Is not an open and avowed candidate for any office within the gift of the president of the United States within
 
 some on the outskirts, but not many The reason is plain, for there is not an office worth while outside of the postmastership. and even the most Jackson democrat of to-day the victor belongs the speils type seems reluctant to ask that Postmaster l McGinley be invited to walk the plank 1 just to be replaced by a democrat | John Mckinley is easily among the really popular men of the city, but he | happens to be a. republican of the | staunchest type and, perhaps. for that | reason he must so some time. for | there is nothing else that would war rant his removal from office. It is | among the expectaneies of political l office.
 MT. McGinley was appointed to sue- seed Bryan E. Mahan as postmaster just as soon as it was possible after