The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-10-31

at Hartford HeS has hiss gas and water inspectors in the public service. and he is putting his own men in everywh ere. If he can't find a man among his help who suits him, he goes out of town and gets somebody who does.
 You remember that MT Warner recently wrote a letter. to the mayor i of Hartford, telling what he has done for Bridgeport since he began to gov ern it, and what he said about Sunday baseball bringing more workingmen l to Bridgeport. think the clergyman had it right, who said that it is higher | wages that. will bring more working men to Bridgeport and not Sunday baseball. But the point is MT. War ner's appearance, in writing, as the actual mayor.
 Now, certainly, we expect a mayor to be his own man, and our man. We don't expect to elect a mayor in name l only who gets the advantage of a $3, 1000 campaign contribution, and turns the real mayorship over to the biggest contributor.
 If MT. Warner wants to be mayor, he ought-to run for the office and get elected to it. Then we could meet l him face to face and talk with him first hand. But we don't want to be governed by Nar. Warner as mayor, acting through MT. Lavery, MT. King l and Mayor Wilson. We can all agree l on that.
 Mayor Wilson has not only put into office Mr. Warmers employees, but he has plugged for MT. Warner's opposition to municipal ownership. He appeared at Hartford with the lobby, to prevent the people of Bridgeport voting whether or not they will have municipal ownership. And you will admit that that is bad bus1-
  companion of special privileges and the packer of corporate selfishness expressed in its 1ugliest forms.
 Then there is the large debt, which Mayor Wilson has favored, which the public service corporations want be- cause cities bowed down with debt cannot readily run water works and gas works.
 Mayor Wilson went to the people and asked their permission to go in debt for $2,O0O,OOO. They denied it by a large majority.
 Then he went to Hartford, sur rounded by Mr. Warmers lobby, and tried to create more than $2,OO0, 900 debt despite the command of the cfti- zens not to do it. He himself spent many days working for those bonds and to get the Warrenite legislation of which MT. Mullins has so vigorous ly told you.
 , NOW nGr6 ne was, your mayor, elected by you, disobeying the order of the. citizens about debt, trying as hard as he could to get permission from the legislature to mortgage your homes, against your express com mand.
 I say the man who did that, is not a friend to popular government. He is an enemy of popular government. In a few years such men in power would destroy democracy and reduce the power of the people to an empty shell.
 Mayor Wilson thinks the citizens do not know enough to know whether they want municipal ownership, or whether they want to go into debt. He thinks the citizens are stupid enough to elect him again to office, MT Warner, MT. King, MT. Lavery and all. I don't think you will. I think you will elect MT. Mullins, who will be your man and control his own mind, who believes in government by the people, and who stands upon an honest Democratic platform pledged to municipal ownership, platform which he is pledged to execute to the utmost of his ability.
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