New Britain herald., 1914-05-11
NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD MONDAY, MAY II, 1914.

 the duties of the superintendent or nlatron One of the three has met MT. I<ibbe in d business way and has made the statement that MT. Kibbe was one of the best and fair est men with whom to do business that he had ever come in contact. The other one of the three met MT. Kibbe last Thursday for the first time, in an accidental way, and did not know who he was until he was in troduced to him. The third one has never met the Kibbes and has never been to the Town Farm. Yet they vote to dismiss a public servant that they know nothing at all about good, bad or indifferent. Where is the justice in such proceedings?
 Again I ask. are the people of New Britain going to stand for such meth ods as the mayor evidently intends to use in conducting city affairs? The board of public charity has had the reputation, up to last Friday night, of being one of the best conducted boards in the city government They have allowed nothing of spiteful political or sectarian char cter to en- ter into the workings of the board and all of it's business has been trans acted honestly and openly without fear or favor. Nothing was ever con- cealed from the public. The board did not do anything that it was ashamed to have published, the re- porters were never excluded from any of it's meetings, and the public was kept posted at all times as to the bus mess transacted. Quigley's slogan seems to be, throw the reporters out of the board. meetings, muzzle the press and insult the individual reporters if they say anything that is displeasing to him. 'Quigley says that if the 1000 people who elected him mayor will come to him he will tell them why he dismissed the Kibbes. If he were what he pretends he would not be ashamed to have appear in the press what he had to say at the meeting. But he is ashamed of it. From the time of his advent into the common council to the present time he has abused, insulted and charged different people with all kinds of of- lenses, not even sparing the city it. self, but accused it of being a thief. People who have sustained life-lons regulations for civility, honesty, re- fnement and unblemished charact have been openly attacked in public assemblies, ridiculed and grossly in- suited. If conditions of this char acter are to continue it will soon be difficult to find a person who values ms reputation to accept any civic of lice for the administration of public afa1rs. He has made the statement repeatedly that he would have the scalp of those who opposed him in any manner whatever. Now that he thlnks' he has got the Kibbes' scalp he is sharpening his knife to get MT. Harts scalp, another of our very able and conscientious public servants.
 Qu1gley says that he will have his scalp next year by hook or by crook. Now MrA Hart is saving the city of NeW Britain thousands of dollars every year. He understands the conditions. as well as any man can understand the conditions of the class of people that the charity board has to deal with With one exception, the venerable Ly- man Johnson, who was MT. Harris predecessor and who recommended MT. Hart very highly as his success sor. Yet Quigley has got it in for MT. Hart He has promised the ioh to somebody else. He has to nav some of his political debts in some way and he is going to do it at the expense of the dignity of the city. Now. MT. Editor, don't you think it is about tlme that a protest was registered agalnst such proceedings? God heln New Britain for the next two years, 1T this is the beginning who is there wise enough to tell us what the end will be?
 FORMER MEMBER OF CHARITY
 BOARD.