The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-18
Shades Fairfield c o unty
 Leader as 8 Ready Letter
 Writer By Sending Out Double Barrelled Set of Assorted AIibis.
Claims Credit for Settling Strikes, Comes Again to D e fense of Warrenite Crab'' and Tells How He Loves Commission Gov ernment.

Mayor Clifford B. Wilson is stealing Jchn T Kings thun der as 9 ready tetter-writer
 Recently. John F. addressed a few kind words to the voters of the city. talking on this and that, and solemnly warning them that he was going to romrnit some more letters Tn the ru- lure along similar lines. P4bfic-spir- 4ted citizens were invited to contribute funds to the cause of educating the tainking op things of interest to the City government.
 Today, Mayor Wilson makes his bow as as letter writeTS- and he rather shades the efforts of John T. Where the latter. confined his opening re- marks to a four-page circular, Mayor Wilson makes his triunphal entry into the political literature field with a double -barreled announcement voiced in two"count ,en1-two pIaintive doc uments.
 Mayor Wilson is deeply aggTieved- He says the newspapers are in a con- spiracy to keep his views from sthe public and he is forced to circularize the city in his efforts to tell why he arrested Bowens Cederho1n and Nel- son when they sought to exercise the right of free speech; why the Warren Bros. company can grab off hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of work p he likes commission government sometines.
 The manner in which Mayor Wilson completed his political destruction by o9dering the arrests of labor speak efs at the. plant of the Loconobfle Company recently, evidently is wor- rying the chief executive of the city n<bit- A large part of his opening ode is consumed in the presentation of lis now familiar staHbi," that as sconservator of the peace within the cffy,n he decided that the labor lead CTS ought to be locked up for trying to talk on questions of interest to
 As result of this, the mayor then modestly admits. '.the differences be- tween capital and labor in Bridge port have been settled in the main and peace and amity prevail in lthe fac tories. This wfthou. the loss of a single life, or the destruction of a dollars worth of property-''
 The mayor makes no reference in his document, to the fact that it was the strict orders of labor organizers long before the arrest of Cederholm- Bowen and Nelson-that union labor would countenance no act of violence. It is the mayors firm belief that his thrott1ing of the labor speakers and their arrest on his order saved labor from being ssunJust1y stfgrnatized as an ally of law1essness.' < and saved the city from other things equally as dire
 Stepping gaffy from tf1e labor sftua@ ton to the rna*ter of the Warrenite grab, the mayor repeats several xargu- nnents brought forward in the intro ductory ep1stIe of John T. King, It is the mayors contention that Warren Bros makes just about the best pave rl1ent possible: that they're nice peo- pie to do business witf1: that they hold patents making cofnpetitfop on such work impossible; and that he's doing the right thing by the Taxpayers 1n handing over several htndreds of thousands of dollars to Warren Bros. at secret contract awards.
 After disposfng Of the warrenfte grab in even quicker time than the contracts were awarded. ene mayor few words to the voters:
 ttThere are other subjects of great importance to our city which shall take the liberty to bring to your atten- lion by similar circulars within the next few weeks
 And, right away, the second -s:ra11ar circular is in the voters hands. It le1Is that the mayor is heartily in fa- vor of conlmissien government and anybody that says different is guilty of tnsinuations' that are stbase1ess.s The mayor says he Il vote for eomITlis- sion government at the next election.
 Why will the mayer vote for com mission government? To use his own words, because,
 The adoption of commission form of government would be a step in the right direction and toward a business like management of the affairs of the cffy.'
 Mayor Wf1son's letters te the voters met with considerable comment today It was believed that John T. King, in line with his preliminary announce ment, would conduct the circuiariza- ton of the city: so that mayors en-. trance led to some speculation.
 MT. King couldn't be found today to ascertain if he and the mayor had ar rived at working schedule on the publication of the messages to the voters.