Norwich bulletin., 1915-10-09
NEW LONDONS REPUBLICAN, VICTORY
Major Rogers to Give City Business Administration
 Officers.

on the ground that the services were | not required in the conduct of the of fee.
 But MT. Goss is a democrat and will | probably walk the narrow and sharply l inclined political plank. Mir. Prents | held the office under former republican rule and therefore Is just as much en- the others who were thrown in the discard to make room for democrats, | even If he was held for a year after the others were discarded.
 The office of personal tax collector. that seems to be . gift from the mayor was never held by republican. but it will be just as sure as the republicans won out in Mondays election. Mayor Mahan appointed Joseph D. Culver to the position. that carries a salary or $100 a month, and perhaps little on the side. and Mir. Culver held the place until his death. Then Mayor Mahan appointed the present incumbent Jer- one J. Collins, and he has filled the of- flee very acceptably But he was ap- oerat he will be guided down the mar row plank and be succeeded by a Mayor Rogers worker who will At i'm the office just as snug as did Mayor Mahan worker. The candidates for this plum are after it with a cat-like
 
 ality cannot be identified. The echo of the promised business administration
 sounds something like to the victors
 belong the spells. Just as it ought to
 be.
 James Ryan, son of Ex-AIdernan
 John Ryan, democrat, is the present
 building inspector, who will be re- .lieved by a republican, and from pres
 ent indications by a republican not AL
 a democrat for many years and, who. in fact was a democrat candidate. for the office one year ago. but was de- feated by MT. Ryan. It is understood that the office will go to Benjamin
 R. Linicus. and there is no man in
 the city better qualified for the place.
 He was building inspector several
 years ago and will need no instruc- ton in the duties of the office MT. LinicuS is carpenter of long experi- ence and, under the conditions, is en- titled to the favorable consideration of a republican council Ii will be a re- lief to some council members if the other candidates for the place with drew and made the sailing clear for MT. Linicus. He'd be model inspec-
 tor of buildings.
 The reelection of Thomas R. Mur- ray, democrat, as an assessor, was the
 wonder of Mondays election and he was the only democrat saved from the i democratic wreck a sort of sole sur vivor of his party. The normal ma ! jority of the party based on the vote ! for registrars was over 800. but Mir. ! Murray overcame that majority and led his opponent by eight votes, a very
 small majority. but a mighty big vote. | He -- clearly demonstrated that per- | sisteEt effort is crowned with success
 Barring a few hours of. night repose, Big Tom. went here and there and | everywhere about the city. simply re-
 minding the voters, regardless of | party politics, that he was a candidate | for reelection to the board of assessors
 and that if the aforesaid voters could coEscientiously place a cross opposite his name on the ballot it would mean
 sure election; and the voter was re-
 minded that oftentimes single vote | turned the trick Tom Murray went out after that one vote and got
 what he went after.
 | The republican party gained great | victory in Mondays election and 1t was celebrated to the limit with parade
 headed by a band. marched to the res idence of Mayor Rogers, where the paraders were hospitably received, a
 march through some of the principa- ! thoroughfares with torches and Greel fire and there was enthusiasm al along the line just as there should bt
 for such an eventful occasion Ther, = was a feature in the parade tha. should never be permitted on such al ! occasion hereafter, and was not au thorized in the parade of last Monda.
 might. Six of the fire organization O
 the eight comprising the volunteer fir department paraded with their fir . apparatus, regardless of the conse 3 quences, leaving only two in readines t for active fire duty in response to cal True. had there been a fire alarn 3 sent in in the regular way. the appar . atus would leave the procession an l. Perhaps. the loss of life or limb. t some one or more assembled in tn n crowded streets
 f The action oF these companies par @ adine with fire apparatus shows be e yond question that there is lack c
 discipline in the fire department. a
 the chief engineer was not even con 6 suited in the matter. If apparatu r can be taken from fire houses at tn 6 whim of officers of the companie ' without the approval of the chief en = gineer, and get away with it. the tim 6 has arrived that such action be curbel IT The chief engineer should not subm 1t to such a snub. and ought to issu d forthwith iron-clad rules for the gov r. ernment of the fire department, thf - teemed with points of the strictei e discipline Such action as that o Monday night would not be pernitte d in departments less pretentious tha e that of New London. and ought nevs n happen again. There Is no prop, d lplace for the fire department in a pC l. litical parade. s.rl ,- Frederick Wurst, elected an aide l. man from the democratic third wal st is the first German, born ip German O, to become a member of the court