New Britain herald., 1916-04-04
"TIPPY" BOOSTS
 CURTIS FOR MAYOR
Contest Like Prize Fight and Quigley OVer-Conddent Champ

who two years ago picked G. A. Cuigley to win in the mayoralty contest and worked his head off to nominate him, last night told a crowd of 300 in Skritulsky's hall on Broad street he had changed his mind and why. .Tippy" got a hand and was forced to hush the crowd by threatening to call a cop.
 Speaking of Councilman Curtis, candidate for mayor, "Tippy' said: "I want you to take this into con- sideration and ponder it over. If the old gentleman is good enough for the ordinary fellow of the party, he is good enough for us. There is some thing to it friends when the rank and file of the party puts their 0. K. on the old vet at this late date. And I'll tip you off what this som ething is
 Now, the big men of the party hate Quigley and dislike Curtis, it's 5O-5O friends, and as long as they've got to have one of their supposed old antagonists acting as Watchman Of the City hall for the next two years, some of them prefer the one they
  friends, some of them are going to back Curtis this election because they know he knows the city business like a book and they also know he will bring the tax rate down to it's normal place. Gee, when you hit anyone pccketbook it hurts.
 Curtis Is Regular.
 ''Think it over friends and I guess you'll agree with me when l say that the position is open and it takes a regular man to fill it and Curtis is that man. He is for you, friends. He is for me. He is regular fellow.
 Like a Prize Fight.
 Talking about prize fights, friends, tomorrow nights contest between Curtis and Quigley has every re- semblance to one. The champion, young, smiling, and overconfident, enters the ring and is greeted with a storm of applause that nearly rips the rafters off the roof. He has told bis friends to bet their dough on him. He expects to clean up easy. He is matched to meet an old trial horse, a veteran of many a tough old battle. The champion refers to him as on old used-to-be. He has never met his opponent before, but has beat a number of others, who in turn have beat the old vet.
 '"The wise guys of sport like the wise Alecks of politics, dope it that the old vet is only after the dough and not the laurels and that he will take a high dive early in the contest. The old veteran now enters the ring. l There is no hand clapping for him, ] the betting drops ten to two with no l takers. The bell rings, the young ] champion prancing and leaping, starts a lead. He pulls back and | don't deliver. The old vet puts all 1 that he has got with one straight l from the shoulder down, and the l champion is counted out, by the | referee.
 Tomorrow, friends, this fight will l be fought. all over again, only the 1 game will be politics and the over confident smiling champion will be George A. Quigley, and the poor old 1 used-to-be will be this old Gray 1 Haired Veteran, Orson F. Curtis. Politics Rotten.
 'I have been in the prize fighting l game and I know it. I have been in the political game for two years and if there is a more corrupt, four flushing game than politics I want to see it. I don't know the game but they say I'm there and that's why I'm here,' he said.
 Dropped the Ice Profits.
 'Tippy' then took a crack at the municipal ice business, asserting thai the profits went to the bottom o1 IL,
 dropped ice tools and also in sanita. tion, saying the ice was hauled ir
 wagons that were used part of the
 time for collecting rags He saic | there never was an eXpressmen'. :.
 union. He was the union and i l rever had more than five votes. The, l had one banquet and it broke up il a glorious fight and the banquet hal was wrecked.
 | The only graft he ever got wa
 picking up beer barrels to take t,
 the dump and collect from the board
 of public works. He and Ding | prendergast, he said, worked it over
 time while it lasted. "Tippy'' als,
 took a shot at the council and sait
 outside of four or five the rest ar chair warmers, who say good even
 ing when they come in and "goo'
 night" when they go out
 Councilman Curtis. Councilman Curtis, in whose be half "Tippy" spoke, addressed tn
 assembly on the needs of the fiftl ward and spoke especially of the con , dltions of the streets in that sectio
 and urged the necessity of a trolle up Broad street, North Burritt an Osgood avenue.
 MOB LYNCHES NEGRO.