New Britain herald., 1920-03-05
DOWN WITH QUIGLEY,
 TAXPAYERS SLOGAN
Will Support Any Good Candi-
 date But Not Present Man
TO WAGE HOT CAMPAIGN

Activities When Tax Rate is Settled The Hammers Rapped Merry Anvil Chorus in Interview Today. The activities of the New Britain Taxpayers association will not cease with the lower taxation fight which will be settled next Tuesday, and which the association members are confident will result in 25-mill tax rate. With the decks cleared of this matter the association plans, to wage just as earnest campaign in the municipal election which will be held in April. Asked today as to who the association favors a candidate. one of the members stated that any man who is for the best interests of the city would receive the endorsement of the association. That the admin istration of Mayor George A. Quigley has been a fiat failure, is the unani- nous voice of the association.
 Sexton For School Board. In it's activity in the coming elec- tion, the Taxpayers association will exact a promise that City hall be cleaned out and efficient business
 
 Taking the various departments one by one, a member of the association stated today that the school board is one that needs considerable at tention. He stated that this board has made effort to keep within its appropriation. It is probable that a member of the association will be put on one of the tickets for school com mmittee, and the probable selec- tion mentioned is Lawyer Michael A. Sexton, legal adviser of the associa- ton.
 Assail Public Works Board.
 The board of public works which has been under fire ince the associa- tion took up it's battle for a lower tax rate, is another of the commits sions which needs an infusion of new blood, according to the association spokesman. This member said that recently an article was published which purported that efforts to secure a successor to City Engineer William H. Hall had proved unavailing, un- less a $7,5oo salary was paid. The fact according to the association tody is. that no effort has been made to secure a new engineer. and that a few applicants has practically been
 
 the engineership.
 And the assessors. Whew. O Boy ! It would require asbestos paper to chronicle some of the opinions ven- tured of this body by some of the associations leaders.
 Health Dept. a Joke.
 The Health department was next taken up, and in answere to a quest tion as to what the association would offer in regard to this board, the as- sociation member said, why that department is joke. Can you imagine members of the department riding around in $2,O0O automobiles " This same member shot forth the query,< Say is Tom Quinlivan still connected with the health depart ment?'
 The police and fire departments were next in line. The association be- lieves that these departments should be tempered with but little. A high compliment was paid Chairman P. F. King for the efficient manner in which he handles the police com mission duties. The association however, disapproves of the appoint ] ment of new men every year, also the annual custom of raising salaries. l
 The Bremen Get It Too.
 The fire department members run the board of fire commissioners ac- 1 cording to the association spokes- | man today. ''Why all the firemen have got to do, is to run to the com l missioners and ask for something, 1 and then the commissioners run 1 their necks off to that the re- quest is granted. Take that two- platoon plan. Give it to the f1remen, but in doing so, see that the pay was 1 divided up between two men" he l said. Continuing, he added that if l the pay was made about $1.0OO a year ! for firemen under the two-platoon plan, much of the talk for it would 1 disappear. He cited the cases of l many men in abnormal times who ] do not earn s1,O00 a year in the factories.
 Want Farmers Appointed.
 The charity board should be re- arranged that practical farmers 1 would be on the commission, and ir so doing, there would not be a $2O,- 900 barn at the Town Home without 1 a chicken in it. Thus havlng con- | cluded his talk on the coming muni- ! cipal question, the association mem Der resumed his usual daily task. l