The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-09-08
DEMOCRATS CHOSE
STATE DELEGATES
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ter J. Hartnett; 9Th, Fred Atwater, |
Charles J. Byrne; 9Th, William
| Moran, William Hogan; 7th. T. j.
Reddy; Sth, BENJAMIN Weinstein, |
John J. McGuinness; 9th, Thomas
Hungerford, Lawrence J. Gill; 10th.
F. J. Hearn, Joseph Hart; 18th, |
George Pendergast, Henry j. Maher;
18th, Henry Kenny, Harry Page.
Probate delegates: First district,
William Clifford, James Devine; I'd,
Joseph Waite, John McGrath; Sd,
Michael Ohla, Michael Lucas; 4th,
| William Beloin, Edward Riley; 5th,
Raymond Keefe, James Mullin; 9Th,
| John j. Sheehan, Eugene Schaaf;
9TH, L. J. Gallagher, Thomas Lovely;
| Sth, James Barrett Benjamin Vein
! stein; 9th. George Cough1ip, Hugh J.
| Lavery; 10th, Antonio Borelli, Ed
ward L. Drew; 18th, Matthew Luby,
Hugh Campbell;. 18th, Leo O'Lough-
| lin.
Representative convention: First
district, Harry WEIGH, Thomas Ske-
han; I'd, Edward McCue, Thomas E.
| Ward; Sd, Edward 3. Lynch, James
+ e. Kelley; 4th, Walter Hartnett
! James WEIGH; 9TH, Michael Small,
| Joseph Monogram; 9Th Hugh Healey,
Frank Long; 7th, Alfred Bowen,
Frank MCGUIRE; Sth, James Bar
rett, Thomas Gour1ey; 9th, Joseph
Laksa, John J. Hartn TIT; 10th, Jo-
seph Hart, Antonio Borelli; 18th,
! Theodore Schondorff, Charles
| schwenek; 18th, THOMAS Callahan,
1 John Mclaughlin.
The resolutions are as follows:
! We, the Democratic party of the
city of Bridgeport, in convention as
senbled. do declare that we heartily
! endorse, approve of. and pledge our
| selves to dedicate our efforts to the
realization of the projects and princi-
/ pies enunciated in the platform of
! the Democratic party as adopted at
/ the National convention at San Fran
! cisco.
! We deprecate the sordid misman-
! agenent of municipal affairs in the
city of Bridgeport, which have result
! ed in a bonded Indebtedness so. great
as to imperil the credit of the city,
i which leaves our citizenship to strug-
| gle under a weight of financial burden
for years to come, and vitality inter-
! feres with its commercial ana mari
| time expansion.
| We hold the conviction that the in
| fation of property values with the
| accompanying train of dxorbitant
| rentals is the result of the prostitu-
ton of unlimited power placed in the
hands of one man known as the tax
commissioner, whereby all the prop
| critics of the city is assessed accord
| ing to a fictitious value placed on it
by him in response to the suggestion
| or dictation of a corrupt ring. or
vacillating mayor.
We deem it our duty and we hereby
| pledge that the candidates for the
House of representatives. and the
candidates for the Senate which the
Democratic party shall nominate for
the election to the next General As
of oft Of
shall dedicate their utmost energies
toward effecting such amendment to
the charter of the city of Bridgeport
as shall abolish the Office of tax COM
missioner and substitute instead
| thereof a bipartisan board, compos-
ed of men of integrity and ability who
shall thereby regulate the assessm ent
of property values for them unicipal-
ity.
We condemn as incompetent the
manner in which the tracffi problem
of the city of Bridgeport has been met
by the Republican administration, and
we believe that if thfIe is any lack of
power vested in the mayor and the
Board of Aldermen to cope with any
similar situation in the future with
such promptitude and decision as
shall best serve the public as a whole,
Gas distinct from either one of the
| con pdIlleS), SuCn amend
ment should be made to the charter
of the city of Bridgeport as shall eff
fectually vest such officials with such
power.
We pledge that the aldermen who
have been nominated by the Demo-
cratic party to serve the interests of
their district and of the city at large,
in a free and untrammeled way. I'M
fettered by the dictation of any such
clique has made the Republican
aldermen of the Common Council for
the past few years, mere puppets, and
in particular that they use all of the
influence and all of their power as
| aldermen to eliminate the sinister SIS
| tenn of cost plus contract, as the sam
. ! at present exists by which a, few indi-
, iduals have enriched themselves a t
, the expense of the taxpayers who
, have supplied the money for them,
) principally through the system of
taxation above referred to.
We believe that provisions sS1ould
, be inserted in the charter of the city
of Bridgeport making it a criminal Of
Tense for a member of a city board
to engage in personal business trans
, action with the board Of which he is
a member, and that adequate power
should be placed in the Comm on
, Council to Immediately expel any
, member of a city board or the mayor
himself, any of its own members
who engage in any transac Gon in
: breach of their duties as city officials
to obtain any profit at the expense OF
7 the city.
We believe that such charter
, amendment should be made as shall
: establish greater coordination be-
tween city departments and Hetweer
T | the Common Council and various city
departm ents and that a simpler anG
| more adequate system of accounting
should be established in the City Hal
! | so that the financial standing of all
o city departments and all information
+ relating to municipal pecuniary mat
| at all ilahla tf