The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-08-22

the TuleS,%aS are those OI lI0 Olly Convention. The Town Committee has no power to nominate candidates That power resides only in the con vention, and the convention this year, as always, and it, alone, will nominate the City Ticket. But the Town Com mittee is fully alive and will continue to function as it has been functionlng within the scope specified by the party rules and not beyond it, and will endeavor to so arrange matters that when tfe Convention gathers all will be in readiness for speedy, business like and intelligent performance of its duties.
 The newspaper which printed these articles has since gone into the hands of a Receiver, and the Receiver inn nediately upon his appointment by punge the possibility of further mis- representation by discharging the re- porter who lent himself to the decep- ton.
 Apparently the public clamor for relief from the burdens of the present administration has been heard in New York for short time ago, the ab- sentee spokesman of the Republican Party was induced to journey to place called Pleasure Beach" where | was held a congress of be1ligerents- On arriving there, he proceeded to discuss what he defined as the issues" | of the approaching campaign. | In former years, this spokesman, has claimed in effect that there were no issues, since the Republican ad- "done" everything which should have | been "done" and had left undone only those whom they could not do" :" l Consequently, since everything and tfcaIly every taxpayer has learned the meaning of the word "done" in it's most precise significance. there was nothing to argue about and no alter l I-F+ 1i%f I,r1f to go through the forma1ity of a per iod of parades and speeches, and then, with the aid of few voters" inn ported from Walnut. Beach. New Ha- ven and other handy places equally 1 interested in Rridgeport's affairs, re- elect the administration for all that it has "done," with the promise that it would continue to 'do."
 Bridgeport has at length decided that It refuses to be "done" any longer, the Republican spokesman deciding that the "done" process may evoke paign. made up his mind that it would be a nice thing if these Issues could be framed to his own liking.
 proeess aoeorq1nsy bT assailing ns body of repre
 sentative citizens, who, like the rest
 of us. reben at the prospect of any more doing.
 Realizing that the Mayor, who sat
 with him on the platform, is. also.
 ''done," and that a nonentity can in
 no case be an tissue" he explained as follows:
 MEN THERE IS ONLY ONE ISSUE IN BRIDGEPORT, POLITICALLY THERE HAS BEEN ONLY ONE ISSUE FOR TEN YEARS-AND THAT IS CONTROL OF THE TAX OFFICE"
 Most of us will admit that 'the CONTROL of the tax office" has been have been issued" out of that office. It was quite the practise, when the "controT' was satisfactory to this
 spokesman, to tissue" to all tax
 payers. notices to the effect that their property was suddenly worth twice
 as much as was paid for it. Then, if
 the recipient of this issuance" knew
 what process to follow in connection it might be found that an ''error'' had
 been committed, whereupon the "is-
 sue' of the tax office became para
 mount, for the tax office," would
 In, the period of ten years, upon
 which this spokesman lays such
 emphasis (during which time he says
 THERE HAS ONLY BEEN ONE
 sued'' thousands of these certificates
 of error," obtainable only by those who knew about the 'control' m But the tax office is no longer al
 
 spokesman uses the term. We d. } agree, however, that the "CONTROL' of the taxing powers and machiner! of the government will be an issue. , During the ten years of which th1 5 spokesman speaks. he admits that thi , CONTROL" of the tax office is tn only thing which he has recognized a. an ISSUE"
 It was during this period that tn ? Grand List was increased through tn ? manipulation of this ''tax office. from sS9, S34,601 to s244,925,794, O 2.64%o;
 : It was during this period that ther, ) were appropriated for public expendi r ture, predicated on the increase in tn grand list by this same taX office, S7S51. .546.O2 for the fiscal year 1921 l 1922, as against S1,793, ,653.56 in 1910 | 1911, or an increase of 3S7.74Io; It was during this same period, thai z notwithstanding the great increase O revenues with which to administer tn
 affairs of the city. we still find tha :, our debt on February 2Sth, 1921 ? s12,464,577 as aginst S2.109,2OO 5 1911, CT an increase of 490.96To. l Thus during this period when tn
 recognized by the Republic party, tn 2 city's affairs have been so managed that notwithstanding the benign "Con ] ] trol' of the tax office resulting i T T vastly increased revenues, we find ou I debt so increased that it is almost fiv times greater than when the city's af
 fairs were first committed to thes = men who now have the temerity t
 seek further endorsement, and boldl . assert that the machinery of the eta . office'' which they have so prostitute U is the "ONLY ONE ISSUE
 There Is no doubt where the ICON : TROL' has been during this period > This spokesman. admits the respon ! sibility for the appointment of the Ia n Commissioner, and glores in thes 4 achievements We may draw our ow
 l conclusions as to the rest.
 . It was out of the funds derive T from this "control of the tax offic, l. that the deplorab1e system of cos !. plus contracts were financed, tn Il most recent example of which occur