The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-21
MAYOR ATMATER'S PRINCIPAL CAMPAIGN PLEDGE WAS ONE
 OF HONESTY AND ECONOMY
So Declares Town Chairman Cornell at Meeting in
 Defense Of Democratic Administration.

With a substantial majority Town Chairman John A. Cornell was en- dorSed last night at a meeting Of the sixth District Democratic club after he and Alderman William F. !dosa2:s president Of the club, c1ashed in verbal batt4e over the failure of the adRai nistgatloa to keep its Pre-cara- paign pledges
 After Alderman Hogan made his charges MT. Cornell asked for a show of hands of the large gathering some of the naeEabeGs failed to raise their hands, thus failing to make the en- dorseznent unanimous More than 100 members of the club attended the a7aeetsas. Routine business was quickly disposed of and then Presi-
 ~At a meeting held recently at the office Of tax collector about a dozen Democrats attended to discuss 1aasst> te1s RDeata44aing to the primaries Al that asaeeting it was said the time for action regarding the pledges made by -.AtwateT and Cornell previous to the se9ectjoR should De taken 0ps as they Gfe1t the campaign pledges had not fbeen carried out 1 felt that many l1nerabers Of this club felt the same way. and that a contest could not be avoided in the primary unless there Twas a remedy
 we felt that in view of the failure fof the mayor and the town chairman ito carry oSat the pledges the only way to de is to elect executive board aneuneerss who will select a new town itown chairman and thus give the !saaakang 9 contest, This was the opin- 3Soa held and I think it is the op&n- tdoa of raasaz7y members of this club and txdstrscd- At this saaeesjnz all were IDeraocrats SnG all but three or four fooncuarred i'm the opinion expressed lay myself. I think 1t only fair to sthe chairman that this be stated so iAs may answer amy questions which unay be presented"
 ! Nm answer 10 this charge, MT Cor !41,em asked what ples1ges had not been kept President Hogan replied there ! were twO-ome which pledged the ; cleaning out of City Hall and the tlo4her pledge by the town chairman that all patronage should be distr1- buted through the clubs. the eS@eu- tive board and the mayor if neces- sary-
 Chaos I'm Parry Ranks, Chaos in the party coTsinued to EEempt to bring the mayor, the eSecu- tive board and the town chairman together. President Hogan continued This chaos was caused by the failure ! of the mayor. Ehe executive board and the town chairman to appear
 At this point MT. Cornell took the floor and said that it was Q peculiar x sitGSt1on to find one man and pick pledges "-I remember khe first name presented to Mayor Atwater was that . of Alderman Hogan for appointment. He did not receive the place, but that was the fault of politics. Then he felt he was douole-crossed and had been a victim of bad fakh. This sit uation has always existed in poli- tics,''
 Mr. Cornell then traced the disor- der and chaos that was in the party for the past ten years and how May or Atwater was chosen for nomina- tion- What were his pledges?" MT. Cornell continued. ''His biggest one was patronage or party fealty. It was to give an honest and economical and efficient administration. That was the pledge made to all of the people of the city. He has kept that pledge. We have paid off a million ~ we have cut the city budget by ST. S0O,000 for the current year, and if supported during the next year will = still further reduce the expenses of down or out I will be with him. He deserves the endorsement of not only every Democrat, but every one in the city,
 Bi-Partisan Method.
 He then traced the bipartisan method of distributing patronage. He said that there are holdovers who must be considered ''In reality we should have but 50 per cent. of the patronage but we have had 90 per cent" MT. Cornell declared. He told of the condition after election when 16, ,00O0 people were walking the streets and seeking political jobs s'Mayor Atwater." Mir Cornell declar- ecut;ve committee on the patronage question: MT. Cornell said that if he a quitter he would have de serted the town chairman's job after election, but now that he has stayed he will not be scared out of the job
 T will not be scared out of the jO