The Connecticut labor news., 1923-11-03

MT. Walker is a sound business
 man. He says SO himself and the
 Chamber of Conunerce agrees with
 him. Admitting the fact but running a department store Is not running the |city and to date he has neglected to answer the mayors questions, put to
 him last Sunday, as to what he would
 have done had he been mayor for the
 past six years and confronted with
 the problems that the mayor was
 forced to meet. The mayor asked than had been done, but Mir. Walker
 answers solely by saying that he
 would let the people into his conf
 dence and would abolish the "excess
 mortgage tax, state law passed
 not by Mayor FitzGerald but by the republican legislature and simply put in effect by the mayor and his col leagues here.
 But MT. Walker, if and when elect ed-is going to abolish that state tax. He's going. to supercede the legisla- tuTe that imposed 1t. Perhaps he will knock 1t out in Hartford, Bridgeport and elsewhere where they are now picking it up.
 The Labor News left of last week to go to the nominating convention and promised a continuation of the story. The democratic convention was model of harmony-it did de- velop a contest for the tax collector ship but that was such a friendly af- fair that the scores of republicans who Hall expecting to see a fight were sorely disappointed Tom" Goode won out on the third ballot in the closest kind of a fight. with George Conrey, after Hugh Mcdonald and James Keegan had been eliminated as low men on the first and second bal lots When 1t was all over every body shook hands and the entire con vention rose in accord after what was the most harmonious meeting in the history of New Haven democracy in a score of years
 The republicans were also har- had to be. Major Louis M .Ullnan, who at the dinner of the town committee in the Hotel Taft a few nights before, declared that the man named for mayor would be suitable" was right on the job. He didn't even pass the slips" as 1sed to be done but gave MT. Walker the boost himself. The word had been passed around and as there was io uSC OuthlHS lHC ihdSAAAC 0AAs Walker went over.
 Mir Walker had been sent for, in act was in waiting for the word and le came in. He was clearly non ,lussed for an argument and promised he delegates that if and when elected le would give the city "business ad- All of which was met with loud acclaim by the ciaque led y Major Ullman and his henchmen. Then Mayor FitzGerald comes out nd asks Mr. Walker what he would ave done had he been mayor for the ast six years and as yet MT. Walker asn't answered.
 With Walker safely "pt over" the oughty major then started the rest f the ticket. For controller he had laced "s1ip" that Frank c. P. 'arnes should be the nominee as he ,as before, but somebody got it mix d up and Frank c. P. was nomin- ted for tax collector. That did not lake any real difference as long as rank was on the ticket te represent le real old Yankee vote and the real ood fellows of the republican party.
 Then to balance the ticket the lajor had a pocketful of slips. There as German, in the person of Will am F. Radon a former well-known afe proprietor who was named for ty clerk even though he wasn't resent and knew nothing at al labout
 until it was. all over. To repre- ent the Irish" vote Harold J.
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