The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-04-04

! night, Great Pochaontas Nellie
Jackson of Rockville and her Off
cial staff. 1t will be an official visit
| and the visitors will be guests at
| dinner to be served at $50 in
| Odd Fellows hall. The business
meeting will follow.
Waite Heads Independent Ticket
George H. Waite, former burgess
and now a member Of the board of
| charities was nominated as the
candidate of the Independent pro-
gressive ticket for the office of
warden at the party convention
held Saturday night in the Dor
ough court room.
The party named full ticket to
enter the battle on May 2. The
being members Of both parties on
are represented.
In nominating their ticket Sat
urday night it will mean that the
voters at the annual election will
have the choice of three parties to
choose from.
The convention Saturday night
was enthusiastic and the leaders of
the movement expressed the opin-
ion that the voters OF the borough
are ready to make a change from
the old parties.
p. August Johnson, former re-
publican burgess, called the session
to order and was named chairman.
The balance of the ticket selected
was as follows: Burgess, LIST ward,
Joseph w. Lengyel; End ward,
Thomas Brooder; 3rd ward. P. Az
gust Johnson; tax collector, Robert
j. McKiernan; treasurer. Franklin
H. Chiffon; registrar of voters, Will
liam ]. Fitzgerald; auditor. Fred ].
Bahlman; board Of education,
Adolph Schlosser and DeForest
Hart; baliffs, Austin Phillips, Fred
Meyers, William Young and Jere-
miah Gavin. George H. Waite and
Austin Phillips were named as the
town committee and the ward
Committeeman named were: LIST
ward, Mortimer Quirk and George
Mcnamara: End ward. H. ]. King
and James Ranslow: 3rd ward,
Walter Perkins and Walter Ander-
son.
Chairman Johnson in addressing
the sixty odd voters present said
the object of organizing the third
party was to have a progressive
party that would give the borough
a good business administration. He
felt sure that If the voters elected
the party to power in May that the
affairs of the borough would be
handled with this purpose in view.
Chairman Johnson called upon
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remarks. Mr. Waite stated that the
watchword of the new party would
be economy in the management of
the borough affairs and that every
effort would be made to give the
taxpayers of the borough 100 cents
value for every dollar expened. If
election, he said, we will strive to
keep within our budget and at the
same time give the taxpayers big
and little the same courteous at
tention.
1t will be the endeavor of the
new party to cooperate with the
press he stated, if elected to give
clear and concise statements peri
odically from time to time in order
to let the taxpayers know exactly
the different departments.
Favors Merit System
In his talk Mr. Waite touched on
the merit system especially where
it concerned appointments, men,
tioning here the police and fire de-
partments. He said: There are
men holding jobs in some of our
departments. mentioning here both
fire and police who won their jobs
through political connections.
That, he believed, Is not square
deal for prospective appointees who
perhaps in many cases are better
qualified for the work. Mr. Waite
believes that appointments should
be made on merit and not on po-
litical pull. The party is going be-
fore the voters on an economy plat
form, he said, and the date of the
party Is in the hands of the taxpay-
ers. Following the close of the
meeting Mr. Waite stated in reply
to question as to whether 1t was
the Intention of the new party to
carry on a militant campaign with
rallies, etc. He answered that 1t
was not. He thought people to-
day were not much interested in
rallies, he said. 1t Is hard job to
get any kind of crowd at nation
al campaign rallies for the past
few years and he did not think 1t
would be possible to get them out
to rallies for borough matters. He
stated that the party will from
time to time explain their position
through the means of the press.
Franklin H. Chiffon, nominated
for borough treasurer by the par
ty. attacked the practice OF listing
in the borough reports such items
as overhead, miscellaneous or cum
dries expenses without an explana-