The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-09-08

ticular group or people nave ment," declared in favor of home rule' for Waterbury, and promised to fight with every effort against the proposed new charter,
 Senator Culhane, who was defeat- cd for the mayoralty by only a handful of votes two years ago while running on Fusion ticket, is ex- pected to seek the Democratic nom- ination this year, and Is understood to be planning to enter the Demo- cratic primary. Ills campaign has been quietly underway for some weeks,
 Some excerpts from Senator Cul- hane's address follow:
 "Citizens of Waterbury: Another city election approaches and with it the foregoing political campaign. Much has happened since two years ago when l was defeated for the mayoralty of this city by the narrow margin of 55 votes. What has hap pened since has, I believe, vindicated the position I took at that time in the eyes of all far minded people. You all know the history of the campaign of 1897. When I started l was regarded as . voice crying In the wilderness--a small voice that would not be heard by the people of this city. I fought and, though I did not win. I believe that l proved be- yond doubt that the rank and file of the people of Waterbury are AL WAYS ready to listen to fighter who is fighting for good government.
 "All right! I am gSing to be in there fighting again this year. And l am going to fight for good govern ment-good government directed by the people of Waterbury. Lest there be some mistake, let me say right now that there is no particular group of people who have a monop- ply on good government-no as- semblage of citizens who have a copyright on that term. Good gov ernnent is the rightful heritage of al the people. I called for good government and used just those words during my campaign speeches of 1887. Today we are sold good gov- ernment in e nicely wrapped celo- phane package. We are given to be- lieve this group of individuals have rolled out Q barrel containing the only correct type of good govern ment in the world.
 ''There has been so much talk Of city manager that one is led to be- lieve 1t Is a cure-all-that once 1t is In operation we will live in a Utopia. That is nonsense and hts- tory proves 1t. No government was ever better than the men who oper- ated 1t. It's still men, not measures men, whether they were born in Waterbury or come here from Kala- masoo to run our government. All of the laws devised by man cant keep a city officiaol on the straight and narrow if he has the will tc wander. maintain that city man. aeership, wherever 1t has beer found is riding under false colors It has hopped on the band wagon wherever political corruption anc mismanagement has brought mu. nicipalities to their knees. It has been sold to citizens in these dire straights by high pressure salesmer who have taken advantage of their every opportunity to hold forth their goods as the best on the mar. ket. In many stricken cities 1t hal been adopted and has made go oi affairs for awhile. Why? Not be. cause it is the last word in city government. but because the people who adopted 1t were civically con. scious. They were alert to watch the city councillors elected to office and to demand efficiency in gov. ernment. Under those conditions almost any city will be success. A long as the people in any commun. ity are awake to what is going or in their government they will gel rood government and as soon al they SO to sleep they will get bad government.
 aAnd so these super-salesmer have been going about the country reaping a harvest of city manager. ship on the woes of communities where the people had gone to sleeI with the certain result. Now. make no mistake about it-this selling oi city managership is a profession There are scores of these salesmer all tied up in Q national association looking about the country for sof spots to sell their goods and also tt install their graduates. It is ns humanitarian organization, but { straight selling organization.
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