Milford chronicle., 1952-01-25
THE MILFORD VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN

THE MILFORD VOTERS HAVE SPOKEN
The heavy turnout of Milford voters at
the Annual City elections on Monday after
noon was the result of extensive publicity
of our municipal problems. The citizens
were aroused and voiced their opinions
through the ballot in the good old American
manner. Mayor Evans was returned to Office
for another twO-year term with majority
of 383 over his opponent City Councilman
Albert Peterman. The result was what sea-
sOned political observers had anticipated.
William KentOn in the First Ward and Jacob
H Roosa, in the Fourth Ward, were elected
by almost three to one margins over their
opponents. This, too, was expected.
Tn voters of the City saw in Mr.. Peter
man, as candidate for Mayor, a symbol for
a municipality owned and operated power
plant. Regardless of how he wanted it to
be, this was an issue. He has stated public
ly on many occasions that he held a man.
date from the voters of his Ward to- fight
for a municipality operated power plant.
Certainly the vote from his ward on his
candidacy for Mayor on Monday evapOrates
this myth. Mayor Evans defeated him there
by over a two to one vote. To be exact, the
vote was Evans 313, Peterman 149-a ma
jOrity of 164 for Mayor Evans. The story
was the same in each ward. Evans came
out Of all four wards with majOTitieS over
Peterman. We have heard so much about
the power issue, some of it Smeared with un-
truths, that Milford residents will be glad
to let it die for a time at least.
The immediate result of the election on
Monday should be complete control of COun-
Gil by those favOring Mayor Evans policies
For the past several months he has had a
minority of City Council with him. To all
intents and purposes he was a fgurehead in
city management. The new lineup of COun-
Gil should give him the necessary margin of
strength which will allow his group to carry
out their plans for city government. One
of the main criticisms of Mayor Evans in
the past has been that he has allowed COun-
Gil meetings to degenerate into childish de-
batting spreeS. He has had some excuse un-
der the old Set-up of Council where his rul-
ings could be overridden by an antagonis-
tic majority. The new lineup, if the men,
bers group themselves as expected will re-
move this excuse. If Mayor Evans wants to
make friends for his program, whatever it
may be, one Of his first reforms must be in
the procedure of conducting Council meet
lngs This lOng-drawn-Out haggling and
Squabbling must be curbed He is in the
drivers seat and can expedite the business
operation of Council if he is so minded. If
he doesn't, the brickbats, in the form of votes,
can fly his way just as hard and fast as
those that struck Mr. Peterman on Monday.
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THE EISENHOWER BOOM
The Eisenhower announcement contain
ed no surprises. The General said, in sub
stance, that he will not presently resign his
post or leave Europe, that he will not cam
paign-but that he will accept the Republi-
can nomination if it is offered him. This is
not as much as his supporters would like,
but it is about all they had expected, and
the Eisenhower organization, under the di-
rectiOn Of the able Senator Lodge is press
ing hard on the throttle now. They know
that they have a great deal of hard work to
do in a very short time if they are to put
their candidate over, in the face of the great
strength that has been shown by Taft
In the meantime, the Generals views on
public questions are now of major import
ance. 1t has been said that little is known
of what he thinks save in the field of fore
ign and military policy, where he is a strong
internatOnalist who holds that the security
and perhaps the very survival of the United
States as a free nation depends in great
part upon building an impregnable defense
against communism in Western Europe.
Actually, however, during the period when
he headed Columbia, he made number of
speeches and statements which show that,
generally speaking, he is conservative in
the old MidWesteTn tradition. The day af-
ter the announcement, the AP went back
into the files and came up with number of
revealing quotations, some of which follow
IN a speech at Houston he asked, "HOw
long can we keep up deficit spending with
out suTrendering some of the things in
which we believe" and added, Personal Sc
curity is not going to be achieved on bank
Tupt ecOnOnV" He EXPRESSED the same idea