Waterbury evening Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1887-1895, 1891-11-20
coMMERFoRD ON HARMONY.
An Incendiary Circular Being DIstii-
buted Throughout the District.
WATERBURY,, November, 1891.

buted Throughout the District.
WATERBURY,, November, 1891.
Dear Sir:
have been appointed to write you,
in behalf of a large number of demo
Gratis of this town, desiring the success
of our party in 1892, and asking your
CO operation to that end.
Waterbury, under proper manage
ment, is democratic by 700 to 1000 ma
joriIy. At recent town and city cleo
ton, owing to dissatisfaction with the
management of pretended party
leaders, together with dissentions and
jealOusies in our own ranks, the repub-
licans have elected their candidates, by
majorities ranging from 100 to 900.
Now, this is a very unfortunate state of
| affairs, and some immediate steps
should be taken to remedy it. When
the late Mr. Henry S. Wheeler of South
committee for this senatorial district,
this town gave Nh CleI Gland $50 ma
jority. The und was post
master here at that time, and the party
was united. Since Mr. Wheeler's death,
Mr. Fred J. Brown of this city, has
filled the place on said committee, and
there has been nothing but trouble. In
the first place, Mr. Browns aspirations
were to be elected first selectman, and.
as a consequence, his nomination
was forced upon the party twice,
last election at which he was a
candidate, he and another democrat
filled the positions of second and third
selectmen. The actions and doings of
these two officials, while members of
said board. involved the town in litiga-
ton and expense, which democratic
taxpayers loudly protested against.
This, with other baby acts, and methods
which these two officials introduced
into the democratic politics of Water
bury, became so obnoxious and dis
gushing that it was the talk of not only
our city, but adjoining towns. Person
ally, the undersigned has nothing
against Mr. Brown, but his party meth
DDS are not such as to commend the M
selves to our intelligent voters, and it is
the opinion of very large number of
democrats here that his place should be
filled by democrat of larger experience
and better acquaintance with the re-
quirements of this senatorial district.
Probably, under existing circumstances,
it would be better to make a choice
from some other town than Waterbury.
Something, certainly, must be done to
unite the democracy of Waterbury, or
the state will be lost to us in 1899. 1t
is, therefore, that we ask you and your
friends to Join with us in requesting Mr.
Brown to resign, and thus permit some
other gentleman to represent this dis
trict upon the state central committee
We believe this course to be imperative,
and can see no just reason why one
man should be allowed to jeopardize the
good of our ticket in 1899. l have the
honor to be,
Democratically yours,
CHASC CNwMEREOpn
Late Democratic Postmaster at Wa
terbury.
Comment upon the above letter,
which is being circulated, would seem
unnecessary. The quality of the
writer's democracy was shown to be be-
low par by his own admissions while on
the witness stand few weeks ago. He
admitted being a member of the Citi-
zens and Taxpayers club, which was
organized just previous to the late cleo
ton for the purpose of defeating the
democratic ticket, and must be possess
ed of a monumental nerve to attempt to
dictate to democrats at this time above
all others. And this was not Mr. Com
merford's first political offense. In 1885
he was treasurer of the democratic
town committee. He made an effort to
secure the nomination for district COM
mitteemah and failing. resigned from
the town committee, saying that he'd
be ID if he would work with such a
gang. In 1871, we believe it was, when
S. w. Kellogg defeated John Kendrick
in the race for congress, Commerford
made himself notorious by throwing up
his position as democratic deputy
registrar and working for the election
of the republican candidate. The
DEMOCRAT is firm believer in harmony
and urged the ward leaders to get
together before election, but the advice
was not needed. The circulation of
such rattle-brained literature as the
above letter will only make matters
worse. Perhaps it was so intended.