Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-01-18
n Caustic Reply to the Anonymous
Charges Made Against the Town Clerks

a Caustic Reply to the Anonymous
Office.
To the Editor of the Evening DEMOCRAT:
Sir-In yesterdays issue of the Water
bury American, under the heading "What
is their in it?' appears quite a lengthy
article concerning the affairs and present
standing of the town clerks office. 1t
seems to me that some heeler, hirling or
manlac more softly styled ''as leader and
worker of the republican party by the
American sees fit to speak and talk of what
he knows nothing about, and also to an
tagonize the dead.
1t seems he rushed into the American
office Wednesday morning, just after the
present incumbent in the town clerk S
office had been seven hours in practice
with the startling information that the
town clerks office was a NEST" twas
absolutely rotten, that the democrats were
not fit to manage the town clerks office
and that the appointment of republican
was being vindicated by his discoveries"
Poor fool he, whether leader or heller,
to think for one moment that any person
of reason, brains or common sense would
swallow his rot. The idea of HIM telling
what Mr. Merriman had discovered! Why,
chair, let alone to be able to discover any
thing wrong or rotten. AS vet, am posi-
tive, Mr. Merriman has not caught on to
the first principles of the office, let alone
to make or confirm the assertions of this
heller or leader. whoever he is.
There is no man in Waterbury to-day
outside of James c. White who can enter
into that Office, and within seven or fifteen
days get into the workings of the same let
alone in seven working hours to make all
of those startling discoveries, which our
republican leader or nincompoop claims
Mr.. Merriman has made. l, myself, have
had the run of that Office for the past nine
years, and Imagine l know its workings
from its root to its topmost branch, and
would hardly dare assert, after sitting seven
hours in chair laboring over an annual
report that the work, doings, etc, of my
predecessor were rotten and corrupt.
So far certain documents have not
been signed by Mr. Madden after having
been recorded is easily accounted for. It
was always Mr. Madden's rule never to sign
a document after it was recorded, until
after the paper in question was compared
and found recorded correctly.
Now, presuming that there were few
deeds and other instruments left unsigned
when Mr. Madden was taken i'll, it certain
ly is not his fault, now that he has gone to
better world.
1t is nothing but what he made ample
provision for when he appointed Mr. Nc
Mahon his assistant, who, under the stat
utes, can and has power to sign any deeds
or other papers which were left for record
PRIOR to January 16, 1894.
Now, if this heeler or leader intends to
make political capital out of this rush and
bull story of his, why not come out like n
good, true and worthy citizen over his
signature, and let us know ''what is there
in it,"
If the alleged leader will come out over
his signature and let an anxious public
only know what these great discoveries are,
he will not only oblige the citizens of Wa
terbury, but your humble servant,
JAMES j. EGAN,
Waterbury, JAN Is, '94