Waterbury Democrat., 1900-12-12
CONSOLIDATION,
First Meeting of the Full Com
 mittee Last Night.
oNQUESTION DISCUSSED
No New Wards Will Be Created, Even if Consolidation Comes-The Extra err1tory Will Be Hacked on to tho Old WardS-NOt a Partisan oIaa S,,rc

i oef1nen to prepare a draft of a bill fol the consolidation of the town and city governments held q meeting last nighI 1 "iid went over the whole natter al
 most all of which has been got into IaIrly decent shape by Attorney Kel- log@. who has been at work on the draft for some time past. The chang
 eS, so far as they pertain to the city,
 Will not be very great after all so that { people who live inside the old lines
 nave no need to be alarmed over the i question of consolidation, for no mat 1 ter what way things go the burden of taxation cannot he made much heavier on them. any Way. Of course, it will be q serious blow to d large number of citizens who looked to the annual town meeting with joyful anticipations Which were always fully realized to
 learn that the town meeting is soon to be but q memory and that. after the union of the two governments the tax "S will be levied by that cold unSym- pathetic body known as the board of aldermen. where everything is done according to Cushing. and the sound of merry laughter is an unknown uuan- titT- except upon such occasions as last
 Monday night. when even the old desks had to put their hands to their
 sides to keep themselves from going |
 man Mahancy assigned to Scotchmen
 along the old pathway that runs along
 Slue tine Nau|atuck river from Bank
 street to icWelly street. and which is
 travelled daily by thousands of people
 passing to and from their work. and
 bT hundreds of children going to school fand to church. as well as by others
 Who find 1t convenient to cross there
 from time to time. But this is di-
 S-s.jr s.I.
 tee. it is thought will soon be ready to
 call a meeting of all parties interested
 i'll the proposed change. with q view to
 getting their opinions as to what kind
 Of Il bill they would like to see present.
 cd to the legislature and after this has
 been done it will take tine committee
 but q mighty short time to get the doe
 ument ready for presentation to the
 board Of aldermen.
 It is not the intention of the commit
 tee to create any new wards. so that
 some of our nei@hbCrs from the rura!
 districts whO were figuring upon 'shin-
 ing" in the aldermanic chamber as rep
 reSpntativPS frCm the new districts
 will have to get around at the primaries
 ill the oid wards or stay In the back
 ground. Watprville will ba in the sec- ond ward with q polling district Of it's own. and the lines in the other , sections; will be run with q view to get- ting thu GutIyin" territory annexed to
 the several wards in the most conven-
 tent manner possible. It is not thought that the additions to the different poll ing districts will make any change in the results on election day. for inc present. it being generally believed that ithe first. second and third wards will be republican for keeps. while the l fourth and fifth will be democratic with good G"htin" chance for the re- Duhlic&nS. especially in the fourth. which will receive quite slice of re- 7l11hlican territory from SimonSville.
 Hnpevillc and Sonth Brooklyn. It is - thought that the fifth will be hopeleSs- } ly democratic for some time to come. 9 hut even that will some day have to :. SHccUmb to the inevitable and follow . the fourth into the republican camp. $ A conSoiidationiSt who takes an in Q tcrcst in public affairs. not for the = sake of what there is in it. as the office . seeker would say. hut because he is l interested in the development of the
 town. as every citizen ought to be. l talked upon this phase of the subject l to a representative of the Democrat last night. and by the time he got . through he had half convinced the re- $ porter that the day is not far off when 2 tue republicans will be ill the ascen- Q dency in Waterbury on a square vote. i just as they have been in the past \ and are now. by clever manipulation of s the wards through legislative enact ' mcntS. He based his calculations up- s on the following observations: ''In - ten years from now n-EngliSh- speak
 ing races and their offspring will con | stitute nearly one-half of the poDula- . ton of this town. Ninp-tenthS of these q people. with the nossihle exception of Q the Hebrews. will vote the republican o ticket. and these, added to the republi- :, can party. will make up d voting 0 strength that will far exceed that of t the opposition. The Lithuanians. 1tal- II ians. SwedcS. Canadians and other . non- En glish speaking races are grow- |. ing rapidly in Waterbury. and it is q t well established fact that with few eN- ' captions they vote the republican tick : ct. Tho Irish are not increasing in
 proportion to other races. the Ameri e cans are at q standStill. and might he y said to be about evenly divided polit Is ically: the same thing is true of the ,r English, Scotch and Germans. so thai 'e if this order of things continues q few It years longer. and all the indications .;s, point that way, the democrats will not III have one representative in the board ", Of aldermen.
 l Perhaps this prophecy may not como .a true and. we suppose. it is not neces n Sary for us to state that we earnestly ss hope it will not. still there is some to thing in it. and if the democrats cal
 profit by the hint and do something ', towards holding a fair share of th' II new voters. the above article may b' n of some use to them.
 ,t The matter of taxation is the knot 'd tiest question before the consolidation ,s committee. No matter what peopi' n- may say about politics. it cannot h 10 denied that there can be no noilt,s. IS in that part of the program. and whll . the committee has given the subjec ,d some consideration they intend to leav le this open as long as possible, and som le of them think it would be well not [ ,d make any recommendation on this maj is ter. but submit several plans to tn CT aldermen and let them take thel b. choice.