Waterbury Democrat., 1902-03-07
CHARLIE BREWERS, SCALP.
4 Movement Said to be on Foot to

Down the County Commissioner.
 The machine republicans are after the fairly popular scalp of County Commissioner Brewer. They claim all manner of things against him, and it is possible that he will have to work hard for reelection. The commissions CTS term expires about a year hence, but practically next fall when the elections are over and those who are elected and those who helped elect them begin to look about to see what they were elected for and why they went to great deal of bother and ex- pense. That is the time for some people to disappear and for others to enlarge their pocketbooks and their spending and saving capacities.
 It is hardly necessary to say that the most outlandish things are claim ed against Commissioner Brewer. He is charged with ingratitude, the baS- est of human expressions. He is charged with having a poor memory, very bad thing in politics. He is said to be minus the backbone he was credited within before he donned the garments of office. He is said to be narrow minded, and, in short, that County Commissioner Brewer is so altogether different man from Char lie Brewer that there seems no rea ton between them. He is a big dis appointment, the boys say; a change has come over him which they cannot explain
 The story of how Charlie Brewer became County Commissioner Brewer is quite Interesting In the first place he was Attorney Durant's man for the place. A little reflection on days that were reveals Mir Brewer cn his sick bed. He was at that time without question one of the ;ileSt men in the NaugatuclS valley. He was q foreman in the employ of the Scoyil Co and that fall became extremely i'll. He had to give up his position in the factory, and it was OH account of los ing that place that his friends gath cred around him and worked for his election as county commissioner. That year everything ill the legisla- ture was, as it usually is, republican. Durant and Hall represented this town in the lower house. Durant was strongly favorable to Brewer and he worked his canvass among the com mittees and the lobby to great height of popularity. Durant saw victory floating over his efforts, when sudden ly someone remarked that they had not seen MT Brewer and they would like to see him. Nothing was more natural. And come to think of it. how unnatural and strange was MT Brew CTS canvass! Not q soul had seen him, and usually an office seeker is ubiquitous among those who have the office to give.
 All the legislators from New Haven county had been so worked up about Brewer by MT Durant that they clam ored to see him. They wondered what kind of fellow he was, and if he was the good fellow, the staunch republi- can, the whole sou1ed, hearty man that MT Durant had painted him. Du- rant was i'll fix. His man was q sick man, sick in bed, and the pros poets for long stay there were indeed quite favorable. Durant was indeed in corner. He had been telling the legislators everything but that his man was sick man.
 In this extremity it occurred to Mir Durant to have MT Brewers brother, ''Rube." take his place for just one day. He was sure that "Rube's" hearty disposition, his marvellous hand shake, his great gift of story telling, would just strike the. legislators from the county, and he did. "Rube" Brew CT, as his brother Charles, was won der of geniality. Such q whole-souled, honest. sincere, deyil-may-care fellow, but through it all and above it all Il stauneh republican! There was not another like him in New Haven coun- ty A great many anxieties accompa- nied the adventurer, discovery of the delusion, for instance, for "Rube' is known all over the state, but nothing occurred to disrupt the steady course of MT Brewers canvass to success. The result was his election by unani- nous vote.
 Now the boys are after his scalp They want revenge for the manner i'll which they say he returned their good work for him. "We can't get a thing from him. they say. He has alienated q whole lot of republicans and Il great many more independent democrats of Independent vote through his conduct in the case of the Dunne child. His attitude in that matter sur prised not only his personal friends but every one who knew him. 1t is ad- mitted by all that he has undergone change, and what brought it about his friends cannot understand. So they have set about to undo him.