Waterbury Democrat., 1902-01-24
WANT ANOTHER SHERIFF.
Petitioners Say There Are Not Enough
 To Do the Work Properly.

Petitioners Say There Are Not Enough
 To Do the Work Properly.
 The petition in circulation for the appointment of another deputy sheriff is causing the constables and the pres ent deputies, Rigney and Rametti, some anxiety. The alleged basis of the petition is that an. officer cannot be found by lawyer when wanted. To this the officers say that the lawyers wait until the last return day with their cases and then rush business, and unless a constable is at the elbow of every one of them they cry out for more officers. The fact of the matter is. there are more constabies now than there is work for. In New Haven, large as the city is, the civil otncerS would almost starve if they depended upon the lawyers for a living. There the courts are almost aiways in session, giving employ ment to half a dozen constabIes or sheriffs, thus leaving the work of the lawyers to the others. About election time there is generally great rush for the nominations for constaples. The office is not worth a second thought. as a matter of fact, to any one who can make half decent living otherwise. The recompense falls thousand times short of the responsl- bility.
 The petition is backed by such men as Judge Cowell, City Attorney Kel- logg and quite a number of others, many of them of that standing who thinn twice before putting their names on paper. no matter what it's object, while almost all the lawyers in the city have signed it. But the promise. It was that if he could by any means appoint E. R. Perkins deputy sher- | if. he would do so. 1t will be remem- bered that MT Perkins was constable i last year. and lost the nomination l through endeayors of SheriH Ramettl and Attorney Durant, it was said at the time. Neither of these will deny IL now. It is certain that for years they had been after Perkins's scalp, and when he lost the nomination they were 1 jubilant. kf .4 4L
 NIT Dunham was elected with q great majority. But had it'not been for the support he got i'll the valley he would have gone down. New Haven went back on him. It grieved him and he felt sore, oh, so sore: that he renewed | his promise if by hook or crook he could find d place to put Perkins he would do so. Immediately after the election Deputy Hubbell of Oxford gave it out-and it was true-that he would resign for q stipulation. His health and one. thing and another barred him from taking an active in- terest in his office. He was not only ready but anxoius to resign. Friends of Perkins gathered with the required stipulation. While Oxford could get along without q deputy, it would open the way for the sheriff to make good his promise regarding Perkins. New Haven has seven deputies, why should not Waterbury have two or three?
 What was delaying the fulfillment of the sheriff's promise? Perkins was always recognized as a hustler for his | party, and moreover his bread and cheese came from his. constableship. i Still Sheriff Durham tarried. He was talked to about the matter two or three times, and now that petition has been circulated and the way to his redeem | ing his promise made wider and easier l Perkins's friends see no reason why the sheriff should not appoint him. Hubbell of Oxford is still ready to re- sign, it is believed. and with Hubbell out one vacancy would exist, though some say there woud be two then At all events prominent republicans are wondering at the sheriff's delay in view of the fact that he is candidate 1 for renomination.