Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-29
POLITICIANS WE'RE DoUsED.
People Who Wanted to Sleep Didn't
 sIike Their Loud Talk

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 like Their Loud Talk.
 ssSave me, save me. T am sinking" ssHelp or shall drown" It is a cloud burst" No, the Branch has broken loose" Swim, fellows, swim" Those and other similar cries greeted the ears of residents in the south part of the city late last evening and caused many who were asleep to waken and rush to the windows to find out what caused all the commotion and why honest citizens were not permitted to take their nights rest in peace. The cries were also heard by one of the guar dians of the peace who rushed for the scene with drawn revolver and club uplifted, expecting to find that horri- ble murder or some other desperate crime had been or was being commit ted The sight that greeted the otf1- cer's eyes and the eyes of those, who dressed in their nightly robes, had fill ed every window in the immediate neighborhood, was excrutiatingly full ny. Five or six well known and high Iy respected citizens were wildly ges- ticulatinQ and moving their feet in all the curves peculiar to those who have learned the trick of swimming. Their eyes were closed but their mouths were open and cry after cry for help was is- suing from those same mouths. The officers loud laughter coupled with the chorus of laughing voices from all the windows finally broke the spell that seemed to hold those worthy citizens and first one and then the other came back to terra firna.
 Where's the food?" "How much damage was done? "How many were swept away?" "Are you sure we are safe?'' were the words that first greet ed the officer of the law.
 Say" said the officer what kind of dope have you fellows been taking tonight? Change your prescriptions and drop into the water wagon alley or there's no knowing where you will pull up. If I did not know who you were would say that you were fit subjects for the funny house for of all the funny sights I have ever seen you chaps just enacted the best one of the bunch Get yourselves together now and the next time just duck the place that passes out crazy high ones and keep better hours."
 .'But say, wasn't there flood or ClOuuDuESL OE SOlucIAlA2 Oul Ol tuS OI- dinary run of affairsT' asked one of the chaps.
 .There was no cloudburst, nor water spout, but there may be something out of the ordinary happened, because some of you chaps look as if your clothes had received bath. Just go quietly home now, take some hot lem onade and forget it. You will come to before morning and the funny house will miss some more good fellows"
 The cause of all the great commotion was occasioned by a red hot political argument which-was taking place be- tween a we'll known alderman, an ex- alderman, prominent city official, a noted ward worker and a dispenser of quieting drops in centrally located cafe. The argument had become so warm and heated that some of the neighbers who were trying to sleep thought it time to administer cooling draught and right on the heads of the arguers the liquid from the buckets landed. It stopped the argument but it started another and more exciting commotion than could have been heard in Amenia N Y. All are feeling no i'll effects to-day, however, and any fu- ture argument will be conduct@d in the middle of the street or in the vacant lot on East Clay street corner