Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-03
Mayor Elect Elton's Cabinet Not
 Yet Made Public.
MUCH SPECULATION GOING ON

As to Whether He Will Make Clean
 Sweep or Be Diplomatic and Divide Up With Some of the Present Office
 Holders Francis T. Reeves Seems to Be Sure of the Assistant City Clerk ship.
 l The wise heads are now turning their
 attention to AIayorzelect Elton, and all
 he has to do from now on is listen anu l be put Wise.' It might not be amiss l to state at this time that the coming | mayor would make no mistake in
 doing whole lot of listening and laughing, too, from now until he enters upon the duties of his office and makes
 known his appointments to the diner l ent boards, for after that probably the
 things some folks will have to say of { him will not sound quite so well on
 his ears as what is now being said on all sides, consequently his honor may I find it more. difficult to smile in the
 municipal chair than in any other seat he ever occupied. Of course, every- body who is anxious to give the mayor
 a pointer wants nothing but good goy-
 ernment, but before many more
 months have been added to the past
 Mr Elton will know, if he is not al ready aware of it, that those who are loudest in their professions of llil- selfshness will be the ones who will make the most unreasonable requests iI of him and be the firsts to find fault with his efforts provided they fail to
 rum him. Whether MT Elton will II hn question. En some quarters if is being
 said that the new mayor will De infiu-
 enced largely in all his movements by the wishes of a few men who were ir1- Istrunental in coaxing him to accept the nomination, while others take the ground thit he will be a tTihe more stiff -necked than the hee1ers in his I party supposed and will take more stock in merit than in politics. This lis the kind of a man he was rep-4- I sented to be during the campaign, but
 now we are informed that anybody
 who took this literally made mistake and that Mir Elton will soon disabusea the doubting Thomases that he is noth- ing short of simon pure republican a man who believes in the shibboleth to
 the victors belong, the spoils Who I were the victors In the last city elec-
 tion2 The republicans won, but it K an open secret that hundreds of men
 who never before voted that ticket sur- q ported MT Elton and his colleagues last
 October, and did so because they were led to believe that if they elected him he would give the city a business ad- ministratfon regardless of what his
 party manag gers might think of his con \ duct. s ' Republicans who put party and self.
 1shness ahead of everything else claim
 that if the new mayor acts upon n
 principle contrary to that on which his party is founded, personal aggrandise- } ment, he will be discredited in his own ranks at the outset, and democrats who look for no recognition from him : are hoping that he will reach for ev- erything in sight and thus demonstr&te to those in. their organization who
 worked to bring out the change that
 they allowed themselves to be made the tools of handful of professional politicians who took advantage of the disturbed condition of the public mind \ to feather their own nests.
 I There is no end to the amount os 7 speculation one might indulge in re garding the policy of the incoming afl-i ! mfnistration, but it is safe to predict
 that very little, if anything will be
 known about it on the outside until
 after the first of the new year, though it appears to be we'll understood at this writing that Francis T. Reeves will be assistant city clerk.
 A republican who wants somethinA
 and does not know whether he will be
 recognized or not, said last night that
 already a merry war is on between the
 Kelsey Peasley clement and what is
 known as the conservative wing of flle , party over the appointments in the gift of the mayor, the former making de lnand for clean sweep and the latter
 claiming that democrats who hold im- ! portant appointive positions and whose
 fitness have not been questioned,
 should not be disturbed. The Brook.
 side home is the storm center, with the , department of charities as close sec. ond. It is said that many leading re- publicans favor the retention of the
 present incumbents but even the men
 tion of such a thing has stirred up q
 hornets nest in certain quarters with Ethe result that the liveliest time ever
 known among democrats regarding pos 1itical spells was a tame affair com : pared with the scrapping match now | on between the Kelsey -Peasley contin- t { - F~
 gent and those who want to make good the promise made apparently in good | faith before election that in the event , of success at the polls the republicans
 should not make removals except for cause Tn the opinion of those who ad
 vocate full rake in, a mans politics is sufficient cause to warrant giving him an extended leave of absence without
 pay from the city, and from all ac counts both sides are about evenly
 matched so that the public may expect
 to see a battle royal during the next
 few weeks. John Kellogg is said to be on the outs with the Kelseys and Peas leys on account of some differences be.
 tween them over nominations for alder men, and unless the chasm is bridged soon peace cannot be maintained much longer and the row will be conducted in broad daylight. With some folks