Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-07
orFICB sDEKDRs ANXIOUS.
Republicans Selecting Positions The, Would Like to Eill.

| Would Like to Fill.
 I There's the deuce to pay between raI puDMcans and what is known as raE form democrats over the division of aIhd spo1ls dn the gift of the incoming axll ministration, the latter claiming Ina they are entitled to something and thI other fellows taking the ground tIn republicans should have everythinri mere is af1ything in and that the denol cratS ought to be content with fh el husks If half what one hears ai,oa,d these matters be true, John P. EIfog} will want a body guard before he iX anaugurated, and dear only know,I what he will need after that It is Said that prominent republican of ths second ward called upon Mir Elton moi long since and informed him that he was a candidate for Regent Moran,, position at the Brookside home. Ix seems that MT Elton's reply didn't strike the aspirant for boss of tine brfcM Olock on the town farm as being fin acN coTuance with republican principless and he promptly told his honor so, af The same time reminding him that twt years would not be long going arourdk at the end of which he would be madd 10 reel what 1t meant to prove recreanS IO party principles, whereupOn the comE Ing chief magistrate is said to have ddsN missed the irate second warder witgF the remark that the coming two year1* would not speed by amy too quickly tsz suit him, which was tantamount to sayl Ing that he does not intend to make i profession of politics and that the poiiS tacfans and office seekers are not goin@ to lord it over him while he is at hhd helm.
 Ex-Alderman Henry Hotchkise i, being talked of as successor to E BE Kelley of the street department. M& Hotchkias is a decent sort oE fellow, but it is not claimed that h{ is as compentent to deal with the worlS that comes to the uperintendent o& streets as Mir Redley is, the only thina being put forward in support of 6 change being the difference fin tId mems politics. You see a certain se of men are bent upon reform and acE cording to their notion every mother son who puts his hand to the wheel must look at things from their stand point.
 ID. A. Streeter's friends want to se} him at the head of the water work again and they are losing no opportuni ty to give him a boost. Mir Streatez was erintendent of water undez Mayor Barlow. He is weAl liked bd everybody who knows him, but wheth CT John O'Brien's politics will be con sidered sufficient cause for his removal remains to be seen MT O'BTden ha& been superintendent of the watef works for the past four years and durj ing that time nobody has found faId with his management of the depart ment It is certain hhat not a sfngl5 complaint has been entered agains him before the department of pubIf& works. The same thing is true wdtaE reference to MT Kelley. Indeed, 1t d admitted that Kelley has no peer a his business in Waterbury and proba| ply this is the reason why so many re# publicans who are not looking for som of the plums object to making change for the sake of giving some office seekS CT a job. Those who take the opposit& view of the question find themseIve up against a stiff proposition. The head of every department in the city governN menf is admittedly an honest, comi petent public official, and men of shono who promised the electors that no maIE should be disturb cd on account of hi politics now find themselves betweel the devil and the deep sea.
 Republican politicians want the pi{ divided right away so that every ma1 will know what is coming to him, ana the fdea of even limiting that after al there is not much to pass around ha almost knocked the breath out of eom@ folks and naturally they are very mucff worried.