Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-27
THE ALDERMEN
Will Hold the Last Meeting To- Night Some of Those Who
 Were Heard From.

\ 1 aldermen, but for all one can tell they
 tnay hold another session before get ting out of the harness. Of course some of them will come back and ths
 public will have the benefit of theil services for two years more On the majority side of the house Aldermen Filling and Buck have been reelected and in all probability will be leaders 1 in the new administration. It is under. stood that Mr Filling will be chairman of the board. This will give Mr Buck the floor, and judging by his conduct for the past two years it would be quite an easy matter to get hold of a worse man. He appears 10 be fear less fellow and where it not for the fact that like all other republicans whs want to stand we'll with their party he would when occasion requires for get party and stick to principle for there is every reason to believe that he is modelled upon honest lines.
 The retiring members on the repub- lican side of the house are F. F Stan ley, K. \. Blakeslee, c. L. Holmes, Thomas H. Hewitt, Adam Callan and John Macauley, all pretty good men, but most of them ran counter with the republican machine and as result they had to pay the penalty.
 Owing to i'll health, MT Holmes left for California some time ago and is not expected back for couple of years. As public official he was very sincere in what he did, but he had heard so much about double dealing ill politics he was mistrustful, and especially of anything that emanated from democratic source, and tlfis feeling cropped out once in a while in spite of the mans better nature. for Mir Holmes is an ideal gentleman and on all occasions showed a disposition to respect the feelings of everybody.
 Mir Blakeslee, who has acted as chairman for the past two years, tried hard to please everybody, but he didn't make good his point, although it is ad- mitted that he has endeayored to be impartial He wasn't so particular about rules as some chairmen are and on this account he was able to put a measure through with dispatch if he wanted to. With Mir Blakeslee it was not what way Cushing or Robinson would put question, but rather which in the opinion Of the chair was tlN4 speedier way to the end. It was a good plan, too, and in most cases it worked like a charm.
 Alderman Stanley was not so much interested in the political phase of questions as in what was right. He didn't aara rarx- Ya,,,ob xvhi,b sid n brought forward something good, he was ready to help it along, and, un- fortunately for himself, he took the same ground when the machine poli- ticians of his own party trotted out something. It had to stand on its merits, and as a consequence StanleT was counted out. and his retirement is a loss to citizens who want a square deal in the city government
 Thomas H. Hewitt entered the board under q cloud. but it didn't take him long to push his way through it. and after people had an opportunity to see him in his true light all except the hard shell politicians liked him.
 Alderman Callan proved that he has a mind of his own and the courage to give expression to that he believes to be right without waiting to be coached by the party managers. He is bright. clever young man and 1t is a pity one who took such an interest in affairs should be chastised simply be- cause he insisted in using his own judgment instead of being led around by others Callan will come up again.
 Alderman Beach. now superinten- dent of the police department, was the leader of the board until he resigned to supplant Chief Egan. Inasmueh as MT Beach had to father many things that originated with others 1t would be unfair to express an opinion upon his work as one of the city fathers for it would be extremely difficult to tel how much of what he advocated was the creation of his own mind and what portion of it was thought out by others and how much of that he swallowed" against his own wishes. But 1t is nothing more than justice to say that Mir Beach is a pretty decent sort of fellow and that his mistakes were due more to the company he kept than to a disposition on his own part do the wrong thing.
 John Maeauley was the silent man of the present board of aldermen. and yet he has shown or more than une occasion that he does not like the idea of the political halter. He kicked in the traces once or twice and after looking over his record carefully the management concluded that we waa a safe man
 On the other side of the house AL derInan Murray was the leader. He is a ready talker and at the early stages of his public service his deter mined attitude struck terror Into the majority representation. but after they saw that Mr Murray didn't always vote as he talked then they ealmed down and from that time on they feared him no more
 If John !. Brophy had been as regu- lar in attendance and as aggressive In speech and action during his four Yearx. service as he was while Colonel Burpee was on the rack. he would have been the ahIest man that ever sat fn the board from any of the warlx. republican or democratic. Bnt Mr Brophy was tired of always being on the losing side and probably this had something to do with keeping him away
 Alderman Dunn had DO speecbex but when he was on hand his vote iF- varizhiy vent the night way.
 Alderman Bergen didn't remain long enough to get onto sil the curves In bic case. as in many others. be disap- pezre1 from the stage just about the time he had iesrned how fo make the best use of himself as a public oficial
 Iohn Huriey rarely says anything.