Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-09-12
POLITICAL POINTERS
Good Fund Said 10 Be Ready For
 SeWell Boom.

unless he knows whether or not the
 men who own fat pocket books are
 behind him. but he is having some
 trouble in getting an expression of
 opinion from tler, which carries
 with 1t the assurance that If they
 lend him a hand they will not
 give tho other fellow push for
 ward, too, so that it would not take
 much to have him come out flat
 footed and refuse to have ganything
 to do with the nomination.
 The question was discussed at a
 meeting of representatives Ot nearly
 all the large concerns in tow last
 night and whiit enough was said to
 warrant MT Sewoll in cnnsenting to
 have his name used, sill i. WIS done
 In such a half hearted way his
 friends are not satisfied, and de-
 clared that men who promised to
 stand by Sewell are hand in glove
 with Thoms and will do their best
 to elect him. One of the men who
 has been asked to contribute told q
 reporter that he didn't think it fair
 to carry the matter into the business
 concerns of the city and that while
 ke favored Sewell simply because he
 is republican he didn't intend to
 fund to say so. In reply to ques-
 ton as what truth, if any, there is
 in the statement that already $15,-
 900 has been raised for the Sewell
 boom, the gentleman gave all eyasive
 reply and dismissed the subject with the remark that if the sum had
 reached that amount and nobody
 had subscribed more than he, the number of signatures to the paper must be very large. But some has been subscribed and more was prom ised at the session last night If this hadn't been done Sewell was ready or is said to have made up his mind to step aside. Just whether the meeting of the town committee last dight and the gathering of manufacturers was simply coincidence or prear- ranged affair is not known, but it is fact that each body knew the other was in session and scouts passed from one place to the other, so you see the hurrying footsteps that passed from the big building on West Main street to the rcpubli- can headquarters carried very i'm portant private dispatches and ap- peared to be fully aware of the con fidence reposed in him.
 So far some of the concerns have refused to drop anything into the pot and it is doubtful if they will cough up. They feel that the mammoth con- cerns of Waterbury which worked along from modest beginnings should not be converted into political clubs for any party, and besides the men at the helm are of the opinion that the situation does not demand any such sacrifice. They are very well pleased with what Mayor Thoms has done and only they don't want Ito set a bad example" they would ask all manufacturers and business men to endorse him. A few want a strenuous campaign, but others think 1t doesn't pay and prefer to see 1t carried on by understrappers. No vote was taken on the party campaign" question, the meeting leaving the matter in the hands of a press committee whose names are not to be made known.
 Congressman Lilley and Mir Sewell were the principal speakers and they did their best to impress upon their hearers that 1t is almost essential to the development of Waterbury to put all republicans on guard.
 After all the meeting was not a l bowling success. Most of those pre- sent were there to hear what others 1 had to say and they kept tight grip | on their purse strings.
 Those who attended the meeting of | the taird ward democrats last evening | what is known as the im- provement ticket. The meeting last | evening was to have been held in the | Pequot club but because of the pres ence of reporter the members ad- lourned to another meeting place. | The meeting had not been called | when Republican scribe dropped in, % the cue was passed around and one by one the room was deserted. The pencil pusher also "vamoosed" He 1retended to take car but Is said to nave alighted near Sunderland's blacksmith shop and to have returned ,nly to find the democrats holding a meeting in the dark. But the poli- lcians say they fooled the scribe. They beat it to a building in the owned by one of the nen present and there the business Vas transacted. The men selected to 'un for aldermen are Ambrose Wells. low commissioner of the board of fin- lnce; Joseph Stokes of Brooklyn. and Hugh Murphy of the west end. Those Jack of the ticket say that 1t is not In "anti' ticket.
 The republican town committee net last night. As usual there was 10 news to give out. I,
 The republicans will nominate heir ticket tonight In their head uarters in the Russell block, former ' the Bowditch block. l.
 Chairman ]. H. Freney announced o-day that the meeting of third yard democrats which was to have cen held tonight has been in- efinitely postponed.
 Voting machines have been placed n most of the stores in .he north nd for the instruction of those Who re unable to get at them down own. It is to the interest Of all oters 10 learn to operate these rnarHf-1~ Us smM