Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-04-17
REPUBLICAN, CLUB
Having a Hard Time Holding
 Itself Together.

The republican party in Waterbury
 Is on its beam ends for ideas to attract
 members to the club which is supposed
 to be successor to the Third Ward Re i publican club, and which is already de-
 cadent. few of the zcalous ones got together last evening in the rooms
 where the dead third ward club used to shake It's shin bones in terror on the approach of local election. The gathering was called d meeting ''of the new organized Republican club,
 and much enthusiasm was manifest ed"
 Much of the time was consumed In discussing the bylaws because there was nothing else on hand to consume. The party and club are both hard up for something to attract the public, and the independent voter. Those who have been trying to relncarnate
 the dead third ward rebublican club
 have sent out invitations to everybody
 to join and the replies. when there
 are any, are received, all in the neck.
 The fact seems to be that the party
 Is on its uppers in Waterbury, and if
 the democrats can profit by the repub-
 lican Obtuseness. and baroness of
 ideas. 1t will necessarily be their own
 fault, but there can be no excuse for
 their overlooking the present condition
 of the republican party. The party
 IS too big for it's own machine It is
 becoming decrepit throughout the en-
 tire state. It is falling apart even in the halls of the capitol at Hartford.
 It slapped Governor Woodruff ill the face when the county commissioners
 of the respective counties succeeded in overthrowing his recommendations for
 some few reforms. The county conl-
 missiOners, the most independent body
 as whole in the state, told the gov
 ernor that he was too small to be given any attention. In his several recommendations for d change. and even in his efforts to make those much desired changes, particularly in the method of appointing the boards of county commissioners, and that by jury, he was told to keep his hands off, for the leader of the party seeing it's end In view and desirOus of Keeping everything they have and taking more If they could get it. told the governor Of Connecticut, in their own significant way to get q chair and sit behind the scenes.
 There's more politics, flying around Waterbury to-day than ever before. The o'd c UT, house uilding on Lea on worth street is reeking with rcpubI- fcan plots and plans. Even casy-go- ing Judge Cowell finds himself in the whirlpool once in while and at al- most anytime in the day. or perhaps Tn the darkness of the evening. too. he is liable to be found in deep discussion With the chairman of the republican town committee, |. G. Church. They make good pair, the judge and the chairman. The chairman as prose- cutting attorney of the district court is the creation of the judge, while the judge as an applicant for an increase Ill salary Is a supplicant to the chair. man for the usual backing in ..such case made and provided"
 Attorney Church as chairman of the republican, towni committee Is very ambitious and this idea of general republican club is his. and he IS de. sirous Of placing a few new feathers m his cap after the city campaign next fall. Hence the numerous Inyi- tations at large to get into the folds or the republican party. There are special invitations to democrats, but they are falling by the wayside and even the crows do not pick them r,p.
 III everything essential to the sue. ress of general party organization the republican party seems to be ack- Ing. It Is always remarked that If is cold day when the republican purty gets iert, and 1t has been open to pub. lic observation during the past month mat the weather has been remarkably rigid. The republican party, locally and in Hartford feels the same way III over it's 0verfed and sOmnolcnt ,orpulency. It seems to be suffering from political diabetes. Nothing so far suggested has been found eff. 'acious. The third ward club has zone down. It's poor successor, theegen- 'ral club. though scarcely born, has already given the death rattle.
 Even the Initiation of Senator l. IT. 'hase, the most prominent man in his ,arty to-day has failed to swell inc membership of the club. He IS the '2o kind of member. There are three srades of membership. S2J. SIO and v. Of course 1t could not be ex- 'ected that anything republican uow- days could get along without the English classsm. Isn't Mrs Thco- lore Roosevelt going to make a Union lack and the queen of England a 'tars and stripes with which to drape he bust of Admiral Nelson in the laval academy at Annapolis. That's ID to late republicanism, yet 1t was he kind that George Washington and 'atrick Henry overthrow in order that III people in this country might live n political equality.
 The republican party. locally, ap- ears to lie on the verge of political issolution for it has all the symptoms hat indicate such condition.