New Britain herald., 1930-08-26
LEVITT BITTERLY PLAYS R0RABACk
 IN TWISTED TALK
Independent Openly Charges
 Padding of Payrolls, Use of / Spols System in State
CLAIMS DEMOCRATS ALSO 7. UNDER "CZAR'S" CONTROL

Bedding Law Professor Asserts c I o. P. Chairman Buys and Sell
 ' Opposing Party At Wtll-"Willfn,
 Servants" of Machine RegularI,
 Paid Out of Public TiA, Speaker
 Says-Attacks Attorney General.
 Albert Levitt of Bedding, independ-
 ent candidate for governor in a
 speech before the Rotary club of
 Winsted today, said the republican party under the leadership of J. Hen-
 ry Rorahack had maintained a "po-
 litical Dictatorship in Connecticut
 for the past decade
 Subservience of political expedi-
 ency, he said has replaced inde-
 pendent honesty among public off,
 clals and the authority of the judici-
 Sry branch of the government has
 been challenged. Other evils laid by Levitt to the %'dictatorship'' were growth in law violation by high of ficials of the government; padding of state payrolls for political pur- poses, neglect of the needs of tax payers, and the disappearance of representative party government. t
 Cites McCook Decision
 Prof. Levitt characterized speci- fically the action of the state attor- ney general in attacking the author ity of the supreme court of errors of the state on the so-called Mo Cook decision" and his refusal to ac- cept the courts order to start pro- ceedings to oust the public utilities commission for neglect of duty.
 The past decade.' he said" has been one in which our tradition of popular government has been open ly scorned and violated. We have been living under the control of a political dictator. From 1920 until the present year he has been virtu- |ally unchallenged and unimpeded in his activities. During this decade representative government has ceas- led to function. Those whom we have sent to the general assembly have |either been unwilling or unable to function for us. Usually it has been | |both. No one. can be sent who is not ! ready 10 do his bidding. Independ- ! |ence is punished. Subservience is re- |uarded, Honest servants of the peo- |ple are preveated from doing their |dhty. i Says servants" Paid
 "Acquiescent servants of the auto |crat are paid out of the taxpayers moneys, Much needed. appropriations kre delayed; rural roads remain mud holes; tubercular war veterans Euffer unaided those who gave their lives to our industries become char kty cases in their old age but politi- Fal henchmen of the Roraback ma Ehine regularly get their thirty pieces of silver for betraying the people of Connecticut"
 Touching upon the attorney gen erals fight in the McCook decision which invalidated all bills passed by he general assembly, not signed by the governor within three days aft er adjournment of the assembly, Levitt said:
 And one cannot help wondering If the zeal of the attorney general h attacking the McCook decision did bot grow out of the fact-that among The acts inFalidated by that decision |tere those which incorporated the Connecticut Electric Service Co. MT, Roraback's chief company nd dealt with other electric light Ind power companies Says Law Violated He charged the attorney general |lolated Section ITO of the general tatutes of Connecticut when he de- | ended public utilities commissioners . h mandamus proceedings brought |gainst him in superior court and . hat the utilities commissioners had , biled to enforce grade crossing T hws, and allowed light and power (Continued on Page Two) .