Evening star., 1932-11-03
SENTIMENT FAV0RS
REPUBLICANS IN
CONNECTICUT RACE
States Freedom From Debt
Likely to Be Vital Factor
in Election.
PARTY WELL ORGANIZED;
RIVALS RANKS DIVIDED
Drys, However, Are Angry With
Bingham-Tad Jones Hard
Pressed in House Fight.
BY G. GOULD LINCOLN,
Staff Correspondent OF The Star.


NEW HAVEN, Conn, November g.
Unless present signs are entirely incor-
rect, Connecticut will turn its back on
New York's Democratic Governor and
vote for President Hoover in the presi-
dental election next Tuesday.
The State OF Connecticut, for one
thing, does not think much Of the rec
ord which Gov Roosevelt has made rs
Governor of its neighbor, New York.
In these days of high taxes, high ex-
penditures and deficits. Connecticut
people think rather we'll of themselves.
And they should. The State is not in
debt; has almost no direct State taxes
and yet has constructed and paid for
many public Improvements, including a
fine highway system. The people Of
Connecticut look across the border and
see New York. under the Roosevelt di-
rectlon, with a deficit of about $780,
100000. Gov. Roosevelts campaign talk
of economy in government expenditure
has not registered with these people.
Other factors Of much importance
apparently place the Nutmeg State in
the Republican column this year. Chief
among them is an outstanding Repub-
lican leader with an organization built
to go somewhere" And perhaps Of al
most equal importance for Republican
success are the deadly intra- party rows
on the Democratic side of the fence
Connecticut Democrats have for years
had the reputation of being better able
to rend their party than to accomplish
any real concrete results.
Veteran G. o. p. Leader.
The Republican boss of this State is
not new on the job. j. Henry Roraback
has been at it for score of years. He
has been under attack SO often that 1t
seems as though there had been con-
slant war against him. either by the
Democrats or by reforming Republicans.
But this year Mr.. Roraback seems
stronger than ever, although in 1890
the Democrats, siezing upon Gov. VII
bur Cross. retired dean of the Yale Uni
versity Law School, defeated Roraback's
candidate, Rogers, and elected a Gov
ernor for the first time in a number OF
years During the last two years ].
Henry has rebuilt his fences effectively
and he is expected to put across next
Tuesday the State ticket, headed by
Former Gov. John H. Trumbull. Senator
Hiram Bingham, the congressional
ticket and to carry the State for Her
bert Hoover Connecticut is unique in
having real Republican boss this year
The trouble with the G. o. P. in recent
years lies in the fact that it has been
minus real and dominant party leaders
in many of the States.
Gov. Cross. after he was elected two
years ago, made the political mistake
of ignoring to a considerable degree
the "Old Guard in the Democratic
party here He made his appointments
from the Young Guard" He would
have done better had he shelved some
of the Old Guard leaders with appoint
ments to Office and kept the Young
Guard leaders on the job as political
leaders, where they could be of aid
To add to the trouble in the party,
Archibald Mcneil. Democratic national
committeeman came out for Roosevelt
for the presidential nomination almost
as soon as the Roosevelt boom got under
way. He had no particular authority
to deliver Connecticut's Democracy to
Roosevelt, and his action reused the ire
of the Smith Democrats. members of
the "Old Guard" How the Smith
Democrats took on the Roosevelt Demo-
Gratis early this year and trimmed them
to a fare-you- is matter of history
The Connecticut delegation went to
Chicago and voted for Smith under
the unit rule, although Homer Cum
mings and other Roosevelt men were
on the delegation.
Dissension Not Ended.
The troubles between the two factions
were not patched up. even under the
nomination Of Roosevelt. and they rode
back to Connecticut at the opposite
ends OF the car. so to speak, ignoring
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