The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-10-24
Hear Hoover
 Regime Assailed
Lonergan Citron, FitzGerald Gormey and Oliver Att tack Four Years of Alleged Republican Misrule- Goss and Bingham Targets

the cities and of the protective tariff in the towns. Congressman Goss had better look to Waterbury and his own manufacturing inter- ests than go to Naugatuck, my home town, and warn people of what Is coming to the borough If the democrats are elected" Judge Gormley discussed the "old age" pension question and said that he, as member of the governors commission studying this. matter, is heartily behind, the plan. He thanked Waterbury for it's SUD- port of him two years ago.
 Riddle Hoover
 Ex-Mayor FitzGerald thanked Waterbury for honoring him with it's great majority a decade ago when he ran for governor. He declared that Waterbury demo- crats do not waste time but work fast. He then launched into an attack on the Hoover administra- tion. -Four years ago the repub- licans preached prosperity, two cars in every garage, a chicken in every pot and so forth" he said. foundation of sand. Today we have closed shops, the farmers are feeding wheat to their hogs and are using corn for fuel. The wage earners are staving. Banks are closed. We have six or seven less banks in New Haven today than we did before Hoover went into the White House." He attacked the sale of foreign bonds by Amer ican bankers and the start of the flow of gold from here to foreign nations. He reviewed the losses of democratic investors since 1929.
 Cross's Stand
 Governor Cross proposed Q non- partisan four-year program to be participated in by state, county and town authorities with the pur- pose in view of making Connec- ticut pre-eminent as a desirable place to manufacture, farm and live in. He said that the republi- can organization had nothing of this kind to offer. He pledged the democratic party to such policy and said Lit plans to accomplish this by a conscious, coordinated and cooperative reduction of dl- rect taxes on land and on manu- featuring machinery and inventor ies.' He said that this can be accomplished by effecting stringent economies, reduced expenditures and other types of taxes. He said that only by reducing the tax bur- den can Connecticut prosperity be restored. We have an intelligent citizenry," he said, i've declare our readiness and willingness to inl- tiate the movement. We know of nothing whatever which can hin- der its success if participated in freely and enthusiastically by all the citizens, laying aside their own partisan and selfish interests"
 Boosts Democrats
 Congressman Lonergan praised the Waterbury Democrat highly for It's loyalty to the people and mented it on it's fair presentation of facts in the present campaign. Accounting his experiences in congress for the past two years he criticised the bad effects of the Shoot Hawley tariff. He declared that it has resulted in 2.000 United States industries building factories abroad and in Canada so as to es- cape retaliatory tariffs of other countries. As a result of this, he pointed out, $2.000.000.000 of American money has been invested outside the country and 80O,0OO persons are employed by the Amer lean concerns in other countries. He added that while Andrew Mel lon sat in the Hoover cabinet the Aluminium Company of America started work in Canada on what Is it's largest plant and that tho Fuller Brush Company of Hart ford has built n plant in Australia. Moderate Protection
 He said that he and the demo- cratic party as whole stands for A protective tariff, but for .protec- | ton along the lines of moderation. He criticised the Hoover admins. | tration for its lack of foresight ] and praised Senator Carter Glass. 1 democrat. as being the man who had the vision to foresee what was ! coming. Senator Bingham's rec- ord was attacked by Congressman Lonergan, especially on his actions In voting to seat both Ware e Pennsylvhnia and Martin Of fili- nols. Both men were denied seats by the senate. Martin of Illinois. It was brought out. he explained. was elected largely through tho thouRands spent by the tnsuiis.
 D, E. F. n-Crtininni
 The final speaker of the evening was Congressman Oliver. He at' tackled the republican adminisfrn: ton in general and mnde special reforonea t0 tho 0usting Of the ii, 10, r. from Washington, lie said i that hn was in contact with the b, I9. Y. men several times and that he found them Co Do gentlemen, despite ishe cry of the Hoover ad' mlnlnirallen that they were efIlns lnnln, Ths men were hungry. no aald. bnl lha Hoover aamInIalIAs