The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-03-24
To the Editor of The Democrat:

To the Editor of The Democrat:
 One of Shakespeare's works
 bears the title--Much Ado About
 Nothing. I don't believe that I ever read it through, as 1 cannot re-
 member it's subject matter but don't know that it matters, since
 the title is useful at all times and
 there is always plenty of material
 to fill up a story under such title.
 As q matter of fact any newspaper
 could keep much ado about mo-
 thing column going and lack
 neither material nor readers for it. >
 Not remembering the plot of Shakespeare's story, l find 1t ncc-
 essary to draw on my imagination as to what the story can be about. However, that should not be diffi- cult since there is nothing ambig- uous about much ado about mo- thing and 1t can be taken literally as well SIS any other way. So taking 1t literally, we can say that there is
 much ado about nothing over the
 three prosecut6rships and the sum
 dry other jobs in the city court.
 From what can be gathered, there
 is not only much ado, but plenty
 doing. There seems to be little
 misunderstanding somewhere. It
 appears that it was in the book
 that one of the three prosecutors
 was to be dropped by virtue of the
 fact that the democrats after the
 last election controlled the state
 senate and subsequently few of
 them made a deal with the republi-
 can house concerning the judge
 ships, prosecutorships, etc, q deal
 that was covered pretty well in the papers at the time and is in no need of repetition.
 The trouble is that 1t is hard to figure out which one of the three prosecutors should be dropped. Neither one of them appears to have any desire to sacrifice his job in the interest of party harmony. And as the matter stands one of the prosecutors has the backing of our Congressman, Ned" Goss. be- | ing that Ned credits his family with pulling him over the line for | the score last November the eighth. Another one of the prosecutors has | no local backing but seems to be able to take care of himself in
 Hartford, New Haven, and way sta | tions. The third appears to have support of the local republican or | ganization, or rather what is left of l it, which is not much. To add to
 the confusion, Mayor Hayes has q | bill in the general assembly that
 calls for the elimination of one of the places.
 | It is hard to figure out why the
 parties concerned are having so
 much difficulty in strengthening out l the matter, as there are plenty of precedents to go by. In the past 1 whenever any such contingency arose it was settled by the creation 1 of one or two additional jobs and
 everybody was satisfied, that Is | everybody except few crabby tax payers. And since to hell with Wa terbury' could well be adopted by the general assembly as a slogan to
 describe its dealings with our city,
 there is no reason why the city
 court squabble could not be settled
 according to precedent.
 l Such an arrangement would al- l low the three prosecutors to hold their jobs. And since the democrats feel that they are entitled to a prosecutor then the logical thing to do is to create the office of fourth prosecutor. That would still leave the matter of clerkship to dispose of, since MT Bronsky likes
 to hold the job and Representative
 Manahey would also like to get 1t.
 And who is any more entitled to a job than MT Mahaney? He Is reg | ular and is in his second term at Hartford. He also went after the county ommissionership. but he was a little unfortunate in that he l ran up against the firm of Lynch | and Lynch. Lynch and Lynch is not | a law firm. It is officially civil en- | gineering firm. but 1t does more l political than civil engineering. It
 Is made up of Senator John Lynch, generally recognized as the repub-
 lican leader of this county and his
 brother sydney, who was secretary
 of the democratic state central
 committee until Governor Cross ran for office. The governor un- ceremoniously had him thrown out, but he evidently remained q good democrat and came back this year
 with the old guard and will get the commissioners And since Rep-
 resentative Mahaney stepped aside for him, the least that can be done to reward him for such party loyal ! ty is to create another clerkship to enable him to also have a job.
 The matter of the mayors bill to eliminate one of the prosecutor ships should not worry any of them. Tn the first place the mayor was only spooiing whom hc had that
 bill introduced. It's principal value
 K in it's possibilities as campaign
 issue at the coming city election. lie can claim that he sought to