The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-02
Hayes is the Man

change at tomorrow'S election, let the Water bury Democrat once more remind them that the republican ticket, not so much due to the individual candidates themselves, but to their lack of municipal experience, IS poor substitute at best for the present ineumbents seeking reelection at the polls tomorrow. And furthermore, Mayor Frank Hayes is the man best fitted, again with all due re- spect to his opponent, Andrew J. Cooney' to continue at the helm here in Waterbury until we have weathered the turbulent seas from which we, along with the rest of the country, seem to be at last satisfactorily emerging. Hand-in- hand the Frank HayeSes and Frank Roosevelts of this country can accomplish mueh-separated the eountrys doom is sealed. They have started the job together-let them finish it together
 The above plea goes for all that is i'm piled in the way of national recovery. Locally there have been things accomplished and are to be accomplished nearer and dearer to the heart of every taxpayer in Waterbury. Mayor Hayes four years of accomplishment is an open book, his two to come, if re- elected tomorrow, will be an even more glorified repetition of the past. with that same past the groundwork and foundation to attain greater heights with the breaks when they come. now that conditions in general are on the mend. Yet in spite of this worthy record of achievement we have in this city, sorry to relate, small group ot fault finders, goaded on by two dis gruntled newspapers, the Waterbury Amer' can and Republican, who can sec nor find no good in anything Mayor Hayes and his administration have accomplished. The long and short of it is that nothing any demo- crat can do will meet with their approval for the simple reason that they eovet themselves what they criticize in the present administration.
 No later than yesterday the Sunday Re- publican rehashed its time-worn and thread- bare comparison of figures in an eleventh hour attempt to stem the tide of what looks like another democratic landslide in Water bury. Comparisons, someone or other once remarked, are odious. Yes. and misleading as well. To begin with this paper went back to the administration of Martin Seully for figures on tax rates; it follows on with those of ex-Mayor Sandland and Guilfoile to show that under Mayor Hayes we have been paying higher rate than under any ot the other three mentioned. What of it, as Mir Seabury says; it costs more to operate the city of Waterbury, every year older 1t gets, and should do this if we are to keep abreast of the times and take care of its nor nal growth. Mir Seabury would hate to ad- nit, where it affects his own business, that Waterbury was slipping to position where we do not need the governmental outlay for the hundred odd thousand population both he and, incidentally, Mir Cooney worked so hard to roll up for the l930 census. If we are a city of that proportion we need government in proportion likewise.
 However, that's a matter for time to tell, but as for comparing the present tax-rate with that in operation during ex-Mayor Martin Scullys administration almost twenty years ago, the comparison is not only odlous but actually becomes childish. Up until and during the greater part of Mayor Scully's administration Waterbury, like every other community, was operating on pre.war levels Along came the war, our entry at the close of Mayor Seullys admin istration. it's continuance through ex-Mayor Sandland's with slight raises. but not the great change that occurred throughout the country until towards the close of Mir Sand lands administration and during the begin ming of ex-Mayor Guilfoile's ineumbency From then on until the depression set in America was hitting on high and to keep up with the procession you had to keep Tn step or drop out of the picture. It was no different in Waterbury than Kankakee the public demanded it and as far as we can see were glad to pay for what they got. And in the last analysis, that's their privilege regardless of the sanctimonious reformers or hypoeritical objeetors. Their name IS likewise legion.
 But with the advent of Mayor Frank Hayes into office in 1930. along came the depression. Throughout his four years of service in the mayors office he has played hide and seek with it daily. It has been nerve raeking. back breaking four years and only the efficiency, courage and never-say-dle at titude of Frank Hayes could have eoped with it and emerged as successfully as he has despite the fact that taxes are not quite as low as when all was rosy and everybodys address was Easy Street. Now lot of credit, more than our humble pen is able to give him.. is due Mayor Frank Hayes and his able associates in the City Hall during the past four years. Much has been ae- eomplished. Half of this no one will ever know. only those to whom Frank Hayes and what he stood for meant the difference between responsibility and destruction and even in some instances perhaps life or leath. No, don't think of any eompar- sons tomorrow when you go down to