The Waterbury Democrat., 1933-10-05
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1883
Waterbury Out In Front

Tuesdays overwhelming democratic land , slide set record which other larger cities Tn
 the state, as their city elections roll around will find hard to surpasS, if even equal. he
 unouestionabIe smashing here of whatever
 vestse remained of any political organiza-
 ton whatsoever among the republican ranks
 after the Roosevelt Gross bombardment ot
 a year ago leaves only a shambles of once
 formidable machine. The accomplishment
 of this to our way of thinking leaves Wa
 terbury as far as it pertains to future elec-
 tions. state or national well out in front, 1. potential power to be reckoned with and ' one which cant be overlooked.
 i, Since the advent of Governor Cross into . the picture in state politics - and there IS every reason to believe he is not through . yet democratic majority or loss of nine /. thousand votes from one of Connecticut ], four larger cities can come close to winning |. or losing the state. In any event 1t certainly i. can't be entirely overlooked, which brings |. us down to the cold fact that Governor !. Crosss canny political genius coupled with /, s,Waterbury'S vote-smaShlng democratic or : sanization will give republicans more than {, one sleeplcsS night for the year to come i, Furthermore between now and Novem- !. Der, 1854 if conditions continue to look /, up in the same proportion they have attalned
 since May of this year, there IS no reason to . doubt but with the aid of an even greater {. majority in Waterbury that Governor Gross Twill ride into office for the third time. only :, in the next instance with bis whole ticket i. as we'll For two terms he has been handi- :. capped more or less in this respect, but as , the maiorties mount sooner or later, the entire republican machine, statewide, as here tin Waterbury, is bound to crumble under 'the onslaught. !. It's in the air, as the results of the small town elections earlier in the week only too 1, plainly showed. The republican strangle- hold on this state is being fast broken and .when accomplished will remain so for .long time. In fact, it is only part of the ..baek-wash of republican dsintegraton throughout the country. Again we say Waterbury is well out in front in this re- ..spect, always more consistently democratic than other cities in Connecticut it has at tained its objective somewhat in advance, having sounded the death knell of republican
 hopes and aspirations here back Tn l93l when Mayor Hayes was elected for the sec- ond time by six thousand or more major 'ity. From then on it's been on the increase and from all signs will continue majoritles of similar proportions if not greater.
 So, as we said before, Waterbury must
 be reckoned with in the future. Its solid
 maiorties arc anchored in foundation Of
 bed rock that any aspirant to office state
 wide cannot fail to give countenance This
 city gave the rest of the state something to
 shoot at last Tuesday and if it acts as the
 incentive it should it will have no trouble in
 eleeting d state ticket from top to bottom in
 lo34 with even the possibility of, whoever
 the governor may be, his having the rare
 pleasure of democratic legislative body be-
 hind him as well. In the event of such
 catastrophe - republican, of course Con-
 neeticut will indeed, have come into its own.