The Waterbury Democrat., 1934-10-27

the house or repreSeuLAllVe4 ana senate in Hartford.
 Fault has been found with Gov ernor Cross, and will be found, un- til after election day by republican speakers, and especially republican newspapers, because he has failed to do certain things. The marvel is not that he has been unable to secure the passage of all the pro- sored, but that he has been able been in the position of man taken for a ride in a row boat on stormy sea by his enemies, who tied his hands and feet, fastened an anchor around his neck, threw him overheard, and then yelled to the spectators on the shore Look at him. He told us he could swim if we gave him chance"
 Don't tie Governor Cross hands with the rope of republican sem ate; don't shackle his feet with a republican house of representa- ives; and don't fasten the anchor of the united opposition of both houses around his neck. To do so would be not only brutal but, what is worse, stupid.
 And what I have said for myself is the attitude of every other can didate on the democratic ticket. Don't pick and choose among the candidates. We are all imbued with the same determination to ap- ply the policies of President Roose- welt as the need arises in this state. To vote for one candidate and scratch another, is to do just what our republican opponents most desire, that is to break down the united support of the president.
 A vote of protest, as it is called, is utterly wasted. What Connecti- cut needs is not votes of protest but ballots for progress; the kind of progress in society, industry and finance for which the democratic party stands and which it is deter mined, if given the power, to make the law of the land and of this state. None of us is perfect un- less it be the candidates on the re- publican state ticket. They are not merely perfect but even plu-per- feet, if we accept the estimate they make of themselves. They are par ticularly free of the taint of orig inal sin just before election. We have the record to show what they are after they have been seated in power. It is amazing that Proyi- dence permits them to exist on earth at all, and does not wait them to heaven in the fiery chariot of Elias and there set them up as models for the angels to initiate.
 do not find fault with repub- lican candidates individually. Their difficulty is their subservience to 8 reactionary machine and their be- lief in an outworn theory of the relationship of government and business. They believe that the government should devote itself to the interest of financially inlpor- tant individuals and concerns, as opposed to our theory that the only lasting good that can come, even to our large industries, is through governmental assistance to the classes that have been deprived of their proper share in our former periods of so-called prosperity, and who are now in actual need.
 In my own district the republi- can congressman, MT Goss, is a man with whom have a personal friendship. Nevertheless he cannot effectively represent this district at this time. He has previously arr gued that a republican congress- man could do more for his district when the republican party has been in power nationally. This argument is now without force. I am sure that the voters of the Fifth Congressional district believe in the principles of the democratic party, and I urge the election of the democratic nominee, Attorney Joseph Smith, who is not only equipped by education and training to represent intelligently our in- terests, but who is also committed to the democratic philosophy of liberal government which is our only hope of salvation.
 During what time is left me for this talk, l want to address par